Category Archives: Progressives

MSNBC’s Toure Fails Civics

Posted on November 15, 2013 by The Political Hat

     MSNB☭’s Touré openly declared how sad it was the Democratic U. S. Senators who represent “dealing with the challenge of living” in conservatives states. Heaven forbid that Democratic Senators have to deal with those icky “Red State” conservatives!      The truly … Continue reading →

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Obama’s “Re-ordering” of America: Creating Winners and Losers

Posted on November 15, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy recently defended the disastrous Obamacare role out and dismissed the millions of people losing their coverage and being forced to pay more for less.  Murphy quipped that “[s]ome people are gonna be upset with their experience … Continue reading →

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Norwegian Boys, The New Perfect Little Girls?

Posted on November 14, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Scandinavian “gender equality” measures are being heralded as changing children’s understanding of gender and creating “new boys” who basically are praised for acting like quintessential girls.  In effect there was “a change in how boys relate to emotions. Being personal … Continue reading →

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Dreaming of a People’s Technocracy

Posted on November 13, 2013 by The Political Hat

     A Stanford University lecturer called for Silicon Valley to secede from the rest of the nation because “United States had become ‘the Microsoft of nations’: outdated and obsolescent. When technology companies calcify, Mr. Srinivasan said, you don’t reform them. You … Continue reading →

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Fighting Discrimination Against Biological Fathers

Posted on November 12, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Men who raise the children they have sired, and do to in a monogamous relationship (i.e. Marriage) with the mother of said children, ought to be supported by society and our cultural norms and mores.  It is a family with … Continue reading →

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Equality Über Alles

Posted on November 8, 2013 by The Political Hat

     One of the major ideological components of the broader Left is a perverted sense of “justice” wherein  there is an equality of outcome and everyone is the same.  The obvious downside is that this means that they’d “rather the poor … Continue reading →

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Children Taught to Kill Based on Race and Religion

Posted on November 4, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Wisconsin talk show host Vicki McKenna uncovered an odious school assignment for an English class where students are told to choose who dies based on a hypothetical lifeboat situation.  Some of the factors that the students are taught to ponder … Continue reading →

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How the Government’s “Voluntary” Pilot Programs Work

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Guest Poster

     Guest post from AoSHQ commentator “ChemJeff.”      Look, this is how these “voluntary” “pilot programs” work.      First, the pilot program is started by a bunch of lefty do-gooders who sign up all of their friends. Due to heavy selection bias, the … Continue reading →

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Common Core Celebrating Obedience to the Collective

Posted on November 1, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Yet another example of political propagandizing under the umbrella of the “Common Core” curricula now declares that everyone must obey the dictates of the government, especially when the “well-being” of the collective trump the freedom of the individual: This is … Continue reading →

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When Bureaucrats Condemning Innocent People to Death is Considered Praiseworthy

Posted on October 31, 2013 by The Political Hat

     An Canadian court in Ontario ruled that doctors can not withhold treatment from a patient if the patient’s family does not want it.  However, the court ruled that a quasi-judicial board of bureaucrats can overrule the family!  Canada has Death … Continue reading →

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