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You\u2019ll sleep better at night. \u00a0So a mom who goes spare on her kid at the Boston riots<\/a> is quite the hero. \u00a0Never mind that for years liberals have insisted that rounding up millions of Jews and slaughtering them in gas chambers and spanking a child were one and the same. \u00a0Even the most restrained approach to spanking. \u00a0Let alone just slapping a kid. \u00a0Nope. That\u2019s so yesterday\u2019s principles. <\/p>\n

In other news, giving peace a chance might be old news. \u00a0 Salon posts an opinion piece kicking around the idea that burning cars and other acts of violence might be justified<\/a>. \u00a0If you\u2019re the right person doing it for the right reason and for the right cause. \u00a0All we are saying is give peace a chance? \u00a0Depends, doesn\u2019t it.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s just two. \u00a0It\u2019s all the rage of course. \u00a0And I poke at liberalism, because its victory over the hearts and minds of the Dying West has made it the dominant approach to resolving the problems of our times. \u00a0And it\u2019s not just rascally liberals who drink from this well either. \u00a0But it is a gift of the wily liberals, who long ago learned that you can declare any truth to be the eternal truth of yesterday and be awesome for doing it. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"