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The problem with the brand of totalitarianism today’s post-Obama Left has embraced is that when everything, everything, is politicized, nothing really makes sense any more. Every word is freighted with layers of political meaning by activists who know their power derives from controlling speech, and thought itself. You can bet every big Democrat politician will now think long and hard about daring to suggest “all lives matter.”

In April of 2009, the Connecticut state legislature amended a law to codify same-sex marriage to read that churches and religious groups cannot be forced “to provide services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods or privileges” to a same-sex marriage, or be forced to “provide adoption, foster care or social services” to a same-sex marriage.

Liberals get to rerun the same tired plays, over and over again, year after year, until they eventually wear down resistance and get what they want… at which point they immediately declare the matter settled for all eternity, no further discussion permitted.

With Sen. Marco Rubio leaving the U.S. Senate to run for president in 2016, the race to fill the once-considered safe Republican seat is beginning to take shape in Florida.

Vox’s Amanda Taub says a piece the site published earlier this week about progressive identity politics on campus is “truthy” and doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. Strangely, Taub’s rebuttal overlooks nearly all of the evidence which might suggest otherwise.

Statistics from the most recent Gallup poll indicate that Americans’ moral views have become increasingly liberal over the past 14 years, with U.S. citizens tending to approve of behavior they would have deemed immoral or sinful just a generation ago.

By the time you read this, I may well already be on the road, heading to Phoenix for the opening night of my multi-city tour of comedy clubs across America. It’s an arduous and ambitious tour that I really don’t have to be doing. But I feel I need to. Here’s why.

The president of the liberal National Organization for Women says President Obama’s recent comments about Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s opposition to his administration’s trade deal were sexist.

If more Americans had the guts of Pamela Geller, every city in our country would be holding their own Mohammed Art contest next weekend.

There is something about the liberal mindset that brings the desire to be ruled, a hunger for Great Man and Great Woman fantasies that makes the Left perpetually vulnerable to cults of personality.

Among the news items at the radical Zinn Education Project this month is a post highlighting the work of Alison Kysia, author of “A People’s History of Muslims in the United States: What School Textbooks and the Media Miss,” part

Liberalism doesn’t have anything exciting or new to offer – even its plans for the Internet are drawn from 1930s telephone legislation. Yet the left has been very successful at imposing its ideas despite the clear will of voters – and reversing its policies will be difficult.

It’s far from the strangest or most offensive thing he’s ever done, but for some reason the spectacle of Vice President Joe Biden getting “handsy” with freshly-minted Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s wife Stephanie was the straw that broke the camel’s back for a few people on the left.

Jon Stewart announced Tuesday that he will be leaving The Daily Show he has hosted on Comedy Central since 1999. The reaction from the media has been a gushing geyser of praise and, occasionally, an acknowledgement that his comedy mostly appealed to the far left.

The “Reformocon” movement won’t gain ground unless it realizes that the market is the best way to help people. The poor don’t need handouts from a more efficient version of the Mommy State to “reap the benefits of competition” – the incredibly low cost and high quality of the goods and services they enjoy, from inexpensive and abundant food to the low-cost shopping experience of Wal-Mart, have done more to improve their lives than easily-abused Big Government welfare programs.

Put simply, not everything about human nature is reducible to society’s modes of production. A person is a moral, political and religious entity. And it is his natural complexity that we seek to conserve.

While lecturing students in his Public Parties and Campaigns class, a Florida State University (FSU) associate professor reportedly said Fox News Channel is “simply lying” to its viewers, and that MSNBC provides the “truth” as does the New York Times

Last week, I wrote that internal divisions within the cultural left were becoming more visible. A new wave of progressive authoritarianism and dogma, largely driven by identity politics, was creating a new class of progressive radicals who will inevitably clash with moderate

Will stay-at-home parents eventually be taxed for the privilege of raising their children as they see fit? A New York Times columnist points toward the liberal future.

It has often been remarked that the right won the economic arguments of the twentieth century, while the left won the culture war. Although Thatcher and Reagan succeeded in their quest to overturn the postwar economic consensus and undermine the USSR,

A politics professor associated with leftwing activism and anti-Semitic views at Brandeis University will no longer teach at the school following a one-year terminal sabbatical.

A Brandeis student who reported on the anti-police tirade of one of the school’s student leaders says the ensuing attacks he has endured have led him to the conclusion that the university’s actions have invited a culture of “selective outrage,” in which the expressed prejudices of the left are protected, while opposing views are portrayed as hate speech and quashed through intimidation.

While the convention speech is notable for its focus on the division between rich and poor, the Iona College is remarkable for its emphasis on a common question facing members of a prosperous society. What is the purpose of wealth, Cuomo asked, if it does not provide happiness?

Background: Bill Maher has forged his reputation on an outspoken brand of progressive views that blurs the lines between comedy and outright prejudice. He speaks often about freedom of speech, to the point where he even defended Donald Sterling’s right to privacy after his racist remarks were publicized. But that’s why he’s featured here.

Comedian Bill Maher delivered his long-anticipated and controversial speech at the University of California Berkeley winter commencement on Saturday–and it turned out to be a rather conventional liberal address. Though much debate surrounded Maher’s views on Islam, he largely avoided the subject, instead telling