The View From 1776
Educational Incest
Inbreeding leads to grotesque defects.
Barack Obama, An Also-Ran
Obama does not compare favorably as a community organizer or as a party leader when matched against liberal-progressive party leaders in Nazi Germany.
You Can't Do It Alone
Marie Jon reminds us that, by the grace of God all things are possible, that personal willpower alone isn’t strong enough.
Today's Revolutionary Aristocracy - Part 2
A distinguishing characteristic of the liberal-progressive aristocracy is the dichotomy between its doctrinaire emphasis upon caring for “the people” and its indifference to what actually happens to individuals under its policies.
Moving Closer To World Government
Ignoring the complete falsity of man-made global warming alarmism, the International Monetary Fund is organizing a world-government effort to impose procrustean energy-use regulation upon governments that oppose it.
It’s now clear that global-warming hysteria is nothing more than a tactic for grabbing political power. The UN, and now the IMF, are acting in behalf of liberal-progressives who would impose the Socialist International as a supervening, worldwide regulator.
Today's Revolutionary Aristocracy
Liberal-progressives are a self-annointed aristocracy that presumes the right to impose its will upon our nation.
Krugman vs Krugman
New York Times propagandist Paul Krugman has been wrong so often and has reversed himself so many times he can’t remember what he last said.
One Reason Unemployment Remains High
Keynesian macroeconomic models suffer, as do Climategate global-warming models, from human inability to comprehend all relevant factors and to input their unimaginably complex interactions accurately into computer models.
Did Climate "Scientists" Structure Obamacare?
The President believes the crooks who manipulate climate data to present false conclusions, serving their own selfish interests. Maybe his gullibility extends to lies about the costs of Obamacare.
Obama's Hope and Change: You WILL Be Reconciled!
Just snuggle up to Big Brother.
Al Gore's Rationalizations
Why should he care that man-made global warming is a nasty, self-serving hoax? He’s already made his millions from falsely alarming the world.
If justice were to be done, Gore, along with all of the universities and “scientists” who promoted this rip-off, should be compelled to repay to taxpayers all of their ill-got gains, with interest compounded at 12% per annum.
Democrat/Socialists Attempt To Eviscerate The CIA
Liberal-progressives want to send to prison for 15 years any CIA agent who speaks unkindly to Islamic terrorists.
Green Jobs Destroy Jobs
Read The green jobs myth in the iconic, liberal-progressive Washington Post.
News And Opinions About Obamacare, Version Two
A new fiscal policy website, The Fiscal Times, provides a balanced presentation of news and a thoughtful presentation of opinion. Unlike mainstream liberal-progressive media such as the New York Times, news articles do not state ideological positions as settled fact. Instead, news articles report both conservative and liberal-progressive views, identifying each as such.
The reason for this balance undoubtedly is that the website is funded by Peter G. Peterson.
With regard to Obamacare, see two opinion pieces, Bipartisan Indifference to Controlling Health Care Costs and Health Reform Preview: The Obama Plan.
For a news report, see Health Care Odds Long, but Democrats Push Ahead.
Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Democrat/Socialist Party leaders, in their own minds, embody the will of the people.
Federal Aid To Socialist Education?
It’s not clear whether Obama’s Organizing for America (OFA) is promoting indoctrination of public school students with the ideology of Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers, or whether some teachers are free-lancing with OFA indoctrination as class work.
Moscow Show Trials Redux
Obama’s shameful campaign to criminalize officials in the Bush administration is reminiscent of Stalin’s purges of his opponents in 1936-38.
Comrade Obama Joins Russia Playing Footsie With Islamic Jihad
Obama’s OIC Envoy Didn’t Just Defend Al-Arian
Scientism Recap
L. Gordon Crovitz recounts a few of the false claims constituting the “settled science” of man-made global warming, a body of self-serving, economically destructive fraud that closely resembles the sediment found at the bottom of sewage treatment plant settlement tanks.
The Latest Climategate Revelation
Climate scientists withdraw journal claims of rising sea levels.
College Campus Censorship
Organized campaigns to silence dissent and to prevent consideration of opposing views are not confined to global-warming “scientists” and their supporters in the media and among liberal-progressives lusting for the power to control you and me.
Read the assessment by Alan Dershowitz, a highly regarded civil rights lawyer, who tags such action for what it is: subversion of First Amendment rights.
Should Government Steal Your Money?
Levying taxes is too unpopular. Why not just inflate the currency?
Liar, Liar! Your Attire's On fire!
The Obama administration has about the same degree of credibility as global-warming “scientists,” that is, near zero.
Why Individualism Is Better Than Collectivized Government Power
In the critical areas of human conduct - education, energy sources and uses, banking and the currency - liberal-progressives profess concern for an abstraction called “humanity.” That concern is, subliminally or consciously, really a lust for power to control the world.
Marriage Covenants
Covenants bind us, as individuals, to God; as children of God, to our families and to our brothers and sisters in God’s church throughout the world; and, as citizens, to preservation of a moral, God-fearing society.
Climategate U-turn
According to a UK Daily Mail article, the scientist at the center of the row admits:
• Data for vital ‘hockey stick graph’ has gone missing
• There has been no global warming since 1995
• Warming periods have happened before - but NOT due to man-made changes
Joseph Goebbels Lives!
Obama proposes to reincarnate Hitler’s propaganda ministry to inflate the Big Lie about global warming.
We don’t need this waste that only adds to the crippling Federal budget deficits. There are enough liars already puffing predictions of climate Armageddon.
A Dose Of Arctic Ice Cap Reality
Current arctic temperatures that send climate “scientists” into hysterics are decisively lower than in the 1930s. For the data, read Some timely calm perspective on Arctic temperature and sea ice trend from Willis Eschenbach.
Robbing Peter To Pay Paul
Obama’s stimulus programs have imposed a negative drag on the economy, a drag that will intensify in 2011.
One Way To Fudge Employment Statistics
Brian Kearsey emailed the link to 2010 Census Hiring Employment Scam.
From the French Revolution To Obama
There is an ideological continuum between Democratic/Socialist Party doctrine and the 1789 Paris mobs hanging government officials from the lamp posts and the slaughter of more than 70,000 French citizens in the Revolutionary Reign of Terror. It’s called “change that we can believe in.”
Paul Krugman: Partisan Propagandist
Krugman, a New York Times columnist (need we say more?), shamelessly reverses his previously expressed views to propagandize for Obama’s socialistic policies.
As Larry Elder summarizes it, “Krugman’s flip-flop on the deficit demonstrates a modern economic equation. Hatred of Bush + love for Obama = intellectual dishonesty.”
What Works
Vouchers produce better educational results, but Democrat/Socialists are concerned only with what works for teachers’ unions, one of their greatest sources of campaign cash and free labor. Read Milwaukee’s Voucher Graduates.
For readers who cannot access this Wall Street Journal editorial, see below for the full text.
Liberal Intellectuals, Who Dat?
Do liberal-progressives have the credentials entitling them to sneer at the rest of us?
Obama To Bow, Or Perhaps To Kneel, To Chinese Leaders?
Chinese authorities seem to have little use for diplomatic sensitivity.
Government Fumbling and Bumbling Depress Economic Outlook
People’s pessimism about our economic future has descended to the lowest level since last July. Obama needs to hit at least five TV shows a day and hold five major press conferences a week (taking care that his teleprompter is well oiled), speaking very s-l-o-w-l-y so that we dimwits can understand how mistaken we are and how much better things will be when we stop struggling and throw ourselves into the embrace of Big Brother.
Trial Lawyers: A Nest Of Vipers
Read How the Plaintiffs Bar Bought the Senate. For those who have difficulty accessing the article on the Wall Street Journal website, it is presented below.
Obama Reconsiders
In the war on terror, Obama’s liberal-progressive blind alley forces him to turn back to the policies of George W. Bush.
See also Bush Was Right, Says Obama: ‘We’re not handling any of these cases any different from the Bush administration.’
Liberal-Progressives Find The Rest Of Us Beneath Contempt
Gerard Alexander describes the attitude in a Washington Post op-ed article.
False Teaching
Asserting a doctrine as the Word of God doesn’t make it so.
I Gave At The Office
In the best of circumstances it’s too easy for us to look the other way when people are in need, to fail to be a good Samaritan. Encroachment of high Federal taxes and socialistic take-overs of everything from healthcare to the automobile industry have schooled us to shrug indifferently and leave charity to the government.
No More Than Could Be Expected
More revelations of fraud by the UN’s IPCC. But why should we be surprised? Liberal-progressive-socialism is a founded upon a giant fiction, and the UN is one of the principal propaganda organs for the socialist international.
Read reports from the UK Telegraph and from the London Times.
Still More Revelations of "Scientific" Confidence Games
Scandals just keep pouring from the laboratories.
Foreign Policy Mush From The Wimp
President Obama continues to follow the feckless path of Jimmie Carter.
See Digging Ourselves a Hole posted on the Commentary website.
See also “Sensitivity" in Foreign Policy, posted on this website in August, 2004.
Foreign Policy Realism, posted here in December, 2006, explores the ramifications of sensitivity vs. foreign policy realism related to Iran and the Middle East in general.
Liberal-Progressives' Never Ending Hypocrisy
People like Sean Penn, Danny Glover, Alec Baldwin, and Keith Olberman are, under the sway of liberal-progressive media, free to flaunt their faith in the secular religion of socialism. But woe unto a Christian or religious Jew who asserts an equal right to state his faith in our Creator God.
Is Everybody On The Take?
Dr. Walter Williams explains why the truth about the fraud known as greenhouse gas, man-made global-warming may not stop the lunacy in Washington. Just as climate “scientists” engaged in massive fraud to preserve their access to taxpayers money via Federal grants, big business now has much to protect.
The Multicultural Inquisition
The Brussels Journal compares the EU’s inquisition of Geert Wilders to the real treatment (as opposed to today’s fictional account) meted out to Galileo by the Roman Catholic inquisition.
Just Your Average "Scientist"
Are there enough honest scientists to constitute a quorum?
The Lancet’s Vaccine Retraction: A medical journal’s role in the autism scare.
Labor Unions: Socialism's Shock Troops
Both in England and in the United States, labor unions led the political assault to overwhelm the individualistic traditions that made those nations great and to impose socialistic planning and regulation.
Why Some State Budgets Can't Be Fixed
See The Public-Union Ascendancy: Government union members now outnumber private for the first time.
See also Public Employees’ Unions to Nation: Drop Dead! and Municipal Unions: The Boa Constrictor Strangling America.
Green Jobs Stupidity
The president’s smug assertion that the “science” of global warming is settled turns out to be anther example of liberal-progressives’ dogmatic closed-mindedness. His continuing devotion to “green” jobs can only be described as willful stupidity.
Toadies Chirping In The Dark
Like Aristophanes’s frogs croaking in the background, today’s climatologists and news reporters mindlessly repeat the phony mantra of greenhouse gases and man-made global warming.
Worth Reconsidering
President Obama is reassessing his decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM) in New York City. A couple of related ideas also need to be reconsidered.
No Limit
In calculus there is a limit. In the calculated prevarication of global-warming propaganda there is no limit to the lies climate “scientists” tell.
UN climate panel shamed by bogus rainforest claim
Make Christianity More Than A Hobby
Too many of us just go through the motions without commitment.
Aside From That, Is Everything OK?
How the crooks cook the books.
Obama's Priorities
Homeland security apparently isn’t among the president’s priorities. He’s too busy with a bill of attainder to criminalize legal conduct of CIA agents after the fact. Socializing the entire economy, of course, remains at the apex of his goals.
In Coke We Trust
Investors now view a default by the U.S. Treasury as more likely than a default by the Coca-Cola Company.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Jihad
How do you deal with a neighbor who believes he is obliged to kill you and sell your children into slavery?
Read Sharia’s Dominion, a review of two books arguing that repression, cruelty, and fear are central to Islam.
Whither Wend We, And Why?
Reader Robert Good looks at what may be driving the president.
Obama's 17% Unemployment Rate
That’s what we got for almost a trillion in stimulus spending.
Quote Of The Day
Kim Strassel in the Wall Street Journal:
For an administration that claims to know its political history, the White House appears to have misread at least one decade. FDR was re-elected in 1936 for many reasons, but among them was his fiery denunciations of “economic royalists,” “economic tyranny,” and “economic slavery.” Business knew it was in the president’s crosshairs and put its capital on strike. The economy didn’t recover until the war.
Team Obama is already witnessing a repeat. The U.S. economy ought to be flying out of recession. Yet bank lending is sluggish. Companies refuse to hire. Business is going elsewhere to raise capital: China last year outstripped the U.S. as a center for initial public offerings. The market gyrates on Washington’s latest political drama.
A venture capitalist recently remarked to me that the uncertainty the administration has created is “nothing short of paralyzing.” Nobody will invest in an industry that might be the next to be overtaxed, overregulated, or publicly disemboweled.
Add to that uncertainty the administration’s new populist bent, and it’s a recipe for a continued capital freeze. “People in the economy are thinking about whether to invest or take risks when what they are seeing are early signs of Hugo Chávez economics,” says Wisconsin GOP Rep. Paul Ryan. With the White House’s political fortunes fundamentally tied to economic recovery, this populist fire is an act of self-immolation.
The Arsonist Blames the Fire Department
President Obama wants to “slash the tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs overseas.”
Congressional Budget Office Foresees Long, Slow Recovery
Congressional Budget Office officials forecast official unemployment averaging above 10 % this year and in 2011. Actual unemployment, including people who have stopped looking for jobs, is close to 17%.
Annual budget deficits, already at unprecedented high levels, will be greater than $1 trillion for years to come. The president’s recently proposed budget freeze will amount to very little, prospectively reducing budgeted Federal spending increases from 45% to 44.3% over the next ten years.
Not Just In Germany
In Germany and California the secular, socialist political state is attempting to crush parents who teach Judeo-Christian moral principles to their children.
Why The Fed Is Unlikely To Prevent Inflation
Tom Emerson emailed this op-ed article by his Carnegie Mellon colleague, Professor Allan H. Meltzer:
The Fed’s Anti-Inflation Exit Strategy Will Fail: Sooner or later the pressure to lend out excess bank reserves will be unstoppable.
Bumbling Barack Boots it
Even the liberal-progressive co-chairmen of the 9/11 commission are distressed by the president’s dismantling interrogation procedures for terrorists and treating them as if they were no more than domestic muggers in need of Miranda rights.
The Obama Road to Serfdom
During 2009 we travelled far along the downward economic spiral that Friedrich von Hayek in 1944 accurately foresaw for Great Britain under the post-War socialist Labour Party government.
Repeal the 17th Amendment
Repealing the 17th Amendment would strengthen the Tenth Amendment, the most important of the Constitution’s original checks and balances.
Stimulus Is Vote-Buying, Not Job Creating
Obama’s stimulus program has notably failed to reduce unemployment. But it has been a political success by augmenting membership in public employees unions, whence come big bucks for Democrat/Socialist Party campaigns.
A Worthy Offering To God
We must focus our hearts worshipfully upon God’s Will that we spiritually love one another, doing always the right thing to help people in need.
The Federal Reserve Is Inflating Another Bubble
Stock market exuberance is symptomatic of a rapidly expanding money supply’s corrosive effect.
A U.S. ClimateGate?
NASA “for two years refused Freedom of Information requests on why it has had to repeatedly correct its climate figures.”
The Fed Should Get Back To Basics
Read David Malpass’s commentary.
Hope And Change
They had hope again. It was remarkable. I don’t think that Germany will ever again find another man who could inspire so much hope, trust and love as Hitler did at that moment.
John Toland quoting an observer on January 30, 1933, the day that Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.
More Man-Made Gas From Liberal-Progressives
Read the article in Investor’s Business Daily.
The Economics of Medical Care
Read a seven-part series by Thomas Sowell.
Is America Still Making Men?
Read Dennis Prager’s assessment.
Ramparts: An Icon Of Liberal-Progressive Propaganda
Lionized by mainstream liberal-progressive media, Ramparts did change the nation - much for the worse.
Montesquieu: A Founding Influence
Read Montesquieu on Commerce in the Mises.org website.
Our Future Under The Socialist International
Democrat/Socialist Hypocrisy
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, running for election to the Senate seat formerly held by the Hero of Chappaquiddick, Ted Kennedy, is cut from the same corrupt, degraded, immoral material as Kennedy.
Does Truth Dwell Anywhere Among Democrat/Socialists?
There is reason to be skeptical about every claim they make.
President Obama's Administration Is Funding Wall Street Bonuses
See Bashing Bankers Is a Political Duty.
If you would know why bankers are enjoying a large and controversial deluge of annual bonuses, look no further than the monthly report of the New York State Comptroller’s Office. The economy may be in the dumps, but Wall Street enjoyed record profits of $50 billion in the first nine months of last year—"nearly two and a half times the previous annual peak in 2000.”
“Profitability,” adds the state of New York, “has soared because revenues rose while the costs of doing business—particularly interest costs—declined” (in other words, thank you Federal Reserve).
Is The United States Too Big To Fail?
Barton Bennett emailed the link to The Biggest Financial Deception of the Decade.
The Stimulus Bubble
President Obama is considering another round of stimulus spending. In addition to failing to correct unemployment, stimulus spending foments speculative investment in limited sectors of the economy, setting the stage for the next economic bubble burst.
Regulate Economists?
Congress, believing consumers to have been duped by lenders on home mortgages and credit cards, prescribes stringent regulation. Congress, having been repeatedly duped since the New Deal by Keynesian economists, needs to protect itself from fraudulent economic theories with a warp of rigid regulations.
Read Why Government Spending Does Not Stimulate Economic Growth: Answering the Critics.
Barack Better-Red-Than-Dead Obama
Generations of Americans have been prepared to die to defend the United States against foreign aggression. Under Obama, they are expected to die in defense of terrorists’ putative legal rights.
Obama Is The Cause Of Our Homeland Security Failures
The president, from day one in office, aggressively repeated the Church Committee’s mid-1970s gutting of our intelligence service capabilities.
Liberal-Progressive Socialism, OK. Christianity, No.
Liberal-progressives presume freedom to ridicule Christianity, but deny any public freedom of expression to Christians.
Social Security Nears The End Of The Line
While Obama continues to pile up trillions of obligations for new socialist economic control programs, we can’t even finance social security, the biggest of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal socialistic initiatives.
Chavez Devalues Venezuelan Currency
The poisonous and repressive effect of inflation.
Why The Fed Performs So Poorly
The Federal Reserve focuses on the wrong targets, and we all suffer.
Obama's listless approach to terrorism
Three recent failures demonstrate the decline in effectiveness of anti-terrorism procedures under a peacenik president, who scrubs the word terrorism from agency terminology, while refusing to recognize Islam as a mortal enemy to civilization.
There is a striking parallel between today’s terror from Islam and the terror from revolutionary socialism in the 1886 - 1920 period. In both situations, liberal-progressives perceived ideologies compatible with their own desires to overthrow the Judeo-Christian moral ethic that undergirds the original Constitution.
The ACLU in the earlier period worked actively to promote the cause of socialism and anarchism. The president today bows and scrapes to Muslim dictators, while denigrating the United States and degrading our national defense forces.
The 1920 Terrorist Bombing in Wall Street
A reader disputes my assertion that liberal-progressives were the perpetrators.
Obama's Gestapo
For Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, and David Axelrod, the ideological core of President Obama’s administration, the enemies to be silenced are those who still stand for the original Constitution and the original Judeo-Christian ethos upon which the nation was founded.
Catching A Vision
The new year is a time to abandon our comfort zone and seek the Lord’s aim for our lives.
Liberal-Progressives And The Law Of Unintended Consequences
The Achilles heel of liberal-progressives’ ivory-tower, one-size-fits-all state planning is the law of unintended consequences.
The Year America Lurched Left
Investors Business Daily sums it up.
Global-Warming Judicial Activism
Congress and the Copenhagen convocation having failed to impose draconian measures to please advocates of man-made global warming, liberal-progressives are reverting to the courts for an end-run around the will of the people.