Sh*t Liberals Say
I often get annoyed at my fellow liberals. Especially the insane, attention seeking social justice warriors and feminists. Here #39;s shit liberals say. *and, this goes without being saying since...
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Bill Maher: Liberals are Afraid to Criticize Islam and be Called Racists
Moore, Sharpton and their ilk are just as much against Western Judeo/Christian/Capitalist society as the terrorist are. That IS thier "liberal values" and this is why they call critics of Islam...
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Rana Bokhari sure doesn't think much of the state of public education in Manitoba.
"We failed at math, we failed at science, we failed at reading," the recently elected leader of the Manitoba Liberals said when we sat down to discuss her party's education policy. "Clearly, it's not a money issue -- we're missing something."
Our talk wandered all over the map, with few details or specifics, so I can't give you a shopping list of how the Liberals stand on all the things the New Democrats have done in the past 15 years -- the moratorium on closing schools, greater emphasis on nutrition and physical education, Bill 13 for special needs, Bill 18 for anti-homophobia protection, continuing the reliance on property taxes, continuing to base inequitable education on the assessed values of properties in an area, capping tuition increases, literally dozens of policies that delight and infuriate disparate groups and individuals.
"I'm not going to sit here and bash the NDP... and the Tories," said Bokhari, who bemoaned the lack of research-staff funding that plagues parties with just one MLA -- former leader Jon Gerrard. Nor, she said, is she about to lay out her platform this far ahead of an election.
"We can't make policy just for the election cycle," said Bokhari, adding it's vital the province train young people and keep them here.
"We need to keep our young people in this province -- when they go, our economic base goes," she said. "It's going to slam us in the face."
Bokhari said she won't promise the Liberals would remove property taxes from funding education until they know the numbers: "I won't be irresponsible. If the province is going to fund it, where is the province going to get the money?"
I pointed out the numbers are there, down to the penny, in the FRAME (Financial Reporting and Accounting in Manitoba Education) annual report, all $2.1 billion or so of it. I told Bokhari that whenever anyone talks about the province's funding 100 per cent of public education, I always ask, 100 per cent of what? Who determines in that situation how much each school division has to spend, since there is such a wide -- sometimes enormous -- difference in per-student spending, based largely on local assessment bases and the willingness to tax.
Bokhari is a huge supporter of early-childhood education and would license daycare centres more quickly. But would she fund them, and if so, to what degree? She wasn't ready to address that yet.
The Canadian Federation of Students has told her what Bokhari calls a tuition freeze is "not a freeze at all," she said.
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Liberals have education vision, few specifics
Norman Podhoretz, Why Are Jews Liberals?
Best-selling author, Norman Podhoretz, discussed his new book, Why are Jews Liberals? Norman Podhoretz says he has never in his entire life been asked any question on any subject as often...
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Are liberals giving President Obama a pass for waging the kind of war they would instinctively oppose?
In other words, are they opposed to bombing only when the missions are ordered by Republicans?
There is anecdotal evidence, at least, that some on the left have lost their antiwar passion now that George W. Bush has decamped to Texas. Which means theyre more about partisanship than principle.
Dana Milbank, the liberal Washington Post columnist who can be tough on liberals, was at the White House for an antiwar demonstration in the wake of Obamas airstrikes against ISIS in Syria. A grand total of 22 people showed up.
Heres what he quoted lefty activist David Swanson as saying:
If George W. Bush were launching wars with Congress out of town, oh, it would be flooded. They would be screaming.
Obama, said Swanson, can get away with some abuses and worse and be forgiven because he engages in wars more eloquently and reluctantly, but the people who die in the wars are just as dead and the people who suffer from the sabotaging of climate agreements have their climate just as destroyed.
Medea Benjamin of Code Pink was asked why so few on the left oppose Obama. Hes totally defanged us, she said, citing his party, his affability and his race. The black community is traditionally the most antiwar community in this country. Hes defanged that sentiment within the black community, or certainly voicing that sentiment.
Defanged. Wow, those are damning words.
Andrew Sullivan, a conservative who largely became an Obama booster, is equally incredulous:
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KURTZ: Defanging the Left Why liberals are staying silent on Obamas war