How Hypocritical Can You Get Liberals - Road to the Middle Class

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a high-school student could not wear a T-shirt with anti-gay slogans. But I thought that liberals believed in the First Amendment and the right of dissent.

OK, well maybe innocent high-school students must be protected from the cruel winds of the public square. But the faculty of Ohio State University (Mansfield) voted to allow gay professors to file charges for sexual harrassment against a librarian, Scott Savage, who recommended the following books for a reading list: �'The Marketing of Evil' by David Kupelian, 'The Professors' by David Horowitz, 'Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis' by Bat Ye'or and 'It Takes a Family' by Senator Rick Santorum� because it made them feel unsafe. But I thought liberals believed in free speech and were absolutely against censorship in any form.

Then we have Howard Dean. He has just called for making border security a top priority. �'The first thing we want is tough border control,' he said.� But don�t Democrats in every big city in the nation order their police officers not to arrest illegal immigrants? And don�t liberals call the border fence �inhuman?�

As gas prices reach $3.00 a gallon the New York Times reports that �Democrats running for Congress are moving quickly to use the most recent surge in oil and gasoline prices to bash Republicans over energy policy.� But haven�t Democrats for years opposed development of new oil resources offshore and in Alaska, and isn�t it Democrats that insist on fancy gasoline formulations that drive up the price and cause local shortages? And don�t Democrats believe that energy prices ought to be high to encourage conservation?

There�s a question that every day gets bigger and bigger. Do Democrats believe in anything?

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Christopher Chantrill blogs at www.roadtothemiddleclass.com. His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.