Showing posts with label Conscience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conscience. Show all posts

August 13, 2015

Donald Trump Violates William F. Buckley's Principles




[From article]
He won also in spite of South Carolina’s Democratic Gov. Thurmond siphoning off Democratic votes (and 39 electoral votes) as a Dixiecrat protesting civil rights commitments in the Democratic Party’s platform. Truman won because he kept his party and himself from seeming incoherent and boneless.
[Truman was President after Roosevelt died in office in 1945. He was elected for the first time in 1948. He did not run in 1952.]
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So, the Republican National Committee should immediately stipulate that subsequent Republican debates will be open to any and all — but only — candidates who pledge to support the party’s nominee.
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So, conservatives today should deal with Trump with the firmness Buckley dealt with the John Birch Society in 1962. The society was an extension of a loony businessman who said Dwight Eisenhower was “a dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy.” In a 5,000-word National Review “excoriation” (Buckley’s word), he excommunicated the society from the conservative movement.
Buckley received an approving letter from a subscriber who said, “You have once again given a voice to the conscience of conservatism.” The letter was signed, “Ronald Reagan, Pacific Palisades, Cal.”
George Will is a syndicated columnist. In the interest of full disclosure he wanted readers to know that his wife, Mari Will, works for Scott Walker.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/op_ed/2015/08/will_donald_trump_s_a_counterfeit_republican

Will: Donald Trump’s a counterfeit Republican
Thursday, August 13, 2015
By: George F. Will
Boston Herald

November 24, 2014

Obama Shows No Shame For His Lawlessness




[From article]
Obama has now ushered in the Age of the Dictator for America.  This man is, in essence, acting as emperor of this country.  Despite the will of the American people, despite the outright illegal usurpation of rights that the president of the United States does not possess, Obama has changed the landscape of this country forever.
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this bullying and total disregard for the law mirrors what Obama is doing concerning discipline in the schools.  Society is now expected to accept out-of-control behavior by black students and simply do nothing about it.
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This is the double standard that Obama is so fond of.  He does not have to abide by Obamacare; he does not have to abide by the Constitution; he is above the law simply because of his race.  His lies are accepted because to make him accountable is to be racist.  Whether it is a 15-year-old student wreaking havoc in a classroom or a 53-year-old president trashing the Constitution, race trumps rules.
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Conservative groups continue to be singled out by the IRS, and no one is punished by this administration.  And, of course, everything is done in secrecy, because that is how corrupt government breeds and metastasizes.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/11/no_shame_for_obama_.html

November 24, 2014
No Shame for Obama
By Eileen F. Toplansky

January 30, 2014

Scientists Claim They Found the Human "Conscience"


[From article]
The lateral frontal pole, in short, is like a spouse who is quick to inform you that you've blundered and bungled it when it would have been so easy to get it right. It's the kindly-but-firm voice of authority that tells you to go to your room and mull over what you've done, so you'll be sure not to do it again in future...
Hang on. This isn't some minor breakthrough of cognitive neuroscience. This is about good and bad, right and wrong. This is about the brain's connection to morality. This means that the Oxford scientists, without apparently realising what they've done, have located the conscience.
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HL Mencken once defined it as, "the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking".

So how long will it take lawyers and others anti social professionals to learn how to disable this region of the brain in order to make better deceivers and criminals? There are an endless number of potential uses of this technique for criminal purposes. It can makes people think that what evil they do is good, and vice versa. It is impossible to stop scientists from exposing the inner workings of the mind. One day when they know it all, one public spirited politician will take control of all minds to benefit himself.  

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/you-say-lateral-frontal-pole-i-say-that-little-devilangel-that-whispers-in-my-ear-9094043.html

JOHN WALSH
Wednesday 29 January 2014
You say lateral frontal pole, I say that little devil/angel that whispers in my ear
Without recognising it, Oxford scientists appear to have located the consience

February 12, 2009

No Shame

No Shame

Obama pre-selects which reporters will be allowed to ask questions. Here is one more example of his hypocrisy promoting openness and controlling access. He is one of many elected officials who have no shame and no conscience.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123431418276770899.html

Obama's Press List
Membership shall have its privileges.
Wall Street Journal
February 11, 2009