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Squabble Over the Squad Gets Squalid

Greg Strange
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I have been writing political and social commentary for over 20 years. I've been published in many newspapers, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Christian Science Monitor and the Birmingham News, as well as numerous websites such as Blogcritics and Enter Stage Right. I worked at The Weather Channel from 1986 to 2004 and saw it change from a simple, nonideological purveyor of useful weather information to a stronghold of global warming orthodoxy with its own climate czar.
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“Send her back, send her back, send her back!” the crowd thunderously chanted at a recent Trump rally. They were referring, of course, to Rep. Ilhan Omar, originally from Somalia and one of the main, malcontented mean girls of what has been recently designated as the “Squad.”

One commentator compared the chanting to “two minutes of hate” from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the dystopian novel about a nightmarish authoritarian regime. Seriously? Leftists, whose numbers terrifyingly continue to swell, have been hating on America every second of every day for the last fifty years or more. They hate America, they hate the Founding Fathers, they hate every facet of our history, they hate our customs, they hate Judeo-Christian religion, they hate Western civilization, they hate capitalism, they hate self-reliance, they hate beauty, they hate truth, they hate sexual and gender normalcy, they hate “whiteness” itself.

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When Leftist Worlds Collide

Greg Strange
By Greg Strange
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I have been writing political and social commentary for over 20 years. I've been published in many newspapers, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Christian Science Monitor and the Birmingham News, as well as numerous websites such as Blogcritics and Enter Stage Right. I worked at The Weather Channel from 1986 to 2004 and saw it change from a simple, nonideological purveyor of useful weather information to a stronghold of global warming orthodoxy with its own climate czar.
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In a rapidly declining Western civilization gone mad with progressive ideology, one of the few pleasures available for people with traditional values is watching one fringe element of the left trash another fringe element of the left. It doesn’t necessarily do much to slow down the civilizational destruction, but it provides sporadic moments of intense pleasure.

One case in point: Leonardo DiCaprio. Did you know that the world-famous actor and climate activist is guilty of promoting white supremacy? Neither did most people, but after all, he is white, rich and powerful, so it just stands to reason, right?

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Eudaimonia and Identity

Could Be Anyone
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America’s culture is a constant source of discussion here on Ricochet. Whether it’s homosexual marriage or marijuana decriminalization/legalization, culture permeates our discussions. I just finished reading Mona Charen’s piece over at NRO, “The Price of Feminism,” this morning and it coincided with me finishing Yuval Levin’s Fractured Republic and Charles Murray’s Coming Apart last week.

The reason I mention all three pieces in regard to American culture is that they all point to decline or change in the culture. Levin’s book focuses predominantly on the decline of civil society in America and its replacement by the federal government through the process of what he calls “bifurcated-consolidation.” Murray’s book looks to the physical results of 60 years of cultural change that has seen the founding virtues (Murray’s words, not mine) of marriage, honesty, religion, and industriousness falter in the lower classes and stay strong in the upper classes.

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Stina
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The hated primary Trump Supporter, suburban mom of three. Luddite, computer programmer, mathematician who can't do math. Seamstress, tatter, singer.
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Some of the best movies are the ones that provide surface entertainment while having something deeper to think or talk about if you so wish to go that far. As far as Children’s movies go, this movie delivered. Like an onion, every subsequent viewing of Disney’s Moana revealed something a bit deeper than the last. At the […]
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Barkha Herman
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Humans are social animals. With society comes a couple of things that are out of our control – things such as reputation, and identity. Can we pass laws to change this? More
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Understanding why we remember what we remember is the strongest mechanical tool a fiction writer can have in penning a short story or novel that avoids tedium and is pleasurable to read. The majority of my specific memories, memories that occurred often long ago, remain poignant to me because something about what happened was a […]
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How about a break from politics? To atheists, it would be silly to ask why twins exist. The phenomenon is easily chalked up to random mutation; mere happenstance. But we believers must relate everything to the divine plan of our omniscient God. So I ask:  More
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"These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."
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This article has been making the rounds lately, and it is a very good and apt description of the increasingly illiberal nature of college campuses. It is indeed refreshing to see that liberal thinkers are starting to admit a problem, and I’m not quite as pessimistic and blase about this as Charles C.W. Cooke. However, […]
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Western Chauvinist
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First off, I'm a woman. Let's just get that straight. I don't know why it's so improbable that a woman would be a chauvinist when we have dogs and cats waxing eloquent on politics and culture on the site. I was a liberal bliss-ninny well into my thirties until certain events (having two daughters (they're chauvinists too!) and 9/11/2001) changed my mind about nearly everything. Now it's faith, family, and country for me -- in that order. God Bless America!
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Welcome, at last, to the official book discussion of Fr. Robert J. Spitzer’s Ten Universal Principles: A Brief Philosophy of the Life Issues. I’ll pose a question or two to get us started, but first, I’d like to restate the principles for reference throughout our discussion. Principles of Reason More
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