The Tea Party’s “Anti-intellectual” attitude
By: commonsensephilosophy (Diary) | October 19th at 06:35 PM |
The leftist intellectual elite has been suffering a lot of pushback recently and it has developed an explanation which really comes as no surprise . . . the masses, you see, just ain’t very smart. In an effort to put this somewhat more politely, many of these elitists often speak in terms of an “anti-intellectual” attitude that is pandemic among the tea partiers and other | Read More »
Elen Degeneres, President Obama and “QUALIFICATIONS”
By: commonsensephilosophy (Diary) | September 15th at 07:18 PM |
This may be news for many Red Staters . . . but Elen Degeneres has been hired as a “judge” on one of the reality shows – I believe it was “American Idol (Idle?)”. Anyways, the uproariously amusing thing is the number of people that can be heard on the entertainment “news” shows and in other airheaded media outlets who are expressing concern with regard to | Read More »
Capitalism vs. Conservatism – a Needed Clarification?
By: commonsensephilosophy (Diary) | September 14th at 07:54 PM |
I am afraid that the relationship between conservatism and capitalism is often not communicated as clearly as it should be to the politically undecided. When conservative spokesmen like Hannity and Rush extol the virtues of capitalism without restraint and talk about how good it is, I think (or, at least, I hope) they are saying something that they don’t really mean. This, in turn, | Read More »