Author Archives: The Political Hat

Quick Takes – DEI Must DIE: Ending Diversity Statements At MIT; Axing Mandatory DEI Statements In Kansas; Scraping DEI Requirements In Virginia

Posted on May 16, 2024 by The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.      The focus this time: The return of education is nigh as discrimination, exclusion, and inequality … Continue reading →

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Nature Rights In Colorado — Gaia Strikes Back

Posted on May 14, 2024 by The Political Hat

     The fight by twig-worshipping Gaia cultists to enshrine “rights” for “nature”, there is pushback from saner people.   However, quite often “nature” is granted “rights” by people who do so in order to feel all warm and fuzzy about loving … Continue reading →

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Firing Line Friday: Public Medicine?

Posted on May 10, 2024 by The Political Hat

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      California is yet again toying around with universal healthcare. Despite such calls for government run medicine fifty years … Continue reading →

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Quick Takes – Health Care For The Healthy & Death To The Sick: Killing Cancer Patients; Killing Kids; Killing Yourself As A Duty To Society

Posted on May 7, 2024 by The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.      The focus this time: Death is the ultimate elimination of being sick and suffering.      First, … Continue reading →

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News of the Week (April 5th, 2024)

Posted on May 5, 2024 by The Political Hat

  News of the Week for May 5th, 2024

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Firing Line Friday: Government and the Arts

Posted on May 3, 2024 by The Political Hat

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      Should the Federal government subsidize art and the humanities? From subsidizing it as an emplopyment scheme in the … Continue reading →

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Victims of Communism Day, 2024

Posted on May 1, 2024 by The Political Hat

     Today is Victims of Communism Day. It is also “May Day,” where “useful idiots” march and demonstrate in free countries, while those who have to actually live under Communism are made to march lest they face dire consequences.      Though the … Continue reading →

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Liberty vs. Virtue: The False Dilemma Fallacy

Posted on April 30, 2024 by The Political Hat

     The Post-Conservative Right shares much of it’s worldview with the older Hard Left. Not in the eschaton they want to immanentize, but that we must more forcefully so immanentize. To this end, we see the false dilemma fallacy of freedom … Continue reading →

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The Rise Of Trans-Speciesism

Posted on April 29, 2024 by The Political Hat

     There was a time when people who believed that they were an animal like a deer, both in real life as well as that hellhole known an Tumblr, were considered crazy. Comparisons between such people and those who claim to … Continue reading →

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News of the Weak (April 24th, 2024)

Posted on April 28, 2024 by The Political Hat

  News of the Week for April 28th, 2024

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