Hugh Cadfael

Latest by Hugh Cadfael in Chronicles

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  June 3, 2015

  Coulter Guilty Of Thoughtcrime

  So the Southern Poverty Law Center has divined that Ann Coulter is a “white nationalist.”

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  May 6, 2015

  Media More Dishonest Than SPLC

  Whatever the wisdom of Pamela Geller's Mohammed cartoon event in Garland, Texas, one thing ought not be forgotten: No matter what kind of event Geller had sponsored, the media would have attacked her as a Muslim hater, and cited the usual source for the claim: the vile and discredited Southern Poverty Law Center.

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  March 31, 2015

  "If You're White, You're Racist"

  Those of us blinded by white privilege are fortunate to live in this enlightened age. Without PCs, Facebook, Twitter and publications like Salon.com, we’d never know how bad we are.

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  March 6, 2015

  Newsflash: Eating Is Racist

  Hard as it is to believe, a claim has oozed out of the leftist brain pan that may be more embarrassingly idiotic than the claim that Islamic fanatics needs jobs and midnight basketball to extinguish the burning desire to chop off heads.

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  February 26, 2015

  Conservatives Cry Racist

  The only thing worse than a leftist screaming “racist” and “hater” because he doesn’t like the facts — oft coming from a conservative source — is a conservative screaming the same thing for much the same reason: facts coming from a liberal source.

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  January 26, 2015

  A Classic Smear Tactic

  Last week, the Southern Poverty Law Center retailed another smear using its classic tactic: attach the “hate group” label to a conservative Christian group, then claim others tolerate “hate” if they refuse to to disassociate themselves from the “hate group.”

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  January 21, 2015

  Suspicion

  Along with scare quotes, the left frequently uses another deceptive tactic to prove that “hate” causes the problems of minorities, particularly blacks: Publishing conspiracy theories about the “suspicions” among blacks that racist mischief is afoot when something bad happens to a black person.

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  December 22, 2014

  #HateWhitesBecauseOf 'Privilege'

  Listening to the racialist left complain about “white privilege” was bad enough before the cops killed hoodlums Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Now, it’s nearly insufferable. Consider three offerings—one from Salon, the second from President and Mrs. Obama and the third, a Twitter feed.

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  November 25, 2014

  Where The Real Hate Lies

  The measure of how far the American left will go to press its phony “hate” narrative can be found in five statements about the grand jury’s sound decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for shooting and killing black teenager Michael Brown, the thief whom Wilson tried to stop for robbing a convenience store.

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  November 14, 2014

  Scare Quotes II

  Last week, Organized Leftism twisted its knickers into a knot over something someone said, and it used the usual tactic — scare quotes — to suggest that what the person said is false, even though it is obviously true.

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  October 3, 2014

  Media Matters: Another Inquisitor In Fighting 'Hate'

  The granddaddy of the “anti-hate” movement is, of course, the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has made hundreds of millions of dollars and ruined the lives of conservatives by using innuendo, guilt by association and outright lies to smear anyone it doesn’t like.

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  September 4, 2014

  Trying to Find "Hate"

  A problem with having to find “hate” wherever you look, and then blog about it in breathless, apocalyptic prose, is publishing a major gaffe.

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  July 7, 2014

  Scare Quotes

  A tactic the left uses to inspire loathing for conservatives is repeating something a conservative or even nominal Republican says, and then slapping scare quotes around it.

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  May 29, 2014

  The Lunacy Spreads

  In his recent column for Salon, Robert Reich bemoans the mortality rate for women giving birth. The headline is typical Salon: “Right-wing policies are literally killing women.”

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  May 9, 2014

  SPLC Spreads More Hate, This Time With A Twist

  The Southern Poverty Law Center, which labels any group or person even a smidgen to the right of Al Sharpton a “racist,” “hater” or “right-wing extremist,” is now terrorizing those who indirectly fund “hate groups.”

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  April 23, 2014

  Bundy: Not Quite A Terrorist

  The Southern Poverty Law Center has weighed in again on Cliven Bundy, the rancher in Nevada at odds with the federal government over grazing rights, fees and endangered turtles on federal land.

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  April 15, 2014

  SPLC Restrains Itself On Bundy ... Daily Kos Smears Him

  The “range war” in Sen. Harry Reid's Nevada between hardscrabble rancher Cliven Bundy and the federal government appears to have ended.

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  April 7, 2014

  Finally, A Black "Hater"

  The Southern Poverty Law Center, or the $PLC, as they call it at VDare.com, has finally found a black murder suspect they dislike. Indeed, such was their distaste, the "hate-watchers" published his mugshot on their website.

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  March 31, 2014

  SPLC

  So the Southern Poverty Law Center finally lost one. And a big one at that. The FBI has dropped the SPLC from its list of “partners” on the agency’s hate crimes page, The Daily Caller revealed last week.

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