Author Archive for Joseph C. Phillips

By Joseph C. Phillips on September 19th, 2009

Racial Schizophrenia

Barack Obama Jimmy Carter 900 pixels Speaking to NBC News Anchor Brian Williams former president Jimmy Carter (taking a breather between having tea with dictators and lunatics) proffered that not only was South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson’s inappropriate outburst during President Obama’s speech before a joint session of congress fueled by racism, but the wider opposition to Obama is also based on the fact that Obama is Black.

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By Joseph C. Phillips on September 12th, 2009

Feel Good Policy

The political left rejects these solutions for the same reason my FB friends reduce economic and moral issues to the banal: this debate isn’t really about medical care; sure there is lots of medical care terminology, but at bottom this discussion is about the political and philosophical validity of the administrative state.

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By Joseph C. Phillips on September 04th, 2009

Revolution Anyone?

Barack Obama hired Anthony “Van” Jones as a special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Jones is an admitted “rowdy Black nationalist” and “communist” who was also a co-founder of the communist revolutionary organization STORM: Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement.

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By Joseph C. Phillips on August 05th, 2008

Political Correctness, A Psychic Straightjacket

Some who grew up in the former Soviet Union say that Westerners “are at least as brainwashed by Multiculturalism and Political Correctness as they ever were with Communism.” So begins Norwegian blogger Fjordman’s, “Political Correctness – The Revenge of Marxism,” a powerful essay about the long-term consequences of our incomplete victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War. “We let our guard down after the fall of the Berlin Wall and never properly denounced the ideology behind it,” writes Fjordman, one of the West’s most insightful observers. And it’s “now coming back to haunt us.” (The author writes under a pseudonym since his views on Israel and Islam make him a target for terrorists.)