Category: Current Affairs
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Job One: Tort Reform
The Obama administration's health care initiative is looking more and more like a totalitarian power-grab pure and simple. If they were serious, they would address the logically prior issues of tort reform and border control. See Sarah Palin, No Health Reform Without Legal Reform.
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The Fiscal Irresponsibility of Liberals in the United States of Ponzi
Paul Krugman as case in point, here: There’s been some hysteria about the administration’s new estimate that the cumulative deficit will be $9 trillion over the next decade. Don’t get me wrong: this is bad. But it’s being treated as an inconceivable sum, far beyond anything that could possibly be handled. And it isn’t. What…
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Roots of Leftist Viciousness in Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals
One reason that leftists are vicious is that they take to heart Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals #13: RULE 13: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but…
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The Race Card, the McCarthy Card, and ‘Death Panels’
There are two cards no leftist leaves home without: the race card and the McCarthy card. The Henry Gates case was a particularly egregious recent example of the playing of the former. For a recent example of an uncommonly sleazy deployment of the latter, see Richard Cohen 's attack on Sarah Palin in which he mounts…
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Doom and Gloom
Gerald Celente predicts economic armageddon. Per usual, consume cum grano salis.
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Ronald Reagan on Socialized Medicine
Here.
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Cash For Clunkers
The lunkheads of the Left really outdid themselves when they dreamed up this new wealth redistribution scheme. An acquaintance of mine told me of his son who turned in a 1989 Ford pickup with over 200, 000 miles on the odometer, a vehicle worth $50 according to my friend, a former mechanic, and received $4,500…
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Health Care: A Liberty Issue
Mark Steyn gets it right. Excerpts (emphasis added): . . . [nationalized] health care is the fastest way to a permanent left-of-center political culture. That’s its attraction for an ambitious president: It redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state in a way that hands all the advantages to statists — to those who…
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Ten Questions for Supporters of ‘ObamaCare’
The following piece by Dennis Prager is required reading. It's so good I herewith reproduce the entire article. The threat to liberty posed by the Obama administration is unprecedented. Do your bit to oppose it and stand up for what is right, assuming you actually care about yourself and your country.
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A Right to Health Care?
Food, shelter, and clothing are more important than health care in that one can get along for substantial periods of time without health care services but one cannot survive for long without food, shelter, and clothing. Given this plain fact, why don’t the proponents of ‘free’ universal health care demand ‘free’ food, shelter, and clothing?…
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Lawrence Auster’s Exchange with a Black Reader
This piece gets at many of the issues surrounding the the Crowley-Gates controversy which Obama stupidly made a national issue upon which a vast army of bloggers and pundits are grinding away as we speak. And while you are at Auster's site, there is plenty more on this topic including a link to the Cambridge…
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‘Islamophobia’
This is another one of those silly PeeCee expressions liberals love to use to obfuscate issues and slander their opponents. A phobia is an irrational fear. There is nothing phobic about opposition to radical or militant Islam. To fear it is entirely rational. Militant Islam and Islam are presumably distinct. I could be wrong, but I…
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Are You a Liberal? Take This Test
The following statements in boldface are taken verbatim from Dennis Prager's Are You a Liberal? I comment briefly on each in turn. Mirabile dictu, it turns out I am not a liberal! I could make of each of these items a separate post. (And you hope I won't.) I don't want to hear anyone complain that I…
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On Profiling
Do all liberals lack common sense? No, but many of them do. If you are a liberal and oppose criminal profiling, then I say you lack common sense. It is obvious that only certain kinds of people commit certain kinds of crimes. Suppose a rape has occurred at the corner of Fifth and Vermouth.…
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Is Greed the Engine of Capitalism?
The Financial Times reports on a piece of silliness from the Pope: Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday condemned the “grave deviations and failures” of capitalism exposed by the financial crisis and issued a strong call for a “true world political authority” to oversee a return to ethics in the global economy. One mistake the good…