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As I described in the previous post,, the Ruling Class is composed of people who simply think it is their right (if not their duty) to tell other people how to run their lives, and the People Class is composed of people who just want to get on with their own lives and don't have that urge to tell other people what to do. These Whips document the various activities of the Ruling Class.

And they're very, very, very active, unfortunately.

This Whip category pertains to what I call the People Class--my name for the "Country Class" as identified by retired Boston University professor Angelo M. Codevilla in his influential essay America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution.

This would be the "us" as opposed to the "them" of the Ruling Class. The difference is that people in the People Class don't want to run anyone else's life--they just want to be free to run their own lives to the best of their abilities. The people in the Ruling Class think that they're qualified to tell the rest of us how to run their lives--up to and including demanding that the People Class give money to the Ruling Class because they're somehow "owed" some kind of reparations to make things more "fair." So yes, the Angry Poor are, in fact, part of the Ruling Class, not of the People Class, in that they think they have the right to order other people to provide for their "needs."

This is the fundamental political issue of our time--despite what the journalists and "opnion-makers" (but I repeat myself) in the Ruling Class would have you believe.

The issue IS the Ruling Class, and more specifically, how long the People Class will continue to put up with their increasingly shrill and unreasonable demands.

I'm going to a new Whip format here for a while. Back to categories, with perhaps a lead comment/rant/editorial on things that really get me going. Today, that's nothing much. But, onward, to the Whip!

Wolfe’s lost road: Discovering an author’s personal essay on J.R.R. Tolkien

Wolfe’s (essay) says that The Lord of the Rings taught him that right and wrong can be absolutes, and that absolute moral equivalency is another piece of Mordor. In addition, it taught him that “progress” is not necessarily progressive, and with change comes inevitable loss.

The difference between knowledge and wisdom is also a feature of Tolkien's greatest work. The "progressives" confuse knowledge with wisdom. This is their great weakness. They believe that intricate and complicated concepts must be correct, because they're hard to understand. Conservatives believe that intricate and complicated concepts are best judged with deep suspicion, and that the basic truths are actually quite simple to comprehend. The "right thing to do" is often difficult to actually do, by we imperfect humans in this imperfect world, but it is often quite simple to understand.

Runaway Slave: The Documentary -- Coming in 2011. I hope it's not too late . . .

"Sometimes you can't tell the difference between now, and 200 years ago."
"You can be free."
"Tyranny is color-blind."
"Don't give up, don't give in. Are you tired yet? Run harder!"

Five Minutes With Andrew Breitbart

Q: Anything else folks should know about this or about Andrew Breitbart?

A: Believe it or not, one of my primary motives on this planet is to stop this racism, and to stop the Democratic Party's use of race that divides us intentionally. Google me and Clarence Thomas. I went from left to right because I watched this tactic happen to him and I aligned myself with black conservatives. Free thinkers recognize the Democratic Party will do or say anything to instill fear into black Democratic voters. . . . Shirley Sherrod in that video said those who disagree with Obamacare are coming from a racist point of view. That is a troubling racist sentiment.

And this is the greatest tragedy--the greatest crime--that the neo-feudalist left has committed against this country with the Sherrod affair--and with so many other instances of rabidly shouting "RAAAAACIST!" as a craven political tactic to shut up and shut down opposing voices. The dirty secret is that the festering pus of lingering racism in the United States is flowing from the left--from the "progressives"--from the very same neo-feudalists who organize intellectual lynch mobs against anyone who really, really took to heart Martin Luther King's words about judging people on the content of their character.

What the neo-feudalist "progressives" do to the "national conversation on race" is obscene. They're the ones who should be shouted down--not the brave few on the Right like Breitbart who stand up to the neo-feudalists.

This is gonna be a long one . . . stuff has been piling up . . .

‘JournoList’ E-mails Show Media Plotting to Kill Stories about Reverend Jeremiah Wright: Daily Caller -- Almost all national journalists for the "mainstream" media are lying to you. On purpose. With reasons they think are good and proper. But the fact remains that they daily--hourly lie to you, in order to advance what they think is the "correct agenda." After all, these people went into journalism to "make a difference in the world." If they have to lie and deceive in order to do it, well, the ends justify the means, don't they?

Video: “Same As It Ever Was”


And, if you're missing the parody, here's the original:

Yeah, it's weird. That's kinda the point.

"My God, what have I done?"

Now, I'll admit I have not actually watched very much of Keith Olbermann's MSNBC show lately (although I ought to, every once in a while, I suppose) but I have, just in the past week or two, been watching Glenn Beck fairly regularly.

One observation is that Beck is very funny. Another is that Beck does his homework.

I have this rather uncomfortable feeling that Beck is pretty much on the nose regarding what's going on in this country. A really uncomfortable feeling.

I also have a feeling that Olbermann isn't anywhere close to being in Beck's league--either in terms of humor, of entertainment, or of accuracy and incisive commentary and trenchant comment on the day's news. An example:


(For a while, when I first heard this, I thought that Olbermann was talking about the demonization of the Tea Parties. But then, "of course," the Tea Partiers and the eeee-villlle right-wing are the villains of Olbermann's piece, even when they're completely, utterly, totally out of power, barely hanging on in a few, isolated media venues. OK. Sure. Right.

But I'll go ahead and DVR Olbermann for a week and (try to) watch him, side by side (or front-to-back?) with Beck. I'm not sure where this will lead . . .

Kinda Hopey-Changy poetry inspired by (actually, extracted directly from, if I am not mistaken) the JournoList propagandist e-mails which are now coming to public attention.

Yes, many leftists seem to be really quite nasty people, when left unsupervised by adults.

Because you care . . . more than they do . . .