November 20, 2009
Today, it is almost impossible to go through the day without hearing the term “Politically Correct” at least a dozen times. It is a phrase we’ve taken for granted and it is a phrase that in itself is Politically Incorrect”. The Webster’s Dictionary defines “Politically Correct” as: a term used to describe language, ideas, policies, or behavior seen as seeking to minimize offence to groups of people. So basically you’re insulting them but….doing …
Tags: Christmas, Earmarks, Politically Correct
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November 28, 2009
Here is an article that my brother wrote that expresses the sentiments of many people I know includng myself: When Christmas was the Holiday By Peter DeMartini These are the ramblings of an old man who was having trouble sleeping one night and feels he should say something about the way this Country is changing. This old man doesn’t particularly like the changes. When did it become politically correct for big department stores, corporations, and…
Tags: Christmas, Peter DeMartini, Politically Correct
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January 21, 2012
… seemed on the superficial level to offer continuity, it was actually an ideological reversal, back to the Liberal wing of the Republican Party. Though he lambasted his opponent Michael Dukakis, tarring him with the “Liberal” label, which Reaganism had turned into a dirty word, Bush himself was every bit a Progressive. His admitted trouble with “the vision thing” prevented him from continuing with Reagan’s unfinished work: shrinking government, e…
Tags: Compassionate conservatie, Debate, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, nomination, Rick Santorum, Ronald Reagan
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May 12, 2009
The week has been a little slow politically. The unemployment numbers for April came out and depending on your frame of reference were either great or not that bad. In my opinion, five hundred thousand jobs lost in one month is not good. But, I am in the minority on this according to polling in the last few days. On other fronts, Pakistan has started a major offensive against the Taliban. There is still no real word on whether it has been succes…
Tags: Free Speech, Pakistan, Politically Correct
Posted in Frank DeMartini, Uncategorized | 5 Comments »
January 25, 2012
…how much of their wisdom we are willing embrace? Torture, physical and psychological, often is the currency of earned wisdom. Professional boxing, major league football, and extreme sports exceed our threshold of what politically and U.N. defined “torture” becomes by virtue of pain, suffering and permanent injury. And yet radical “isms”, of all ideologies, avoid this poser, this riddle, this conundrum. We will say, uncomfortably, “That …
Tags: Frank Cervone, MSA, Multiple System Atrophy, Torture
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May 19, 2009
My original plan was to make this a non-political column and to address what Memorial Day should mean to this country in the current worldwide political climate. However, there have been so many developments politically in the past week that politics must have its fair say and Memorial Day will be addressed later. Nancy Pelosi’s political standing has taken a turn for the worse in the past few days. The press conference she gave last week was on…
Tags: Guantanamo Bay, Leon Pannetta, Memorial Day
Posted in Frank DeMartini, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
October 30, 2011
… of these circumstances, the use of the word hero is trivialized. A deeper problem is that ides of myth, legend and story hold a society’s culture together. The concept of the hero is central to these. By misapplying the hero label and refraining from using it when needed takes our culture in the wrong direction. I hope we can recover the sense of propriety about who we call a hero and what they did to be considered brave before it’s too late. A …
Tags: " "Dancing with the Stars, Chaz Bono, Fini Goodman, JR Martinez
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November 30, 2011
…of the Obama Coalition”, Thomas Edsall, by pushing “takers” into a non-working, entitlement, nanny state, socialistic philosophical ideology. Republicanism is not lost but it is certainly a candidate for a “Progressive Lite” label….or what as “Congress is Useless” all about? http://www.hollywoodrepublican.net/2011/11/congress-is-useless/ And all that is supported in academia today is under the myth of “academic freedom”. Collectivism and totalit…
Tags: First Amendment, Religion, Separation of Church and State
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December 14, 2011
“Remember, there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire” until the early 20th century.” “I think that we’ve had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs, and who were historically part of the Arab community. And they had a chance to go many places, and for a variety of political reasons we have sustained this war against Israel now since the 1940s, and it’s tragic.” Newt Gingric…
Tags: 2012 election, Barack Obama, Congress, Economy, Foreign Affairs, George Washington, Israel, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Ottoman Empire, Palestinians. Palestine, Patriotism, Politically Correct, Republican, Romans, Terrorism, Turkey
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April 9, 2010
… business with?” Peter Feaver, a Duke University political scientist and former Bush adviser disagrees: “It doesn’t appear to have created much in the way of strategic benefit. Obama risks seeming to adopt politically correct rhetoric abroad while appearing tone deaf on security issues at home”. None of this was lost by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich during an interview by Shawn Hannity yesterday: “I think th…
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