Tag Archives: progressivism

How Not To Discuss Blogs You Don’t Like

Exhibit A: Via LGF – the Village Voice rips into conservative bloggers Comment: I’m not opposed to poking fun at conservative bloggers, or even declaring “this blog is dangerous and should be opposed.” The Village Voice absolutely has the right to rip into Rightists however it wants. But there’s a good way to make a …

April 16, 2008 – 2:40 pm | By ashok | Posted in blogging, media | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Why Conservatives Should Be Kinder To Truthers

Note: What is below is pure speculation. I wanted a grounding that assigns Truthers to the Left more than the Right. I don’t think I got there, and what’s weirder is that talking about conspiracy theory tends to make one sound like a conspiracy theorist. Oh well. Michael Neumann, a philosopher, and CounterPunch contributor, at …

December 4, 2007 – 3:28 am | By ashok | Posted in politics | Tagged , , | Comments (10)

A Major Reason To Watch Fox News Is That It Is Not CNN

As you’ve undoubtedly heard, Democratic activist operatives got to ask plenty of “gotcha” questions during a televised Republican primary debate that were only designed to make the Republican party as a whole look bad. CNN, of course, denies that their hosting and filtering out participants for the debate was biased in any way. After all, …

November 30, 2007 – 3:14 pm | By ashok | Posted in media, politics | Tagged | Comments (3)

Some Thoughts on Progressivism, And How Tolerance Can Collapse Into Something Dangerous

What might we argue in favor of calling terrorists names? Let’s mention just one key goal: the education of the world’s Muslim youth. Instead of hearing moral praise and encouragement for terrorism from jihadists, which then gets mixed in their minds with the nonjudgmental, tactical talk of Western officials and media, they’d have to absorb …

July 18, 2007 – 6:46 am | By ashok | Posted in politics | Tagged | Comments (0)