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Self Involved Intelligence

From Daniel Greenfield in his blog Sultan Knish,  The Left is too Smart to Fail. Excerpts: It’s easy to tell apart fake intelligence from the real thing. Manufactured intelligence fakes “smart” by playing word games. It constantly invents new terms to

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A Ruthless Concentration of Power

another home run from The Sultan Knish, Daniel Greenfield: Government Power is an Economic Inequality Excerpts: The liberal defenders of government power attack concentrations of wealth, but in the true concentration of wealth is not found in the hands of

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A Government Problem

Daniel Greenfield writes The Poverty of Inequality in Sultan Knish. Excerpts: The left does hate people who work for a living. The poster child for its childish screeds is Elizabeth Warren, a populist voice of the people who spent three-quarters of a million on

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The Opposite of Equality Before the Law

From Daniel Greenfield’s excellent blog, Sultan Knish, The Inequality of Access: Excerpts: When government is big, then true inequality is not of wealth, but of political access. Money can buy you access, or as the recently released Orlando Findlayter discovered,

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The Appearance of Depth

From Daniel Greenfield in his blog Sultan Knish,  The Left is too Smart to Fail. Excerpts: Intelligence to a modern liberal isn’t depth, it’s appearance. It isn’t even an intellectual quality, but a spiritual quality. Compassionate people who care about others

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The New Intelligence

From Daniel Greenfield in his blog Sultan Knish,  The Left is too Smart to Fail. Excerpts: But what is “smart” anyway? What makes Obama a genius? It’s not his IQ. It’s probably not his grades or we would have seen them

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Savages With Cell Phones

Daniel Greenfield writes in his excellent blog Sultan Knish, Government is Magic. Excerpts: Competence is built on the unhappy understanding that things won’t work because you want them to, they won’t work if you go through the motions, they will only work

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Conformative News

Daniel Greenfield writes in his blog The Sultan Knish, The Rise of the Mediacracy. Excerpts: The media is no longer informative, it is conformative. It is not interested in broadcasting events unless it can also script them. It does not

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Manufactured Intelliegence

From Daniel Greenfield in his blog Sultan Knish,  The Left is too Smart to Fail. Excerpts: The infrastructure of manufactured intelligence has become a truly impressive thing. Today as never before there is an industry dedicated, not to educating people,

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Education is a Culture

From Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish, The Miseducation of Education Reformers Selected excerpts ( please follow the link and read the entire piece) : It’s an article of faith that our schools are failing our children. But most educational reformers

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The Right to Be Left Alone

Daniel Greenfield writes in Sultan Knish, The Redistribution of Freedom. Excerpts: Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called the right to be left alone the “most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by a free people.” It would even

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A Hollow Modernity

Daniel Greenfield writes in his excellent blog Sultan Knish, Government is Magic. Excerpts: Modernity has to be built. It has to be constructed brick by bit by rivet by cable by people who know what they are doing. Modernity without competence is

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It’s The Ideas, Stupid

Daniel Greenfield writes in The Sultan Knish, Apologies from Utopia. Excerpts: Obama had boasted that he was a better speechwriter than his speechwriters and a better political director than his political directors. But apparently he’s not a better programmer than

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Institutionalism

Daniel Greenfield writes in his blog Sultan Knish, The Art of Building Things, 6/10/13. Excerpts: The seduction of the collective as builder however is not limited to countries that flew the red flag.  When Obama and Warren proclaimed that there were no

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Detaching Technocracy from Competence

Daniel Greenfield writes in his excellent blog Sultan Knish, Government is Magic. Excerpts: Our technocracy is detached from competence. It’s not the technocracy of engineers, but of “thinkers” who read Malcolm Gladwell and Thomas Friedman and watch TED talks and

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Rorschach Racism

Daniel Greenfield writes in his excellent blog, Sultan Knish, The Progressive Psychoracialists of McRacism. Excerpts: Oddly enough he wasn’t talking about himself, but psychoracialists, like psychoanalysts, always find the dirty pictures and the racial slurs in someone else’s Rorschach inkblot.

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Consumers of Government

Daniel Greenfield writes in his excellent blog, Sultan Knish, No Business Like Government Business. Excerpts: The corporation’s goal is to turn its shareholders into consumers; transforming free people into people who want free things so that the corporation of government

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The Ruthless Concentration of Power

Daniel Greenfield writes in Sultan Knish, Government Money, 3/17/13 Excerpts: How much money has flowed from the Obama Administration to its friends in the private sector in just the last year alone? And how much of that money was used

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Feeling Our Pain

Daniel Greenfield writes in his Sultan Knish, Wednesday, The Sun Sets on Washington D.C. Excerpts: Government employees have a 4.2% unemployment rate compared to 8.6% for private sector workers and a union membership rate of 35.9% compared to 6.6% for private

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The True Masters

Daniel Greenfield writes in his Sultan Knish, Wednesday, The Sun Sets on Washington D.C. Excerpts: There is a word for men who surround themselves with czars, who expand their staffs, who fly their dogs out on separate planes, who amuse themselves

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