Category: hypocrisy

What You Always Have With You

     It feels a bit strange to be writing about this during Advent, but my wandering mind resists being told what to dwell on.      The Gospel citation below is from John, chapter 12:      Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised …

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Bootlickers Disguise Bootlicking as Shoe Shining

Most folks have probably encountered a situation like this. You’re arguing on social media with some Lefty, and he copies and pastes some links he dug up on Google as evidence his point of view is right, and you’re just an idiot who hates fact-based rational thought. After all, how can you ignore the opinion …

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Bastiat Redux

     In his last and best-known book The Law, Frederic Bastiat provides us with a striking description of the essence of State lawlessness:      But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom …

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Hypocrisy, 2022 Edition

     First, a most striking quote from one of science fiction’s foremost practitioners: “You know, when I was a young man, hypocrisy was deemed the worst of vices,” Finkle-McGraw said. “It was all because of moral relativism. You see, in that sort of climate, you are not allowed to criticise others — after all, if …

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