The View From 1776

Welfare-State Socialism

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Thomas Sowell's Reflections on Senator Obama

Read Random Events posted on the Conservative Voice website.

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

At Last: A Clear Path to Social Justice!

In a modern version of Thomas More’s Utopia, crossed with Jonathan Swift’s satire, Jack Gilbert explains how we can reach the social-justice Nirvana of liberal-progressivism: equal distribution of income and wealth.

Monday, May 05, 2008

Senator Obama's Friends

How indicative of his character and beliefs is Senator Obama’s having launched one of his political campaigns at the home of his friends Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers?

Saturday, May 03, 2008

Senator Obama and Black Liberation Theology

There’s more to the story than just Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s incendiary remarks, repeated often and recently in a large public forum.

Only Love Can Drive Out Hate: Just Words?

Marie Jon’ assesses the latest revelations of Senator Obama’s character.

Previewing President Obama

The record of Senator Obama’s close friend, Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, gives us a preview of the Obama presidency.  Mr. Patrick is also a silver-tongued promiser of togetherness in postpartisan politics.  What Senator Obama’s hope and togetherness mean, in practice, is caving in to labor unions and other far-left, liberal-progressive special interest groups.

Read President Obama: The Preview?, by Jon Keller, political analyst for WBZ-TV in Boston.

Friday, May 02, 2008

Wright to Offer Prayer Rebuttal at Democrat Convention

Read ScrappleFace’s tongue-in-cheek report.

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Socialization of Health Care Has Made It More Expensive

Both Senators Clinton and Obama promise to increase the socialization process inaugurated by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, employing price controls, enlarged welfare programs, and vastly higher taxes to fund all of it.  Their objective is the Holy Grail of socialistic social justice: reducing everyone to an equally poor status.

Read The Relentless Process of Socializing Health Care by D.W. MacKenzie on the Mises.org website.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

The god That Failed New Orleans

Why does much of New Orleans still look as if the 2005 devastation of Hurricane Katrina had occurred just a few weeks ago?

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Death Twitch?

Labor unions are not as healthy as they were in the 1950s and 1960s, but are they moribund?