Race in the Third Millennium
November 29, 2008 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Communism, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Elections, History, Media Bias, News, President, Publius Contributor, Race, Security/Safety, Selwyn Duke, Socialism, Society/Culture | No Comments
By Selwyn Duke
Although the show was propaganda produced by leftist Norman Lear, no one could accuse “All in the Family” of not being funny. Its protagonist, blue-collar bigot Archie Bunker, is one of those legendary television characters, and one of his uproarious lines is apropos here. It was uttered during a scene in which his daughter, Gloria, passionately asked him, “Daddy, did you know that 65 percent of the people murdered in the last ten years were killed by handguns?” The curmudgeonly patriarch’s reply was classic: “Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they was pushed outta’ windas’?”
While what follows isn’t the conclusion Lear wanted us to draw, the truth is that many Americans would feel better. People tend to fixate on the boogeyman of their ideology, and they often don’t trouble much about evil when it’s not committed in his name.
We see examples of this phenomenon today, and this brings me to a couple of questions of my own. Can tyranny be visited in the name of only one particular lie? And would it make you feel any better if millions were oppressed or murdered to promote a fashionable lie? The truth is, sadly, millions would feel better.
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Creeping Socialism… THAT is What Bailouts Are
November 17, 2008 | Filed Under Business, Communism, Congress, Conservatives, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Education, Elections, History, Jobs, Media Bias, News, Publius Contributor, Republicans, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
Ronald Reagan’s wisdom can be directed against these bailouts.
The Auto Bailout
November 13, 2008 | Filed Under Business, Communism, Congress, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, GOP, Government, Corruption, Media Bias, News, Publius Contributor, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Thomas Brewton | No Comments
-By Thomas E. Brewton
Classic socialism in action.
Socialism is characterized by ignoring the free marketplace and empowering intellectual planners to control the economy with a cocoon of regulations and directives. In Europe (and today in China) economically moribund companies are designated national champions and kept alive at taxpayer expense, even when they can’t compete in the free market without government subsidies.
This flows from socialist governments’ belief that full employment can be maintained only by massive deficit spending. J. M. Keynes, the economics guru of the the New Deal era, opined that it would be suitable government policy to hire men to dig holes one day, fill them up the next day, then re-dig them and refill them ad infinitum.
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Conservatives, Obama’s Win is Your Fault
November 10, 2008 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Communism, Democrats/Leftists, GOP, Media Bias, News, Patriotism, President, Publius Contributor, Republicans, Socialism, Society/Culture, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | 2 Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
With that headline you may think I am employing hyperbole. If so, you would be wrong. I am absolutely and positively blaming the conservative movement for the rise to the presidency of a man that adheres to a socialist ideology. In fact, in this day and age, I might even blame conservatives for the continued existence of this man’s ideas altogether, though that might be a stretch. No, more directly, conservatives are at fault for the singular fact that many millions of Americans saw no reason not to vote for a socialist. They mistakenly imagined his ideas were still just as American as anyone’s. These voters haven’t the first clue that their vote stood four-square against true American ideas. Unfortunately, conservatives are at fault for this rampant inability of our fellows to understand what is an American ideology and what isn’t. Sadly, we have allowed several generations to pass without being educated as to why Barack Obama’s basic political creed is blatantly socialist.
Leftism got its start in America before the turn of the 20th century but in 1960 a conservative grass roots movement began to form around what later became the 1964 candidacy of Barry Goldwater. His campaign biography, Conscience of a Conservative, captured the minds of hundreds of thousands of Americans yearning for a return to American principles. After only its first few short years the book that bore Goldwater’s name had sold over 3 million copies and has by now gone through dozens of printings.
The Coming Depression
November 6, 2008 | Filed Under Business, Communism, Congress, Dan Scott, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Government, Corruption, Media Bias, News, President, Publius Contributor, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes | 6 Comments
-By Dan Scott
Now that it seems Barack Obama has won his prize of being the president of the US, let’s see what that prize entails. Obama has made many promises, bribed (so called refundable tax credit) a significant portion of voters with $500 for their vote, talked a good game, and held close to the vest his unspoken agenda with the blessings of the MSM. Given the exit polling, it is clear none of the truly important issues were even a factor in the race such as energy, terrorism, past responsibility for the mortgage mess, etc. Obama’s victory was one of rhetoric, empty promises and slogans over substance and action backed by a staggering sum of campaign contributions. In short, Obama bought the presidency in a slickly run advertising campaign pedaling hope and change appealing to the lowest common denominator - $500.
If history is a reliable guide and taking Democrats at their word, the current economic downturn with already one quarter at negative GDP will accelerate into another negative quarter thus giving the Democrats and the MSM the bonafide recession they have been claiming the US has been in since Bush took office eight years ago. The reasons for the recession becoming prolonged into a depression will become obvious as we list what Democrats have excitedly talked about doing for quite some time now.
The Democrats are talking up a storm over needing to give another tax rebate in a pump priming effort in order to kick start the economy. Democrats and their Socialist brethren believe government is the center of the economy and thus a centrally planned approach is better than the messy decentralized approach of Capitalism. Where will this money come from, more borrowing, higher taxes or printing money? The Treasury and Federal Reserve are in a bind at this point, if they go to the market place to borrow money in the substantial sums that will be required to fulfill those promises interest rates must rise to attract the over trillion dollars the budget deficit is swelling to this year alone (one of those ugly secrets the MSM kept from telling the public.) The Fed may believe it can dictate interest rates but that must give way to the competition from other countries and financial entities needing to borrow money due to their reduced revenues as well. Interest rates will go up despite the wishes of Democrats, the Japanese learned that lesson the hard way years ago. Rising interest rates increases the cost of doing business for all companies thus an uptick in inflation passed on to the consumer and more unemployment.
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CNN Spins Obama Wanting to Bankrupt Coal Industry as Old News
November 3, 2008 | Filed Under Communism, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Energy, Global Warming, Media Bias, News, President, Publius Contributor, Science, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | 4 Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
In reporting the speech by Gov. Sarah Palin in Ohio today, CNN’s Political Ticker tried to spin her question about Obama’s coal comment as old news when it clearly isn’t. Palin asked why we are just now finding out about the interview where Barack Obama said he had hoped to bankrupt the coal industry but CNN termed this interview and Obama’s startling admission as “months-old coal comments” in an attempt to soften the blow to Ohio and Pennsylvania voters. The Political Ticker said that since the San Francisco Chronicle had these comments on its website for nine months, the news of Obama’s quote was no big deal. But this is a misleading claim.
As we know from P.J. Gladnick’s NewsBusters report, Obama admitted that his intention for new coal plants was to slap so many fees, regulations and taxes on any new venture that it would “bankrupt” the company that tries it.
Palin, stumping Sunday in Ohio’s coal country, brought this interview up at a campaign appearance in Marietta, Ohio. “Why is the audio tape just now surfacing?,” she asked the shocked crowd.