Monthly Archives: August 2013

Why Does EBONY Magazine Think all Blacks are Druggie Thugs?

Posted on August 14, 2013 by The Political Hat

     EBONY Magazine are declaring that all Black individuals are gay-bashing druggie thugs.  While this isn’t what they intended to do, it is what they have ended up doing.  They are putting out four different covers of various hoodie-wearing Black male … Continue reading →

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The Fundamental Failure of Welfare

Posted on August 13, 2013 by The Political Hat

     One of the problems with the Welfare State is that it conflated Middle Class accoutrements, such as nice homes, with Middle Class values.  Simply having the accoutrements of the Middle Class will not make one Middle Class, or instill Middle … Continue reading →

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Mayor “Filthy” Filner: More Equal Than Others

Posted on August 13, 2013 by The Political Hat

     By now the well over two dozen women who have come forward to accuse current San Diego Mayor Bob “Filthy” Filner of sexual harassment and inappropriate touching, including his hunting for nookie amongst rape victims.      It has also been revealed … Continue reading →

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Welcome To The Machine: Cory Booker’s Technological Corporatism

Posted on August 12, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Soon-to-be New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is set to transcend Obama in the realm of both crony corporatist dealing and campaign technology, all at the same time.      In a puff-piece on the civil liberties hating Cory Booker, the “Old Gray … Continue reading →

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When You’ve Lost Alfred E. Neuman…

Posted on August 11, 2013 by The Political Hat

     MAD Magazine’s October issue takes on the entire domestic spying scandal in a way that might not seen too kindly by some Obama supporters.      There probably won’t be much fall-out, since MAD Magazine is way above the heads of most … Continue reading →

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News of the Week for August 11th, 2013

Posted on August 11, 2013 by The Political Hat

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Point Me At The (Raaacist) Sky?

Posted on August 10, 2013 by The Political Hat

     One of the articles of faith for the hyper-racial left is that all White people are racist because “whiteness” is nothing but false and oppressive.  To this end, White people can only fight racism, and so shrive themselves of the … Continue reading →

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The Manichean Meta-Narrative

Posted on August 9, 2013 by The Political Hat

     As has been mentioned before, “It doesn’t matter how logical or sane an idea is.  If people don’t understand the narrative it embodies, the whole human experience as it were, then people won’t connect.”  If one wins the narrative, that … Continue reading →

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America’s Marxist Future?

Posted on August 8, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Under Obamanomics, people have been dropping out of the workforce, which results in an artificially low unemployment rate.  The labor participation rate has been stagnant, or depressed, if you will.  What is most worrisome is that the jobs that America … Continue reading →

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The Nudging of America

Posted on August 7, 2013 by The Political Hat

     The Obama administration is hiring a “Behavioral Insights Team” in order to tweak and alter people’s behavior without them noticing.  Such dark shenanigans are referred to as “nudges,” the term deriving from Obama’s fellow traveler Cass Sunstein.  The problem with … Continue reading →

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