The View From 1776

Still Leading From Behind

2013-05-19 23:08:16 EST

Trail meekly and close enough behind, and you may get dumped upon. The Obama administration attacks domestic political targets with whatever scurrilous tactics can be employed. In the foreign policy arena, it’s a different matter.

Read Jonathan S. Tobin’s post on the Commentary Magazine website:
The Russians Are Happy with John Kerry

Quote:

But the main result of all this schmoozing is the stark fact that the bottom line here is that the United States has buckled under to Moscow:

Mikhail V. Margelov, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the upper chamber of the Russian Parliament, said that Russia’s position on Syria had been consistent and that Mr. Kerry had finally accepted it

John Kerry isn’t the first American to be taken to the cleaners by the Russians, but it’s doubtful that any of his predecessors were fleeced so effortlessly.

The Era Of Big Government Survives

2013-05-14 16:52:21 EST

Despite Bill Clinton’s famous assertion, the Democrat/Socialist Party’s urge to control every aspect of our private lives remains as virulent as ever.

Obama vs. American Foreign Policy Interests

2013-05-14 16:29:08 EST

It’s difficult to discern what interests of the United States might be served by influencing the UK to remain in the EU in the face of growing voter dissatisfaction in the UK. None the less, President Obama pressured the British Prime Minister to do so.

What seems obvious, however, is that the president is greatly attracted to promoting a world government under the UN or the EU. This strong plank of socialist doctrine was most forcibly articulated by Karl Marx in the Communist Manifesto. It is of a piece with Obama’s public assertion, and the multicultural orientation of our educational system, that there is nothing special about the United States and the American Creed that underlay the Constitution in 1787. See the Unwritten Constitution in the right-hand column of this website.

Obama’s British Blunder, an editorial of The New York Sun, nails it.

Keynesian Economics And Social Justice

2013-05-01 19:21:13 EST

Obama’s proposed tax code revision follows the Keynesian doctrine that derogates saving and it promotes the policy of socialistic redistribution of wealth.

Obama’s War on Successful Americans Hits 401(K)s

Obama: President Of The Flat Earth Society

2013-04-30 00:13:31 EST

The president staunchly clings to his “scientific consensus” that man-made climate-warming necessitates catastrophically expensive regulation of automotive CAFE standards, killing the coal mining industry, foreclosing petroleum and gas pipelines from Canada, and stopping drilling activity in the Gulf and on Federal lands.

Empirical scientific evidence does not support him:

The mercury is falling, but our MPs are full of hot air

Cooling in the Arctic: what to expect?

Mythology Of Economic Illiteracy

2013-04-28 22:33:45 EST

Demystifying The Naively Demonized Symbol That Is Wall Street

Yet More Liberal-Progressive Hypocrisy

2013-04-27 23:30:32 EST

An addiction Democrats can’t kick
If smokers quit, who will pay the bills?

The Fed As Chicago-Style Enforcer

2013-04-25 21:51:58 EST

The Fed: Playing Thug Politics With Banks

Read It And Weep

2013-04-25 21:37:38 EST

Nancy Pelosi, then House Speaker, reportedly urged quick passage of ObamaCare legislation so that members could then read it to learn what it contained.

Page counts range from 906 pages to 3,256 pages. To date, regulations issued under ObamaCare legislation run around 20,000 pages as of early March, according to Senator Minority Leader McConnell’s office.

Now, three years later, members of Congress and their staffs have got around to reading the ObamaCare legislation. As the substantial increases in insurance premiums become known, they are protesting mightily the requirement that they, like ordinary tax-paying citizens, be subject to ObamaCare.

Presidential Persuasion

2013-04-24 22:49:50 EST

Obama’s continual speechifying contrasts unfavorably with the style of Thomas Jefferson, who is claimed by the Democrat/Socialist Party as its founder.