The Democratic Platform
and the avoidance of the word "Liberal"

Liberals are people who oppose conservatism; that is, they are not bound by traditional values and beliefs and work toward the elimination of many of the moral standards that have been expected by civilized society for centuries.  Calling someone a liberal is usually disparaging, because liberalism is a system of beliefs with which most people disagree.  For that reason, liberal politicians do not refer to themselves as "liberal."

Liberals are sometimes called "progresssive", but they appear to make progress in a direction that most people don't want to go.

The Democratic Party platform contains a number of features that most people would find objectionable.  Allow me to bring some of them to light.

Commentary on the aftermath of the 2006 election — and the implementation of some of the Democrats' leftist platform — can be found here.


The Silver Lining of the Left in Power.  There may be a major silver lining for conservatives and for America's future thanks to the foreign and domestic policies of President Obama and the Democrat-controlled House and Senate:  For the first time in their lives, millions of Americans are coming to understand the left.  It is difficult to overstate how important this is.

Spare The Rod, Destroy America.  [Scroll down]  Liberalism is a public cancer, and the sooner it is halted and their upside down policies are made extinct, the sooner society can go about the business of building a better, more vibrant, and safer America that provides unlimited opportunity for those who want to celebrate it.

Democrats' Quiet Changes Pile Up.  While President Barack Obama still faces stiff headwinds on a range of major legislation on his agenda, he has been signing into law a slew of smaller initiatives that had gathered dust on the Democratic wish list for years.  Many of the bills had been blocked by Republicans who considered the measures unnecessary expansions of government or too costly.

What's Wrong With Socialism?  In the late 1930s, the noted economist Friedrich Von Hayek wrote his landmark pamphlet "Road to Serfdom," laying bare the diseased skeleton of socialist/utopian thought that had permeated academia and the salons of his day.  With an economy of words that showcased the significance of his conclusion, he pointed out the Achilles heel of collectivist dogma:  for a planned economy to succeed, there must be central planners, who by necessity will insist on universal commitment to their plan.  How do you attain total commitment to a goal from a free people?  Well, you don't.

Divide and Conquer.  The current Democratic Party overwhelmingly comprises interest groups that believe a powerful central government is essential to guarantee their predetermined "equitable" outcomes.  The Republican Party membership, in even greater numbers, is dominated by those who believe government (per the founders) should be limited and the rights of the individual paramount.

The Myth of the Moderate Democrat.  Don't assume that the 38 Democrats who voted against Nancy Pelosi's extremist version of health care reform wouldn't have supported it if their votes had been needed.  The days before the final passage on Saturday were not filled with stirring appeals to get Democrats to back the bill so much as an auction to decide whom to let off the hook.

We're Governed by Callous Children.  [Scroll down]  Our federal government, from the White House through Congress, and so many state and local governments, seems to be demonstrating every day that they cannot make things better.  They are not offering a new path, they are only offering old paths — spend more, regulate more, tax more in an attempt to make us more healthy locally and nationally.

Freedom is Hard Work.  The great irony of America is that the maintenance of freedom is awfully hard work and with few exceptions, it's the work of individuals, not the government.  The Constitution was drafted to ensure that this was the case.  It was drafted to make government subject to the governed.  Of course that means that the governed must do the hard civic work of keeping government in check.  That work is made all the harder by those who are determined, in their vast ignorance, to have government impose equality-of-outcome across the social landscape. In short, those that argue for wealth redistribution lead us toward tyranny.

Republicans Should Just Say 'No' to Democrats.  There is nothing wrong with Republicans sticking to their principles and thwarting Democrats attempts to grow government, increase taxes, socialize health care, and burden generations with deficit spending. ... Without the Republicans rising up against the "my way or the highway" governing by the Democrats, we would most certainly would have had a socialized health care system in place by now as well as a cap-and-trade bill that would slap a tax on every American with increased energy costs.

The Saints of Socialism and the Religion of Radicalism.  The phenomenon of the quasi-religious worship of Obama is only shocking to those who fail to understand that socialism is itself a religion.

Democrats and Job Creation ... or Not.  I wonder what level of unemployment Democrats need before they start considering actual rate cuts.  A cut in the payroll tax would stimulate the economy instantly by cutting the cost of employing people.  Is that really too hard to understand?

Obama and the Last Hurrah of Liberalism.  The Democratic Party, at one time the self-declared defender of the little guy, has openly declared war on small business and capitalism.  The Democratic members of Congress have been revealed to be indifferent to the voters, incapable of reading bills and fully in the pockets of liberal special interests groups.  Further the Administration has blithely declared a tripling of the national debt over the next 10 years as if it were immaterial.  President Obama has championed "health care reform" and a "carbon tax" in an attempt to control the day-to-day lives of the American people.  There are now 32 advisors (czars), to the President, most being left-wing ideologues, with the power to implement his agenda, none of whom have been approved by the Senate.

Obama And The Great Weaknesses Of Reasonable Men.  The people who run the Democratic Party today are radical liberals and Obama himself has more in common with Castro or Brezhnev than he does with, say John Kennedy or Harry Truman — but a lot of the negatives about Obama, but those things are so alien to their way of thinking that they can't truly believe he means what he says.  He wants skyrocketing energy prices?  Can't be!  He wants to bankrupt the coal industry!  No way. ... He supported a complete ban on handguns.  That must have been a mistake!

5 Things That Republicans In D.C. Need To Understand:  The Democrats are methodically destroying the future of this country.  They're running up an astronomical debt, they're taking over huge segments of the economy, and they're going to annihilate the quality of medical care in this country with this health care bill.

Don't Call Them Progressives.  The Lefties are at it again.  Having completely destroyed that fine word, "liberal," along with the enlightened 18th century sensibilities that went with it, they have now moved on like locusts through the lexicon, and want to be called "progressives."  An astonishing number of conservative commentators are going along with it.  Not me.

Liberalism:  Because We Know What's Best For You.  [Scroll down]  Liberal philosophers almost always believe there is a need for a government solution to problems — a solution that they will design and that all average people should be happy to follow.  Their glass is almost always half-empty:  America is broken, people are struggling, we must look to Canada and Europe rather than inward for our solutions.  The American dream?  It is lost for future generations unless we have more government involvement.

How Liberalism Exploits The Vulnerable.  Not knowing that she was on camera, this "community organizer" gave away the dirtiest of the dirty secrets of the left.  Herein lies the explanation of how and why major segments of America, particularly in urban areas, upon becoming increasingly liberal over the past several decades, have become more lawless, more hopeless, and more helpless.  While claiming to "help the little guy," liberalism has a vested interest in keeping the "little guy" oppressed and dependent.  Only in such a state can he fulfill his intended role as a "resource" of the liberal machine.

Obama:  Legalize illegals to get them health care.  President Obama said this week that his health care plan won't cover illegal immigrants, but argued that's all the more reason to legalize them and ensure they eventually do get coverage.  He also staked out a position that anyone in the country legally should be covered — a major break with the 1996 welfare reform bill, which limited most federal public assistance programs only to citizens and longtime immigrants.

The Immoral Agenda Of A Liberal Congress:  Some people in government have a very strange sense of morality.  They think that stealing from the wealthy to give to the poor is somehow a good thing to do.  It is actually highly immoral because not only is it theft pure and simple but it also punishes achievement, rewards imprudence, strips ambition, and creates dependency.  Too bad this ideology is held by those who are irreligious yet use religious guilt to sell their agenda.

Infatuation with Crisis.  Periodically we are informed that there is an infrastructure crisis — roads, bridges, water lines, school buildings, etc. are wearing out because they are getting older.  The largely mythical "Hunger in America" in the 1960s was a crisis which produced the Food Stamp Program, and now — with a straight face! — Leftists' planners warn us that obesity is the most serious health problem of the poor.  Monumental levels of government "stimulus" spending was supposed to end the economic crisis (which could never — of course — be the consequent of monumental levels of government spending in the first place!)  And now, of course, we face (whether we are deemed "smart" enough to see it or not) a health care crisis.

How to Defeat the Left.  The only way to defeat the left — and I have failed in twenty years of arguing this to persuade conservatives — is to turn the table around and attack their moral self-image. Leftists are in fact the enemies and oppressors of women, children, gays, minorities and the poor, and conservatives should never confront them without reminding them of this fact.

Incentivizing Irresponsibility:  It is almost irresistible for conservatives to snicker as Democrats in Massachusetts hold hearings and seek ways to justify an attempt to change the law in Massachusetts to allow the Democratic governor of the Commonwealth to appoint a Democratic senator — presumably available to vote for President Obama's initiatives.  It was just a few years ago when Senator John Kerry was running for president and the governor was a Republican that the Democratic state legislature thought it imperative to change the law to prevent governors from appointing senators.  It is just too delicious, the hypocrisy too obvious, for conservatives to ignore.

They think you're stupid.  If you vote for them, maybe they're right!
 Obama's Quest into the Magic World of Anti-American Mythology.  Short of stating it explicitly, elitism implies that "the masses" are mindless, spiritless creatures without free will, always in need of the largesse of the state, and for their own good the state ought to nationalize the country's resources in order to feed its subjects.  There is a reason why snobby elites on the Upper East Side of Manhattan generously donate to leftist causes and support leftist politicians.

What's Obamamania?  Domestically, it's a heart beating hotly for throttling American industry in the name of a cleaner environment.  For "energy independence" without expanded nuclear power.  For a "stimulus package" (etc.) causing (in for instance the fiscal year ending this fall) record-setting $2 trillion annual deficits.  And for the government running "reformed" banks, insurance companies, automobile manufacturers, and the nation's health delivery system with all the efficiency of Amtrak and the Postal Service.

White House Character:  It is certain that many on the left who voted for Obama are pleased with his performance.  After all, he has moved this country toward socialism in more ways, at a much faster rate, and at far greater expense than any American president in history.  For those who idealize the redistribution of wealth, the dismantling of capitalism, the hobbling of our industries with taxes and restrictions, the takeover of private companies by the federal government, and total state control of our health care system, Obama has delivered in spades.

Finally, Change We Can Believe In.  On Sunday [8/16/2009], administration officials started backing away from their demand for a public insurance requirement.  That's nice.  But it is very possible that something much bigger is afoot.  As the woman said at the town hall, "I don't believe this is just health care."  Bailouts to banks, huge stimulus payoffs to special interests, nationalization of auto companies, trillions in new debt, the ideological taxing of our great carbon energy supplies, unconscionable deficits stealing from our grandchildren, Washington talk of health rationing, forced abortions, compulsory sterilization, eugenics.  Are you all Eurosocialists now?

Calibrating the President:  [Scroll down]  On matters of social policy and attitudes, President Obama has not deviated even a half step from the sentiments he expressed as Candidate Obama.  Abortion is a right.  Equality means affirmative action.  Our judges need to empathize.  Racist words and actions are exclusively the province of whites.  Profiling is used against minorities.  It is the liberal litany with which we've been bombarded for about 40 years now, but never before have we heard it in such stark terms from the man occupying Theodore Roosevelt's bully pulpit.

Us Versus Them.  We are for freedom, they are for coercion.  We are for personal choice when other lives aren't at stake.  They are for choice only when the choice involves other lives being snuffed out.  We are for personal responsibility enforced by self-restraint and social norms.  They are for responsibility imposed from without by government bureaucrats.  We conservatives are for the ideals that make America America.  They, the liberals, are for transforming America into an imagined utopia enforced by command and control, based on values alien to the great American tradition.

Organic Failure.  Henry Waxman is at it again.  The Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade-climate change bill, which has been called the largest tax bill in history because it would levy a national tax on energy use, narrowly passed the House in late June and is still pending in the Senate, but the California Democrat has already moved on to his next bad idea:  trying to save the nation's populace by making farmlands sterile, so that only organic foods can be grown.

Running on empty.  American energy policy is in limbo.  "Drill, baby, drill" still articulates a good policy direction, but the Obama administration is outsourcing that policy, and our tax dollars, to Brazil.  This is all while the White House is ignoring public opinion by blocking domestic energy production.  The mind boggles when trying to figure out why the energy issue is still at issue at all.

More about Democrats obstructing the flow of oil.

'Let them eat cake' Democrats:  The majority Democrats, intoxicated with power, are brimming with a haughty self-righteousness that is now veering into a prideful arrogance and self-destructive narcissism.  Having misread their 2008 election victory as a mandate to push through liberalism on a grand scale, they are now stunned by opposition to their radical plans.  To them, the depth and intensity of the dissent is unexpected and shocking.  One thing about liberals:  It doesn't even occur to them that there is another side to an argument.  They are so convinced of the righteousness of their own position that it doesn't dawn on them that a reasonable person might have a different viewpoint.

Extort thy neighbor, or how to ruin a nation.  [Scroll down slowly]  The other villain and the master at this extortion game is the modern Democratic Party, which might as well rename itself the Parasite Party.  The road to power for the Democratic Party is by creating parasites of different groups, in essence, buying votes from the parasites by extorting from the hosts.  By doing so, they pit one group of citizens against another.  They manipulate the human emotions of compassion, greed, and envy for political gain.  They make the claim to be compassionate, but never to anyone who has worked hard to produce wealth for themselves, instead promote hatred and envy of them.

Islam and Monoculture:  Some of the most dysfunctional states and municipalities are the victims of single party arrogance and mismanagement.  The District of Columbia, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Newark, Cleveland, San Francisco and possibly all of the state of California are examples.

Does someone have answers to the questions?  I am perplexed about so many issues in the news that I can only ask questions today. Maybe someone else has the answers.
 •  Why are the 10 poorest cities in America the ones that always elect Democrats to public office? Is it because their solutions to problems is welfare, not work?
 •  Why is it considered desirable to register every uninformed voter to cancel out the votes of informed, well-educated people?
 •  What does it mean when cities with strict gun control laws, like Chicago and Washington, D.C., can't control gangs, drugs and shootings?

Obama's birth debate:  It's about loyalty.  Obama is a socialist, which means that his deepest commitment is not to our nation but to the Internationalist Ruling Class.  That is why the Left always has to argue that Americans' love of country will kill off the rest of the world -- by global warming, by overpopulation, any excuse will do.  The fact that it's all lies proves the point:  The Left must lie in order to convince millions of Americans that their normal feelings of patriotism are evil.

Americans Are Beginning to Understand the Left.  The left everywhere seeks to make as big and powerful a state as possible.  It does so because only the state can redistribute society's wealth.  And because only a strong and powerful state can impose values on society.  The idea of small government, the American ideal since its inception, is the antithesis of the left's ideal.  The cap-and-trade bill's control of American energy and the ObamaCare takeover of American health care will mean an unprecedented expansion of the state.  Added to increased taxes and the individual becomes less and less significant as the state looms ever larger.

Liberalism and the Dumbing Down of America.  As Barack Obama spends day after day touring the world (how many days has he spent in the Oval Office?), trashing America and taking the country on a trip to hell in a hand basket, the liberal electorate and fawning media for the most part remain completely enthralled by the One.  Although his poll numbers have dropped considerably, liberals have yet to abandon ship as they remain strong supporters of the Dictator-in-Chief despite his anti-American agenda.

Cronkite Was A Leftist, Not a "Liberal".  The modern Left is the stalwart champion of:  1) group rights rather than individual rights, as exemplified by its support for collective preferences — affirmative action — based on such categories as race, ethnicity, gender, or national origin;  2) the circumvention of law rather than the rule of law, as exemplified by its support for the edicts of activist judges who legislate from the bench, and by its opposition to the enforcement of laws pertaining to immigration and nondiscrimination;  3) the expansion of government rather than its diminution (by means of ever-escalating taxes to fund a bloated welfare state, and to authorize government control over virtually every aspect of human life — education, health care, day care, energy, etc.);  and 4) the redistribution of wealth (through steeply progressive taxes and mushrooming welfare programs), rather than its creation through free-market capitalism.

None Dare Call It Marxism.  Though global communism has been defeated, there remains a strong contingent among us, whose nerve center is the Democratic Party leadership under President Obama, committed to obliterating America's free market.  Without getting into the intricacies of Marxist theory, suffice it to say that at the core of this political and economic philosophy is a belief in the historical class struggle.

Socialism is really cannibalism.  When I work, I use up hours of my life... my limited, mortal, human, physical life.  The money I am paid represents the life I expended to earn it.  My pay — my wealth — is my labor.  It is the expenditure of some of my body's short, precious life on earth.  So when someone takes my money, they steal my hours of labor.  They consume not only the fruits of my labor, but my labor itself, that labor which is the very expenditure of my life.  When someone loots and consumes the money I have earned, they consume the part of my life devoted to producing what hey have taken.

The Liberal Dream Agenda.  The liberal onslaught comes in four parts:  government-run health care, a cap-and-trade carbon tax, a vast array of personal and business tax increases, and government authority to seize financial institutions in addition to banks.  This is the liberal dream agenda.  If passed, it would do what conservatives fear most.  It would make America more like Europe, with growing nanny statism and more reliance on government, considerably less on individuals.

Obama and the Liberal Freeloader Culture.  If you are a moderate — and that usually means you are not that engaged in politics — why would you argue with a president who wants to improve access to health care, expand educational opportunities, and do something about climate change?  Don't we all want health care, education, and a habitable planet?  Of course we do.  But isn't there a better way than turning the United States into a nation of freeloaders ever searching for a "free" government program to meet its needs?

2010.  Next year's elections are going to produce a political earthquake.  That is because we currently suffer the most left-wing government in our nation's history.  After just 6 months in office, the flower children that rule Washington in overwhelming numbers are already smashing through all records regarding federal taxes, spending, deficits, and debt.  Obama and his ultra-left Democrats adopted a so-called stimulus bill raising spending a trillion dollars that never had a prayer of actually creating jobs and promoting long-term economic growth, because it was based entirely on old-fashioned, brain dead, proven to fail, Keynesian economics.

Why I dumped Obama's party.  Republicans offer our only hope in slowing the Obama "change" juggernaut before the America of unbridled optimism and opportunity goes the way of the buffalo.  I don't want my great-grandchildren growing up in cradle-to-grave government care, where only the privileged few may afford a car, or own a home, or get non-rationed health care. ... Second, the popular myth that the Democratic Party is the party of tolerance and big-tent ideas is spectacularly false.  A fiscal conservative such as myself is treated by Obamaniacs like a ringing cell phone in church.

Cap Taxes, Trade Congress.  While these Roman throwbacks [in Congress] attempt to save the planet, pagan style, so they can set up their Darwinian nirvana on earth, the rest of us have enough sense not to try to make the state our church.  While we, in the other America, use reason to guide our decisions, Nancy Pelosi actually seems to think she's the reincarnation of some pagan goddess on a mission to save the planet. ... Meanwhile, New England has just reported the coldest June on record, while the Global Warming hoax is revealed as a pile of pure poppycock by more real scientists every single day.  This Congress and their pagan-god delusions have got to go.  Has ever a more witless group reigned from on high in such vainglorious fashion?

The Plan For Socialist World Government.  While meaningless United Nations hand-wringing over the North Korean nuclear weapons program garnered the headlines, the world body is moving ahead with a global conference to lay the groundwork for world government financed by global taxes.  The communist head of the U.N. General Assembly is leading the effort, but he is getting crucial support from "progressive" economists who advise the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party.

20 Hypocrisies Of Liberalism:  Liberals believe that... [#1] ...it's impossible to come to any sort of reasonable compromise with conservatives on anything, but that we can fix our problems with nations like Iran and North Korea by just sitting down and talking things out.  [#2] ...they're the most compassionate people in society.  Yet, in study after study, you find that conservatives give more of their money to charity than liberals.  [#3] ...they're not racist despite the fact that they consistently support policies that have been several orders of magnitude more devastating to black Americans than the Ku Klux Klan.

Our New President's Three Top Priorities: Government Cures for Problems Caused by Government.
 The liberal solution is always more government.  President Obama repeatedly emphasized as a candidate that his three top priorities as President would be health care, energy and education. ... This would seem to relegate to secondary importance such "minor" issues as:  Islamic fundamentalism and its assault on Western Civilization; runaway entitlement programs that threaten to bankrupt the nation; a bloated federal government, massive deficits, a rapidly expanding money supply that portends severe inflation and a crippled economy, all of which threaten to do likewise; out of control illegal immigration, augmented by tens of millions of poorly assimilated minorities that weaken the cultural fabric of our society; and a profound ignorance among our citizens of the founding principles upon which our country was established.

The Era of Bipartisan Support for Israel is Over.  The best days of Democrat support for Israel have now passed.  The evidence is abundant and clear that the importance of Israel's existence and well-being has become secondary to the political idolatry of many Jewish-American Democrats.  Furthermore, many Jewish voters who do have Israel's best interests among their priorities are too often duped by the maze of activists and institutions that use Jewish concepts and credentials to manipulate support for their liberal agenda.

Powerful Democrat Calls Illegal Aliens 'Free Loaders and Scam Artists'.  Most liberals regard illegal aliens as "Undocumented Democrats" and a veritable gold mine of opportunity for holding on to political power by coddling to those here unlawfully.  For that reason, most Democrat politicians have abandoned patriotic concern about homeland security, the rule of law, stability of the American economy and social order, and preservation of American language and culture.  In fact, one can search high and low for a liberal with a patriotic, pro-America stance on illegal immigration, and that search will usually be futile.

Conservatives Aren't the Extremists.  Conservatives are not the ones who sermonize about tolerance yet demonstrate intolerance toward conservative and Christian thought; support exterminating babies in the womb; apologize the world over for America; or gut the military and missile defense because of some dangerously egotistical notion that they have the magic to turn evil into goodness with their charisma and eloquence or, even worse, because they refuse to recognize evil in the world, except as emanating from the United States.

Mandatory paid-vacation bill introduced.  Mandatory paid sick leave has been grabbing headlines, but now Florida Democrat Congressman Alan Grayson has introduced a bill that would require employers nationwide to provide paid vacation.

Anti-American Party in Power vs. Whom?  At this point, every American knows that today's Democrat Party is the anti-American political party in the United States.  Run by the Democratic Socialists of America and their Progressive Caucus, funded by the anti-free market international proletariat cabal, DNC collectivism for the greater communal good rules the day.

You Might Not Be A Republican.  If you think a presidential campaign revolving around "hope", "change" and "yes we can" is the mark of intellectual gravitas, you might not be a Republican.  If you think the man who called his own grandmother a "typical white person" has transcended race, you might not be a Republican.  If you think a $459 billion deficit under a Republican is irresponsible, but a $1,845 billion deficit under a Democrat is responsible, you might not be a Republican.

California is Liberalism's "Canary in the Coal Mine".  If residents of the other 49 states haven't focused on California's plight yet, they should.  In a real sense, California has become liberalism's "canary in the coal mine."  It is an instructive — and frightening — warning of the toll exacted by the kind of leftism now in vogue in Washington, D.C..  Put simply, California is in desperate fiscal straits because it has become a place where government works for only two constituencies:  Those who need public assistance, and unions.  Sacramento is so busy responding to the needs of the one and the demands of the other that the legitimate expectations of regular, taxpaying citizens have been completely ignored.

Liberals: The Enemy Within.  Feeling as I do about Barack Obama, it's only natural that I would look for people to blame for putting him in the Oval Office.  I mean, aside from the 63 million oafs who actually voted for the guy.  The first villains who come to mind are members of the media who are still, in the words of Bernard Goldberg, slobbering over him. But I have come up with another group of troublemakers.  They're the folks who came up with the cockamamie primary system.

What's in a name?  Liberals, er, progressives, hope victory.  About as many left-of-center political groups in the nation's capital call themselves liberals these days as say they're Whigs.  Instead, they call themselves "progressives."  What progressive means is "pretty murky," political historian Alan Brinkley said.  Still, murky is a big improvement over "liberal," a mainstream term in the '60s that conservatives reduced to a dirty word in the '80s.

Not Gonna Write About It.  Everywhere one looks in Congress there are bills being lined up with tiny provision after tiny provision that harm entrepreneurs, enrich union bosses and plaintiffs' attorneys at the expense of the rest of the populace, punish productivity, undermine our cultural heritage and cultural literacy, expand the leviathan state, eliminate private choices and responsibility, and whittle away at free speech or other rights and privileges of citizenship.  And the vast majority of those provisions will pass, by hook or quite often by crook, with our president and our speaker and Majority Leader Harry Reid ignoring every rule or pledge or promise they need to ignore in order to get their way.

Alan Grayson to introduce Paid Vacation Act.  Rep. Alan Grayson was standing in the middle of Disney World when it hit him: What Americans really need is a week of paid vacation.  So on Thursday [5/21/2009], the Florida Democrat will introduce the Paid Vacation Act — legislation that would be the first to make paid vacation time a requirement under federal law.

Now Is the Time to Put Aside Childish Things.  Today's Democratic party is overwhelmingly made up of interest groups that believe a powerful central government, overseen by them, is essential to guarantee equitable outcomes.  The Republican party membership, in even greater numbers, is dominated by those who believe government (per the founders) should be limited and the rights of the individual paramount. ... The membership of the Republican Party is overwhelmingly conservative leaning, the Democratic Party socialist.

Bachus says there's 17 'socialists' in House.  Rep. Spencer Bachus, the top Republican on the Financial Services Committee, told a hometown crowd in Alabama today [4/9/2009] he believes there are several socialists in the House.  Actually, he says there are exactly 17 socialists in the House of Representatives[,] according to the Birmingham News.

Obama's liberal arrogance will be his undoing.  The most remarkable, or certainly the least remarked on, aspect of Barack Obama's first 100 days has been the infectious arrogance of his presidency.  There's no denying that this is liberalism's greatest opportunity for wish fulfillment since at least 1964.  But to listen to Democrats, the only check on their ambition is the limits of their imaginations.

How to Wreck the American Economy:  Instead of creating a positive business environment in the United States, we are doing everything possible to become fully uncompetitive in the world market.  [1] The corporate income tax (state and federal) is among the highest in the world.  [2] Litigation and legal costs are unprecedented anywhere and yet the current administration passes and proposes more measures which will result in additional expenses from the filing of specious lawsuits.  [3] The prospect of the "Union Card Check" bill passing is real and will result in placing even more financial and operational burdens on U.S. businesses.

There Are Two Irreconcilable Americas.  The left wants America to look as much like Western European countries as possible.  The left wants Europe's quasi-pacifism, cradle-to-grave socialism, egalitarianism and secularism in America.  The right wants none of those values to dominate America.  The left wants America not only to have a secular government, but to have a secular society.  The left feels that if people want to be religious, they should do so at home and in their houses of prayer, but never try to inject their religious values into society.

There Will Never Be a Middle Ground.  President Obama campaigned on uniting the country and creating a post-partisan environment.  Watching the differences displayed this past week regarding the release of the CIA memos about interrogation techniques; it is quite evident we will never bridge the gulf that divides us.

White House Becomes Gay Rights Central.

Evil Concealed By Money.  Evil acts can be given an aura of moral legitimacy by noble-sounding socialistic expressions such as spreading the wealth, income redistribution or caring for the less fortunate.  Let's think about socialism. ... This is why socialism is evil.  It employs evil means, coercion or taking the property of one person, to accomplish good ends, helping one's fellow man.  Helping one's fellow man in need, by reaching into one's own pockets, is a laudable and praiseworthy goal.  Doing the same through coercion and reaching into another's pockets has no redeeming features and is worthy of condemnation.

A Brave New America.  If you wanted to turn the United States of America into a socialist country, what strategy would you adopt?  Joseph Stalin, the world's top communist from 1924 to 1953, is reputed to have advocated the following strategy to William Z. Foster, leader of the Communist Party U.S.A.:  "Work for more government intervention and control of the business activities of the people.  In this way the American people will accept Communism without knowing it."  Stalin would be pleased with the trend in America since he dispensed that advice.  He would be positively delighted with the recent partial nationalizations of the housing, mortgage, financial, and insurance industries during the Crash of 2008.  He would be even more thrilled by the future prospects for socialism in America.

Freedom and the Left.  Most people on the left are not opposed to freedom.  They are just in favor of all sorts of things that are incompatible with freedom. ... One of the most innocent-sounding examples of the left's many impositions of its vision on others is the widespread requirement by schools and by college admissions committees that students do "community service."  There are high schools across the country from which you cannot graduate, and colleges where your application for admission will not be accepted, unless you have engaged in activities arbitrarily defined as "community service."

Defending American Liberty:  It's still about Communism.  Hard-boiled revolutionaries are predominating the Left-wing of the Democrat Party.  Progressivism, Environmentalism, Higher Education, Teachers' Unions, Activist Organizations like ACORN, the AARP, Organized Labor and Government Workers' Unions have all adopted the "mass" politics techniques of classical Marxism.  Examples, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, are just a tip on that iceberg; extreme Leftists in powerful and prestigious positions in American Education.

Why I Am Not a Liberal:  I believe that the levels of taxation advocated by liberals render those taxes a veiled form of theft.  "Give me more than half of your honestly earned money or you will be arrested" is legalized thievery. … I believe that the United States of America, from its inception, has been based on the Judeo-Christian value system, not secular Enlightenment values alone, and therefore the secularization of American society will lead to the collapse of America as a great country.

25 Reasons You Might Be a Liberal.  You'd be more upset about your favorite candidate being endorsed by the NRA than the Communist Party.  You think the same criminals who use guns in the commission of a crime will just hand them over to comply with the law if guns are made illegal. ... You put a higher priority on oil pipelines possibly inconveniencing a few caribou than you do on lowering the price of gas for everyone in the country by drilling ANWR.

A President Who Needs Misery.  Democrats are, more than anything else, power junkies.  The morals of society, the welfare of others, the hopes of posterity — all these mean nothing next to the pure political power of right now.  The normal assumption is that political parties that create prosperity win political power, but that is not an entirely accurate assumption.  FDR gained more political power when the nation careened into deeper dependence, deeper poverty, and deeper debt.

The Coming War on Sovereignty.  While the term "sovereignty" has acquired many, often inconsistent, definitions, Americans have historically understood it to mean our collective right to govern ourselves within our Constitutional framework.  Today's liberal elite, by contrast, sees sovereignty as something much more abstract and less tangible, and thus a prize of less value to individual citizens than it once might have been.

Grow Up.  It is hardly surprising that young people prefer the political Left.  The only reason for rejecting the Left's vision is that the real world in which we live is very different from the world that the Left perceives today or envisions for tomorrow.  Most of us learn that from experience — but experience is precisely what the young are lacking.  "Experience" is often just a fancy word for the mistakes that we belatedly realized we were making, only after the realities of the world made us pay a painful price for being wrong.

Mixing It Up With Left-Wingers.  The fact is, I am always dealing with issues, be it the left's adoration of the U.N.; their cockeyed belief in man-made global warming; their constant attacks on the first two amendments; their intolerance of Christian traditions and symbols, which, by the way, relies entirely on an intentional misreading of the Constitution, a document which does not and never has contained the words "separation of church and state"; their contempt for the U.S. military; the alleged supremacy of gay, Islamic and illegal alien, rights; their opposition to capital punishment; their support of judges who legislate from the bench; and their affinity for professors and journalists who feel their duty is to indoctrinate rather than educate or report.

Accounting for California's Suicide.  [Scroll down]  Californians count on the wealth of farming but would prefer their rivers to remain wild rather than tapped.  They like tasteful redwood decks but demand someone else fell their trees for the wood.  Californians drive imported SUVs but would rather that you drill for oil off your shores rather than they off theirs.  They pride themselves on their liberal welfare programs, but drive out with confiscatory taxes the few left to pay for them.  Californians expect cheap imported labor to tend their lawns and clean their houses, but are incensed at sky-high welfare and entitlement costs that accompany illegal immigration.  Lock 'em up, they say — but the state is bankrupted by new prisons, constant inmate lawsuits, and unionized employees.  In short, after Californians sue, restrict, mandate, obstruct, and lecture, they also get angry that there is suddenly not enough food, fuel, water, and money to act like the gods that they think they have become.

The Plundering and Looting of America's Roots.  The core of the American people still believe in the foundation of constitutional freedom. With few exceptions, the heartland of America is predominantly conservative.  It is only in the high-dense urban centers, in big cities, on our three coasts and in and around the Great Lakes region, who are hopelessly dependent on government, that continuously vote to keep the socialists in office, who continuously pass legislation to keep the big city's "pig trough" full.  Big cities are also bastions of radical environmentalism and multi-culturalism.  Their heavy vote-majority perpetuates these un-American and in many cases, unconstitutional policies.

This Week's Endless Global Warming Sitcom.  Liberals have created a catastrophe from which only they can save us.  But an actual solution would ruin all the fun — and destroy liberal employment prospects in the mass hysteria industry.  So the goal of global warming proponents is to give the issue a cameo in every possible scene playing out on the world stage.

We Can't Afford the Democrats' Platform.  Most of the Democratic Platform consists of promising benefits that will cost already burdened taxpayers aplenty.  There's no mention of how these extravagant handouts will be paid for.  For example, the Democratic Platform enthusiastically endorses the incredibly extravagant worldwide handouts in the bill sponsored by Barack Obama called "the U.S. Millennium Development Goals, which aim to cut extreme poverty in half by 2015."  The Platform promises to "double our annual investment in meeting these challenges to $50 billion by 2012."

The New Landlord.  Get ready for national park access by mass transit in order to minimize automobile usage.  Yosemite, Zion, and Grand Canyon have already instituted shuttle bus services, with Yosemite boasting nine routes.  Nothing scares the Chambers of Commerce of "Gateway communities" around Yellowstone more than the idea of having to tell tourists they can't drive on the Park's extensive highway system.  But the green dream calls for car-free national parks.  [No snowmobiles, RVs, or motorcycles.]

Change Our Public Schools Need.  Democrats are fervent supporters of public education, and the party genuinely wants to help disadvantaged kids stuck in bad schools.  But it resists bold action.  It is immobilized.  Impotent.  The explanation lies in its longstanding alliance with the teachers' unions — which, with more than three million members, tons of money and legions of activists, are among the most powerful groups in American politics.  The Democrats benefit enormously from all this firepower, and they know what they need to do to keep it.  They need to stay inside the box.

The Unbearable Lightness of Barney.  One reason nobody takes Democrats seriously on matters of national security are statements like those of Representative Barney Frank (D-Mass.) to the effect that he wants to cut the Defense budget by a mind-numbing 25 percent in order to reduce the deficit and to pay for programs he and his Democratic colleagues hold near and dear to their hearts.

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 For those of you who attended public schools and have never read the Constitution, let me clarify one point:  National defense is one of the few federal activities authorized by the Constitution.  Other authorized functions include delivering the mail, making coins, conducting a decennial census, and fighting piracy.  Such things as food stamps, homeless shelters, Social Security and even education are supposed to be left up to the states, or to the people, according to the U.S. Constitution, as amended.

Democide:  It will come as no news to readers of this site that liberal policies tend to fail.  But some of them fail catastrophically.  And when they do, they kill.  They kill in large numbers.  They have been killing for decades, and they will continue to kill for as long as we allow it. ... Liberals have turned their backs on the price of their gaudy little dreams.  They have walked away from their failures and their victims, all the while posing as the humane, the decent, the moral superior.  It's time for that mask to come off.

The Department of Peace: National Suicide or a Joke?  Congress soon may add a new bureaucracy to the Federal Government.  And this would not be another run-of-the-mill bureaucracy but a perilous threat to America's future.  Representative Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) has proposed H.R. 808, the Department of Peace and Non-Violence Act.  The bill would establish a "Department of Peace and Non-Violence ... headed by a Secretary of Peace and Nonviolence appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate."

Why Obama's socialism matters.  Regardless of Obama's presumed good intentions, socialism always brings a society to a bad ending.  I don't want to believe that Americans who live in a free society that allows people to think what they will, do what they want, and succeed if they can, will willingly hand themselves over to the socialist ideology.  They must therefore be reminded, again and again and again, that socialism isn't just another political party; it's the death knell to freedom.

You Can't Spread the Wealth Around.  By now everybody has heard of Joe the plumber. It was Joe that Barack Obama told that it was government's job to "spread the wealth around" — Joe's wealth — in order to build the economy from the bottom up. ... The only problem is that economies don't really work that way.  Job creation and the real sources of wealth generation have never and will never come from government taking money from some people in order to give it to others.

Financial Affirmative Action:  After [the Community Reinvestment Act] came into effect, Saul Alinsky-inspired "community organizer" groups such as Greenlining, ACORN, and National Council of La Raza got into the shakedown business.  They preach the hateful class-warfare rhetoric of their fellow community organizers Jeremiah Wright, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Michael Pfleger.  They rage against capitalism and demand crushing taxes and aggressive wealth redistribution programs.  They demand more government spending on social programs, a higher minimum wage, and gun control.

Democrats Move Left On Abortion.  It seems as if the Democrats have accomplished the impossible:  They have moved to the left on abortion.  On the party's platform, the Democrats dropped the words "safe, legal and rare," the phrase used most famously by both Bill and Hillary Clinton to signal moderation on the issue.  The Democrats also added the modifier "unequivocally" to strengthen their support for abortion rights.

The Prophet Obama, Global Leader of Godless Leftism.  Obama believes in the god of Marx.  He believes, as well, that he is the great prophet of this secular religion.  People in less sophisticated areas of our nation may cling to the God of the Bible, but Obama, like other European Leftists, knows that Das Kapital is the only Holy Scripture which is eternally and immutably true.  Obama has studied the writings of fanatical monks like Saul Alinsky, and taken to heart their message of winning at all cost.

Investors' Real Fear: A Socialist Tsunami.  Right now it looks like the U.S., which built the mightiest, most prosperous economy the world has ever known, is about to turn its back on the free-enterprise system that made it all possible.  It isn't only that the most anti-capitalist politician ever nominated by a major party is favored to take the White House.  It's that he'll also have a filibuster-proof Congress led by politicians who are almost as liberal.

The Media's Vendetta Against Palin:  What liberals are after today are not the economic liberalism of the 1930s or civil rights of the 1960s.  They want a complete overhall of American social values.  They want to redefine marriage, the military, the work place, religion — in other words, the nation's values.  The pro-life, pro-gun Palin, age 44, is the first conservative on the scene since Reagan who can threaten that agenda with a political counter-insurgency.  She must be stopped.

Fully invested in your misery.  Obama seems happier these days.  It is almost as if the disembodied spirit of his mentor, Saul Alinsky, is watching and smiling.  Americans are suffering.  Losses in the stock market, panic in the financial market, pain at the gas pump and in the grocery -- all these miseries of average Americans are a delicious narcotic to socialists like Barack Obama.  What was the historic maxim of the Left?  "The worse, the better."  Alinsky said that if there was an afterlife, "I will unreservedly choose to go to hell."  This is the man whose mind guides Obama's thoughts.

Let's See the Votes.  Here is information and a list of votes compiled by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranging from 1995 to 2008, on off-shore drilling and drilling in ANWR.  Take a look and decide for yourself who is to blame for stopping drilling in the OCS and in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR).

New Jersey is a leading liberal state.  Paid family leave.  The abolition of the death penalty.  An apology for slavery.  Any way you look at it, New Jersey appears to be forging a new path for liberal public policy-making nationwide. … The Garden State is one of only a handful to recognize civil unions for gay couples.  The Legislature is debating universal health care, even in the midst of a debilitating fiscal crunch.

Obama and the 'L' Word:  Mr. Obama needs to inoculate himself against the claim that he's a liberal.  For the past quarter-century it has been consistently the most effective charge made by Republicans against Democrats.  America is a center-right country and in modern times has not elected a thoroughgoing liberal as president (Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton ran as moderate Democrats).  The problem is that, by any reasonable standard, Mr. Obama is an orthodox liberal.

Now, can we call them "socialists"?  Conservatives are suicidally polite.  We feel bound to act nice, and so we go along with whatever euphemism the Left chooses for itself.  On their side, Democrats loudly argue for truth in advertising for baldness cures — but not in the marketplace of political ideas, where telling the truth is a lot more important.  That is why the Left constantly seeks new PR labels to disguise itself.

Just Don't Call It Socialism.  In the survey of 856 adults taken Aug. 4-9, Obama supporters overwhelmingly backed an economic system that "emphasizes private property and free markets" — in other words, the capitalist model we have now. … Obama backers by 59% to 15% turned thumbs-down on a socialist system that "emphasizes government control or ownership of industries and the economy."  Yet, when also asked if they personally believe "the government should control or own key industries such as health care and energy," 40% of Obama supporters said yes and 31% said no.

Obama the Harvard Lawyer.  Americans generally frown upon lawyers (studies have shown only the media ranks below lawyers in consumer confidence).  The Obama ticket consists of not one, but two lawyers.  Senator Joe Biden graduated from Syracuse Law School, which almost expelled him for plagiarism.  In Congress, Senator Biden is also a known ally of trial lawyers, an important Democratic constituency.

Why Do We Call Them 'Democrats'?  We all knew it even though Democrat spokespersons denied it.  Worried that the negative connotations would affect their electability and their eyes glued to the capricious winds of public opinion, they invented new words for the old ideology such as progressivism and communitarianism.  Apparently, the camouflage is no longer needed.  The masks are off.  They now openly call for the nationalization of private business, the establishment of universal entitlements and increased taxation to pay for them.  Why worry about socialist labels?

The Sweet Illusion Of Socialism:  "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism," said Norman Thomas, a U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate in the 1940s.  "But under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day, America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."

Sheep in Sheep's Clothing.  Similar to communism, socialism, fascism, and religious voodooism, liberalism is a political cancer designed to control you, not liberate you.  Liberalism is based upon the theory that government — and lots of it — knows better than you what is best for you.  Liberals believe you are too stupid to make wise decisions for yourself.

Democratic Party is growing more liberal.  The Democratic Party is growing more liberal for the first time in a generation.  It's more antiwar than at any time since 1972.  Support is growing for such traditionally liberal values as using the federal government to help the poor.  And 40 percent of Democrats now call themselves liberal, the highest in more than three decades and twice the low-water mark recorded as the conservative Reagan revolution swept the country in the early 1980s.

When...  When:  A liberal President joins forces with the liberal majority in Congress, your taxes will go up, capitalism and success will be increasingly assailed, wind-fall profits taxes will become doctrine, Jimmy Carter-like interest rates will be revisited, English will become an optional language, the unborn will be at greater risk, terrorists will be treated like criminals, the Patriot Act will be abolished, border security will be even more of an afterthought, the Supreme Court will be gerrymandered left, the 2nd Amendment will come under renewed attack, and political correctness will be the law of the land.

Democratic Platform Calls for Homosexuals in the Military.  The national platform approved at a Democratic Platform Committee meeting in Pittsburgh on Saturday [8/9/2008] includes language that calls for repealing the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy implemented by Democratic President Bill Clinton and for allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the military.

Stop the War on Poor Families.  As Democratic Party delegates gather in Denver, America is repeatedly being told that we must transform our economy to "green" energy.  Our future is in wind and solar, liberal Democrats and environmental activists insist.  Oil, gas, coal and nuclear must go.  American citizens vigorously disagree.  They know fossil and nuclear fuels built this country and created health and living standards unprecedented in history.  Over two-thirds support increased drilling.

Pelosi's troubled alliance:  It is now clear that there are indeed three distinct parties corralled under the donkey symbol, including "fiscally conservative" Blue Dogs, traditional Democrats and extreme-leftist liberals, like [Cindy] Sheehan — who touts as her reason for running Mrs. Pelosi's failure to attempt an impeachment vote against President Bush.  There may actually be four if you consider the "Clintonites" wing that still refuses to support Barack Obama's Democratic nomination.

Obama's Naive Berlin Speech:  I have long believed that many liberals recognize evils only after the evil has been vanquished.  Today, Democrats like Obama in his speech, regularly revile Communism.  But from the late 1960s until the end of the Cold War they rarely judged Communism.  They judged anti-Communists.  Liberal Democrats routinely call Communism evil today, but when it was actually a threat, they reviled those who called Communism evil.

A Bleak Future.  Imagine an America where the government decides what profits are acceptable.  Imagine our country with the oil industry nationalized.  Impossible?  Not with Democrats in control of Washington. … Oil industry takeovers are disastrous.  Does [Rep. Maxine] Waters really want the U.S. to go the way of Venezuela, Iran, Bolivia or Mexico?  Those nations that have nationalized their domestic oil operations and have suffered economically because of it.

Windfall-Profit Nonsense:  Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise the price of oil, as well as most everything else, and lower the value of the pension and mutual funds that union members and retirees depend on.  Of course, they don't describe their plan that way.  Instead, they call for a windfall-profits tax on the oil companies.  But it's the same thing.  Taxing a "windfall" sounds appealing, but stock prices are based on expected profits.

Oil companies spend more on taxes than on oil supply development.  If I didn't know better, I would think the Democrats are really trying to lose this election.  First they offered up the cap and trade global warming bill in the Senate that was quickly withdrawn when they realized what a debacle they were creating for themselves.  Then this week they planned to use a windfall profits tax to vilify the oil companies and distract the public from their negligence and malfeasance for failing to enact laws and make policies to encourage the production and distribution of the life-blood of the nation — oil.

The Marxist tactic of Crisis revolution:  Sadly, this practice of creating a crisis in order to implement a solution has become a staple in today's Democratic Party. Although each individual Democrat may not hold Marxism/Leninism as his or her political and ideological paradigm, many Democrats in Congress hold to the resulting methodology and have adopted passing legislation as their method for revolution and their solution for every type of crisis known to man, be it healthcare, the environment, gun violence or energy problems. For the Democrats, every crisis is but a segue toward the passage of more and more legislation, furthering the revolution while enslaving the very people they claim to be liberating.

Deconstructing Obama:  Perhaps nowhere outside academia itself have the deconstructionists had more powerful sway than within the once-august body that calls itself the Democratic Party.  I have, myself, for years now refused to bestow the adjective, democratic, upon the Democrat Party.  It has been so thoroughly infiltrated since the early 70s by leftist deconstructionists that it has become a thoroughly undemocratic institution, giving heaps of advantage to everyone other than white males, and has thusly reduced itself to a committee dictatorially run by a rainbow proletariat.  The dictatorship of the minorities.  How democratic is that?

Paid sick leave bill latest assault on business.  Who are these San Francisco Democrats kidding?  There is a reason no state has adopted such a law:  It would place a vast burden on small businesses.  It's not just the cost of having to give one hour of sick leave for every 30 hours worked.  Paperwork bills alone would wipe out the profit margin for many employers with a handful of workers.

Farewell, New Democrats.  Listen closely to all those cheers for newly crowned nominee Barack Obama, and in the background you'll catch the notes of a funeral march.  Resting, if not in peace, are the New Democrats.  The Illinois senator's primary victory marked the end of many things, and one looks to be his party's 20-year experiment with ideological centrism.

From Breadbasket to Basket Case:  As the presidential campaign drones on, Barack Obama and the Democrats are fleshing out the promise of "change" with some specific, big-government policy proposals.  Many are familiar, perhaps because they already have been tried — in Argentina.  That country has gone from South American breadbasket to world-class basket case. … From nationalized health care and government-owned refineries to punishing taxes on the rich, Argentina has been there, done that.

Obama, Shaman.  Unlike the English Whigs and the American Founders, the modern liberal regards suffering not as an unavoidable element of life but as an aberration to be corrected by up-to-date political, economic, and hygienic arrangements.  Rather than acknowledge the limitations of our condition, the liberal continually contrives panaceas that will enable us to transcend it.  Barack Obama, in taking up the part of regenerative healer, is the latest panacea.

Constitutional Literacy at Risk.  Hillary Clinton has said that, "The genius of the Constitution is that it can expand as our hearts do."  Call it Thelma and Louise meet the Constitution.  Her rival for the nomination, who is currently much closer to it than she is, says, "The genius of our founders is that they created a system of government that can be changed."  This is a particularly interesting observation for the putative Democratic standard bearer who frequently reminds audiences of his background in constitutional law.

Obama's Weaknesses Off Limits to Hillary.  Poor Hillary.  She can't afford to attack Obama where he's vulnerable, but she can't afford not to.  Even if she does, it's likely it won't resonate with a leftist base made to order for Obama.  Worse yet, it's probably too late anyway.  The irony is that if Hillary had been willing to be who she really is — an antiwar leftist — she'd probably be in the driver's seat right now.  But her calculated and inconsistent shift to the center several years ago in anticipation of a general election created a gigantic Obama-shaped hole on the left.

Obama:  'Most liberal?'.  The NYT looks at the National Journal rating of Obama as the most liberal member of the Senate and the fallout it could cause.  "In many ways, the Obama campaign is challenging the fundamental political premise that has prevailed in Washington for more than a generation:  that any majority coalition must be carefully centrist, if not center-right.

The Swooner Crooner Election.  I think what we are watching in the Democratic primary is historic.  First, there has not been a candidate nominated for President more liberal than Barack Obama since George McGovern — not Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton, Gore, or Kerry.  This is unapologetic liberalism in the classic European-socialist sense, and for the first time in many years we will see its envisioned agendas without Clintonian trimming or apologetics — the flip side of the purist Goldwater in 1964.  Obama will put the best face on this ultra-liberalism and the voters can freely decide.  A real cut-and-dry choice.

The Imitators:  Part III.  Some of the people who are most adamant against outsourcing economic activity from the United States to other countries often seem to think we should outsource our foreign policy to "world opinion" or act only in conjunction "with our NATO allies."  Like so many things that are said when it comes to public policy, there is very little attention paid to the actual track record of "world opinion" or of "our NATO allies."  Often there is a blanket assumption that European countries are just so much more sophisticated than American "cowboys."

What Democrats believe:  As the coronation of "The One" draws near, it might be useful to summarize the most important things that Barack Obama and those who will be crowning him in Denver agree upon.

The Disgrace of Liberalism:  The Democrats' 1968 Chicago convention marked the end of classical liberalism.  Media coverage revealed American liberals as incapable of controlling their own constituency, much less directing a country. … Instead of joining the Whigs and Know-Nothings in historical oblivion, liberalism surrendered to its internal rebels, the Democratic Party's left wing, indistinguishable in beliefs and intent from any hardcore socialist party on the international scene.  In 1972, they ran one of their own, George McGovern who in 1948 had served as delegate for communist front-man Henry Wallace) for the presidency.

The End of a Free Republic.  [Scroll down]  Yet this is exactly what today's Democrats have chosen.  They have bought into the ideas of Marx, Lenin and Stalin, that the "greater communal good" of the working class (proletariat) trumps individual freedom and liberty.  Individuals have neither the right to fail or succeed.  As a result, the entire Democrat political platform is built upon the notion that "fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine" — in the name of a greater good, of course.

The Taxpayer Frog In the IRS Pot:  The Communist Party USA openly advocates to "defeat McCain and strengthen Democratic majorities in Congress" and to elect either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in 2008.  The CPUSA itself says electing more Democrats helps the Communist cause.

The Materialist Faith of Communism, Socialism, and Liberalism:  Having rejected God and the religious heritage of our civilization, [liberals] embrace instead a new order of beliefs of which Communism and Socialism are logical expressions.  A new world order is what they seek, but in order that it can emerge, the existing culture must be completely destroyed.

Book review:
 Godless:  The Church of Liberalism.  [Ann] Coulter calls Secular Liberalism ?our official state religion', and what she says about America applies equally to life in modern Britain.  She identifies how this ?state religion' has ?its own sacraments (abortion), its holy writ (Roe v Wade, the US court case which led to abortion on demand), its martyrs (usually … criminals who liberals want rehabilitated [but] never punished), its clergy (liberal-dominated schoolteacher unions), its churches (government run schools, where prayer is prohibited but condoms are free), its cosmology (in which mankind is an inconsequential accident) and its creation myth (Darwinism)'.  In short, a spectrum of God-opposing or God-less beliefs that make up an anti-God worldview.  [DOC file]

This is what's known as cradle-to-grave socialism.
 John Edwards wants universal coverage from birth to death.  About 180 people crammed into the Maquoketa Middle School cafeteria to hear the candidate talk about a variety of issues, but Edwards' primary focus for the night was on health care. … Edwards said he will pay for his health care proposal by rolling back tax cuts.

Hillary Clinton:  I'm Not a Liberal.  Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton ran away from the "liberal" tag during Monday night's Democratic debate, claiming instead that she is a "progressive." … The liberal group Americans for Democratic Action gave Hillary a 95 percent "liberal quotient" last year, among the highest ratings in the Senate.

Two Left Feet:  When Ted Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama, he was symbolically passing the Kennedy torch.  But it was Ted's torch of liberalism, not the JFK torch of tax cuts and a fervent defense of freedom.  That the torch would be passed to Obama is fitting, for he's done something few thought possible — compile a record more liberal than Ted's.

Move On, Obama.  There's one little three-syllable word that has been left out of most of the Democratic primary coverage on the TV:  "liberal."  We're constantly told by anchors and reporters how the Republican contenders are fighting over the "conservative" vote and who's more "conservative," and that's true.  But exactly the same fight is taking place on the left side, with the Clintons trying to suggest Barack Obama's not sufficiently liberal….

'Hope' and 'change' a gimmick.  If we just look beyond the attractive Obama package and ourselves for a moment, we might remember that the election is about actual issues.  What are we hoping for?  What is the "change" that the pro-Obama Kennedys are so excited about?  The fresh, young face of Obama represents change, yes.  But he also represents something very familiar:  liberalism.  Government as a permanent, inefficient, out-of-control crutch.

Semantics Lesson:  On the Meaning of 'Moderate' and 'Bipartisan'.  Within the electorate, "conservative" is regarded broadly as an acceptable word, or label.  "Liberal" (or, horrors, "leftist") is not.  Polls suggest that regarding the labels "conservative" and "liberal," about twice the number of Americans describe themselves as "conservative."  Because these days "liberal" carries many negative connotations, those of that ilk have appropriated to their self-descriptive use such words as "moderate," "centrist" and "mainstream" — even "independent."  Practically everybody loves a moderate.

US state wants to tax TVs, video games to fight fat, fund education.  A Democratic lawmaker in New Mexico wants to tax televisions and video games to raise funds to fight childhood obesity and improve education in the state, officials said Friday [1/25/2008]. … "Leave No Child Inside" — a play on the federal education initiative "No Child Left Behind" — is backed by grassroots environmental group, the Sierra Club.

The Editor says...
 All the major ingredients of liberal utopia come together in this one news item — a Democratic politician, the Sierra Club, a new tax, the food police, and "it's for the children."

New Mexico tax would target TVs, video games.  Dave Gilligan remembers being pushed outside to play baseball and other sports, but feeling it just wasn't for him.  So the 24-year-old business owner is skeptical about a proposal to nudge kids off the couch and out the door by taxing televisions and video games sold in New Mexico.  The idea could backfire, he says.

The Editor says...
 Kids don't pay taxes.  What do they care if there is an additional tax on video games?

Clinton:  $5,000 for Every U.S. Baby.  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday [9/28/2007] that every child born in the United States should get a $5,000 "baby bond" from the government to help pay for future costs of college or buying a home.  Clinton, her party's front-runner in the 2008 race, made the suggestion during a forum hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus.

The Editor says...
 Not only is this a brazen attempt to buy votes with someone else's money, it is a classic example of liberal utopian politics, where politicians promise to provide everything to everybody at no cost.

What Kind of Person Calls Himself 'Progressive'?  The word Progressive first became popular in the late 19th century, but has now been adopted as a popular synonym for "socialism."  Americans tend not to like socialism, associating it with the Soviet Union and other bad characters.  But "Progressivism" sounds fine.  So it is a euphemism for something people fear; a cover-up label.  The odd thing, of course, is that real progress in the world is almost never achieved by self-proclaimed "Progressives."  They generally make things worse rather than better.

Liberals Are Now Progressives (Again).  The danger of the progressive-liberal beliefs in a living constitution and the idea that they know better than the rest of us is that the distinction between forced sterilization and universal healthcare rests solely on the degree of government coercion used to achieve the end and the wishes of five justices to see it happen.

RNC Chairman:  Hillary Clinton more liberal than Bill.  U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's politics are quite different from those of her husband, former President Bill Clinton, the chairman of the Republican National Committee says.  "People who think that Hillary Clinton is Bill Clinton are totally wrong," RNC chairman Mike Duncan told The Associated Press in an interview.  "They're mistaken because Hillary Clinton is far more liberal and calculating than Bill Clinton.  Look at the votes she cast."

Are American Democrats De Facto Socialists?  It would do us well to reexamine the teachings of Antonio Gramsci who was a founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy.  He, and the early Socialists, believed that the only way to conquer the philosophy of a country like America was not to battle in the streets, but to infiltrate our schools, universities, institutions and churches with strong, left-leaning rhetoric and indoctrination.  Do this and America as we know and love it, eventually, would fall.

Hillary Clinton:  In order to fund her current universal-health-care proposal, whose costs she almost certainly low-balls at $110 billion per year, she would roll back the Bush tax cuts for those making more than $250,000 a year.  She would retain the tax cuts for those earning less than $250,000.  Claiming that the Republican Medicare drug plan, which has created a 75-year, present-value unfunded liability exceeding $8 trillion, was too cheap, Mrs. Clinton supported Democratic alternatives, which were about twice as expensive.

The Birth of the Administrative State:  As a practical matter, the modern state comes out of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, which launched a large bureaucracy and empowered it with broad governing authority.  Also, as a practical matter, the agencies comprising the bureaucracy reside within the executive branch of our national government, but their powers transcend the traditional boundaries of executive power to include both legislative and judicial functions, and these powers are often exercised in a manner that is largely independent of presidential control and altogether independent of political control.

Exposing How Liberals Misread the Bible.  Essentially, they want religious people to care less about abortion, homosexuality and gay marriage and more about poverty, war and the environment.  That is, they want people to support pacifism, environmentalism and socialism — or in terms of specific policies, they want higher taxes to grow a larger welfare state, immediate withdrawal from Iraq and everybody to pay a pollution tax in the form of carbon offsets.  Or, to be even more clear, they just want voters to put Hillary in the White House.

Populist pap:  The word "liberal" lost its appeal after being strangely transformed from describing an advocate of limited government into meaning an advocate of nearly unlimited government.  Collectivists have experimented with alternative euphemisms for their fundamental goal — which is to grant politicians and lawyers the power to run everything and boss everyone. … Early efforts with "economic planning" and "social democracy" (a twist on democratic socialism) were too obvious.  Most recent re-labeling efforts have focused on defining big government as "progressive."  Yet that never really caught on, either.

Why the Democrats are losers:  What a pathetic group of losers those Democrat leaders are.  Complain, complain, complain is all we ever hear from them, but we see very little action.  Although part of America may have spoken in the last election by giving them a slight advantage in Congress, what exactly have they done with that advantage?

A Party Bought And Paid For.  MoveOn's ad disgusted average Americans across the country.  Even the Democrat-dominated Senate couldn't halt a vote to condemn it.  A quarter of the Senate, however, did refuse to condemn the attacks, and curiously, that included all Senate Democrats who seek to become the military's next commander in chief.

Right-wingers really are nicer people, latest research shows.  There is plenty of data that shows that Right-wingers are happier, more generous to charities, less likely to commit suicide — and even hug their children more than those on the Left.  In my experience, they are also more honest, friendly and well-adjusted.  Much of this springs from the destructive influence of modern liberal ideas.

Let's Talk.  Long term victory for conservative ideas means changing the culture.  The Democrats will get back into power sooner or later.  We want an America in which Democrats no longer want to create huge once-size-fits-all government programs that create widespread dependency on the government.  We want an America where no liberal would think of proposing a nominee like Ruth Bader Ginsburg for the United States Supreme Court.

Guns And Butter:  A Primer.  Speaker Pelosi says that for the cost of 41 days in Iraq, 10 million children can receive health insurance for a year.  The Constitution says a lot about national defense.  It says nothing about insurance.  Cut-and run Democrats argue that it's an either/or proposition.

Congressional one-trick ponies.  On taxes especially, Democrats have proven to be one-trick ponies; rather than pursuing real spending reform, they've singled-out tax increases as a "silver bullet" solution to any and every problem facing our nation.  This not only demonstrates an appalling unwillingness to make tough decisions when it comes to the federal budget, and runaway entitlement spending in particular.

The NEA lists its goals and the Democratic Party agrees.  Some critics complain that the issue of education has been conspicuously absent from presidential television debates.  But Democratic presidential candidates did sound off with their pro-federal government, pro-spending policies at the annual convention of the National Education Association, and the nation's largest teachers union liked what they heard.

Did someone mention the Teachers' unions?

The Democrats revive liberalism.  We must understand why welfare reform worked.  It trashed the great lie that government planning and programs can solve human problems.  And it brought clearly to light the truth that when personal responsibility is restored, and life's realities are brought back into focus, people, all people, know what to do and become productive and creative.  Liberals could not imagine that the lives of the poor could improve by getting rid of government and they couldn't have been more wrong.

Left hijacked Democrat party.  It appears the Democratic Party has been hijacked by the desperate left — moveon.org, dailykos.net and other felonious fringe factions of the party.  Furthermore, the party hierarchy is riding shotgun and seems to be enjoying it immensely.  These mega-moneyed moguls have pressured the Democrats into abandoning the parameters of decency and honesty.  They tacitly put their "I approve this message" stamp on the radical ideas of the ultraleft who are now defining the issues of the party.

The 13 Steps of Liberals Anonymous.  [Liberals apparently believe] capitalism is evil; Che was a hero; anthropomorphic global warming is factual and more dangerous than Iran; Al Gore won in Florida; Israel is the "cause" of the Palestinians' problems; the world owes you something; illegal immigration isn't a problem; Islam is a religion of peace, love, and tranquility; all opinions are of equal value; "Hollywood" is real; pro-abortion proponents occupy the moral high ground; there is a dime's worth of difference between Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama;….

Anchors Away.  The [Democrat Party] Platform Committee just concluded a heated but respectful debate over an amendment to add language to the platform in support of a law denying citizenship to so-called anchor babies (babies born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants).  The amendment failed.  The amendment was offered by Kendal Unruh of Colorado.

A challenge for liberals:  Liberals, Democrats, and those who vote for Democrats, and those who promote rewriting history to obliterate America's Judeo-Christian heritage from public schools, "higher" education, and the very fabric of society, instead promote a new American way of life based upon an unnatural family structure that violates "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God."

The debate shifts to the left.  The 110th Congress convened under new management last week, and in the House of Representatives, Democrats got ready to plow through an ambitious pile of legislation.  Among the items on their punch list:  increasing the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, expanding publicly funded embryonic stem cell research, cutting the interest rate on student loans, and imposing price controls on Medicare prescription drugs.

Tort Tribute:  How Democrats repay the plaintiffs bar.  Democrats devoted their first months in the majority to paying back unions for their electoral support.  Now it's time for the other huge campaign bankrollers.  And don't think the trial bar, beat down by years of GOP tort reform, isn't expecting to feel the love.  Since 1994, law firms and lawyers have thrown a half-billion dollars at getting lawsuit-friendly Democrats back in the majority.

The Vast Left-Wing Establishment:  Today more than a thousand Kossacks — adherents of the left-wing website DailyKos — are gathering for their annual convention in Chicago. … The turnout in Chicago shows that the Kossacks and colleagues from other activist websites have taken their place as the newest wing of the establishment in Democratic-party politics.

Questioning Ted Kennedy's Patriotism:  Over the years, Ted Kennedy has impugned the integrity of our military in time of war; promoted homosexual special rights; championed a radical policy of abortion on demand; attempted to strip the American public of the right to keep and bear arms; worked to cripple small businesses; and done everything in his power to erase the borders of his own country. … Kennedy has been one of the most vocal advocates of same-sex marriage and partial birth abortion over the years.  Anyone who needs further explanation of the wrong-headedness of these two positions cannot be reasoned with.

The Democrats Go Fishing.  Last week, Democratic strategy for the rest of the Bush presidency was rendered transparent:  the Dems intend to impeach George W. Bush by whatever means necessary.  The Democrats need to impeach Bush.  It's not optional — it's something they have to do.  Not simply because of who Bush is or anything he may have done, but as an act of vengeance for Bill Clinton.

The Democrats' irresponsible plan to end war:  This town has always been full of bad ideas, but none worse than congressional Democrats' determination to impose a firm date for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.  Even if there were enough votes in both houses to override a presidential veto of the funding bill in which this nonsense is included — and there aren't — such a mandate is ridiculously irresponsible.

Beautiful People's way -- or the highway.  Brookline is, of course, the ultimate people's republic. ... Incandescent light bulbs have been banned from Town Hall.  See-through municipal trash bags, so the Trash Police can bust anyone who's committing the very serious crime of trying to throw away an aluminum can. ... Roads get icy in winter because no salt is used on roads, in order to protect the "aquifer."  The dump is called the "transfer station."

At its winter meeting, the Democratic National Committee was led in prayer by Imam Husham Al-Husainy of the Dearborn, Mich. Karbalaa Islamic Education Center.  The Imam asked Allah to:  "So guide us to the right path. The path of the people you bless, not the path of the people you doom."  According to the Koran, Islam is "the path of the people you bless," while other religions are the "path of the people you doom."  The dumb Democrats didn't realize they were praying for their own conversion.  And, if they did, would it have mattered? *

The Essence of Liberalism:  Embracing Life's Losers.  The rhetoric of today's left shows that they see society divided between the privileged and the powerless, the favored and the unfortunate, victors and victims.  Liberals feel an irresistible instinct to take sides with the less fortunate.  While the right wants to reward beneficial choices and discourage destructive directions, the left seeks to eliminate or reduce the impact of the disadvantages that result from bad decisions.



Statehood, or the equivalent, for the District of Columbia:

A voting representative in the House is just the latest step toward full statehood for the District of Columbia — which will add two permanent Democrats in the Senate.

Ex-Cons to Get Special Rights in DC?  The proposal adopted by the District of Columbia City Council to give rehabilitated ex-cons a special protected status under the law in DC strangely seems to be staying under the radar of most of our nation's talk hosts, bloggers and reporters.  Fortunately, some are beginning to take notice.

D.C. residents may get vote in Congress.  After more than 200 years of paying taxes, fighting in the nation's wars and abiding by sometimes arbitrary acts of Congress, Washington residents are close to getting a full-fledged representative in the House.

Democrats' Unconstitutional Plot to Invent New Congressmen.  Right now, in the guise of a civil rights issue, the new Congress is attempting one of the most brazenly unconstitutional power grabs in our nation's history.  The move aims to create a new class of congressman and simply add the first of these to the 435 existing members of the United States House of Representatives.

Update:
 No vote on a vote for the District.  Legislation to give the District a vote in the U.S. House stalled short of passage today [3/22/2007] when Republicans unexpectedly added the issue of gun control into the debate.

The 51st State?  If majorities in both houses of today's Congress want the fewer than 600,000 residents of D.C. to be fully represented, they can accomplish that with legislation shrinking D.C. to the core containing the major federal buildings and monuments, and giving the rest back to Maryland.  Democrats are uninterested in that because it would not serve their primary objective of increasing their Senate seats.

Senate Panel O.K.'s Bill to Give Washington a Voting Representative.  This could be the year that Washington gets a voting member of Congress.  "There is finally a light at the end of what has been a really long tunnel," said the city's nonvoting delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton.  On Wednesday [2/11/2009], a Senate committee approved a bill to give the city a voting member of the House of Representatives, clearing the way for the full chamber to take up the matter in the coming weeks.

His Honor the Mayor.  Mayor Adrian M. Fenty publicly took office yesterday and pledged to fight for D.C. statehood, to increase police presence in city neighborhoods and to fix the struggling public school system.  "Together we pledge steadfastly that our goal is to become the 51st state," Mr. Fenty said.  "None of us can or should rest easy until we all have the opportunity to participate fully in our great democracy."

The Editor says...
 If either the District of Columbia or Puerto Rico becomes a state, the other will not be far behind.  And you can rest assured that all of the Senators and Representatives from (either or both of) these two places will be liberal Democrats.

Democrats Pull D.C. Voting Rights Act.  The patently unconstitutional bill to give the District of Columbia a voting representative in the House of Representatives was pulled off the House calendar because — according to one House Republican leadership source — they feared that the so-called Blue Dog Democrats would not support it.

Firearm Provision Blows Up D.C. Voting Rights Bill.  For the second time in as many weeks, the House has had to postpone action on a major bill important to Democratic leaders.  The House Democratic leadership Tuesday [3/3/2009] decided to delay a plan to grant a seat in the House to the District of Columbia.  Since it is not a state, Washington, D.C., does not get a vote in Congress.

D.C. Voting Rights Bill:  A Raw Deal for Republicans.  The District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009 passed the Senate last Thursday [2/26/2009] by a vote of 61-37.  The bill will add two seats to the House of Representatives.  One will represent the District of Columbia and the other, at least initially, will represent a district in Utah.  Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, a Republican, co-sponsored the bill. The bill is a raw deal for the GOP.

No taxation without representation? I'll take no taxation.  Last week the Senate passed legislation granting the District of Columbia full voting representation in the House of Representatives.  As with several previous iterations of the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act, the bill also adds a second new House seat and awards it to Utah, which narrowly missed out on a fourth representative after the last census.  Thus, we have the ultimate logroll — one guaranteed Democratic seat in exchange for a very safe Republican one.

Voting Rights Gone Wrong:  Last week, two days after the 44th anniversary of the Selma march that helped pass the 1965 [Voting Rights] act, the Supreme Court took a timid step toward limiting the perverse use of that act to create political set-asides — elective offices to which certain preferred minorities are entitled.  Last week's ruling revisits the strange career of racial gerrymandering — how that practice went from execrable to virtuous to mandatory, and became yet another manifestation of the entitlement mentality.

Why the D.C. Voting Rights Act Is Wrong.  The D.C. Voting Rights Act, which passed by a 61-37 vote in the Senate and is now being considered in the House of Representatives, would grant Washington, D.C., voting representation in that body.  The District's current delegate to Congress would be transformed into an actual voting member of the House. ... The Constitution, however, limits representation in Congress to the people of the states.  This requirement applies both to the Senate and the House.

And So Begins Another Week Of Malfeasance.  [Congress] is voting to pretend that the District of Columbia is a state.  Hence it supposedly can have a Democratic member of the House and, down the descending road, two Democratic senators.  Congress rationalizes this anti-constitutional willfulness by citing the Constitution's language that each house shall be the judge of the "qualifications" of its members and Congress can "exercise exclusive legislation" over the District.  What, then, prevents Congress from giving House and Senate seats to Yellowstone National Park, over which Congress exercises exclusive legislation?  Only Congress' capacity for embarrassment.  So, not much.

D.C. Voting Measure Could Be Added to Defense Spending Bill.  House Democratic leaders are considering floor action on a proposal to give the District of Columbia a full voting member in the House of Representatives.  The provision would be attached to the conference report on the fiscal 2010 Defense appropriations bill, which is expected on the floor within the next few weeks.

Washington DC is a liberal utopia.
 Washington, D.C., Wins V.D. Triple Crown.  Washington, D.C., had the dubious distinction of beating all 50 states to post the highest rates in the nation for the sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) Chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis, according to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.


A look at Pelosi's voting record.  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi would bring to the office a level of left-wing liberalism that will be unprecedented. … Until she received a 95 percent liberal rating in 2005 from the Americans for Democratic Action (the nation's pre-eminent liberal organization), Mrs. Pelosi had racked up five consecutive years (2000-04) of 100 percent ratings.  Her lifetime ADA rating is 96 percent.  Last year, the American Conservative Union gave her a zero rating.

Senate Vote Reveals Who's in Bed With MoveOn.org.  The MoveOn.org Party was at it again, flexing its muscle in the U.S. Senate.  The issue was a completely symbolic sense of the Senate vote supporting Gen. David Petraeus.  It didn't mention the MoveOn.org attack ad against Petraeus but the resolution didn't have to.  Everybody knew what it was about.

Democrat-Sponsored Bills Tell a Liberal Story.  Various amendments to the Constitution, recently proposed by Democrats, would create a constitutional right to equal public education, a constitutional right to equal health care, a constitutional right to housing, and a constitutional right to full employment.

Power struggle:  The past as prologue if the Democrats win.  Voters seemingly poised to hand control of the House of Representatives and perhaps the Senate to Democrats should be thinking hard about the consequences on an array of defining issues.  The most reliable guide to those consequences is not what Democrats are saying on the campaign stump — or mostly not saying, witness the suddenly missing Nancy Pelosi — but how they have actually voted in Congress again and again on core issues.

The Trouble with Democrats.  The Democrats have become, more and more, largely a coalition of minorities, each with its own special agenda.  The first of these was the African-Americans, who regularly cast about 90 percent of their votes for the Democrats.  Also early on the scene was a large, disaffected segment of the intelligentsia, dominant in the universities and angry at the failure of the country to recognize its superiority and its right to rule.  Then came the ultra-feminists, the abortion supporters, the gay lobby, the environmental extremists and a newly vocal pack of secularists, openly hostile to religion and furious at the alleged efforts of the "religious right" to impose a "theocracy" on society.  These are the groups that dominate the national Democratic Party today.

Fool's Goldwater:  Of course, when liberals say government should stay out of our hair, they mean Uncle Sam should offer an open bar on abortions and gay-marriage licenses.  Beyond that, everything's fair game.  How else to explain the fact that Ms. Goldwater interviews … people who support nationalized health care, smoking bans, gun control, hate-crime laws, and other libertarian wolfsbane — to testify about Goldwater's libertarian enlightenment.

Fifty Years of Fidel.  Castro never stopped hating America:  He just transferred his nominal allegiances when the Axis lost.  This made him the perfect hero to the Far Left.  There is no real "ideology" to the Left.  It is simply a vast, noxious stew of hatreds.  The meat of this hatred is hatred of America, individual liberty that works.  We are honored by the enemies we make, like Fidel Castro, the man who ruined Cuba.

The Cult of Soros:  Has the Democratic Party become a cult?  And is leftwing billionaire George Soros its guru?  The chorus of hosannas with which leftwing bloggers now greet Mr. Soros' silliest utterances — and the faithfulness with which Democratic leaders repeat them — suggests that the answer to both questions is yes.

The Religious Quest of George Soros:  Tivadar Schwartz, George Soros' father, rejected his own Judaism in youth, but found another "religion" at some point in the First World War.  During his years as a Russian POW, Tivadar became enthralled with the obscure, synthetic language, Esperanto. … Esperanto was devised by a Jewish physician in Warsaw during the 1880's.  But it wasn't (and still isn't) just a made-up language; it served as the embodiment of a cult formed around the ideas of "internationalism, anti-sectarianism and cosmopolitanism," in the words of Soros biographer Michael Kaufman.  Esperantists believe that a new world order of harmony and cooperation will be ushered in through the adoption of their made-up, one-world language.

The Democratic Secular Socialist Revolution:  Secular socialists like Lenin and Marx failed to force socialism upon the west.  But plan B, the slow drip of misinformation that would one day cause average American voters to vote themselves into tyranny, is almost complete.  They are five lies from victory and today's Democratic Party is working around the clock to gain general acceptance of all five.

Historical tidbits:  Karl Marx is the hero of some labor union leaders and civil rights organizations, including those who organized the recent protest against proposed immigration legislation.  It's easy to be a Marxist if you haven't read his writings.  Most people agree that Marx's predictions about capitalism turned out to be dead wrong.  What most people don't know is that Marx was an out and out racist and anti-Semite.

All Evil is on the Left.  Nazis, Bolsheviks, American "progressives," and Fascists have all held the same positions.  They have suspicion or contempt for Jews, Christians and the Judeo-Christian moral traditions. … They seek violence and propaganda (violence against truth) as the primary instruments of their power.

A Liberal's Definition of Liberalism:  Liberalism has become synonymous with any action or doctrine that tends to destroy existing standards of morality and decency. … New Deal liberalism transformed the media, by default, into the the creator and shaper of public morality.  Whatever "wrong" the media chooses to publicize and whatever "remedy" it chooses to support tends to become public opinion.

The Loony Liberal Chronicles:  Chapter 1.  Instead of addressing hard problems with real solutions, today's Liberals spew forth a stream of self-serving, high-minded platitudes and slogans designed to make them appear loving, caring, generous (with other people's money), and above all enlightened.  It's better to be seen as Progressive in the face of a failed policy than support a program that actually works, but diverges from Liberal orthodoxy.

No Terrorism To See Here.  Critics of President Bush's conduct in the War on Terror get testy when they are accused of not taking the threat of terrorism seriously, but with increasing prominence, they are making their true feelings known.  Quite simply, they don't think terrorism is a big deal.

The Sky Is Not Falling.  It's fun to say that the Democrats offer us no solutions on any of the major domestic or foreign policy issues.  The fact is, they have plenty of solutions, and their solutions are exactly what you should expect from liberals — more government control over your wallet and your life, a less secure America that does not want to offend Islamic terrorists and a permanent erosion of our individual freedoms and liberties.

Witch Hunter in Chief.  Other than reducing entire forests to pulp for the paper to print his reports, the American people, in whose name all this is being done, have precious little to show for his tireless work.  Notwithstanding [Rep. Henry] Waxman's billing as a legislator who loves to "write laws, and he has been extraordinarily good at it," only three of the 95 bills he has sponsored in the past decade have been enacted.

A Dialogue with a Liberal.  Job training and welfare are demonstrable failures.  I think that treating a national community like a family is a grave intellectual error.  A national unit is an institution that creates a legal framework for a large group of strangers to interact.  A family is a small group that interacts on the basis of personal bonds.  Strengthening government serves to weaken families and other vital civic institutions.

Issue Assessment:  The Democratic National Convention.  Some specific points from an analysis of the speeches at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.  [PDF]

Don't experiment with 'none of the above' Democrats.  Do we really want Congressman Alcee L. Hastings, who was impeached as a federal judge and removed from the bench due to charges of accepting bribes, put in charge of a committee handling top secret national intelligence?  Do we really want far-left Congressman Dennis Kucinich to be chairman of the subcommittee on national security? … Do we really want Detroit Congressman John Conyers to become chairman of the House Judiciary Committee...?

The Platform Democrats Don't Want You to See.  There's a reason the Kerry Democrats are the political equivalent of a general anesthetic.  They can't risk leveling with us.  If they told the electorate what they really want, voters would run screaming into the night.

Which party supports your values?  Compare the basic principles and values of the two major political parties and decide for yourself.

Are Americans stupid?  How can 59,054,087 people be so dumb?"  That was the headline in the British tabloid Daily Mirror announcing the reelection of President Bush.  American liberals are asking the same question, concluding that the 51 percent of the public that voted against their man is just not smart enough to appreciate the liberal agenda.

The Welfare Debate We're Not Having:  It turns out — apparently to the surprise of many on the left — that working for a living is better than subsisting as a parasite on government handouts.

What transition costs?  The Democratic Party establishment is appalled at the thought of private Social Security accounts turning ordinary Americans into owners of stocks and bonds and, therefore, potential Republicans.  The argument by Democrats that private accounts are too risky fails the test of history.  Nobody can find a 20-year period in America when investments have not gained.

Bankrupt:  Why the Democrats are the party of moral and intellectual bankruptcy.  Sean Hannity says, "Don't ever, ever be tempted to vote for a liberal, even as a protest vote.  David Limbaugh shows you why, in the most devastating critique I've ever seen of just how intellectually and morally bankrupt the Democratic Party has become."

Kerry's scarlet letter:  It seems like a lifetime since July 1991 when Sen. Kerry declared:  "I'm a liberal, and proud of it."  Thirteen years later, the L-word is forbidden language for Kerry.  He is attempting what only Bill Clinton among recent Democratic candidates has accomplished:  covering left-of-center policies with a facade of moderation.  Kerry, less skilled than Clinton as a political dancer, is burdened with a 30-year record of nearly unbroken liberal votes.

It's The L Word, Stupid.  Kerry is the most liberal Senator, against tough competition, the proof of which is that he has a 92% lifetime rating by the Americans for Democratic Action.  Remember, these are the liberals who give the ratings; they think it's a good thing.  They've been rating all members of Congress for more than half a century.  Which leads to the second measure of Kerry's extreme liberalism:  he's the most liberal candidate the Democrats have ever run, with a higher lifetime ADA rating than Al Gore, Walter Mondale or George McGovern (Since Carter, Dukakis and Clinton never served in Congress, they don't have ratings.)

I survived the Democratic National Convention.  For four days, the Democratic Party put on its quadrennial scare-old-people-and-minorities party.  Democrats, of course, rely on the 90-plus percent monolithic black vote.  Thus, a black "non-liberal" poses a direct threat to the party's national prospects.

The vision thing:  Kerry and Edwards are both liberal … in a political sense, which today manifests itself in reactionary policies, such as wealth redistribution, anti-entrepreneur laws and regulations, protectionism and refusing to fundamentally reform Social Security for the 21st century, which is imperative.

"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy."

— Winston Churchill, 1948.      

Where Do the Candidates Stand on Abortion?  President George W. Bush promoted and signed the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act into law.  Senator John Kerry voted against the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act every chance he got — six times.  Dick Cheney has taken a strong pro-life position.  During his 10 years in Congress, he compiled a 100% pro-life voting record.  He opposes partial-birth abortion and he voted against tax funding of abortion.  John Edwards, in his six years in the Senate, has compiled a 0% pro-life voting record.  He voted to keep partial-birth abortions legal and he supports tax funding of abortion.

Top 10 Democrat Sex Scandals in Congress:  [For example, #8] Rep. Barney Frank. The outspoken Massachusetts Democrat hired a male prostitute who ran a prostitution service from Frank's residence in the 1980s.  Only two Democrats in the House of Representatives voted to censure him in 1990.

An Enigmatic Kerry-Edwards Energy Plan.  The eight-page Kerry-Edwards energy plan reads more like a new age feel good tome than a policy program.  Its specific proposals are either self-contradictory or depend on passing unusual legislation that would repeal the laws of economics, chemistry and thermodynamics.

A Vote For John Kerry Is Like A Vote For Ted Kennedy.  One of the first names that comes to mind, perhaps the first name that comes to mind, when you talk about liberals in the United State Senate, is Teddy Kennedy.  And largely because of that liberalism — although leaving Mary Jo Kopechne to die certainly doesn't help — Ted Kennedy would be defeated as badly as Michael Dukakis and Walter Mondale if he were running for President this year.

The Kerry-Edwards Postal Plan Won't Deliver.  In an effort to win the support of America's Postal workers, John Edwards recently announced that if elected, he would "never privatize the U.S. Postal Service."  He further declared that he and John Kerry would defend the current "no-layoff status" of America's Postal employees.  Although the Kerry-Edwards stance may score points with the Postal Service's entrenched unions, it completely ignores the reality of USPS ledgers.  Any serious assessment of the organization's finances shows that it is in desperate need of an overhaul.

Kerry, candidate of the left.  [At the Democratic convention, Senator Hillary Clinton] made clear what she and John Kerry are about by defining the solution to our problems in education as putting more money into the government public school monopoly and opposing vouchers and other attempts to give parents options in finding the best education alternatives for their children.  One has to wonder if Senator Clinton has ever taken note that the inexorable rise in postal rates inevitably means that we simply pay more and more for the same mediocre product.  Monopolies exist to defend the status quo, not to find ways to improve.

Kerry's liberalism prospers in his positions, his votes and the company he keeps.  Ever since he rose to the top of the pile of Democratic contenders for his party's presidential nomination, John Kerry has sought to "introduce" himself to the American electorate — to flesh out his political profile, to present as a dedicated, balanced, evenhanded centrist floating along in the political mainstream.  Evidently it didn't work.

Dead Catsup Bounce.  Omitted from mention in the platform itself were Democratic staples such as partial-birth abortion, gay marriage, capital punishment and the Kyoto Treaty.  Such is the desperation to beat Bush that even hardcore lefties coalesced around this vision of the one (or is it two?) Americas so embraced by their ticket.  This may explain the confusion that seems to be reflected in the poor poll numbers so far.  Voters don't seem to recognize this new flag-waving version of the party and the time to re-re-introduce their candidate is running out.

The strange disappearance of the "L" word:  When did Democrats stop calling themselves "liberal"?  Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., when asked whether he considered himself a liberal, treated the questioner as if she belonged to the House Committee on Un-American Activities during the McCarthy years.


Liberals believe that the availability of guns causes violent crime.
Conservatives believe that violent crime reflects a lack of values.

Liberals believe that society is responsible for protecting people.
Conservatives believe that a man is responsible for protecting his own family.

Liberals believe that government should be more powerful than the citizens.
Conservatives believe that the citizens should be more powerful than the government.*


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