And In The Minds Of

The Mainstream Perception That Conservatives Are Close-minded And Dogmatic While Liberals Are Open-minded And Free-thinking Has It Almost Exactly Backward. Liberal Dogma Is Settled: The Government Should Do Good, Where It Can, Whenever It Can. That Is President Obama's Idea Of Pragmatism And Bipartisanship: He's Open To All Ideas, From Either Side Of The Aisle, About How Best To Expand Government And Get The State More Involved In Our Lives.

And In The Minds Of Progressives You Are Free To Live Anyway You Want So Long As It's Progressive.

On Tuesday, The So-called Islamic State Released A Slickly Produced Video Showing A Jordanian Pilot Being Burned Alive In A Steel Cage. On Wednesday, The United Nations Issued A Report Detailing Various 'mass Executions Of Boys, As Well As Reports Of Beheadings, Crucifixions Of Children, And Burying Children Alive' At The Hands Of The Islamic State.

[a] Country Without A Word To Describe Its Love For What Is Best Within It Is A Country Ill-equipped To Defend What Is Best Within It.

It Was In The 1960s That The Left Convinced Itself That There Is Something Fascistic About Patriotism And Something Perversely "patriotic" About Running Down America. Anti-americanism - A Stand-in For Hatred Of Western Civilization - Became The Stuff Of Sophisticates And Intellectuals As Never Before. Flag Burners Became The Truest "patriots" Because Dissent - Not Just From Partisan Politics, But The American Project Itself - Became The Highest Virtue.