Rules For Radicals: Rule Four

Rule Four in Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals manifesto: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”

This rule is all about exploiting the imperfection to be found in any person or ideology. It is also in this rule where hypocrisy really has a chance to shine.

For example, think about all of the sexual assaults which have taken place at Occupy gatherings around the country. The Left was happy to ignore all of this, but what happens when a Tea Partier is accused of sexual assault? A sexual assault didn’t happen at a Tea Party, and the charges were dropped, but the Left was in a frenzy of glee. The words “Tea Party” were used in headlines as though it was representative of the movement. They Left thought they had found an example of right-wing wrongdoing and, although they turned out to be wrong, they exploited it all they could.

By /// July 9, 2012

Jonah Goldberg tells Mackinac Center liberals hide behind fake facts to pretend they aren’t ideological

Liberals like cloaking their ideology under the mantle of facts, according to National Review Online editor Jonah Goldberg, who spoke Friday at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Traverse City, Mich. 

Goldberg was promoting his new book The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas.

Liberals like to say they only care about facts and that ideology is secondary, but Goldberg pointed out that the facts they like to refer to are frequently based on flawed studies. They like to pretend that their views are rooted in science rather than ideology.

“They like to say that ‘We are fact-finders; conservatives are ideologues,’” Goldberg said

By /// July 8, 2012

Rules for Radicals #3

Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.

This week’s rule is the reverse side of Alinsky’s second rule (Never go outside the experience of your people. The result is confusion, fear, and retreat), which we examined last week. Although it is important for those on your side to be kept in their comfort zone, those on the other side must be kept uncomfortable. The left in America has kept this on full display.

By /// July 3, 2012

Alabama governor on how they snagged Airbus: We’re a right to work state

Earlier today the European aerospace firm announced it would invest $600 million in a new airline factory in Mobile, Alabama, its first such one in the US. Why Mobile? Well, Gov. Robert Bentley was blunt in an interview with Fox Business’s Neil Cavuto this evening.

“We are a right-to-work state,” he said. That is, Alabama is one of 23 states that forbid workers from being forced to join a union as a condition of employment. This has resulted in weak unions in those states.

Read More at Washington Examiner

By /// July 3, 2012

Democrats’ New Motto: Never Let a Wildfire Go to Waste

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Did you know that President Obama has been incommunicado with Colorado’s governor for more than two weeks as the nation’s worst wildfires rage across the state? Maybe he thought we were all “doing fine.” After an embarrassing Beltway press briefing revelation about our out-of-touch White House, the administration finally decided to divert the campaigner in chief from his nationwide fundraising frenzy for a quick look-see at our devastated city on Friday. It’s “leadership from behind” you can count on.

On Wednesday, press secretary Jay Carney acknowledged that Obama hadn’t talked to Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper in 15 days. Holy smokes. The High Park fire, which has consumed nearly 90,000 acres and claimed nearly 257 homes west of Fort Collins, ignited on June 9 and is still active. During a campaign swing just last week, first lady Michelle Obama made a brief mention of the High Park fire before launching into her standard GOP-bashing stump speeches.

Read More at Michelle Malkin

By /// June 29, 2012

Something For the Haters

Last summer, my children’s book One Nation Under God: A Book for Little Patriots came out. The book is a non-partisan introduction to America, from one nation under God through ten amendments in the Bill of Rights. While it was well received by many, there were some on the left who found it offensive.

By /// June 27, 2012

Rules For Radicals: Rule 2

In the second installment of the Rules for Radicals series, we explore Alinsky’s second rule and how the modern Democratic party has embraced these tactics of fear and confusion.

RULE 2: Never go outside the experience of your people. The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

Saul Alinsky’s second rule in his book “Rules for Radicals” has to do with keeping everyone on your side comfortable. It assumes that, if people are presented with new and unfamiliar experiences, they will become confused and afraid. Communication will break down and those you are trying to organize, will retreat.

By /// June 22, 2012

To Integrate Or Not To Integrate – Right Online Panel Discusses Right’s Role in Culture War

We all know there is a culture war, but during the Right Online panel How Culture Drives Politics, there was some disagreement on how we should fight it. The panel, moderated by Slade O’Brien, featured S. E. Cupp, Larry O’Connor, and Bill Whittle.

Cupp, a political commentator and author, argued that we on the Right do not want to integrate into what we consider to be mainstream culture. She told the group to “Celebrate the culture we already have and reinforce that we already have a popular culture; we don’t have to co-opt or try to fit into another one… ours is the majority culture. It’s not mainstream anymore.”

By /// June 18, 2012