{"id":67148,"date":"2018-06-20T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67148"},"modified":"2018-06-19T20:54:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T01:54:29","slug":"durantied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67148","title":{"rendered":"Durantied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Prager is fond of describing cases of especial daftness by saying &#8220;It takes an elite education to be this stupid&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t help but think of that in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=11022\">reading about this &#8220;Human Rights Law&#8221; professor<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Daniel Kovalik, who teaches international human rights law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, argues in a recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/opinion\/2018\/05\/25\/The-real-Venezuela-is-not-what-you-think\/stories\/201805240020\">op-ed for\u00a0<em>The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that U.S. media coverage of Venezuela \u201cignores the fact\u201d that the U.S. is the \u201cgreatest impediment to democracy\u201d in Venezuela and \u201cthroughout Latin America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kovalik asserts that the \u201ctrue patriots\u201d of Venezuela \u201cresent\u201d the \u201cdevastating economic sanctions\u201d imposed by the U.S., claiming that a vote for current socialist President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro \u201cwas a vote against U.S. meddling\u201d in the country\u2019s affairs.<br \/>\n\u201cVenezuela\u2019s electoral system&#8230;is an inspiring process that guarantees one person, one vote, and includes multiple auditing procedures to ensure a free and fair election,\u201d Kovalik claims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Liberalism:\u00a0 Credulity wrapped in illogic dunked in outrage disguised as virtue .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Prager is fond of describing cases of especial daftness by saying &#8220;It takes an elite education to be this stupid&#8221;. I couldn&#8217;t help but think of that in reading about this &#8220;Human Rights Law&#8221; professor Daniel Kovalik, who teaches international human rights law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, argues in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67193,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67148\/revisions\/67193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}