“Liberalism” on The Daily Caller

After making its return with this month’s May Day demonstrations, the Occupy Wall Street movement will be out in force this weekend to protest the NATO summit in Chicago. Although the OWSers are not very good at articulating what they’re for, it’s clear what they’re against: capitalism. Many idealistic young people are seduced by the message that government, in the name of “fairness,” must “correct” the income disparity between the super-wealthy 1% and the other 99%. Is there a way to get these young idealists to appreciate the superior morality of capitalism? I believe that there is. (more)

Conservative commentator R. Emmett Tyrrell says liberalism is dead. In fact, it’s right in the title of his latest book, “The Death of Liberalism.” (more)

In 2008, young voters were inspired by Barack Obama and helped elect him president. But Obama’s failure to live up to his promise (and his promises) has led to widespread disillusionment not only among the young, but with voters of all ages who were captivated by him four years ago. Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney now has the opportunity to claim the mantle of idealism that Obama has fumbled. In so doing, Romney could capture a significant and potentially decisive share of the voters who handed Obama the presidency last time out. (more)

It’s time for the president to approve the Keystone XL pipeline and make a campaign problem for Democrats go away. (more)

On July 4, 1826, the National Intelligencer published a letter written several days earlier by Thomas Jefferson to his fellow citizens, just as the great revolutionary leader was expiring at the age of 83 on a “little mountain” outside the hamlet of Charlottesville, Virginia. (more)

The political coalition on the left is based on a culture of victimhood. The basic premise of modern liberalism is that America is a melting pot of oppressed groups. Women, gays, Muslims, African-Americans, Latinos, immigrants and the poor are all victims. The 99% is victimized by the 1% — and of course the 1% is made up exclusively of straight white Christian males. Worse than simply being victims, members of the “oppressed” groups are powerless victims, unable to change their miserable lot in life without the help of a big, benevolent government. (more)

My white guilt died on Good Friday, April 6, 2012. That was the day my bike got stolen. (more)

“‘Celebrate diversity’ — the great bumper sticker — actually means ‘celebrate stultifying homogeneity,’” Canadian best-selling author and columnist Mark Steyn told The Daily Caller. (more)

Did I miss the deadline for alternative opinions on Sandra Fluke? (more)

Perhaps the greatest single piece of sociological, cultural and political legerdemain in the last 40 years has been liberals convincing the country that they have not moved left since John Kennedy’s death. Despite George McGovern, Roe v. Wade, the welfare state, gay marriage and now the Obama attack on religion, liberals have managed to present themselves as the voices of reason in a country gone crazily right wing. And the more liberals move left, the more hysterical their rhetoric about the right grows. At this point, anyone who claims that a balanced budget is good economics or that there are physiological differences between men and women is stamped a Nazi. (more)

It might seem silly to judge a person simply on the basis of a single word, yet we do it every day. Political labels are tools that help us identify immediately who is a friend and who is a foe. If someone calls himself a liberal, that must mean he’s pro-choice, anti-war, and in favor of gun control. If I am also most of those things, he is a good guy; if not, he is either stupid or evil. (more)

To truly understand the depthless awfulness of the just-posted “interview” that Slate’s Jacob Weisberg conducted with Rachel Maddow, one needs to turn to religion. Simply saying that Weisberg interviewing Maddow is like Tiger Beat interviewing Justin Bieber is just not enough anymore. It misses the bigger picture. (more)

We are now very used to observing the anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s death — the forty-eighth one ticked past last Tuesday. Were it not so tragic, our novelty-hungry culture would long since have rendered it banal. (more)

It’s time for another Maureen Dowd column. This time, I think I’ll write it for her. (more)

For decades the liberals in the Democrat Party have treated women and minorities as property. Politically speaking, blacks, women, gays, Hispanics and Jews were owned by them. (more)

The institutional left in America has wasted pages and pages attempting to tar tea partiers as anti-government quasi-anarchists who have abused the freedoms granted to them under the Constitution to advocate for a radical, possibly violent overhaul of the present system, without so much as a scrap of an idea about what the replacement should be. How ironic, then, that there is a movement on the left which is presently making a nuisance of itself, and which fits all of the descriptors outlined above. (more)

The only thing I found shocking about New York Times columnist Paul Krugman’s sad, juvenile post about 9/11 is that conservatives were shocked by it. Less than a week ago, I wrote a piece for The Daily Caller exploring how liberalism is a religion, one that considers conservatives to be Satan. Why is anyone surprised that Krugman, the pluperfect left-winger, is acting like the axioms of his religion are more important than decency? When the devil appears, you toss holy water and ask questions later. (more)

A few weeks ago, I wrote in The Daily Caller that the media has become a bunch of girly men. When Sarah Palin’s non-campaign campaign bus ran a couple red lights, the fourth estate acted like Palin had used her RV to crash the gate at Disney World. (more)

The Financial Times recently ran a fascinating report about the inner-workings of the successful online dating website Match.com. Like many social networking websites, Match.com is powered by a sophisticated algorithm — or mathematical function — that uses a number of variables to bring people together in the virtual world. In this case, Match.com is bringing single people together for the sake of meeting online and then, if all goes well, dating in the real world. (more)

In a couple weeks, America will mark an important anniversary: the day that this country was attacked by an arrogant, uncomprehending enemy. I speak, of course, of the September 1, 2009 publication of the book “The Death of Conservatism” by Sam Tanenhaus. (more)