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Another interesting commonality between the Marxists and the Nazis: They both rejected objective reasoning in favour of the claim that an argument was right or wrong because of who it was that put the argument forward. Marxists rejected logical arguments that did not suit them because they were "bourgeois" and Nazis rejected arguments that did not suit them because they were "Jewish". For centuries the argument that the utterer influences the truth of an argument has been known among logicians as the ad hominem fallacy. The fallacious nature of such arguments is obvious to most people in examples such as the following: "Hitler loved dogs and Hitler was evil so loving dogs must be evil" but Marxists seriously believe such propositions. Another example of Leftist irrationality.

The book Conspicuous Compassion by Patrick West has attracted a lot of attention -- as well it might. It focuses attention on all the bogus compassion that infests our society. Since "compassion" is the false flag under which Leftists customarily sail, the book may make a few people look more critically at Leftist claims.

Have a look at the neo-Soviet system taxpayers are supporting at San Francisco State University.

Some interesting Haitian proverbs: "The constitution is paper, bayonets are steel." "The goat which has many owners will be left to die in the sun"

Economic ignoramus Greg Easterbrook is complaining that goods are too cheap. He thinks that making them dearer will help the poor. England's Sword puts him to rights.

What If accuses the Democrats of "schizophrenia" about prosperity. That's not a clinical diagnosis but it does capture their addled thinking.

I have just posted here some observations from Chris Brand about the publicity-hungry Naomi Wolf and about a split in the British Left over immigration control.

The anti-Semitism of the intellectuals: "It used to be said that anti-Catholicism was the anti-Semitism of the intellectuals. Today, anti-Semitism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectuals. ... Here the term intellectual is used loosely, to denote not only people who think about ideas -- about thinking -- but also people who think they do. The term anti-Semitism is used precisely, to denote people who dislike Jews. These people include those who say: We do not dislike Jews, we only dislike Zionists -- although to live in Israel is to endorse the Zionist enterprise, and all Jews are implicated, as sympathizers, in the crime that is Israel."

Some of the recent articles now up on the think-israel.org website:
"THE AGENDA OF ISLAM - A WAR BETWEEN CIVILIZATIONS" by Professor Moshe Sharon
"THE ROOT CAUSE" by Boris Celser
"ISRAEL'S SECURITY: The Hard-Learned Lessons" by Yaakov Amidror
"WHY WE SUPPORT ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS" by Daniel Kaganovich and Michael Butler
"WHAT WOULD AMERICA DO?" by Beth Goodtree
"VIOLENCE AND LEFT-WING POLITICS: What's Going On At UCLA'S Hillel?" by Sharon Hes
"IS IT ANTISEMITIC TO CRITICIZE ISRAEL? IS ISRAEL AN APARTHEID STATE? Part 1." by Jared Israel
"ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT? The New York Times and Israel" by Tom Gross
"FORD FUNDS THE PALESTINIAN LEFT" by Lee Kaplan
"FORD HAS A BETTER IDEA: One Nation Under Allah" by Alyssa A. Lappen

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The Left have always wanted more spent on welfare and made "Fascism" a swear-word. President Bush deposed a brutal Fascist dictator and sponsored a big expansion of welfare. But instead of being admired by the Left, he is hated with a passion. What does that tell you about the Left? It tells you that they have no principles at all: That everything they have ever claimed to stand for is fake.

Two more examples of Leftist dishonesty: They blame the 9/11 attacks on "poverty" in the Islamic world. Yet most of the attackers were Saudis and Saudi Arabia is one of the world's richest countries! They also say that they oppose racism yet support "affirmative action" -- which judges people by the colour of their skin

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