Happy Dead Karl Marx Day

 

14 March 1883 : Karl Marx dies. 

So much death and misery. Evil. He should have died sooner.  

Instapundit: Karl Marx made his most important contribution today...

AoSHQ: Morning Report 03.14.25

The Marx Brothers Say Goodbye

Milton Friedman needs to be taught in grammar schools, high schools and colleges…

Hugo Chavez was wrong, Barack Obama is wrong.

And because Dr. Friedman is not taught enough is a big part of the reason for the higher education bubble…

It is not just journalism, although God knows that the only place more in denial than that is academia, critical thinking means owning and challenging your own biases…

Robert Stacy McCain slaps around Dilettante Marxist @JAMyerson J.A. Myerson

Robert Stacy McCain takes on Rolling Stone's Useful Idiot J.A. Myerson.

Someone needs to deal with these Marxists!

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.” Marx [Groucho that is, not his idiot cousin Karl]

No, I will not link to @JAMyerson 's nonsense, but here is my official response: https://t.co/tGVQRSpFxr
— AG (@AG_Conservative) January 4, 2014

And let's face it, these neo communists need a good slap too:

The Fedora Troika: Devil's Advocates for Saint Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela is dead. Africa's problems continue. The Other McCain did this, this, this and this post on the subject. Rather than joining the chorus on how great Nelson Mandela was, Robert Stacy McCain cautioned looking critically at Mandela's past.

Saint Mandela, not so fast...

Some on the Left are having a religious experience!

Talking about "Saint Mandela": I cannot believe he actually said this.  Given the rush to canonize Saint Nelson Mandela, it only makes sense that a Devil's Advocate be engaged.  Update: Michael Haz at Lem's Learning Levity

So what is a Devil's Advocate you may ask (not everyone went to parochial school).  During the canonization process employed by the Roman Catholic Church, the Promoter of the Faith (Latin: promotor fidei), popularly known as the Devil's advocate (Latin: advocatus diaboli), was a canon lawyer appointed by Church authorities to argue against the canonization of a candidate. It was this person’s job to take a skeptical view of the candidate's character, to look for holes in the evidence, to argue that any miracles attributed to the candidate were fraudulent, and so on. The Devil's advocate opposed God's advocate (Latin: advocatus Dei; also known as the Promoter of the Cause), whose task was to make the argument in favor of canonization.

Now Nelson Mandela is not up as a Roman Catholic Saint (at least not yet) but the Secular Media have jump the Beautification process and are right now in the process of Canonizing Mandela.  I would not be surprised if Bono and Paul Simon are in the process of writing a requiem mass for him.  

For Mother Teresa the Vatican actually engaged gadfly and atheist Christopher Hitchens as her Devil's Advocate (seriously they did, although Hitchens claimed he represented the Devil pro bono).  For Nelson Mandela, to play the roll of Devil's Advocate, I would suggest the following professional skeptics (consider them Van Helsings for the truth):

Robert Stacy McCain:  Freelance Journalist, Streetwise Investigative Reporter, Blogger.  
If there is a new twist to this story, McCain will get it.  Also McCain, after facing the white tail deer challenge of Virginia and Maryland, want to try his hand at taking out springboks with a rental car.  

Bob Belvedere:  Raconteur, blogger, international gentleman of mystery, defender of Western Civilization, closest character we have to the Watchman's Rorschach.  Bob did this, this, this, and this post on Mandela and his passing.  Bob is definitely not a Mandela fan.  The perfect skeptic.  Update: Mandela, Charming but he set is dogs upon us... (what did I tell you, perfect skeptic)

Adjoran:  Because it takes a Marx to investigate a Marxist

The Shoe Leather Fund has to go into overdrive to fund sending this investigative team off to South Africa (McCain will definitely need the supplemental insurance rider for the rental car).  And maybe after they are done their, they can stop off in Argentina.

And you ask, what is wrong with sainthood for Nelson Mandela? Well, if Nelson Mandela becomes a saint who could be next?

Just be glad he is not depicted walking on water...yet.  

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