Monthly Archives: October 2012

Archive of posts published in the specified Month

When Liberals Were Liberal

From Townhall, Random Thoughts by Thomas Sowell Excerpts: Whenever you hear people talking about “a living Constitution,” almost invariably they are people who are in the process of slowly killing it by “interpreting” its restrictions on government out of existence.

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The Greater Risk

Socialism is an insurance policy bought by all the members of a national economy to shield them from risk.  But the result is to shield them from knowledge of the real dangers and opportunities ubiquitous in any society.  Rather than

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If OWS were serious

The OWS movement fizzled.  What a surprise. They did not understand what they were protesting, they did not understand the institutions they demonized; and most of all they did not understand how much that they were part of the problem.

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Breadth and Depth

Daniel Greenfield writes in his blog Sultan Knish, The Limits of Government Power, 10/14/12 Excerpts:  A country and a people can be measured in its breadth and its depth. A government can either choose breadth of control or depth of

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Green from Green

Harry Bradford write at The Huffington Post Al Gore Worth 50 Times More Than He Was As Vice President Excerpt: The author of An Inconvenient Truth has swelled his net worth to about $100 million, largely due to his investments in green energy,

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Principles Matter More Than Facts

At The American Stan Veuger writes Obama’s Big Tax Increases on Small Business. Excerpts: President Obama has touted his treatment of small businesses repeatedly over the course of the campaign, and last week’s presidential debate was no exception. “I also

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The Lies, Lies, Lies Reader

From:Biden Claims He Voted Against Afghanistan, Iraq Wars in The Washington Free Beacon Vice President Joe Biden accused Rep. Paul Ryan of putting two wars on the “credit card,” and then suggested he voted against the wars in Afghanistan and

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Biden’s Best Moment

For most of the vice presidential debate Joe Biden was contemptuous, rude, disrespectful, and often wrong on the facts and assessments. But he had one great moment. Both candidates are Catholic.  The moderator, Martha Raddatz, asked both candidates about their

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The Strength of Criticism

Kerry Lauerman writes about outspoken Democrat Camille Paglia at Salon in In “Glittering” return, Paglia lets loose, 10/10/12. Excerpt: The media’s pampering and protection of Obama over the years simply led to his weakening — which was on excruciating public

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Short Term Political Thinking

Daniel Greenfield write in his excellent blog,  Sultan Knish, A Debate in the Land of the Deaf, 10/3/12 Excerpts: The modern political debate is not a test of ideas, but of candidates. HD cameras and screens make it possible for

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Presumptuous Leaders

From the Michael Lewis address to Princeton graduates, “Don’t Eat Fortunes Cookie”, 6/3/12 as prepared: I now live in Berkeley, California. A few years ago, just a few blocks from my home, a pair of researchers in the Cal psychology

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The L-Word

From Daniel Henninger at the Wall Street Journal, 10/11/12, Obama and the L-Word: Excerpts: The Obama campaign’s resurrection of “liar” as a political tool is odious because it has such a repellent pedigree. It dates to the sleazy world of

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Denying the Truth

My article in American Thinker, 10/10/12, The Biggest Lie Excerpt: Accusations of racism has become a method of quelling free speech, and when it no longer works,  Romney is accused of being a liar.  Unable to accept the defeat of

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Who Pays for Obama Care?

Posted in this Blog on 8/23/10, over two years ago, Kill the Bill. Excerpt: I will spare you the technical details and get straight to the main point.  This bill will kill employment, especially for the low wage employees and

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The Presidential Peter Prinicple

Daniel Greenfield writes in his excellent blog, Sultan Knish, The Emperor’s Magic New Debate, 10/6/12 Excerpt Mitt had spent most of his life talking to people and trying to convince them of various things, religious, economic or political. His way

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Inexhaustible Capital

The United States must overcome the materialist fallacy: the illusion that resources and capital are essentially things, which can run out, rather than products of human will and imagination, which in freedom are inexhaustible. This fallacy is one of the

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Abortion Does Not Define the Gender Gap

Karlyn Bowman and Jennifer Marsico write The Past, Present, and Future of the Women’s Vote in The American,Thursday, October 4, 2012. Excerpt: What drives the gap that Gallup tells us occurs “across all [adult] ages . . . and within

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A Victim of Their Own Demonization

In The New York Post, Why Romney Romped by John Podhoretz, 10/5/12 Excerpts: After months and months of media portrayals painting him as a vicious plutocrat who tortured his own dog, cut a gay kid’s hair in 1965 and made

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Maybe the 47% Number is Low

Too much was made by Romney’s opponents over the video of him writing off the 47%. The quote: “There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent

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