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| "In short, he is a man begging for subjugation. He longs for its promise of equality in helplessness. Because only when that strange, independent, alpha breed of male is helpless along with him will he feel adequate. Indeed, his freedom lies in this other man's containment." -- Julia Gorin (writer, Jewish World Review) | It's the soldier, not the campus organizer, who gives us freedom to demonstrate. It's the soldier, not the reporter, who's give us freedom of the press. It's the soldier, not the poet, who's given us freedom of speech. It's the soldier who serves under the flag who defends the protesters' right to burn the flag. Isn't it time now to demonstrate that we support our troops? Were it not for the brave, there would be no land of the free. -- Fred Thompson (actor and fmr. TN Senator) | An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. -- Konrad Adenauer (West German Chancellor, 1949-63) | "It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare." -- Edmund Burke (British statesman) | |||||
| These books address liberty and the assaults upon it. These assaults come from all directions. I identify three themes amongst them: collectivism, (judicial) activisim, and revisionism. No matter what the angle of attack--law, economy, religion or race--these three themes are found in each. | ||
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| The Constitution deals with [self-government of, by and for majorities and minorities] in three ways: by limiting the powers of the federal government; by arranging that the President, the senators, and the representatives would be elected by different constituencies voting at different times; and by providing a Bill of Rights. (P.139) | If we are to succeed in the war of ideologies and to win over the decent elements in the enemy countries, we must, first of all, regain the belief in the traditional values for which we have stood in the past and must have the moral courage stoutly to defend the ideals which our enemies attack. (P.239) | If . . . the source of our freedom is the Christianity that shaped colonial America, then to deny students that perspective is to make students less well prepared to defend our liberty, or even recognize when it is being infringed. (P.70) | Unfortunately, there is a virulent strain of anti-capitalism and anti-Americanism that runs throughout all of the black power and civil rights groups. Many of the so-called black leaders are socialists, but they hide their true philosophy by calling themselves "progressives." (P.17) |
| The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law | The Road to Serfdom | Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christians | Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America |
| Robert H. Bork | Friedrich A. Hayek | David Limbaugh | Jesse Lee Peterson |
| These documentaries (one documentary film, two research books and one historical drama movie) address the true patriots and the traitors. The patriots do not always know they are heroes. The traitors do not always know they are fools. | ||
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| Cmdr. Paul Galanti, USN, looking back at his experience as a Viet Nam POW: Number One, I'm not as tough as I thought I was. Number Two, I'm a lot more resilient than I thought I was. . . . Number Three is, there's no such thing as a bad day when you have a doorknob on the inside of the door. | The primary victim of outrageous persecution during the McCarthy era was McCarthy. Liberals hid their traitorous conduct by making McCarthy the issue. They did to McCarthy everything they falsely accused him of doing to them. (P. 104)
| [S]ome activists have been remarkably frank about the political goals they have for education. [One activist] argues that "multiculturalism" has the happy "potential for ideologically disuniting the nation." As American students learn more about the faults of this country and about the virtues of other nations, . . . they will be less and less likely to think this country deserves their special support. They will not respond to calls to use American force, and thus we will be delivered from the dark days of the early 1990s, when President George Bush was able to unify the nation in support of war against Iraq, and be able to return to the golden days of the late 1960s and 1970s, when no president was able to build support for Vietnam. (P.29) | Morgan Freedman's character speaking to Denzel Washington's character: And who are you? So full of hate that you have to fight everybody, because you've been whipped and chased by hounds. Well that might not be living, but it sure as hell ain't dying. And dying's been what these white boys have been doing for going on three years now, dying by the thousands, dying for you, fool. |
| The American Experience: Return With Honor | Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism | Telling The Truth | Glory |
| Ann Coulter | Lynne V. Cheney | ||
| These stories (movies and novels) address the individual in a planned society. The objective in these world constructs is equality of outcome. These allegories, whether intended to or not, bear witness to Winston Churchill's admonition.
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| So you think that money is the root of all evil? said Francisco d'Aconia. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil? (online excerpt) | Paraphrasing: It seems that people at one time had a choice between comfort and freedom; and they sold their liberty for paternal care. | All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. All words grouping themselves round the concepts of objectivity and rationalism were contained in the single word oldthink. | |
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| Atlas Shrugged | Rollerball | Animal Farm and 1984 |
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| These books turn the camera's eye back on the reporters whose reports do not correspond with the news. Hollywood has a camera too. And what they have done with it has been no less irresponsible. | ||
| NETWORK ELITE | HOLLYWOOD ELITE | HOLLYWOOD ELITE | WOMEN ELITE |
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| Even though I attack liberal bias, not liberal values, I will be portrayed by some of my old friends as a right-wing ideologue. . . . But if you're on the inside and you raise a serious question about the news, they don't embrace you. They don't admire you. They think you're a traitor." I am not a traitor, nor am I the enemy. And neither are the millions of Americans who agree with me. The enemy is arrogance. And I'm afraid it's on the other side of the camera. | They think you're stupid. They think all freedom loving Americans are stupid. They think patriotism is stupid. They think churchgoing is stupid. They think flag-flying is stupid. They think having big families is stupid. They are sure that where we live -- anywhere but near or in a few major cities -- is an insipid cultural wasteland. They think your SUV is evil -- although theirs is absolutely necessary. They think owning a gun is criminal. They think George W. Bush is an idiot. They even think it's wrong for us to protect our nation and our loved ones. Worst of all, they think our abiding belief in the goodness of America and its founding principles is naive and misguided. | Celebs embrace hate speech. Everyone’s “Friend” Jennifer Aniston calls Bush names and taunts daughter Jenna. Robert Altman and Alex Baldwin threaten to leave the country. We love dictators! Hollywood warmly embraces Castro. | The story that began as an exciting movement for equal rights and morphed into a wonderful celebration of opportunity today has become a depressing, discouraging gains-means-pain tale of woe sold to women readers as the grim new reality of their lives |
| Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News | Shut up and Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the U. N. Are Subverting America | Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon -- The Case Against Celebrity | Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness -- and Liberalism -- to the Women of America |
| Bernard Goldberg | Laura Ingraham | Andrew Breitbart and Mark Ebner | Myrna Blyth |
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| © 2004 Judge Michael J. Gregorek | ||
