June 20, 2005

Dick Durbin and our post-patriotic elite

By Christopher Chantrill
How wrong can you be?  No, we are not talking about the analogical genius, Senator Dick Durbin (D. al—Inois).  We are talking about the great Mark Steyn, a genuine genius columnist who calls Dick Durbin unpatriotic.  Come now, Mr. Steyn.  Dick Durbin isn't unpatriotic. He is post—patriotic. Among the many things that our American liberals ask us to swallow in our own best interest is the idea that it is an act of lèse majesté to call them unpatriotic even though they are utterly embarrassed by patriotism.  Who has not heard the liberal across the dinner table dismissing nationalism as dangerous and aggressive?  But we are not allowed to call them on it. This power play began after World War II when it came to public knowledge that a number of people with first names that sounded like last names had been passing government secrets to the Soviet Union.  We call this time the McCarthy Era. The McCarthy Era taught liberals that their ideas of a post—nationalist world did...(Read Full Article)