my entry of the other day, expounding on the "Osama La la la la la" theme, and added:
So we're either provincial, or mathematically interesting.
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"They don't quite agree on that New Utopia, of course, and whether or not gays should be praised for their specialness and courage or stoned to death for their perverse blasphemy, but they do know who stands in the way of either of those glorious outcomes..."
So in other words, the American Right is moderate on gay rights.
Posted by: John at September 13, 2007 12:03 PM (fhClB)
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Moderation in all things.
Posted by: Darrell at September 13, 2007 08:00 PM (Ai1Rx)
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If there's one thing the "American Right" isn't unified on, it's gay rights.
It's no secret that I don't generally see eye-to-eye with those who throw the phrase "gay agenda" around--much as I love that phrase, because there isn't one gay agenda, but rather a nearly infinte number: the pink calendar book adorned with rhinestones, and the plain lavendar one with sensible black trim, and the executive-style brown one carried by hale-and-hearty athletic guys whom you might never think were gay until you met their partners, and the cool one made from recycle tires.
This is one of those things Ann Coulter got right: "gays want the same thing the rest of us do: lower taxes."
But Ace's point--and you know this, John--is that, as Mark Steyn once put it, combatting Islamofascism "
should be the left's issue."
There's some irony that a lot of the true liberals in society today are right-of-center on a handful of key issues.
Posted by: Attila Girl at September 14, 2007 08:53 AM (bIZMS)
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Yeah, combatting something as openly fascistic as militant Islam should be a high-priority item for the left, but the left has been preoccupied with gaining power for about as long as you and I have been alive (I'm 42). If not longer.
The Republicans have been unified by moral issues--it's how the GOP got started--but they get fragmented too easily, and too easily spooked by the MSM.
Posted by: John at September 14, 2007 06:23 PM (HhdY3)
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The Left formed an alliance with militant Islam. LGF used to have the pre- and post-9/11 links--mutual letters of cooperation on their respective foreign websites. Islam got the power of a sympathetic press and "grassroots" protesting. The Left got, what else, money. It was funny because there was mutual sniping in those very first letters.
The Left sees militant Islam as the cannon fodder for their world domination schemes. They point out that the old Soviet plan with secular State schools did a good job of keeping them at bay when the Soviets had a free hand. The Left believes it will make any problems go away in the darkness of uncovered news stories. It's nice to control the Press.
The militants, by the way, remember what happened. They see the Left as their useful idiots.
Posted by: Darrell at September 15, 2007 11:24 AM (M/vOT)
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The Left formed an alliance with militant Islam. LGF used to have the pre- and post-9/11 links--mutual letters of cooperation on their respective foreign websites. Islam got the power of a sympathetic press and "grassroots" protesting. The Left got, what else, Arab money. It was funny because there was mutual sniping in those very first letters.
The Left sees militant Islam as the cannon fodder for their world domination schemes. They point out that the old Soviet plan with secular State schools did a good job of keeping them at bay when the Soviets had a free hand. The Left believes it will make any problems go away in the darkness of uncovered news stories. It's nice to control the Press.
The militants, by the way, remember what happened. They see the Left as their useful idiots.
Posted by: Darrell at September 15, 2007 11:25 AM (M/vOT)
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There was a temporary comment suspension and when it ended, both appeared. Sorry. You can delete one, if you please.
Posted by: Darrell at September 15, 2007 11:26 AM (M/vOT)
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