Having no proprietary interest in this blog, I can’t object to his use of Neo’s bandwidth, nor do I find the scrolling past his remarks – which I usually quickly scan while doing so – oppressive. And while I generally agree with the remarks of Wolla Dalbo @ 8:08 am 5th paragraph, I also think that Art has taken an unusual amount of trouble to review and to grasp, and in some rare depth, the historical context and intellectual underpinnings of progressivism, in a way that Bilderberger obsessives and Illuminati cranks only imagine they achieve in their pet domains.

It may be true that this blog is populated by an unusual number of readers who have studied Marxism and Leninism in an academic settings, who are familiar with Comte, the writings of the Bloomsbury group, with Logical Positivism, Prussian Anti-liberals, the Kulturkampf, Dewey, Legal Realism, the deeper ideology behind Social Security, with Literary Deconstruction, and so on.

But he probably not wrong in assuming that the average conservative really has no grasp of the deep moral alienness (ideological if perhaps not always felt) of the progressive who has drunk in, internalized, and wholeheartedly intellectually affirmed the materialist premisses and fiat morality preached by their forebears.

His repeated retracing of the evolutionary strands and the logical implications of these doctrines may be tedious to some, but at some level, somewhere, there is a need for this.

Maybe on his own blog as well, and primarily, as some have suggested.

Romney’s speech brought out the worst in the scrap fed mongrels and the best in others:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/309166/wolf-blitzer-blasts-president-obama-being-naacp-no-show-romney-did-right-thing-preside

For a review of “disparate impact” read Griggs v Duke Power Co., 401 U.S. 424 (1971)

The decision in Griggs, while on the surface looking “fair,” helps to undermine MLK’s call for judgment by merit and achievement.

“[I]n regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for the negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. The American people have always been anxious to know what they shall do with us… . I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us!”–Frederick Douglas

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=401&invol=424

Here’s something!

http://www.blackvoicenews.com/commentary/george-curry/47910-clarence-thomas-worse-than-a-member-of-the-kkk-.html

Just makes me wanna’ puke.