[conservativephilosopher-announce] New post at The Conservative Philosopher

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Hello,
	There is a new post on The Conservative Philosopher.  You can read it at:

http://www.conservativephilosopher.com/posts/1113600581.shtml

It begins:

	“Racist,” “homophobe,” “sexist,”
	“mean-spirited,” “insensitive”—it has
	become an ugly habit of left-liberal political
	argument to dismiss conservative ideas as if they
	don’t deserve a hearing, and to redefine
	mainstream conservative views as extremism and
	bigotry. A sympathetic old-media regime has allowed
	liberals to get away with this tendency to argue by
	invective, rather than to debate ideas seriously,
	and it has sheltered them from recognizing just how
	shopworn their ideas have become. The rise of the
	new Right-friendly media I will analyze in the
	chapters ahead has made this illiberal, politically
	correct tendency even more hysterical and strident,
	since it is...