Monthly Archives: February 2016

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The Redistribution of Ideas

from The Progressive Itch to Regulate Speech by George Will in The National Review Sanders and Clinton detest the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, which they say their court nominees will promise to reverse. It held that unions and corporations

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Work Matters More than Wages

from Angela Rachidi at AEI, For poverty, work is more important than wages, but only half of American adults work full-time Among working age adults who were poor in 2014, Census data show that, 61.7% did not work at all and another

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Protecting Jobs vs Protecting Votes

From Barron’s and  Thomas Donlan,  Trading Promises About the Trans-Pacific Partnership-Politicians are the threat to rising incomes and global prosperity. The AFL-CIO and much of the Democratic Party at large (though thankfully not the White House) are working their way

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What About Gandhi ?

from National Review,Liberals Rewrite History, Make a Few Mistakes by Josh Gelernter “The white race of South Africa should be the predominating race,” said Mahatma Gandhi. He also said, of himself and his followers, “We believe as much in the

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The Cynical Optimist

Ideas matter.  In fact history is little more than the introduction and testing of ideas, often violently. But eventually we dismiss, reluctantly, ideas that fail, and develop the ideas that work. For that reason I remain a cynical optimist: I

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Obama’s World

from John Podhoretz at The New York Post Apparently we should get on a boat and leave America ASAP: The two candidates for the Democratic nomination spent most of two hours arguing over who was the better diagnostician of the moral diseases,

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Hitting the Economic Wall

from In Search of Fixes for a Fossilized Economy by Victor Davis Hansen at National Review Historically, 2016 is one of the least expensive years in memory to finance a house, car, or major appliance. Or, put another way, regular savings

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Folly and Presumption

The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council

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Interest Rates and Piketty’s Data

from Project Syndicate,  The Invention of Inequality by Antonio Foglia Piketty observes a rising wealth-to-income ratio from 1970 to 2010 – a period divided by a significant change in the monetary environment. From 1970 to 1980, the Western economies experienced

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Extorting the Producers

From Bret Stephens at The WSJ, Bernie’s Wall Street Slander But the reason Mr. Sanders is drawing his big crowds is neither his fanatical sincerity nor his avuncular charm. It’s that he’s preaching class hatred to people besotted by the politics

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Girl Power

Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Madeleine Albright & the sad sound of feminist desperation by Suzanne Venker On Friday, Gloria Steinem told Bill Maher that young women are only voting for Sanders because that’s where the boys are. It seems women don’t think

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Fading Fossils of Feminism

from Dick Morris at The Hill,  Clinton deploys B Team Their strategy is laughable. After losing 84 percent of young voters in Iowa — and failing to recover them in New Hampshire — they sent in two aging fossils of

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Progressivism has Nothing to Do with Progess

From The Washington Times, Language Labels and Laws, by Richard Rahn The “progressive” Hillary Clinton wants more government regulation, spending, and taxation, while the “progressive” Bill Clinton told us two decades ago that the “era of big government is over”

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A State Worshipping Culture

from Mark Perry’s Carpe Diem, this quote from Ayn Rand: Throughout the history of Europe, the values and ideas of its people never changed on one basic point: Europe is a state-worshiping culture. It has always worshipped the power of

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Disavowing Citizens United

from National Review, Hillary’s Rationale for Opposing Citizens United Fell Apart in Last Week’s Debate By asserting that she can take money from these groups, including honorary fees to spend as she sees fit for personal rather then political benefit, and

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To Hell With Hillary’s Supporters

from Katherine Timpf at National Review, Sorry, Madeline Albright, but I’d Rather Go to Hell Than Support Hillary Clinton Second of all, I’d actually take the exact opposite view of Steinem’s: I’d say that the liberal women who support Bernie are

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Political Thoughts 2016 02 09

Worth noting: Cruz stood against the ethanol special interest and still won Iowa. Rubio was smoked by Christy for sounding simplistic and scripted. But I remember a 45 minute unscripted interview from the Miami Herald in 2010 when he was

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Lurch Toward Socialism

from Millennials heed the siren call of socialism by Joel Kotkin at Orange County Register The biggest and most important development has been the massive support among the new generation of voters for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and his open embrace

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Defensive Gun Use

From Brian Doherty at Reason,  You Know Less Than You Think About Guns This is an excellent analysis of the sociology of the gun problem in America, and should be read in its entirety. It is a bit long, but it

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No Room for Dissent in Paradise

From The Sultan Knish, The Traditionalist Rebel Leftist movements begin with rebellion and end with conformity. No Utopian movement can tolerate rebels for long because there is no room for dissent in paradise. An ideal society, the goal of leftist

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