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Firing Line Friday: Tom Wolfe and The Painted Word

Posted on February 28, 2025 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”.      The pretentiousness of “art” that is supposed to “make you think” is something that still plagues us today … Continue reading →

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Nazi Flag Flap In Utah

Posted on February 26, 2025 by The Political Hat

     Demonstrating that yet again the modern GOP is a party of action first and thinking about the consequences later, a state Representative submitted a bill intended to ban the LGBTQ&c. pride flag (HB77) that also then specifically allowed for flying … Continue reading →

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Normalizing Pregnancy As A Disease

Posted on January 22, 2025 by The Political Hat

     Anti-natalism is ultimately anti-human. One shouldn’t belittle or deman women form whom having children wasn’t in the cards, those who outright declare that pregnancy is a disease are indeed obsessively nuts. Such is the case of the authors of this … Continue reading →

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Natural Born Birthright Is The Law, And Our Heritage

Posted on January 21, 2025 by The Political Hat

     That a person born in the United States and not excepted from its jurisdiction, which is otherwise absolute, is a citizen at birth has been well established not only by the 14th Amendment (which simply reaffirmed the color-blind nature of … Continue reading →

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Those Who Can’t, Teach In New Jersey

Posted on January 13, 2025 by The Political Hat

     While there is much to decry about education in America at all levels, there are still many teachers who do understand the subject they are teaching with many even good at it. However, the adage “those who can do while … Continue reading →

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Quick Takes – Crazy Colleges: Ecofeminist Ecomarxism; Planetary Healers; Radical Faeries

Posted on November 21, 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: When stupidity and fantasy collide.      First, a little mood music:      Carrying … Continue reading →

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The Madness Of Tucker Carlson

Posted on November 20, 2024 by The Political Hat

     Once upon a time, Tucker Carlson was a bowtie-wearing young man with insightful and thoughful ideas. Then, in a change of course, he began wearing a necktie and some time thereafter began speaking as a contrarian, speaking of economic ridiculousness … Continue reading →

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Fear, Hatred, & The Political Internet

Posted on October 15, 2024 by The Political Hat

     The online vitriol connected with politics (and really, almost anything these days) is not caused by a narrowing of the mind by living in a bubble, but the the narrowing of the mind by living from living in a bubble … Continue reading →

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The Hot New Science: Indigenous Wisdom

Posted on October 2, 2024 by The Political Hat

     One of the more insidious assaults on Western Civilization is the attack on science and scientific expertise. Sometimes this done by a direct assault that not only posits the validity of anti-science “ways of knowing” and the rights and freedoms … Continue reading →

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Quick Takes – Miseducation Of Children: High School Lap Dance; Passing Failing Migrants; Ideological Boot Camps

Posted on September 26, 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 future belongs to woke migrant strippers.      First, a little mood … Continue reading →

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