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Category Archive 'Patriotism'
07 Jun 2010
Tea Party PatriotismAnti-War Movement, Michael Kinsley, National Anthem, Patriotism, Star-Spangled Banner, Tea Parties, Tea Party Movement, Teaparty Protests, USMC![]() Michael Kinsley sneered at participants in the Tea Party Movement, in the Atlantic, dismissing them as people only interested in a tax cut, and challenging their patriotism. Kinsley admires instead the 1960s anti-war movement, which he describes as “selfless and idealistic.” Bah, humbug! I was there. Whom does Kinsley think he’s kidding? The 1960s anti-war movement was pure selfishness. The student revolution gave people our age the chance to throw their weight around and they took it. Adolescent hormones, excess energy, and self-importance found expression in opportunistic rebellion against authority powered by the disproportionate weight of an unusually large age group sept. A lot of people back then went out to the demonstration motivated by nothing nobler than the desire to see themselves on the six o’clock news. The antiwar movement had no problem recruiting. Opposition to the war was morally crucial to justify one’s being at home in college, smoking pot and chasing girls, not on the other side of the world with the less fortunate male members of our generation, marching through the jungle getting shot at. If the war was right and a good cause, then we were a sleazy bunch of self indulgent louses taking shameful advantage of our student deferments while the blue collar crowd went to war in our place. If the war was wrong, we were wiser, better people, too noble to support an imperialist war. How surprising that so many people our age found the second theory so attractive. But an even better reply to Mr. Kinsley came this weekend at a Tea Party gathering of residents of Douglas and Carroll Counties held at Clinton Preserve in Villa Rica, Georgia. The syndicated columnist and talk show host Herman Cain addressed the crowd, then there was a magical moment: (Examiner):
2:56 video Hat tip to David Larkin, Karen L. Myers, and Bruce Kesler. 20 Sep 2009
Liberals Love AmericaAnti-Americanism, Michael Medved, Patriotism, The Intelligentsia, The Left![]() Michael Medved, back at college, used to be a liberal. Michael got wiser as he grew older.
22 Jan 2009
Finally, Proud of AmericaBarack Obama, Patriotism, The Left![]() Victor Davis Hanson marvels at the new-found patriotism of the democrat left.
27 Dec 2008
Joel Stein Sneers at PatriotismLeft Think, Patriotism, The Intelligentsia, The Left![]() Joel Stein happily admits that conservatives are right: lefties like himself don’t love America
Read the whole thing. Reading this makes it even more depressing to remember that these kind of people won the last election. 20 Sep 2008
Biden’s PatriotismJoseph Biden, Learned Hand, Patriotism, Taxes![]()
Judge Learned Hand: Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one’s taxes. –Helvering v. Gregory, 69 F.2d 809, 810-11 (2d Cir. 1934) —————————————- Hat tip to John Brewer. 17 Aug 2008
Heart-Warming Television MomentChris Collinsworth, Kobe Bryant, Media Bias, NBC, Olympics, Patriotism![]() From Ms. Underestimated via Gateway Pundit: NBC’s Chris Collinsworth prods Basketball player Kobe Bryant (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) with an audible sneer to remember that public expressions of patriotism are no longer appropriate. 0:58 video Collinsworth: Is that a ‘cool’ thing to say, in this day and age? That you love your country, and that you’re fighting for the red, white and blue? It seems sort of like a day gone by(?) Bryant: No, it’s a cool thing for me to say. I feel great about it, and I’m not ashamed to say it. I mean, this is a tremendous honor. 30 Jun 2008
Last Refuge of the ScoundrelBarack Obama, Patriotism![]() Barack Obama today delivered at Independence, Missouri, what the MSM describes as a major speech on Patriotism. The first item on the agenda was some self-protection. “Just because I was photographed not saluting the flag and wouldn’t wear a flag pin, just because my pastor goddamns America and my wife was never proud of America until I was the candidate of a major party for the presidency, just because I did not support US military efforts and desired this country’s withdrawal from Iraq, don’t call me unpatriotic!”
“And, in return, I won’t question the patriotism of John McCain who spent five years being tortured by the enemy as prisoner of war, and who declined early release.” What a deal! ————————————- Besides, patriotism can always be defined differently.
“You fight for your country and support its cause against foreign enemies. I oppose the war, and struggle for socialism instead. I’m just as patriotic.” ![]() Feeds
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