Yesterday was Earth Day, an occasion for liberal bloggers to revert to their pristine, primitive state of nature, Lord of the Flies-style, and self-righteously savage their ideological foes who might not swallow the green economic-interventionist agenda, whole hog.
That this dubious holiday happens to fall upon the anniversary of Vladimir Illych Lenin’s D.O.B. is a fact that hasn’t escaped the conspiracy-minded ever since Earth Day’s inception. This delivers a cudgel into the hands of ecological true believers, a weapon they can use to “whack-a-mole” any peeps of skepticism that might pipe up, to dismiss them as cries from the loony fringe.
There does lurk a sinister driving force behind the movement that proclaimed this Gaia-glowing “festivus,” but it has nothing to do with the Earth Day/Lenin’s bday fluke. Dig deep around the roots of Earth Day and you’ll find some rather “illiberal” elements worming underneath, lamenting America’s "melting pot," worrying that too much chorizo might pollute its vegan stew.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/opinion-zone/2011/04/happy-earth-day-now-go-back-mexico#ixzz1KXKTlQQy
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