Bipartisan Assault on Marriage and the Nevada Constitution

     Democratic Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto and Republican Governor Brian Sandoval have conspired to overthrow the Constitution that binds them.  We are a nation based on the rule of law where the law emanates from the people, both past and present, and binds everyone to it, including our elected officials.

     Cortez Masto has refused to defend the provision of the Nevada Constitution, which it is her duty to protect, that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.  That provision is being challenged in court, and both Cortez Masto and Sandoval are refusing to defend it, despite it being passed by the people.

     Sadly, this was completely foreseeable.  The ruling which struck down California’s ban, Prop. 8, was similarly struck down in large part because their Governor and Attorney General refused to defend it, and thereby denied any defense since only the state was declared to have standing, with the concomitant determination that the Governor and Attorney General are the state.

     Yet again, “democracy,” which the Left so love to declare their love fore, is swept aside by the imposition of a judge, an attorney general, and a governor.

     It begs the question: Is there any part of the Nevada Constitution that either Sandoval or Cortez Masto are willing to defend?  Is any of our rights or laws safe when the servants of the state and people are allowed do pick and choose?

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All Your Children Belong to Us, Redux

     A former Massachusetts Secretary of Education and Common Core advocate, Paul Reville, has openly stated:

“Why should some towns and cities and states have no standards or low standards and others have extremely high standards when the children belong to all of us”

     Reville blames opposition to Common Core on a tiny minority that apparently hates kids, and has said:

“To be sure, there’s always a small voice – and I think these voices get amplified in the midst of these arguments – of people who were never in favor of standards in the first place and never wanted to have any kind of testing or accountability and those voices get amplified.”

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Political Correctness and Cultural Marxism

     Bill Whittle speaks on how Marxists have gone from economic arguments, to social ones, and how under the guise of “Political Correctness” and “Justice,” they are fundamentally transforming America into a pre-failed Marxist state.

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News of the Week (February 9th, 2014)

 

News of the Week for February 9th, 2014


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A Lesson for a Marxist Fool

     A “useful idiot” over at Salon has had the amazing intellectual discover of a system that would eschew that moldy old “capitalism” with a system of shared ownership, which the rest of the world has sadly known all to well as Communism.

     Plenty of individuals have taken it upon themselves to take-down the sheer and utter idiocy of Salon’s commie stooge, including Robert Stacy McCain.

     Much has been written here on how Marxism has become in vogue again, and how it has been imposed.  But perhaps what Salon’s communist useful idiot needs most is not additional admonishment, but a history lesson of just what Communism brings.  For that “useful idiot” and other fellow goers, a history lesson is presented below: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipelago,” which can be read here, or heard below.

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Boys are Boys; Girls are Girls

     Boys are more than imperfect girls, yet are treated as defective or stupid when they fail to respond well or learn as well as girls when they are treated as something they are not, i.e. girls.

     As author Sarah Hoyt points out:

“If you told any feminist that in a school system most teachers were men, the learning style was competitive/non cooperative – designed for most boys over most girls – that it required them to do things – instead of just reciting things – that it was designed for male development milestones and that most male teachers had been taught girls were bad/lazy – and girls were failing in record numbers…  They’d be up in arms.

“But the same thing applies to boys, in our system right now, and the response is that boys are bad/defective.  And when boys won’t read books with girl main characters, it’s the boys who are broken, but back in my day when girls didn’t like books with boy main characters, we needed more books with girls as heros.”

     It’s a double-standard, but such hypocrisy has become frighteningly the norm.

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Free to Choose Friday (Part 5)

     Each Friday for the next few months, an episode of Milton Friedman’s ten-part Free to Choose will be posted.

     The fifth episode: Created Equal

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The Least Free Places in America

     The institutions that are supposed to foster free speech and open debate are, in all irony, paragons of suppressing dissent: College campuses.

     Greg Lukianoff, President at The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), explains how what should be an open intellectual exploration has been degraded into a repressive monoculture of identity politics, grievance studies, and outright crushing of dissent.

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What Comes After Chivalry

     In the United Kingdom, British campaigners are complaining about the derogatory view of women by boys, who apparently learn everything they know about women from pornography, and that boys should be “educated” to see things another way.

     Of course, this ignores that girls themselves may engage in sexual and sexually related behavior all on their own.  However, there is validity to what the campaigners say, which is in effect:

“Teenage boys are learning about relationships through internet pornography and need to be taught about how to respect women through compulsory sex education lessons in schools, campaigners have warned.

“Boys are developing worrying sexual behaviours as a result of watching internet pornography, which is often sexually aggressive and easy to access, it has been claimed.”

     Boys, and girls, used to already know this.  It was called chivalry and being a gentleman (or a lady).  It was taught by their parents through example.  It was expected in society.  But we have done away with that in the name of “women’s rights/equality.”  Chivalry was a code that socially restrained both men and women, but benefited then to a far greater degree. 

     Destroying that did not create a utopia of “equality,” but rather the sad situation we have today. In Philadelphia, thieves increasingly prey on women and even children, leading some women to openly ask “Where are our men? Why are they not protecting us?” To put it bluntly, Feminists wanted women to be treated no differently than a man, and now they’ve gotten their wish.

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Is Turkey’s Prime Minister Truly Outrageous?

     The Prime Minister of Turkey decided to address the members of this political party as… a hologram.  Apparently, that program was not deleted from the droid.  The Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is not the first politician to use holograms, as he follows in the illustrious steps of other politicians, such as the Emperor Palpatine and India’s Narendra Modi.

     It remains to be seen if Erdoğan can reach the lofty heights of zombie Tupac and diva Hatsune Miku.  It does beg the question: Was Erdoğan outrageous?  Truly, Truly ourtrageous?

     A little mood music:

     Hat Tip: Jon David Kahn at Breitbart.

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