In 2016, battle lines will be drawn. On one side, people of all colours, genders and orientations are rallying around the flag of freedom of speech. On the other, a nasty set of authoritarians are rallying around a flag that identifies as a flag only on Mondays, uses they/them pronouns and will try to get you fired or expelled from school if you forget it. Let me explain. In 2015, I saw the seeds of a movement begin to sprout. Across the internet, and even in fear-gripped halls on campuses, young people began to stand up and challenge the humourless, divisive, identity-obsessed elites that have taken over our cultural discourse. People of seemingly disparate interests and politics — gamers, pundits, metalheads, comic book and science fiction fans, atheists, Catholics, conservatives, libertarians and even many disaffected liberals — came together to agree on only one thing: art and culture should be left alone. That movement is called cultural libertarianism. It stands against any authoritarian, from the Right or the Left, who sucks fun and freedom from the world like some kind of vampire without the cool factor, and who uses faux grievances and exaggerated victimhood to get what they want. Cultural libertarianism rejects the fainting-couch
Month: December 2015
Herman Cain: Trump Touches a Chord with Conservatives on the Economy, Spending, Terrorism
On Thursday’s broadcast of “Fox & Friends,” 2012 Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain explained why the 2016 party front-runner Donald Trump has resonated with voters at this stage in the primary contest. Cain explained that it had to do with three major issues. “I think it is because he is touching a chord with the same people that are conservatives who believe that we have three major problems,” Cain said. “As someone said earlier, he is a fiery candidate. They want some fire in our president to attack three big problems that mainstream USA and the conservatives recognize but the political establishment basically don’t do anything about.” “Number one, this is a sluggish economy,” Cain continued. “It is not the new normal. Donald Trump projects the fact that we can do better. Number two, this runaway spending and all the establishment candidates do is make excuses for this runaway spending. And three, they want a fiery leader to fight against the war on terrorism. Those are the three things that Donald Trump appeals to and he doesn’t play by the rules and that’s what a lot of people like.” Follow Jeff Poor on Twitter @jeff_poor
Jeb Bush Cancels Prescheduled TV Time, Sends Staff Into Field
GOP presidential candidate former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is canceling $3 million dollars in TV ads in the early primary states of Iowa and South Carolina.
West Wing Week: 1/1/2016 or, “U.S. Mission Manila”
This week, West Wing Week takes a short break from our regularly scheduled programming to take you behind the scenes with the U.S. Embassy in Manila, to show you what it’s like for folks working at a U.S. Embassy when POTUS comes to your country.
Nerd Queen Haydn Porter: ‘SJWs Should Have Their Own Conventions That Eliminate All Fun’
With controversy over the Slave Leia costume heating up to the point where even Carrie Fisher felt obliged to weigh in, sex in nerd culture is once more getting smeared by the media. Indeed, one could argue that the Slave Leia fight is just one more front in the pervasive panic over nerd sexuality that has been causing incidents like the banning of booth babes and sexy cosplay, at pop culture conventions. In the midst of this moral panic, it seemed fitting to talk to someone who’s actually been a nerd sex symbol. Haydn Porter, a former Playmate of the Month and Cybergirl for Playboy, first attracted the attention of the internet when she wore the Slave Leia costume to a Playboy Mansion Halloween party back in 2008. Since then, she has made the costume a staple of her appearances at cons, where she’s been everything from a paid booth babe to just a regular attendee. She is certainly one of the best known Slave Leia cosplayers out there, and was even a partial focus of an Entertainment Weekly article on the same topic in 2011. But Haydn – who is also a card carrying Mensa member, a black belt
Politico: Executive Gun Control Will Force Background Checks on Private Sellers
Politico reports that President Obama’s upcoming executive gun control will force a number of private gun sellers to get their Federal Firearms License (FFL) and perform background checks on every gun sold.
L.A. Times Columnist: Whites Must Dump Donald Trump in 2016
Los Angeles Times “Black Twitter” correspondent Dexter Thomas has a New Year’s resolution for white people: dump Donald Trump.
The Collapse Of Old Europe In 2015: Not With A Bang, But With A Whimper
So this is the way 2015 ends for Europe, not with a bang, but with a whimper. With Brussels, Paris, London and Berlin all on high alert, having either cancelled or drastically altered their plans for traditional New Year’s celebrations across the capitals of the continent. It would be amusing were it not such a tragic development for those of us who have to live among them, that the open-door, terrorist-apologist policies of the liberal left which has its tentacles deep in the “old” conservative parties across Europe have led in many ways to the decline of their own ideals. “Tolerance” – going. “Sexual liberation” – going. “Feminism” – gone. These, if not yet fully dead, are ideals in their death throes as Europe undergoes a seismic shift in demographics and inevitably, our politics. And what better way than to mark the occasion that German Chancellor Angela Merkel – not so much the architect as the project manager – delivering her annual New Year speech, for the first time, subtitled in Arabic? Some have deeply pessimistic takes on it all. It’s hard not to. It is very hard to sit across from someone at a dinner table, and with a straight
Why Western Civilization Has Lost Its Self-Confidence
At every turn, it seems, the weak and uncertain leadership of the West is submitting to the strength and evil certainty of radical Islam, of which Winston Churchill warned more than a century ago “no stronger retrograde force exists in the world.” His…