Joseph Behan

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. —George Orwell”
― Brad Thor, The Apostle

“Republicans accept as a well-documented fact of life that an overwhelming majority of the media is slanted against them.4 They take critical media coverage for granted. The Obama administration does not. So much so that harsh criticism by a news outlet is viewed as intolerable dissent. Moreover, this broadside from the president of the United States was not buttressed by facts. Pew Research Center found that from September 8 through October 16 of the 2008 campaign—the heat of the election cycle—40 percent of Fox News stories on then-Senator Obama were negative as were 40 percent of the network’s stories on Senator John McCain, Obama’s Republican opponent. You can’t get more fair and balanced than that. If you wanted to see bias against a candidate, CNN and MSNBC were better examples. Pew found that 61 percent of CNN’s stories on John McCain were negative, compared to only 39 percent of their Obama stories. The disparity was even greater at MSNBC where a mere 14 percent of Obama stories were negative, compared to a whopping 73 percent of McCain stories (and only 10 percent of MSNBC’s coverage of McCain was rated as positive). Overall, according to an October 2007 study of media coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign by the Project for Excellence in Journalism (funded by Pew) in collaboration with Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy, the press gave much more favorable coverage to Democratic candidates, noting, for example, that 46.7 percent of stories about Barack Obama had a positive tone, while only 12.4 percent of stories about John McCain did.5 Obama should have been counting his blessings, not complaining about the one news television outlet that wouldn’t fall in line. He had received, by some measures, the most laudatory press coverage of any senatorial or presidential candidate in recent history.6”
― Kirsten Powers, The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech

“For all the advances in science, and the resulting physical improvements in life, the spiritual realm was in turmoil, especially in Europe. Traditional religions were questioned, and rejected by many. A seeming side effect of acceptance of science was a simultaneous rejection of religion. Organized religion, in many places, was in crisis. In search of a new truth, many people turned to spiritualism, séances, mediums, exotic religions, and other roads to a higher truth. Mankind’s inbred sense of the divine, which cannot be erased, was intact. But, in the absence of traditional religion, mankind sought new avenues to experience the divine.”
― Kent Clizbe, Willing Accomplices

“Nietzsche: “I call an animal, a species, an individual corrupt, when it loses its instincts, when it prefers what is injurious to it.”
― Jared Taylor, Face to Face with Race