There is no third way. If you doubt that statement, read this (long, brilliant, important) essay. Thanks to Col. B. Bunny for the pointer.

‘Members of Congress Win Right to Say ‘Merry Christmas’
They always had the right. It’s just that many cowards caved in to the PC police.

US officials, Ivy League universities slam academic group’s Israel ‘boycott’

 President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs is a piece of perambulating offal who has parlayed her leftist academic and political contacts – and an extra x-chromosome – into a position of entirely unearned power and influence.
A position and an organisation which she has already greatly devalued and discredited by her support for restrictions on free speech.
This woman is using dishonest and bullying tactics in an attempt to block Tony Abbott’s appointment of Tim Wilson to the position of Commissioner on the AHRC.
Interestingly, for all the left’s blather and hysteria over such things as “gender balance”, the Commission has 143 employees – and only 38 of those are male.
This is a feminazi club, typical of so many organisations headed by women and as a result staffed largely by women who are unable to separate their idiot girly emotions from fact, recruiting more women on the basis of empathy and ideological rapport rather than technical ability. (Which is also how many of them got their inflated “qualifications” – wimmin rewarding wimmin for Correct Thinking and a vagina)
They’re an embarrassment to real women.
They lack the intellectual horsepower and objectivity necessary to even interview men, let alone employ them yet they’re arrogantly, self-righteously certain of their own worth.
No wonder the appointment of a man like Tim Wilson has this despicable woman person enraged.
Disband the anti-liberty girly club, Tony. And not by simply shifting them to another site to suck blood at the taxpayer’s expense.

 to all our CR readers and commenters. You’re a great bunch of people and you’ve helped make a tough year bearable. May you have a peaceful and happy Christmas and a good 2014. Thanks to Gantt and Darin for helping keep this leaky old tub afloat, too.
Update: not my photograph. I only wish it was! Photographer unknown.

And, as always, it’s a doozy. Here’s a taste, but it’s by no means the only course:
‘…The Duck Dynasty revolt reveals more about PC than their worst fears allow. After decades of being effectively unopposed, Political Correctness is playing defense, but it has no experience with it. It’s paranoiac fluster at any challenge is followed by—and people notice this—slapstick overreaction that looks ridiculous even to the disengaged. Defending PC today points out the defender as a hopeless rube, and supplicants for absolution as invertebrate wusses. The rising defiance to PC is causing genuine panic in their ranks. PC has been unconstrained by reality for decades, now it’s far from sight of shore, held together by little more than cant and chants, its internal stresses incapable of withstanding any informed confrontation. It’s buckling. The people know it…’

Thanks to Dondiego for this

‘..EU immigration, asylum, and free movement “rights” have been a magnet for African, Middle Eastern, and Eastern European immigrants seeking to improve their standards of living and benefit from luxurious welfare payments. Facing grim political blowback from lax immigration policies, EU leftist politicians are willing to limit worker movement between nations and crack down on illegal aliens. But these policies may be too little and too late as right-wing nationalist movements across Europe are on the verge of seizing control of the European Parliament and potentially naming its president. Such a stunning regime change affecting over half a billion people in the EU would be the type of unprecedented repudiation of the Left not seen since the collapse of communism…’
source
Although I’d argue that communism hasn’t “collapsed” at all, merely mutated into a less visible and more dangerous form.

‘Santa got a helping hand from some US Marines this morning when the elite soldiers arrived at the children’s ward at Wellington Hospital to hand out some Christmas cheer.’
Nice one, Marines.

Yeah, right. Fascist bastards.