8 hours ago by Michael Walsh

Fascinating essay in Sunday’s Washington Post by Gerard Alexander, an associate professor of politics at the University of Virgina: “Why Are Liberals So Condescending?” Every political community includes some members who insist that their side has all the answers and that their adversaries are idiot ...

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1 day ago by Tom Carter

Every political community includes some members who insist that their side has all the answers and that their adversaries are idiots.

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1 day ago by Richard Kapit

Do liberals condescend to conservatives? No doubt about it. This weekend in the Washington Post, Gerard Alexander, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia, meticulously detailed the numerous disparagements the left characteristically foists upon the right—insults such as candidate Obam ...

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1 day ago by ramblincam

I need to stay alert. I have no business being docile. My complacence will get me nowhere. What appears to be the most pertinent thing to take into account is the fact that I need to take my future into my own hands. I have no business being flippant about the urgency of real life. where does vigila ...

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2 days ago by David Swindle

This morning I sent an email to David Horowitz ranting about one of my friends who was unhappy about me working for the DHFC. Specifically my friend didn’t care for my allegedly destructive, over-the-top, dogmatic rhetoric. He had to set me straight for how I was poisoning the world with my over-the ...

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2 days ago by thewillandersonshow

Do you know who Lionel Trilling is? Don’t feel bad—I didn’t either until I read a piece in today’s Washington Post by University of Virginia Professor Gerard Alexander entitled “Why are liberals so condescending?” Alexander begins, Every political community includes some members who insist that thei ...

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4 days ago by Pejman Yousefzadeh

Gerard Alexander is to be applauded for his editorial, pointing out the unceasing, contemporary liberal reflex to condescend to those who disagree with them. As is Charles Krauthammer. Conservatives, and right-of-center libertarians have had to put up with this childish behavior for quite a while, a ...

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4 days ago by jolt3500

In Which the Fujifilm XP10 Toughcam Mocks My Sedentary Lifestyle and I Tell It What’s What Mountain climbing. Cliff jumping. Cross-country skiing. Those are the kinds of activities the XP10 would be great at capturing. But I stay in my pajamas until 4:00 PM and do not appreciate the XP10’s implicit ...

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5 days ago by indyfromaz

Mr. Obama also insisted that Democrats had been receptive to many Republican ideas on health care and had included some of them in the legislation, and he suggested that a failure to sufficiently explain the merits of the bill to the American public was a main obstacle to moving forward. This was ye ...

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6 days ago by saynsumthn

It is pretty bad when the National Organization of (Pro-abortion) Women are getting called out as hypocrites by one of their own. Tebow’s Super Bowl ad isn’t intolerant; its critics are By Sally Jenkins Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, February 2, 2010 I’m pro-choice, and Tebow clearly is not. ...

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