In response to A further thought on the collective ‘ownership’ of children: One of the creepier features of lefty language is the application of possessive pronouns. “My” is for rights (real or imagined), “your” is for responsibilities, “our” is for
I’ve noted before that President Barack Obama and much of the left–especially the legal and academic left–envy the new South African Constitution, particularly its Bill of Rights, which includes broad guarantees of equality and socioeconomic rights including “health care, and
MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: Americans will always want some level of inequality because it’s a representation of a meritocracy. People who work hard and sacrifice and save their money and make major contributions: we think that they should earn a little more.
By now, everyone has had an opportunity to be duly horrified by Melissa Harris-Perry’s MSNBC video, in which she called for a “collective notion” of children, which can only be achieved if we “break through our kind of private idea
Melissa Harris-Perry, host of her eponymously named show on MSNBC, is featured in an ad for MSNBC stating that children should not belong to their parents, but instead, to the community: We have never invested in public education as much
In response to Melissa Harris-Perry Wants Us to Spend More Educating ‘Our’ Children: The crimes of a few can certainly affect a whole community. Melissa Harris Perry and progressives state collective responsibility but never take collective accountability. Responsibility are words
Melissa Harris-Perry has one of those MSNBC spots in which hosts “lean forward” into progressive verities. In this case, the need for more education spending. The problem as Harris-Perry sees it is that our view of parenting isn’t sufficiently collectivist:
Friday night, on The Rachel Maddow Show, guest host Illinois Congressman Luis Gutierrez from the fourth congressional district told guest host Melissa Harris-Perry that he believed handguns should be banned. Harris-Perry asked, “What needs to be done if you’ve already
Illinois congressman Luis Gutiérrez interviewed by Rachel Maddow Show guest host Melissa Harris-Perry…
Melissa Harris-Perry said that the U.S. military is “despised as an engine of war by many progressives.”
Princeton African-American studies professor and provocateur Cornel West accused President Barack Obama of being a “Rockefeller Republican in blackface” last Friday on a progressive television program. In an interview on the liberal “Democracy Now” program, West, with his shocking comments, was essentially saying Obama,
MSNBC Host Alex Wagoner shared with her audience that the President was under considerable pressure from Democrats not to close the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay during his first term. Panelist Melissa Harris-Perry suggested that now President Obama could suggest
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry became visibly upset over business owners calling themselves “risk takers” and began screaming on air.
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Host Melissa Harris-Perry discussed how it it cracked her up to see Biden emerge as President Barack Obama’s “sherpa to blackness for the first African-American president.”
Comedian Margaret Cho, who recently said she doesn’t necessarily want to have a “retard baby,” said that President Barack Obama was “Asian-American” like Tiger Woods, perhaps forgetting the fact that, unlike Obama, Woods actually has a mom who is from
On Monday of this week, the Chronicle of Higher Education, a weekly publication that is a source of news, jobs, and information for faculty members and administrators across the country, fired Naomi Schaefer Riley, a regular contributor and former Wall
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Show gave a platform to Prof. Frances Fox Piven and she played the role perfectly with a barrage of name calling as her pointed analysis of the GOP presidential primary race.
MSNBC analyst Melissa Harris-Perry appeared on “The Last Word” with Lawrence O’Donnell Thursday night to discuss the confrontation between AZ Governor Jan Brewer and President Barack Obama that occurred Wednesday afternoon. Not surprisingly, Harris-Perry is sure that racial animus motivated
One should generally try to avoid ad hominem attacks when attempting to engage one’s political opponents but, occasionally, it is hard to avoid them. There is so much stupid happening over at MSNBC. It is a real bone deep stupid,