Tag Archives: Social Justice

What’s the Spanish Word for “Kulak”?

Posted on November 16, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Venezuelan dictator Nicola Maduro has had 100 “bourgeois” arrested for being “barbaric… capitalist parasites!” The actions of Maduro have gone far beyond that, though: “Since the weekend, soldiers and inspectors have gone into 1,400 shops, taken over operations at an … 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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Guns and Racism

Posted on November 14, 2013 by The Political Hat

     A recent “research” article declared that “simply owning a firearm may also lead whites to develop more negative attitudes toward blacks.”  According to this “scientific” research, people who support their 2nd Amendment liberties are RAAACIST!      That reality is quite contrary … 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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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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Common Core: Creating the NEW Soviet Person

Posted on October 30, 2013 by The Political Hat

     The 1987 miniseries Amerika depicted life in the United States after a bloodless takeover engineered by the Soviet Union.  A scene, near the end, depicts a young American boy in a Komsomol style uniform wax poetically about the wonders of … Continue reading →

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Vice Ministry of Supreme Social Happiness

Posted on October 28, 2013 by The Political Hat

     In the role playing game Paranoia, set in the future where an insane all-powerful computer runs a domed city, fun and happiness are mandatory.  In the game, one player can be assigned the mandatory bonus duty of being the Happiness … Continue reading →

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The Mexican War Propagandized as the “North American Invasion”

Posted on October 25, 2013 by The Political Hat

     High school educational material from Brown University’s “Choices” program, which included required reading about Mexico, is little more than anti-American propaganda.      “Bookworm,” of Bookworm Room blog, shares with us a selection from his kids homework assignment.  Aside from blaming America, … Continue reading →

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