The American Spectator

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Regarding Enemy of the Week: How can Al Gore claim that "global warming" causes frigid weather, or Wesley Clark contradict himself and be utterly unruffled? The reason is simple, and it goes deep into their personality types: These guys are socialists who come not out of the productive sectors of society (manufacturing, mining, agriculture etc.) but out of academia (Clark was a Rhodes Scholar). In academia, anything is possible and thus nothing is certain. Therefore you have intellectual chaos, which is why so much psychosis exists among intellectuals. In chaos, anything goes. There is no up or down, no black or white. This disorients people, and they

p>Chaos rules all of leftist thinking, which is why doctrinaire socialism (communism) fails to provide citizens with even their most basic needs. Communism works perfectly on paper, and in the minds of its creators, while the rational person sees its failures immediately. br> -- Steve Nikitas br> Pittsfield, Massachusetts /p> p> BIG BLUE br> Re: Brandon Crocker's One More Academic Fraud : /p>

Regarding Brandon Crocker's article about Michigan Today and the university's tendency to be arch-liberal, I have to tip my hat to Brandon for even reading that paper. I get the same paper delivered to the house from time to time and I can assure you that there is not much there for a person of the real world to take from. I recently returned to Ann Arbor for a reunion of my Architectural School class and the whole town seemed to be in a biosphere of liberalism. There truly are two world views being contested in today's political realm and the universities are the centers of the "loyal" opposition.

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