I Am Just Mystified By These People

We Are All Descended From Cavemen Who Broke The Skulls Of Their Enemies With Rocks For Fun Or Profit. But That Hardly Mitigates The Crimes Of A Man Who Does The Same Thing Today. I See No Problem Judging The Behavior Of The Islamic State And Its Apologists From The Vantage Point Of The West's High Horse, Because We've Earned The Right To Sit In That Saddle.

Keep In Mind That Eric Alterman Is Media Critic For The Nation-a Hysterically Left-wing Magazine Dedicated To The Proposition That Corporate America, U.s. Foreign Policy And The Republican Party Are Criminal, Racist Or Both. The Simple Reality Is That, For Him, The Democratic Party Is Far Too Conservative.

Free Trade Has Been Proven, Time And Again, As A Reliable Path To Economic Development. It Pushes The Public And Private Sectors Alike Toward Greater Accountability And Transparency. It Lifts People Out Of Poverty, And While It Can Force Unsettling Changes On A Society, Those Changes Prove To Be Worthwhile In A Very Short Time.

Liberals And Leftists Have Been Dismissing Inconvenient Facts By Attacking Motives For Generations. In The 1930s, '40s, And '50s, Soviet Spies And Abettors Attacked The Motives Of Their Accusers Because The Fact Of Their Guilt Was Undeniable. In The 1960s, Over A Thousand Psychiatrists Who'd Never Even Met Barry Goldwater Signed A Petition Saying The Gop Candidate Was Too Mentally Unstable To Be President.

Dissent Is Morally Neutral. You Can Correctly Call Yourself A Dissident Because You Like To Kick Puppies, But At The End Of The Day, You're Just A Jerk Who Likes To Kick Puppies.