Gagdad rocks today: "Memo to the NY Times: Conservatism is Caused by Fighting It":

"For example, the typical liberal unreflexively believes that “poverty causes crime” (thus the New York Times clueless headline, "Crime Down Despite Rise in Prison Population") whereas I believe that bad values cause crime. The difference is that the typical liberal has never thought this through. They are generally quite naive about their beliefs, for the simple reason that they have never been challenged. They don’t experience the kind of constant cognitive friction that a conservative does, so they don’t even know how to argue or defend their ideas, which we saw with Clinton last Sunday.

Liberals will typically say that Israeli policies somehow have something to do with Palestinian terror, while I believe that Palestinian terror is caused by their psychotic death cult theology. After all, there are no Christian Palestinian terrorists. They are just as “occupied” as Palestinian Muslims, and yet, it doesn’t occur to the Christians to strap on bombs with pieces of twisted metal and rat poison in order to kill and maim as many women and children as possible. You and I are not even able to entertain thoughts so evil. We cannot even go there. Under no circumstances whatsoever can we imagine decapitating an innocent journalist or murdering a baby. But could I waterboard a terrorist? In a hearbeat. I literally cannot understand the mind of the person who wouldn’t.

If you unreflexively believe that poverty causes crime or that the cause of terror is fighting it, then all of your reporting is going to reflect those basic assumptions, something we constantly see in the liberal media. For them, these notions are simply “reality,” whereas the idea that bad values cause crime is a “conservative” idea.

Likewise, for liberals, it is simply gospel that “the war on terror causes terrorists” instead of terrorists are the cause of terror. If you give it a moment’s thought, their whole world view is just so stupid. Would they ever report that terrorists are the cause of the American military, and that if terrorists would only appease us, the American military would stop trying to harm them? Or that Islamo-nazis have to stop their unwinnable war on the west, because it will only create more George Bushes?

Or that they simply must stop mindlessly attacking conservatives, because it will just make us stronger?"