The seemingly unprecedented mean-spiritedness of politics these days drives some people to think that ideology is the problem. To distinguish themselves from those whom they blame for the toxic atmosphere, some pundits declare themselves "above ideology," even anti-ideology. In effect they say, self-righteously: "In contrast to those 'extremists' (that is, the ideologues) I judge each issue case by case by its own merits. I'm a pragmatist." This is intended to display open-mindedness and a willingness to cooperate with those they disagree with. Cooperation is held to be a virtuous end in...
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Thanks to Mance Rayder for putting this together for me.
China Just Slammed the US Over Charlottesville After Report on Religious Freedom Released
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. On Tuesday, the State Department released a report on international religious freedom that was highly critical of a number of countries, one of which was China. CNN, which detailed the report in an article titled “US slams China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia for religious repression,” summarized the State Department’s findings on China as follows: “The report found that in 2016, China continued to physically abuse, detain, arrest, torture and imprison Tibetan Buddhists, Christians and other religious minorities.” Secretary of State Rex...
3/13/17 Cynthia Storer on the Trump administration’s (mis)understanding of Islamic extremism
Former CIA terrorism analyst Cynthia Storer discusses the credentials of Sebastian Gorka, President Trump's deputy advisor on national security affairs, who claims to be an expert on Islamic terrorism; Cynthia's earlier CIA work tracking Osama bin Laden and warning about Al-Qaeda's intent to target the US; and why labeling the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization would be a stupid thing to do.
Freedom Zealot Podcast June 18, 2016
If you treat people like slaves, they will eventually rebel. This explains the growth of what the Regime calls "violent extremism" in the rural American West.