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- Blog: City recreation leaders not in favor of lighted tennis court plan near Lawrence High May 16, 2013 · 48 comments
- LHS baseball falls in final May 16, 2013
- NBA teams size up McLemore, Withey at combine May 17, 2013
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Opinion: Newspapers might get better with Kochs
That's a remarkably broad definition. In your thinking, then, all democrats are equally "left"? And as well as being remarkably, and thus unhelpfully, broad, your definition doesn't really define anything. What are the salient underlying beliefs of this "left" you seem to see? All democrats share those beliefs?
And how does it influence your thinking — if influence it it does — that all of the Founders were "liberal"?
It does no good for you or anyone else to have such ill-defined concepts. They simply prevent one from seeing reality.
May 8, 2013 at 7:47 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Opinion: Newspapers might get better with Kochs
How are you defining "left" here?
And what a strange assertion, that you consider Comedy Central to be a news network.
Avoids the assertion that there is no definition of "Media elite" that does not include Cal Thomas.
May 7, 2013 at 3:01 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Opinion: Newspapers might get better with Kochs
It's laughable, and points to Cal's sloppy and unethical thinking, that he'd lead his piece with an overgeneral reference to the “Mainstream media" being "alarmed." The headline for this piece could accurately read "Long-time member of media elite decries media elite's take on Koch Bros. newspaper plans."
Because his columns are so widely syndicated, Cal is a poster boy for the so-called "mainstream media." Either he's too thick to see that, or he knows it and plays his audience for fools anyway.
He's also a poster boy for what's wrong with civic conversation in the U.S.
The Journal-World does the local community a disservice by printing his pieces. Not because of what he writes per se, but because he engages in the worst kind of unexamined bias and sloppy thinking imaginable. If he were able to argue ethically, his opinions might be worthwhile. As it stands, he's simply a good example for younger Americans on what to avoid in terms of thinking and communicating.
May 7, 2013 at 7:57 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Democrats say tax cuts are tax shifts
This comment is riddled with fantasies and misunderstandings. No wonder Republicans keep getting voted into office.
Tell a father or mother who've lost their jobs through no fault of their own that they are a "bum" and a "taker." That's flatly BS, lawrenceguy, and you should know it.
If that's what's guiding your political philosophy — faulty overgeneralizations and class animosity for working folks, you're what's wrong with Kansas.
Get out of your paranoid bunker once in a while and let the light of truth guide your way.
March 24, 2013 at 2:06 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Income tax cuts approved in House
Who exactly are you talking about? What "taker" can you possibly mean? And how are you a "maker"?
What "moochers" are you referring to? What "leeches"?
If you can't detail specifically, with facts, what on earthy you're basing your thoughts on, you're doing nothing but complaining about a fantasy in your own head.
Seriously: try to convince rational people of that these "moochers" and "takers" and "leeches" you're apparently engaging in class warfare with actually exist.
March 22, 2013 at 8:02 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Editorial: Local politics
Yup, toe is apparently one of the Reds. I wonder if he's got his Little Red Book?
March 21, 2013 at 9:31 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
New homeless shelter adds space, privacy
What is your responsibility?
March 21, 2013 at 9:28 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Opinion: Marriage act may fall
Which "god" are you talking about? And what do you mean by "god"?
March 21, 2013 at 9:26 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Opinion: Marriage act may fall
Your post makes no sense absent a definition of the word "God."
March 21, 2013 at 9:24 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Opinion: Marriage act may fall
It's truly disturbing for Cal to imply that the only thing keeping him from committing evil acts is that a book tells him not to -- "the rules for living and social order set down in a book found in most motel room drawers."
If the only reason you do good — choose love over hate, good over evil — is because you are told to, your actions are not then of the good: they are of the selfish, since you are only following orders so as not to be punished.
Do good because it is good, not because you fear the consequences of not doing good.
March 21, 2013 at 9:21 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )