Category Archives: Culture

And About Those Norms…

Posted on May 27, 2020 by Joe Benning

We hear a lot about norms these days, and in particular, about how President Donald Trump’s typically juvenile behavior violates long standing norms and therefore harms democracy. There is something to this. Trump is, after all, boorish, a habitual liar … Continue reading →

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DEFCON 2

Posted on February 12, 2020 by Joe Benning

The grand pooh-bahs of the DNC are about to break into full panic mode.  When Nancy Pelosi pointed her impeachment gun at President Donald Trump she shot former Vice President Joe Biden in the heart. Unforced errors like that one, … Continue reading →

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The March for Life

Posted on January 26, 2020 by Joe Benning

Thousands, probably tens of thousands, came from all over the country to bear witness to the continuing atrocity of the U.S. abortion regime. They were mostly young and mostly female. Their presence and the message they carried spoke truth to … Continue reading →

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Art and Culture

Posted on December 9, 2019 by Joe Benning

Politics is downstream from culture in that politics is shaped by culture. Famous writers like George Orwell (1984), Arthur Koestler (Darkness at Noon) and Mario Vargas Llosa (The War of the End of the World) have ruminated on this and … Continue reading →

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Christopher Hitchens on Reparations

Posted on May 10, 2019 by Joe Benning

Christopher Hitches was a writer and polemicist with extraordinary talents who, in December of 2011, died much too early at age 62. An iconoclast throughout his adult life, Hitchens eventually drifted away from the left — early on he was … Continue reading →

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Progressive Anti-Semitism: The Triumph of Evil?

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Joe Benning

Photo by Johnathan Ernst / Reuters Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is at it again. The latest uproar was sparked by her use of a standard anti-semitic slur in which she complained about the supposed “dual loyalty” of American Jews. Previously, … Continue reading →

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In Her Own Words

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Joe Benning

Formerly known as Sandy the Barmaid, now known as Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, we have a representative who is positively Trumpian in her grandiosity and ignorance. After she secured all of 15,847 votes to win her Congressional seat, she reportedly said … Continue reading →

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Another Day, Another Hoax

Posted on February 24, 2019 by Joe Benning

The hoax perpetrated by Jussie Smollet, an actor in the TV series Empire, provides a window into the widening chasm between reality and the mainstream media. Consider: Smollet claimed he was walking home from a Subway sandwich shop at 2:30 … Continue reading →

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The Progressive Governor Northam

Posted on February 3, 2019 by Joe Benning

Ralph Northam was elected governor of Virginia in 2017. During the campaign Northam routinely denounced his Republican opponent, Ed Gillespie, accusing him of being a racist. Now an incendiary photo of two men has surfaced from Northam’s medical school yearbook. … Continue reading →

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The New (Old) Puritans

Posted on August 11, 2018 by Joe Benning

If there is any question that the new puritans of the regulatory state are a bunch of fanatics, this video from John Stossel should remove all doubt.   JFB

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