The New Counter Culture: Liberty

Once upon a time in America, the 1960s to be exact, a generation of young people dissatisfied with the status quo decided they wanted to change society for that they felt was the better. They resented the culture of the time, which was a conservative, somewhat conformist society born out of the 1950s. Taking a cue from the Soviets who called anything that was against Communism “counter-revolutionary” they referred their movement as the “counter-culture.”

From this we got the hippies, the yippies, underground comics, groups like the SLA and the Black Panthers, all sorts of pressure groups and social movements. These were mostly influenced and orchestrated by the left. In fact, leftists had a big hand in shaping a lot of those communities and they infiltrated academia, education, government, media. Over the years they effected a lot of change to our society.

You can judge for yourself how well that worked out. But you can’t deny they managed to get a lot of what they wanted. Except what resulted is a typical example of human irony. (more…)

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Tags: Art, big government, counter-culture, hippie, Late Night Comics
Posted Oct 14th 2009 at 6:44 am in Art, Culture, Featured Story | 244866165 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/10/14/the-new-counter-culture-liberty/The+New+Counter+Culture%3A+Liberty2009-10-14+13%3A44%3A17James+Hudnall

Politicians Are What’s Wrong With Politics

So, Mark Sanford had an affair.  Big deal.  Who really cares?  He screwed up his own life.  He screwed over his wife and kids.  It happens everyday.  His family will deal with it.  He will pay a personal price, either by losing his family, the mistress he claims to be in love with, or most likely both.

The media and the Muckadoos on the Internet think that this is once again an example of “conservative hypocrisy.” I’ve seen no less than ten news segments dedicated to discussing whether or not the GOP needs to shift focus away from family values, religion and morality because even the standard bearers of the ideology can’t stay the course.’

Two things.  First off, if this is “conservative hypocrisy” isn’t every Democratic scandal involving money an example of “liberal hypocrisy?” The statist agenda is to take your money and have the government spend it because, supposedly, they can do it better and fairer than you can.  So when we indict a Democrat over bribes, theft, or kickbacks why don’t we talk about how that effects their agenda?  Shouldn’t the Rod Blagojevich scandal generate a full Anderson Cooper show about how the Democrats are going to proceed in telling us that they should take care of the cash when they are all a bunch of crooks? (more…)

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Tags: communism, creeps, pedophiles, politicians, sanford
Posted Jul 1st 2009 at 2:45 pm in Politics | 17258632 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lscott/2009/07/01/politicians-creep-me-out/Politicians+Are+What%27s+Wrong+With+Politics2009-07-01+21%3A45%3A53Leigh+Scott

Mark Levin: The Thomas Paine of our Time

In September of 2001, I found myself employed at a theater in Los Angeles playing the part of Ben Franklin in the musical “1776.” The show is about the signing of the Declaration of Independence: an entertaining history lesson that concludes with all the bells in Philadelphia ringing and the actors freezing in a tableau recreating the famous painting of the original signers. It stirs up feelings of patriotism in the hearts of all but the most America-hating of theater goers.

As luck would have it, the first week of the show’s run concluded on Sunday September 10th. The next morning, I slept in, then awoke to find an answering machine message from my wife, who’d driven off to a breakfast date. “Turn on the TV,” her breathless voice said. “New York City has been bombed.” I spent the rest of the day, like most of the country, glued to my set, unable to believe what I was seeing or hearing. (more…)

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Tags: "1776", "Liberty vs Tyranny", "Men in Black", 9/11, Larry Elder
Posted Apr 6th 2009 at 6:58 am in Featured Story, Politics, Reviews | 9827869 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/obean/2009/04/06/mark-levin-the-thomas-paine-of-our-time/Mark+Levin%3A+The+Thomas+Paine+of+our+Time2009-04-06+13%3A58%3A15Orson+Bean