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Gregory Hood, "Beltway Rambos. 1,488 words German translation here Are conservatives going to start shooting people? The Beltway Right is defending so-called “assault weapons” because they are the final check on government repression. After Alex Jones’s typically bombastic performance on Piers Morgan, Breitbart.com contributor and controlled opposition Ben Shapiro appeared to play the “reasonable conservative” across from the C list celebrity hacker.

Let’s leave aside the obvious conclusion that the likes of Piers Morgan are fantasizing about the military mowing down conservatives. That said, even though they’re right, what are conservatives really saying here? Of course, a typical American conservative would protest that he’s not saying we should shoot people now, but at some future point when a line is crossed. Is it when the government starts telling you what you can do with your property? How about government taking your children from you? How about telling you what you can eat or drink? That’s it! Ah! Tweet. Legally Prepared?, by L.C. Downsizing the Federal Government. The Secret To Landing A Man » Roosh V. Feminist culture has done a good job robbing American women of their natural feminine allure. All that’s left are empty shells of human androgyny that is begging to be filled by so-called female dating experts who were unsuccessful in landing a man themselves .

Cosmo, self-help books, and Jezebel are eagerly filling the hole, creating women who are unattractive and painful to talk to. If you want to boil it down to one sentence, here’s what they are teaching young women today: “Just do what guys do to you!” Want to attract a guy? Talk about your awesome office job! Want to get him more interested? Want to make him wonder about you? And as much as they made fun of The Game when it came out, they are now taking a whole chapter out of its playbook by negging guys so regularly that it’s becoming the main way American women “flirt.”

Women think, “Some guy used this on me once and I fucked him, so it must work!” Here is the secret to landing and keeping a man: 1. You’re not hot enough. Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill. (Note: Read Bruce Levine’s latest post: Anti-Authoritarians and Schizophrenia: Do Rebels Who Defy Treatment Do Better? In my career as a psychologist, I have talked with hundreds of people previously diagnosed by other professionals with oppositional defiant disorder, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, anxiety disorder and other psychiatric illnesses, and I am struck by (1) how many of those diagnosed are essentially anti-authoritarians, and (2) how those professionals who have diagnosed them are not.

Anti-authoritarians question whether an authority is a legitimate one before taking that authority seriously. Evaluating the legitimacy of authorities includes assessing whether or not authorities actually know what they are talking about, are honest, and care about those people who are respecting their authority. Some activists lament how few anti-authoritarians there appear to be in the United States. Why Mental Health Professionals Diagnose Anti-Authoritarians with Mental Illness. Surviving Phalaris: The Non-thought of Received Ideas. John Taylor Gatto once pointed out "what the Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr called the non-thought of received ideas.

"1 I've thought about this phrase considerably in the years since I first read about it. In this age of information excess, even our ideas are not our own. It is evident that American attitudes toward politics and the principles of American Democracy are derived primarily from Television and Internet sources, mostly crafted at the hands of PR specialists or pundits who recycle the traditional party lines of major political or social groups of the day. We wear other people's opinions like we wear fashion.

While it's possible to feel strongly about such opinions, feelings do not make them ours. We must understand not only what we believe, but why. Do we hold principles because of tradition? Are we Free if we can't think for ourselves? The tiers of Liberty are independence, choice, and awareness. What Kids Now Learn in College - Dennis Prager. As high school seniors throughout America will be receiving acceptance letters to colleges within the next month, it would be nice for parents to meditate on what they are getting for the $20–$50,000 they will pay each year. The United States is no better than any other country, and in many areas worse than many. On the world stage, America is an imperialist country, and domestically it mistreats its minorities and neglects its poor, while discriminating against non-whites.

There is no better and no worse in literature and the arts. The reason universities in the past taught Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and Bach rather than, let us say, Guatemalan poets, Sri Lankan musicians, and Native American storytellers was “Eurocentrism.” God is at best a non-issue, and at worst, a foolish and dangerous belief.

Christianity is largely a history of inquisitions, crusades, oppression, and anti-intellectualism. Israel is a racist state, morally no different from apartheid South Africa. War is ignoble. Fully Informed Jury Association. Equality, the God for people who think they have no God. Os Guinness - Time for Truth: Living Free in a World of Lies, Hype, and Spin - The Veritas Forum.