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 "progressive", but they appear to make progress in a direction that most people don't want to go.  In other words, liberals are out of step with America.

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


Government demands we keep our Catholic Beliefs out of their realm yet forces their beliefs into ours.
 Separation of Church and State:  Secular progressives are a curious bunch.  They will vehemently protest the use of public school classrooms for after school Bible Study.  They will sue to keep high school valedictorians from mentioning The Deity during graduation addresses.  They will ban prayer before sporting events, and suspend children from sports teams who kneel in thanks after scoring points. These same supposedly non-judgmental secularists will approve of prayer rooms for Muslim students in public school buildings.  I find that odd.  Displays of Christianity are to be actively erased, but religious institutions that have begotten millennia of bloodshed are both coddled and encouraged.

God bless Jan Brewer.  Obama is the ultra-left-wing president who sometimes tries to hoodwink those of us who know better — that would be those of us who didn't vote for him and never will — into believing that he's some sort of moderate.  Obama is the guy who tries to pretend he's tough on illegal immigration, while chiding us for having a "broken" immigration system and making it easier for illegal immigrants to become citizens.  And he's also the man who believes the horrendous 1973 Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision is nothing less than God's 11th commandment.

Barack Obama is trying to make the US a more socialist state.  Obama is clearly living the Left-liberal dream, which still survives in small pockets of American life.  He wants to import the democratic socialism that Europe embraced after the war, which was, for European cultural reasons, imbued with aristocratic paternalism and Marxist notions of bourgeois guilt.  But neither of these things are part of the American historical experience.  The Left-wing intellectuals, including Obama himself, who adopt this language are talking dangerously uninformed rubbish.

Destroying America by Denying Access to Energy.  It is the crime of the century that America, home to some of the world's greatest reserves of coal, natural gas and oil, is being deliberately destroyed by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior as they do everything in their power to restrict access and drive energy producers out of business.  It is common sense that a nation that cannot produce sufficient electricity to turn on its lights and power its manufacturing sector will be destroyed if current Obama administration regulations and actions continue.

I Finally Understand Democrats.  In order to believe that Democrats have the answer today, you would have to believe:
  •   That you can grow the entitlement class beyond the taxpayer class and never hit critical mass where there is no money left.
  •   That using the military to oust a murderous thug dictator in 2003 was criminal, and using the military to oust a murderous thug dictator in 2011 was noble.
  •   That the best way to grow the wealth of the private sector is to take all the money out of it.
  •   That the best way to make us energy independent is to block any effort to produce more petrocarbons in this country.
  •   That more unemployment checks create more jobs.

What We're Learning about Obamacare isn't Good — Especially for Seniors.  The Republican Party isn't perfect by a long shot and neither are its candidates, but the party is trying to undo the damage done by Obamacare; it's the party that supports the right to life; and it's the party that is attempting to reduce needless spending and trying to solve our deficit and debt problems.  President Obama and like-minded Democrats in the House and Senate are principally responsible for creating and exacerbating those problems.  Trusting them to solve those problems is ridiculous.

The New American Divide.  Changes in social policy during the 1960s made it economically more feasible to have a child without having a husband if you were a woman or to get along without a job if you were a man; safer to commit crimes without suffering consequences; and easier to let the government deal with problems in your community that you and your neighbors formerly had to take care of.  But, for practical purposes, understanding why the new lower class got started isn't especially important.  Once the deterioration was under way, a self-reinforcing loop took hold as traditionally powerful social norms broke down.

Mark Levin's 'Ameritopia'.  Mark Levin's hard work in researching, organizing and writing his new book, "Ameritopia," will be a blessing for all who read it.  Countless books chronicle the forward march of the liberal agenda and attempt to deconstruct the fallacies in modern leftist thinking.  Many critique the statist policies the left has imposed on us the past half-century and their disastrous effects on our culture, our economy and our national security.  Few modern books, however, direct our attention to first principles, perhaps assuming people implicitly understand the philosophical and ideological underpinnings of conservative thinking, and even fewer truly explore the anatomy of the liberal vision.

Harry Reid's 'Extreme'.  Mr. Reid's call of Tea Party extremism comes most peculiarly, at a time President Obama is under scrutiny for his illegal appointments of people who could not be approved even by a Democrat controlled Senate.  Could Mr. Reid's call of Tea Party extremism be nothing more than a diversion to Mr. Obama's appointments of people too extreme even by the standards his own party?  Or perhaps is Mr. Reid's extremist rant a diversion from Mr. Obama's call to increase the debt limit, by yet another $1.5 trillion?  Extreme?  Let's take a look; $16.5 trillion in debt vs. a balanced budget.  Zealots at the EPA circumventing Congress by making a law fining companies $6 million for not using a fuel that doesn't exist vs. smaller government, transparency and accountability.

Behind the multicultural push is an effort to degrade American culture.  Diversity is America's greatest strength, according to the left and its socialist, Marxist, commie cohorts and co-conspirators running rampant across the country.  If you listen carefully to these America-hating, social-engineering liberals, virtually all behavior, conduct, morals and beliefs make America stronger.

The Left's Rights Scam.  The left invariably frames its policy pronouncements under the mantle of so-called "rights" that only the government can guarantee.  The implication being that all citizens are entitled and guaranteed, by virtue of living in the United States, to what is defined as a "right."  Much of this current approach by the so-called Progressives stems from the State of the Union address delivered by Franklin Roosevelt in 1944 in which he laid out what is commonly referred to as the "Second Bill of Rights."  It is a consolidation of socialist thinking begun in the mid-nineteenth century.

Obamanomics By The Numbers:  Every day, the U.S. government takes in $6 billion and spends $10 billion.  This means that every day the federal government spends $4 billion more dollars than it has.  The real unemployment rate is a jaw-dropping 11 percent.  Every fifth man you pass on your way to work is now out of work.

The Jews, the Communists, and the Democratic Party.  The ACLU's activities have been characterized as anti-God, anti-American, and anti-family, all notable communist goals.  Yet the ACLU did what it did in the name of individual rights.  Although the ACLU lobbies Congress and state legislatures, its accomplishments derive chiefly from judges who share the ACLU's view of the Constitution as a "living document."  There is little if any daylight between them and the Democratic Party and Barack Obama.  And they are all pro-uncontrolled immigration.

Rush on how to fix Detroit: 'Get rid of every liberal in government'.  In an appearance on Fox News Channel aired on Thursday night's [12/29/2011] "On the Record with Greta Van Sustren," conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh explained, in no uncertain terms, how to fix Detroit, where unemployment and poverty are rampant.  His solution:  End liberalism.  "Get rid of every liberal in government," he said.  "What is the one constant in Detroit, all of these years?  Been run by liberals.  Liberal ideology.  Liberal economics.  Liberal belief system.  Detroit, other places:  A microcosm of where Europe is, and where we are headed — unchecked, unstopped liberalism.

Obama's Freeloader Economy.  Whether it is bullying people to buy mercury-filled light bulbs, or bullying Boeing to sign up for more union labor, or bullying people into government health care, or forcing the American people to pay good money to crony solar and wind capitalists, or jacking up the price of energy to save the planet, or bullying millionaires and billionaires into coughing up more taxes, it's the new dance at the predator's ball.

Obama's Kind of Immigrants.  Of course Obama wants illegal immigration.  Illegal immigrants will depend on the federal government for subsistence, if the federal government offers it.  That's the whole purpose of the Democratic Party in the first place:  To create dependents and enhance their own power.  But think about what this means.  The Democratic Party, and its standard bearer Obama, can only survive politically if millions of people depend on them for their livelihood:  Their food, their shelter, and what passes for medical care and education when run by the government.

What Is a Progressive?  When is the last time you heard a liberal describe himself as a "liberal"?  It's probably been a long time.  These days, those on the left are more likely to call themselves "progressives."

The Corporate Psychopaths Among Us.  A return to a culture of corporate stability and long term employment would help.  We certainly cannot continue in the direction the Democratic Party is taking us without becoming as broke as Greece, or the Soviet Union.  All tools, including the ballot box, should be used to correct the financial disaster that threatens.

Most Americans don't buy Obama's class warfare rhetoric.  President Obama believes the greatest threat facing our country today is income inequality. ... According to a Gallup poll conducted just days before Obama's speech, only 46 percent of Americans believe it is important that the federal government do something to reduce the income gap between the rich and poor. ... A closer examination of the numbers shows that income inequality is little more than a perennial obsession among liberal Democrats like Obama.  Just 43 percent of independents, and only 21 percent of Republicans, say the gap between the rich and poor is an important issue, whereas 72 percent of Democrats say that it is.  Maybe Obama's Osawatomie speech maybe wasn't written to appeal to most Americans but rather to fire up the Democratic base for his 2012 re-election campaign.

Is Liberalism a Religion?  Whether the beliefs are true or false, if people didn't come to their religious convictions by means of reason, then reason isn't going to convince them to change their minds.  This same principle applies to collectivism and health care.  If people didn't come to the false religion of collectivism by means of reason, you are not going to talk them out of it by means of reason.  If you remember this principle, you will save yourself the agony of many, many pointless conversations.

Our Marxist Wizard of Oz.  This is the man the Democrat party took off the streets of Chicago, then pursuing a career as a Marxist street agitator, and launched into the White House, favoring him over Hillary Clinton because she was too moderate for the party.

They Mean Well. Really?  The progressive cause has all the trappings of a quasi-religion, and its adherents are every bit as fervent in their beliefs, every bit as intolerant and hate-filled, as any religious fanatic.  Seeing themselves as the holy warriors of progress, they are absolutely single-minded and ruthless.  Conservatives view them as "our friends across the aisle," as honest, well-meaning opponents.  But liberals don't reciprocate.  For them, conservatives are enemies devoid of humanity and deserving only of pitiless destruction.  Does anyone doubt the sincerity of Democrats when they castigate their Republican opponents as Nazis?

The Rich Are Not Conservative.  [Scroll down]  Leftists do not want "Hope and Change."  They want, instead, glacial immobility.  That is why saving every single species on the planet really matters to leftists, even though species quite naturally die out all the time.  That is why climate change troubles the left so much; climate change, man-made or not, may actually improve our lives, but any real change terrifies the left.  This is also why the left still spouts Keynesian nonsense fifty years after Keynes died and long after this economic theory was empirically disproved, and it explains why Obama still seems to idolize that misanthropic quack, Karl Marx, more than 150 years after his proposed "science."

Malnourished Muppets and the Indoctrination of America's Children.  After an extended interlude, America finally has another liberal buzz phrase to add to the country's politically correct vernacular:  "Food Insecurity."  Food Insecurity is right up there with "man-caused disaster," not to mention the long, ever-growing list of 'ities':  neutrality, inequality, inequity, accessibility and ethnocentricity.

The Differences between Corporate Greed and Government Greed.  There are two recent examples of exploitation of working people by political elites.  Both come from states that have been dominated by Democrats for decades:  California and Illinois.  It is important to keep in mind that the longer a political party remains in control, the more time its political elites have to form strategies and partnerships in corruption.  The simple fact is that while it is easy to state that "both parties are the same," the great majority of big cities in the Midwest and Northeast have been controlled by Democrats since FDR.  And since 85 percent of people live in cities, Democrats have controlled most of the country's population for the past eighty years.

Organizing the Takers Against the Makers.  The Democrat party is throwing in the towel on economic growth and prosperity, because even Obama's people recognize they cannot credibly sell themselves as delivering on that.  What they are going to sell in 2012 is taxes and redistribution from those that have more to buy the votes of those they think will sell their vote for government handouts.  That marries perfectly Marxist philosophy with Chicago political machine politics.

How the Left is Sucking the Life out of the Private Economy.  [Scroll down]  The left will, besides denying any responsibility for this devastation to the American economy, claim that their policies have helped the poor and downtrodden.  However, in 1965, the poverty rate in America was 15.4% (today it is 15.1%).  Not only has the income of Americans stagnated, but the disparity has widened — not because of the so-called greed of the rich, but because there is now minimal upward income mobility compared to the past, as high-paying jobs are no longer being created.  The U.S. is not competitive in the world market, as the manufacturing sector has been forced to wither on the vine.  And America has joined the list of countries facing insolvency due to out-of-control spending and borrowing.

The Blew It states:  MSNBC listed Ten States That Cannot Pay Their Bills.  Nine of them were among the 28 states that Barack Obama carried in 2008.  Only 1 of them was among the 22 states that John McCain carried.  In other words, the Blew It states are Blue states, with the exception of Arizona.  Now for the kicker, Real Clear Politics lists 7 of those deadbeat states as going for Obama again in 2012.

Sundays with Sherrod: Union Reform is Unchristian.  Sherrod Brown (D-OH) isn't merely the most extreme Progressive in the U.S. Senate, he's also a religious scholar.  Week in and week out, Sherrod preaches the Gospel of Progressivism:  Greater love hath no man than he who gives generously from his neighbor's purse.

For Democrats Class Warfare Trumps Job Creation.  Admitting that their big-spending stimulus failed is the first step to getting to work with Republicans on a jobs policy that actually produces jobs.  But Obama, Reid and Pelosi, with their unconscionable record of incompetence and corruption in handling the economy over the past five years, refuse.

Spending Wars.  The ideas that federal spending exploded under George W. Bush, that "Bush's wars" account for our spending explosion, that Reaganism died with Reagan, and that we are on a spending binge that started decades ago are all nonsense.  Our current spending binge is a very recent phenomenon with a very specific starting point:  the year Democrats started writing budgets (or continuing resolutions), compounded by Barack Obama's inauguration.

Senate Approves Bill that Legalizes Sodomy and Bestiality in U.S. Military.  The Senate on Thursday evening [12/1/2011] voted 93-7 to approve a defense authorization bill that includes a provision which not only repeals the military law on sodomy, it also repeals the military ban on sex with animals — or bestiality.

Race: The Ultimate Weapon of the Left.  If Herman Cain were elected president of the United States, racial politics, far from waning, would, if anything, gain in intensity — and so would be the case if any other Republican wins the presidency, or even if Obama is reelected, for that matter.  Whatever happens, the hardy perennial of race politics will survive and thrive.  It is utterly unreasonable to expect the left to lay down its tools and walk away from a claim it has been mining with such spectacular success for so many years.

Why Do Catholics Keep Funding the Radical Left?  Every November, including this one, American Catholics — who constitute approximately 25% of the U.S. population — are asked to contribute to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD).  The Catholic faithful have been told that their donations will go to fight poverty.  Little do most of them realize what their money will actually fund.  CCHD is the brainchild of Saul Alinsky, the "father of community organizing."  Alinsky (1909-1972) had numerous connections in the Catholic community of his native Chicago, some of them nearly as radical as he was.  He helped start CCHD in 1969.

The Democrats Were Not For Me.  [Daniel Patrick] Moynihan was prophetic about the hazards of good intentions and the flaws of social democracy, in the same way that Orwell had been prophetic about the dark side of Communism.  The specter of sovereign default for Western social democracies today might well be the ghost of Pat Moynihan.  Like old school Communists, the Left created a social Ponzi scheme in America, making promises they cannot possibly keep.  My disillusionment with Democrats in particular, and liberal thought in general, didn't make me a Republican, but it did make me realize that "progressive" America had somehow become regressive at its best and suicidal at its worst.

The Dems Target Defense and Your Wallet Again.  With a debt ceiling deal mandate to find $1.5 trillion in savings over the next decade, what have the Democrats on the Super Committee proposed?  The same old policies from the Democratic playbook:  massive tax hikes and defense cuts.

What Change Looks Like Under Obama.  This was their moment.  This was their time.  And they've had their chance.  The Obama record is one of almost undiluted failures.  And no group of Americans have been hurt more by his failures than the poor, the weak and defenseless, and those living in the shadows of society.

Detroit's Liberal Nightmare.  Detroit, once known as "the great arsenal of democracy," has made headlines of late for its notorious fall from grace.  The "Big Three" automakers are no longer the biggest, falling behind their overseas rivals, and the Michigan economy lost 450,000 manufacturing jobs over the past 10 years all while Detroit lost population.  And while the Motor City suffers unemployment from a decimated automotive industry, it suffers crime, high taxes, poor city services, plummeting home values, and a public education system in shambles with a $327 million budget deficit and a 19 percent dropout rate.  Is it any wonder people are leaving in droves?

Want to See Pictures From America's Cheapest Zip Code?  The distinction of being the absolute cheapest zip code, well below the median price of $15,000, belongs to a neighborhood located in southern Detroit.  How "cheap" is this neighborhood?  Home prices in the 48208 zip code are about $6,388.

Time to Break Apart the United States?  What the liberals have done to Detroit they do most everywhere that they go.  The only reason that each and every liberal enclave has not imploded under the weight of liberal stupidity, greed, and cupidity is the constant influx of revenue from the more conservative and responsible (and yes, honest) citizens in America.

Connecting the Obama-Communist Dots.  [Scroll down]  The book sheds light on certain activities and affiliations of certain members of the government such as U.S. representatives Maxine Water (D-CA) and John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI).  These two, along with former Oakland mayor Ron Dellums, are sponsors of MECA (The Middle East Children's Alliance), an organization founded originally by activists Barbara Lubin and Howard Levine.  Lubin, as it turns out, is allied with the Workers World Party, a Marxist-Leninist sect aligned with North Korea.

Progressives and Their Taxes Kill Cities.  High taxes are bad for cities.  Low taxes encourage growth.  In fact, between 1980 and 2007, compared to the ten most-taxed metropolitan areas, America's ten least-taxed metropolitan areas experienced three times faster population growth, 2.7 times faster employment growth, and twice as great an increase in personal income.

Do the Democrats want to create jobs — or red tape?  A new video produced by the Republican Study Committee (RSC) for the Internet this week opens with Rep. Cynthia Lummis standing beside a Caterpillar tractor and pointing to a stack of new federal regulations that is taller than she is.  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that an economy is less able to create new jobs when it costs more than $1 trillion a year to comply with federal regulations.

'Change' and Marxism.  Occupy Wall Street is an un-American movement generated by an un-American depiction of our country.  In 2008, the leaders of the Democratic Party painted the United States as a "decaying, racist, capitalist realm," unable to provide medical care for the poor, to rebuild her "crumbling schools," or to replace the "shuttered mills that once provided a decent life for men and women of every race."  A young generation of Americans, who had never been taught real history in school, became galvanized by the Democratic Party's pledge to "change" that rotting America.

Progressive America.  Unemployment stands at 9.1 percent, with real unemployment closer to 20.  Nearly 50 million Americans are on food stamps.  We've added $4 trillion in new debt in less than three years.  And there's no sign any of this will change soon.  The seriousness of the times require serious leaders... and all we have is Barack Obama, Congressional Democrats and a sea of unwashed "gimmie-crats" sleeping in parks demanding more.  Welcome to Progressive America.

Dems' 900 Days Of Irresponsibility.  Over the weekend, Senate Democrats passed a dubious milestone — going 900 days without fulfilling their legal obligation to pass a budget.  Worse is the fact that this gross dereliction of duty has gone largely unnoticed.

Shouldn't We Need Fewer Police Officers Mr. Biden?  The enormous spending on the war on poverty as well as education was supposed to get to the very roots of most of the crime problems and prevent their very occurrence in the first place.  At least that's the bill of goods that the Democrats sold us.  The rehabilitation of criminals would "save" us money by reducing the prison populations as well as create "experienced" role models for our children to learn from.  Gun control laws would keep the streets safe and also prevent "underprivileged" kids from being shot by little-old-ladies. ... The point is that we've been spending more money and enacting more laws over the last several years than at any time in history, so how is it that we still have a need to "invest" even more money into these police programs?

Democratic Party Full Of Nuts As Well As Flakes.  For example, regulatory adviser Cass Sustein believes those promoting what the government categorizes broadly as "conspiracy theories" should have their freedom of speech curtailed. ... Science adviser John Holdren believes sterilants should be put into the public drinking water in order to decrease fertility rates.  However, Holdren is not the only Obama minion wanting to do away with what Ebenezer Scrooge dismissed as the "excess population" before this famed miser's Yuletide change of heart.  Obama Healthcare Adviser Ezekiel Emanuel thinks that those below or above a certain age range should be denied medical treatment.  Basically put a bullet in granny's head.  Obama's Secretary of Energy believes you should be permitted to color your roof any color you want so long as it is white.  And speaking of colors, Obama's FCC appointment Mark Lloyd believes White folks should be denied FCC licenses.  Obama's State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh believes that Sharia law should be consulted as a source for American jurisprudence.

Dems' Stimulus Idea: More Regulations.  Last week, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., issued a report defending the Environmental Protection Agency from GOP attacks.  Not only do EPA rules protect the environment, the report says, they are an engine of economic growth.  After all, somebody has to do the work of complying with the rules, and "industries that provide environmental protection," the report says, have "created more than a million jobs."  And new rules are creating still more jobs, according to the report — issued by Boxer's Environment and Public Works Committee — like the 54,000 jobs it says will result from tougher auto fuel economy standards.

Dem Congressman Keith Ellison: Regulations Create Jobs.  Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) tells MSNBC regulations create jobs because a business will have to hire people to help them comply with the new requirement.  "I think the answer is no," Ellison said when asked if he believes regulations kill jobs.  "And here is why:  When we talked about increasing fuel efficiency standards, the industry responded, and they need engineers and designers and manufacturers, and they need actually more people to help respond to the new requirement."

The Left's Love of Rights-Stripping.  [Scroll down]  For example, take Everson v. Board of Education's opinion (supported by amicus curiae ACLU, by the way), written by the KKK-member, rabid anti-Catholic, and statist Hugo Black.  It's not quite the incarnate leftist support for the individual rights guaranteed by the First Amendment that any sort of a moderate would argue for.  Justice Black and the majority created ad hoc a "separation" between church and state which discriminates against all who wish to freely exercise their religion in the public sphere (specifically in public schools).

Obama's Contempt Bordering on Treachery.  Under the banner of "progressive thinking," a plurality of the American population has arbitrarily rejected the fundamental concepts that made the United States the most successful country in the history of mankind:  respect for the uniqueness of each individual, and self-determination.  The death of over 50 million since 1973 from legal abortions, the open promotion of euthanasia, the abandonment of traditional behavioral guidelines, and the active denigration of religion, together with the successful indoctrination of the entitlement mentality and its concurrent belief in an all-powerful government, have unalterably frayed the ties that bind all Americans and greatly eroded the ability of the society as a whole to successfully weather an overwhelmingly severe financial or societal crisis.

A Frivolously Destructive Presidency.  Obama's presidency lurches from fad to fad — from gays in the military to "green jobs" to the "Buffett rule."  Hyped as a profound presidency, it has turned out to be an embarrassingly frivolous one.  Sober historians of the future, not cowed by political correctness, will no doubt look back and say that Obama fiddled while America burned, indulging his sophomoric socialism, environmentalism, and social engineering at a time of terrorism and economic crisis.

Obama Might Be a Socialist.  [Recently], Howard Dean gave a speech where he insinuated that anyone who says "Obama is a Socialist" is crazy, ignorant, racist, or extreme.  Funny, a recent national poll shows that a majority (55%) of Americans believe "Socialist" best describes Obama.  Another poll shows the Democrat Party is filled with people who identify with Socialism.  I say, it's time for them to come out of the closet.  I ought to know.  I was Obama's college classmate at Columbia University Class of '83.  Our college was dominated by Socialists and Marxists who hated capitalism and America.

Obama's Fascist Economy.  Barack Obama and his minions in the administration as well as many Democrats in the Congress are often described as Socialists, or in the extreme as Marxists.  However, their actions and strategy are straight out of the fascist economic playbook. ... Socialism/Marxism seeks the total control of a society's economy through complete state control of the means of production and income.  Fascism seeks that same control, indirectly by the state domination of private ownership, as well as controlling individual income and wealth through taxation and regulation.

Loud And Clear, And Repeated.  The American people vehemently oppose the program of massive government expansion and intrusion the Obama administration has undertaken.

The Postmodern Party.  Yes, today's Democratic Party is profoundly infected by postmodernism — at its root, an outrageous fraud cleverly covered up by a fog of arcane gibberish and deceitful, euphemistic code words that permit its adherents to imagine that they are members of a superior, elite gnostic coterie when in fact they are intellectual eunuchs and just plain lazy.  It's so easy to be a postmodernist, since we no longer have to suffer the onerous mental toil and exertion required to be right.  That's one of the chief reasons for its appeal to ignorant people.

Quit Coddling Everybody.  One of the main planks of progressive politics is to have government be the common bond between everyone.  They would destroy many of the very things [Obama] touts as American.  As an example, he wants to reduce tax deductions to charitable institutions.  Why?  He wants to take the money generous Americans give to churches and non-profit community groups and let the government receive it instead.

Top 10 Scary Things About Living in Washington, D.C..  [#10]  Liberals are everywhere:  This is a city that voted more than 92% for Barack Obama in 2008.  Washington, D.C., has been run by liberal Democratic mayors and city councils for years, and it shows, with high taxes and terrible schools, poverty and crime.

A New Obama Milestone: ZERO Jobs Growth.  President Barack Obama made history again today, as today's new Labor Department report shows zero net jobs created for August.  CNBC notes this makes "the first time since World War II that the economy had net zero jobs created for a month."  Thank you, Obama voters!  We couldn't have done this without you.

The Democrats' Invincible Ignorance.  I'm hearing from a disturbingly high number of people who apparently buy the Democratic Party line with no question whatsoever.  They exhibit a remarkable, frightful willingness to act against their own interests in blind service to partisanship and ideology.

7 Reasons Why Liberals Are Incapable of Understanding The World.  [#2]  Liberals sources of information are ever present.  Conservatives are regularly exposed to the liberal viewpoint whether they want to be or not.  That's not necessarily so for liberals.  Imagine the average day for liberals.  They get up and read their local newspaper.  It has a liberal viewpoint.  They take their kids to school, where the teachers are liberal.  Then they go to work, listen to NPR which has a liberal viewpoint on the way home, and then turn on the nightly news which also skews leftward.

The Left Owns the Election Law Industry.  Leftist foundations, litigators and organizations have established permanent structures designed to alter election outcomes through policy advocacy and strategic litigation. ... They bring lawsuits under federal and state statutes ranging from the Voting Rights Act, Motor Voter law and the Help America Vote Act.  They station teams of election observers in polling places around the nation every election to fuel their litigation and their media efforts.  Almost nobody opposes their efforts.

A Nation That Honors Sin.  The increasingly intrusive apparatus of bureaucratic control forces many people to act as if they approve of sins they oppose.  Think of the college professor who would suffer professionally if his companions knew that he opposed "gay rights," of the nurse who would be fired if it were known that she opposed "reproductive rights" (i.e, abortion); of the college student whose grade would be arbitrarily lowered if he expressed opposition to the favoring of nonwhites at the expense of whites.  The mandatory approval of sin forces many people to hide their true beliefs, and they often become demoralized at this erosion of their integrity.

Facts? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Facts.  Progressives just like feeling good about what they believe in.  Thus, it completely eludes progressives why companies refuse to hire, or ship jobs overseas at every opportunity.  In prog-world, companies exist primarily to re-distribute wealth, not make a profit or turn out a product.  In prog-world, every business owner is suspect until proven otherwise, even as thousands of rules and regulations must be substituted for common sense and common decency.

The Democratic Party and the Language of Bankruptcy.  What does a political regime do when its philosophy doesn't work and is leading to ruin?  It can't scrap the philosophy, which is its raison d'étre and the basis of its power.  Were it to chuck the philosophy, its core constituencies would abandon it.  So instead it blames those who have most cogently pointed out the defects of the philosophy.  It calls them liars and haters.  The strategy is evidently one of desperation, and a confession of the bankruptcy of the regime in question.

Democrats Own the Stock Market Crash.  Now, I am one who happens to think S&P's downgrade is a bunch of garbage. ... Nevertheless, if we can believe S&P about the reason for the downgrade, then who is to blame (or should I say most to blame) for the failure of a timely agreement?  Dems.  No question about it.

Democrats Are Obsessed With Raising Taxes.  The House-passed spending control plan rejected by the Senate is exactly what Republicans were elected to do last November.  The president's obsession with tax increases repudiates the will of the people.

Progressives and Their Taxes Kill Cities.  High taxes are bad for cities.  Low taxes encourage growth.  In fact, between 1980 and 2007, compared to the ten most-taxed metropolitan areas, America's ten least-taxed metropolitan areas experienced three times faster population growth, 2.7 times faster employment growth, and twice as great an increase in personal income.

Big Government Means Small People.  While liberals are certain about the moral superiority of liberal policies, the truth is that those policies actually diminish a society's moral character.  Many individual liberals are fine people, but the policies they advocate tend to make a people worse.  Here are ten reasons:  [#1] The bigger the government, the less the citizens do for one another.  If the state will take care of me and my neighbors, why should I?

With the country on the brink of bankruptcy, is this a major priority?
 House Democrats renew battle against cafeteria Styrofoam.  House Democrats are once again attempting to do away with Styrofoam products in congressional cafeterias, this time with an amendment to a fiscal 2012 Legislative Branch Appropriations bill.  Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) introduced an anti-Styrofoam amendment on Wednesday [7/13/2011] during an Appropriations Committee markup.

Democrat Moran Fails to Ban Styrofoam from House Cafeterias.  Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) has failed in a bid to secure a proposed amendment to the 2012 Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill that would ban Styrofoam products from congressional cafeterias.  The amendment, introduced Wednesday, failed to pass the House Appropriations Committee on a 26-18 vote, along party lines.

Reagan Gets No Credit, Obama Gets No Blame.  The top priority of the left isn't "jobs, jobs, jobs."  Andy Stern, the former head of the Service Employees International Union and hero to the left, makes this clear:  "Western Europe, as much as we used to make fun of it, has made different trade-offs which may have ended with a little more unemployment but a lot more equality."  The goal of the leftist is social justice — using government to close the gap between the have and the have-nots, to secure the "right" to health care.

Happy Dependence Day from Your Community Organizer Friends!  What's that?  July 4 is called Independence Day, you say?  Not to the radical mob-o-crats of ACORN, La Raza, SEIU, and the legions of other socialist groups that are swinging a wrecking ball at the foundations of this great republic.  America is under siege as extremists determined to pulverize the U.S. Constitution deliberately bankrupt the nation, destroy the electoral system, and drive the economy into the ground.

Senators Appear in 'It Gets Better' Video.  Thirteen Democratic senators have added themselves to the chorus of people telling young gays and lesbians that "It Gets Better."  At a Wednesday [6/30/2011] news conference, several of the Democratic lawmakers unveiled their nearly five-minute entry to the nationwide video series that reaches out to bullied gay and lesbian youth — with a message that not only is the best yet to come, but that momentum was on their side.

The Education of a Compassionate Conservative.  [Scroll down]  Indeed, the "compassion" card is the Holy Grail to a progressive Democrat.  It's a philosophical ace in the hole that has allowed Democrats to rhetorically smother and intimidate Republicans for generations.  It's an idea, as Ronald Reagan should have known, more formidable than the Soviet military.  It's the reason a socialist like Barack Obama was swept into office in America a mere twenty years after communism was "defeated."

Residing In Speechworld Lets Obama Fake Reality.  The Democrats seem to have given up on budgets.  Hey, who can blame them?  They've got a ballpark figure:  Let's raise $2 trillion in revenue every year, and then spend $4 trillion.  That seems to work pretty well, so why get hung up on a lot of fine print?

Singing the Climate Blues.  [Scroll down]  The referee at a wrestling match is a populist portrait of the FCC, the NLRB, NPR, the New York Times editorial board and everyone else who does exactly what Al Gore would like to spend his whole life doing:  judging mankind impartially and ruling them well.  The referee is part of the entertainment who is funny in part because he thinks he is above the fray.

Democrats' Tax-And-Spend Insanity.  You have to wonder who's advising Democrats these days.  With the economy stuck in a two-year, Obama-dug rut, their only new economic growth idea is to raise taxes and hike federal spending.

The states with the least freedom are the states where Democrats rule.
 Lights Of Liberty.  The Mercatus Center at George Mason University has for three years compiled "An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom" that "comprehensively ranks the American states on their public policies that affect individual freedoms in the economic, social and personal spheres."  The rankings are based on fiscal policy, regulations and personal freedoms.  Gun control, the latitude to home school, alcohol and tobacco laws, and asset forfeiture rules are among the standards used to determine personal freedom.  Based on these criteria, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Indiana, Idaho and Missouri are the freest states, while New York is the least free "by a considerable margin," followed from the bottom up by New Jersey, California, Massachusetts and Hawaii.

A New Paradigm for the Left?  More and more people believe that government exists not just to perform essential services as delimited in the Constitution, but as a grand equalizer of economic outcomes.  It's one thing to argue that those who earn more should pay a higher percentage of their earnings in income tax.  But it's a completely different idea to suggest that the government should use the tax code and other legislative schemes not just to ensure sufficient revenues to operate the government, but to more equitably distribute people's remaining income — or, possibly, assets.

Disgraced pol embodies values Democrats have embedded in American culture.  Democrats are willing to sacrifice ruthlessly one of their rising stars to serve a larger objective — retaining their grip on power.  Yet, for decades, it has been liberals who have pushed for condoms to be distributed to high school kids, homosexuality and bisexuality to be taught in schools, the murder of unborn infants to be tolerated, and pornography and permissiveness to be accepted as part of the mainstream.  The result has been a coarsening of our culture, the breakdown of the family and the disintegration of a moral consensus.  Mr. Weiner is simply a product of modern liberalism — self-absorbed narcissism combined with an obsession for sexual gratification.

The Socialist Phobia of Scarcity.  If you are a socialist, chances are you believe that there is only a limited amount of wealth in the world.  People are impoverished only because rich capitalists are hoarding it.  You probably also believe that global natural resources are scarce, the world's water supply is drying up, and irreplaceable species are becoming extinct.  This irrational fear of scarcity is what drives the socialist advocacy for abortion of the unborn and euthanasia of the aged and infirm.  As it turns out, the "population bomb" has thus far been a dud.  Paul Ehrlich's 1968 book of the same name predicted mass starvation and global social upheavals by the 1980s.  Although this never happened, it has not deterred true believers.

When Government Jumps the Shark.  [Scroll down]  Progressivism itself, and not simply the individual government programs it spawns, is moving through the same cycle of life.  The most urgent social problems that progressivism set out to solve have been dealt with.  Child labor and lynch mobs are no longer common in the United States.  The greatest natural and scenic treasures of the country are protected by the National Park system.  Food is much less dangerous, buildings are better built, cars are safer, the air and water is in better shape and the charismatic megafauna (big interesting animals) have been saved from extinction.  Many more people have much more access to education today than was true 100 years ago; ditto for lifesaving medical treatment.  The progressive vision morphed from Great White Hope and Great White Father into Great White Elephant over the years.

There's No Stimulant In Stimulus.  The Democrats' response to the grim jobs data from May is typical.  They believe they should spend more taxpayer money.  But that's no solution.  Government activity can't pull an economy out of a ditch.

Liberal vs Conservative: A Spiritual Battle.  The left has a huge problem with the concept of right and wrong.  Their religion of liberalism embraces Moral Relativism. ... There is definitely an anti-wholesome, anti-goodness vibe coming out of Hollywood.  Hollywood leftists are vehemently anti-death penalty.  They rally around convicted murderers. ... Liberals always cater to man's lowest base instincts.  They hate standards for behavior, labeling all rebuke of bad behavior as being intolerant and judgmental.  And yet, they believe without divine influence, man is capable of someday achieving universal peace.  Totally absurd.

All liberal debt plans raise taxes to historically unprecedented levels.  This January Peter G. Peterson Foundation paid six think tanks $200,000 each to produce long-term budget plans that would reduce our nation's debt.  Today all six plan were revealed. ... The six tanks are the American Enterprise Institute, the Bipartisan Policy Center, the Center for American Progress, the Economic Policy Institute, The Heritage Foundation, and the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network.  All but the only conservative groups in the mix (Heritage and AEI) call for raising taxes to levels unprecedented in American history.

Debt Limit: 'It's A Great Government, Why Not Be Big?'  Democratic Congressman Charlie Rangel appeared with Judge Andrew Napolitano last night [5/17/2011] and they respectfully disagreed with one another on the issue of whether the government should be able to tax and spend more money.

The Democrats refuse to cut spending.
 Reid rejects Boehner proposal for $2 trillion in spending cuts.  Battle lines in federal debt talks sharpened markedly Thursday [5/19/2011] when the Senate's top Democrat rejected a proposal for $2 trillion in budget cuts as demanded by House Speaker John A. Boehner, saying any cuts must be accompanied by action on closing tax loopholes.

Superficiality: A necessary part of liberal-progressive-socialism.  [Scroll down]  This combination of presumption and superficiality was prominently displayed during the Democrat-Socialist Party's ram-rodding Obamacare through Congress.  Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrat-Socialists were unconcerned that hardly anyone had even read the entire bundle of Obamacare legislation, and that no one could foresee all of its destructive effects.  When asked whether certain aspects of Obamacare are unconstitutional, Mrs. Pelosi said, in effect, that there are no limits on government power; the Federal government (provided that it is in the hands of liberal-progressives) can do whatever it deems desirable.

Ravening Wolf at America's Door.  In open societies where the masses go about the daily grind of getting by, the Marxists are out there turning society upside-down.  Wrong is presented as right; evil as good.  Once enough tables have been sufficiently turned upside-down, the Marxists turn around and blame it on the other side.  Above all else the Marxists excel at the fine art of projection.  Because they lack empathy of others, and like textbook psychopaths have no conscience, they don't even mind getting caught.

Libs Always Put Government First.  Edmund Burke said that "The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse," and also that "the people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."  Liberals today suffer under the delusion that giving more power to the government somehow advances human happiness, without recognizing the abuses that come as a result.

Geronimo and Osama.  In Religious Left mythology, the U.S. is an endlessly and uniquely hegemonic power whose crimes began with the suppression of the original tribal peoples, for which we should endlessly seek atonement.  As with many myths, there's a bit of truth here.  But this particular myth neglects to admit that the original tribal peoples were themselves perpetually warring against each other, and exterminating each other, many centuries before any European arrived.  All nations and cultures everywhere were founded amid conquest and blood, for better or worse.  While traditional Christians can readily acknowledge the sinfulness of all humanity, Religious Left utopians struggle with this admission, preferring to demonize impersonal systems:  militarism, imperialism, capitalism, Western Civilization.

The Danger in Severing God from America's Identity.  It is beyond dispute that there is a link between socialism and American progressivism.  Both flawed ideologies are predicated upon the soundness of a large and powerful government designed to disperse the fruits of labor by seizing means and property from the productive.  And as many conservatives are quick to point out, nothing could be more antithetical to the ideals scribed in the Constitution.  But beyond the insidious application of socialism under the less condemning titles of "progressivism" and "social justice," the liberal left poses another threat to America that is less defended.  It has, for over a century, laid perpetual siege upon Christianity, seeking to excise all Christian influence from American government and its institutions piecemeal, from banning prayer in schools to seeking taxpayer-funded abortions.

Why Liberals See Taxes as a Holy Sacrament & How This Destroys America:  Perpetual deficits can only lead to fiscal insolvency.  Yet, liberals claim towering public debt is efficacious, a sacred talisman, magically creating prosperity and peace.  But, if better societies resulted simply from massive government wealth confiscation, paradise would have flourished in Russia, instead of the smoldering hell on earth the Marxists created.  Bizarrely, leftist politicians warn we cannot stop spending tidal waves of borrowed money or unacceptable injustices will occur.  The misuse of tax policy to create certain economic death for America meant to push us into socialism is the topic of this essay.

Trump and Obama's Brittle Narrative:  [Scroll down]  I do believe that since the Democratic Party has become a full-fledged socialist party, Republicans do a grave disservice to this Country by continuing to believe that this is not the case and that Democrats can be compromised with, in the matter of just how fast they get us to the end goal of complete socialist utopia.  I truly believe that it is insane to continue to pursue the same policies which have literally destroyed the once-great Western European democracies.

The Toxic Influence of Progressive Education Schools on K-12 Curricula.  [Scroll down]  Progressive politicians came to view society as a hodge-podge of racial, ethnic, gender-based, and now also sexual orientation-based groups locked in zero-sum combat with Western whites.  Generally speaking, cultural Marxism's indoctrinees have learned to view morality and knowledge as "constructs" and social and economic power as commodities to be transferred from "oppressor" to "oppressed."  Progressives routinely label minorities as oppressed and anything that benefits minorities as moral. Such thinking dominates the Democrat party platform.

Taxes On Everything.  As Americans scramble to file their taxes, the second-ranking Senate Democrat plans legislation to tax cyberspace.  Liberals seem willing to tax anything that moves — and even some things that don't.

The Democrats' Shameful Rhetoric.  For the left in recent years, none of these legitimate forms of argument have been an option.  This is because the left is fundamentally lacking in ideas.  The "truths" that the left relies on are intellectually specious.  These fraudulent ideas include the notion that all human beings have a right to an equal share of society's wealth; that government exists to control the lives of its citizens and to redistribute wealth; and that these principles are universal and so must involve the redistribution of wealth from rich nations to poor ones.  None of these truths are self-evident to anyone except ideologues on the left.

Blind Leftist Devotion to Obama Results From Marxist Critical Theory.  Obama's willing army of imbeciles, who see the world through self-righteous and simplistic lenses, are everywhere in universities, media sites, and in the corridors of power.  They have already jettisoned logic and traditional ideas eons ago, and now simply long to be of use to our intellectually-challenged commander in chief as he plots his inane assault against the history, mission and future of the USA.

Inflating Our Way to a Government-Controlled Economy.  Spiraling food prices, record energy costs and federally mandated health insurance reflect this Administration's slavish ideological devotion to the centralized planning of key sectors of the American economy.  So, what are the current results of Obama's indoctrination of America into progressive collectivism?  Global food costs have risen an astonishing 29% in the past year, and almost 4% a month between October and January of 2011.  Retail prices for gasoline have doubled in the 26 months since Obama was inaugurated.  And the Democratic majorities in Congress passed a mandated health insurance bill that is not only unconstitutional, but also riddled with exemptions, political payoffs while adding 159 new boards, commissions and programs.

Some Want Their Freedom, Some Fear It.  The conflict between liberals and conservatives in America is an ideological one.  When our Founders came to this continent, they created a country where all men could live free and unimpaired by an all-powerful government.  But living free also requires every adult to accept personal responsibility for his or her own lives and well-being.  This is where conservatives and liberal part company.

On the Road to An Idiocracy.  If we are to avoid killing off all our brain cells we need to start asking "why" more often than we do.  Why do we have to replace incandescent light bulbs with ones that contain toxic mercury?  Is it because they are made in China?  Where is the word "abortion" in the Constitution?  The taxpayers fund Planned Parenthood abortions — why?  The constitution does include the right to bear arms so why are there so many laws against them?  Why do we spend so much money on bottled water when our city has the best tasting water anywhere and is perfectly safe?  Who's making money off of these health scares?

Clash for America's soul.  The left is lobbing nukes into the institution of marriage and the military.  Obamacare is going forward, complete with funding for abortion and massive increases in the size of the already enormous Department of Health and Human Services.  Defunding this increasingly unpopular power grab should be in every budget bill — but it's not.

Sen. Lautenberg: GOPers "Don't Deserve Freedoms In The Constitution".  U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) stood with, and was applauded by, Planned Parenthood supporters and state lawmakers and said, "They [Tea Party Republicans and the majority of Americans who don't want their tax dollars funding Planned Parenthood] don't deserve the freedoms in the Constitution, but we'll give it to them anyway."

Democratic Socialists of America reach their goal ahead of time.  DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) is the largest socialist organization outside of the CPUSA (Communist Party U.S.A.) honest enough not to masquerade as something other than what they are.  In 1997 DSA goals to attain by 2017 included:  ["]A U.S. President from the Progressive Caucus, a 50 member socialist caucus in Congress, successful programs of the likes of universal health care, progressive taxation, social provision and campaign finance reform.["]  Little could they have known that almost a decade before their deadline, they would have practically achieved every one of their stated goals.

The "redevelopment" hoax:  If development is considered to be so bad, why is redevelopment considered to be good, by many of the same people?  Redevelopment imposes the supposedly superior wisdom and virtue of an elite on the rest of us.  That is its ideological appeal to self-congratulatory elites.  Its political appeal is more mundane.  By bulldozing low-income neighborhoods and replacing them with upscale malls and condos, local political leaders get more tax money into their coffers, offering more opportunities for them to do things that enhance their chances of being reelected.

The bullies' many pulpits:  Rep. Jackie Speier is on a crusade to use the U.S. government to stamp out bullying in America. ... I'm not sure where the Constitution legitimates such a sweeping directive, but it's probably in one of the penumbras emanating from the Preamble's General Welfare Clause.  Once you create giant Washington bureaucracies, you can use the clause to justify almost anything — from forcing poison light bulbs down our throats to dictating schoolyard behavior.

Just sit in the dark.  For "progressives," few things are as virtuous as sacrifice.  Especially if it's someone else doing the sacrificing.  Thus, in the wake of Japan's nuclear crisis, you just know they'll be calling for less nuke power and greater energy-conservation efforts (preferably, by you).  Oh, the glory of deprivation.  It's music to a monk's ears:  We'll all have to make do with less!  This is progressives' idea of "progress."

Confiscate Americans' Wealth to Pay Government Workers?  Even the most jaded of true-believers on the Left knows that confiscating the wealth and taxing what they consider to be unjust income would be self-defeating.  What could be done one time can never be repeated and there would be no one to create jobs or a higher standard of living for the overall citizenry, particularly those on the left side of the ruling class.  A cursory study of the experiences in the Soviet Union, Mao's Red China and Cuba among others reveals that government control of the means of production and wealth creation is a massive failure.

Gov't That Governs The Least Is One Americans Want Most.  Overall, nearly six in 10 (59%) Americans surveyed in February think the federal government has too much power, 31% believe it has the right amount of power and 7% say it has too little power.  Not surprisingly, 83% of Republicans and 72% of conservatives believe the government is too powerful.  But 64% of independents and 62% of moderates feel the same way.  Majorities of Democrats (52%) and liberals (54%) think the government has the right amount of power.

The Vanishing Constitution.  The federal government has increasingly assumed unlimited powers and acted against the will of the people.  When they can't legislate, they regulate.  The attitude is:  We know you don't want it, but we are going to force it on you anyway.  Who are you to know what is best for you?  You are just a pesky voter.  We are entitled to discount what you say because you cannot possibly grasp our progressive agenda.  Progressives began the gradual erosion of constitutional principles around the beginning of the 20th century.  The goal?  To impose their superior wisdom on the rest of us.  The way progressives measure progress is by moving up from the vision of the founding fathers.  But the Constitution gets in the way with its restrictions on the arbitrary powers of government.  So it must be bypassed.

The Cheesehead Rubicon.  In 2008, 56 percent of Wisconsin voters supported Barack Obama for president.  In 2009, Wisconsin's Democratic governor and Democratic Legislature passed legislation that raised taxes and fees by about $1.2 billion over three years.  State lawmakers approved the bill on the very day it was introduced, with no public hearing.  Remember that.

What will they call themselves if they can't use 'liberal' or 'progressive?'  Uh oh, this is bad news for folks formerly known as "liberals," then as "progressives."  Seems Rasmussen Reports finds that "conservative" is the most positively viewed political label, while "liberal" and "progressive" are in the negative.

Unionized Public Servants Meet Their Enemy.  Upon reflection, we find that the liberal policies that led to these generous civil service compensation time bombs are in many ways the very reason that that they have become unaffordable.  Consider:  [#1] To fund a huge civil service, you need a huge tax base, but the crippling red tape and rules produced by this huge civil service of regulation-generators have driven employers and jobs overseas at a frenetic pace, stunting the growth of that critical tax base.  [#2] To finance a pension plan, you set aside money every year, and invest it in the stock market; but the recent assault on the private sector has robbed those Wall Street investments of their expected growth...

Government Worker Unions: The Long Good-bye.  The Democratic Party has sold its soul to the public sector unions.  In the 2010 mid-term election, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees poured over $87 million dollars into the election.  (A new spending record).  AFSCME's $87 million was greater than the campaign spending by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ($75 million) and American Crossroads ($65 million).  Other public sector unions also ratcheted up their spending such as SEIU ($44 million) and the National Education Association ($40 million).  The three major public sector unions spent over $171 million in the 2010 election plus an estimated $250 million equivalent value of so-called volunteer activity such as get out the vote efforts, door-to-door campaigning and poll watching.

How to Get Rich from Liberal Delusions.  Global warming fraud is now in the midst of a slow collapse.  The Chicago Carbon Exchange just closed, because the investors figured out the scam.  But the list of liberal crazes is long, and we can expect the media to make up ever-new headlines to keep their business model alive. ... It was socialist Europe that made up global warming, and turned Mad Cow into a mass hysteria.  You can bet that the big investors had it figured out long before things got rolling.  Then there is the Chevy Volt, a fantasy "hybrid," financed in part by thirteen trillion tax dollars from Obama.  There will be huge government subsidies for electrical charging stations to juice up your golf cart every forty miles.  So invest in golf cart technology.  Then there is ZeroCare, Bee Colony Collapse disease, and flesh-eating bacteria.

Outwitting Lethal Government Policies.  Over the past fifty years, at least a half-million Americans, and perhaps many more, have died prematurely due to ill-designed and badly executed liberal programs.  The causes, as I reveal in detail in Death by Liberalism, range from the criminal justice "reforms" of the 1960s, which triggered a crime wave that that killed up to 268,000 Americans, to government-mandated fuel standards responsible for up to 125,000 lives.  At least a thousand people are murdered each year by the derelict insane, with many deinstitutionalized lunatics dying as well, giving us a total of as many as 70,000 deaths.

Ceteris Paribus:  The hidden killer in Washington.
 The Tragedy of CP.  Consider the following short sample of outcomes resulting from CP naïvité and the numerous variables that (predictably) refuse to remain constant:
  •   Legislation requiring increased auto mileage reduced the cost of driving and doubled miles driven, leaving oil imports unaffected;
  •   The same legislation requiring increased auto mileage resulted in lighter cars and increased traffic deaths, specifically an additional 7,700 deaths per gained mile per gallon;
  •   Welfare policies prescribing greater welfare payments for single mothers with more children resulted in an increase in out-of-wedlock births;
  •   ObamaCare's requiring numerous costly additions to health insurance policies and capping insurance rates resulted in insurance companies' dropping coverage and beneficiaries;
  •   The Illinois legislature's raising state income taxes 67% resulted in surrounding states' courting Illinois businesses and a likely contraction of the Illinois tax base; and
  •   Finally, in a still developing but particularly sad example, a group of critically ill CP patients at the East Anglia Research Unit apparently ignored the sun and clouds in an attempt to explain temperature changes. These poor patients went to all lengths of fraud to perpetuate their delusion. If asked, any healthy person would have certainly cautioned against assuming away the sun.

The Taming of the Masses.  One of the most dangerous strategies of the totalitarians in our midst is the deliberate confusion they create around the notion of totalitarianism.  Only a fraction of "educated" people know that so-called "right-wing" fascists and "left-wing" socialists historically occupy the same end of the sociopolitical spectrum.  The reason most people don't know this is because for eighty years, the "left" has engaged in a campaign to disguise the fact that it is fundamentally a totalitarian movement.

Socialism Is Back.  Even in its more dispersed modern forms, socialist central planning is fairly easy to spot, because it has an easily identifiable signature:  failure.  Socialism reliably produces economic failures when applied nationally (the USSR, China, India, Chile, Vietnam), when applied in modified forms across mixed economies (post-war Britain's nationalized industries), and when applied to particular sectors within largely capitalist economies (national health-care programs).

Progressive Education:  Of all the misnomers of our political vocabulary, "progressive" is the most abusive and the most abused.  "Progressive" is the accepted term for the political left today, just as it was 50 years ago, when it was used as a self-description by Communists and fellow-travelers who sought its protective cover even as they supported the most oppressive regimes in human history.  In the later years of the Cold War, it was the term of choice for liberals as well, who thought that the Soviet system was "converging" with Reagan's America, just before the Communist fall.  One of the more interesting characteristics of progressives is the way they seem to learn nothing from their experience, confounding the very idea of progress as a process of escaping from the myths of the past and acquiring knowledge.

Government as a Criminal Enterprise.  How long can a nation survive when its east and west coasts are occupied by liberals who are so out of touch with reality they cannot understand why the rest of the nation would disagree with them about anything?  Two States alone, California and New York, are so broke and so laden with red tape they exist by mercy alone.  Liberals are people who still think bigger government, more regulations and more spending is the answer to every problem and need.  These are people who still talk about "global warming", often in the midst of a raging blizzard.

Roll Back the Hippie Damage.  Conservative America has been witness to the cultural damage and decay perpetrated on it by the left since the 1960s.  We have stood back with jaw agape at the horrifying images of the American family disintegrating and drug use soaring, while the liberals nod approvingly and call it "progress."  This is astonishing.  Without further investigation into their motives, you would think that they are simply trying to destroy our culture simply because they are hateful.  It makes one wonder.  Who in his right mind would consider rising drug use and overdoses "progress"?  Who in his right mind would consider an epidemic of broken homes "progress"?  What woman in her right mind would consider the over-sexualization of females a good thing?

Death by Liberalism.  The soft lethality of liberalism is a result of that saddest of English phrases:  "unintended consequences."  Liberal politicians, academics, and operatives want to do good.  They want to benefit Americans and the country as a whole.  They want to do it their way, through large-scale governmental policy.  They know exactly how it is to be done, and they will brook no interference.  So they set out on their grand schemes, and it ends, always and without exception, in disaster.  Some of those disasters go over the line into something resembling mass negligent homicide:  the legal procedural revolution, the DDT ban, CAFE fuel standards, federalized child protection, deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill, and gun-free zones, to mention only a few.

Getting Back On The Bicycle.  In a genuinely moral society, progressivism would be dead in the water.  This is why the "anything goes," overwhelmingly secular model on which progressivism relies, must be kept alive at all costs.  Religion codifies morality, which is why, especially in the case of Christianity, it is treated with contempt by so many on the Left.

Liberal Seek Ban on Metaphors In Wake of Arizona Shooting.  After the monstrous shooting in Arizona last week, surely we can all agree that we've got to pass Obama's agenda immediately and stop using metaphors.  At least I think that's what the mainstream media are trying to tell me.

Chafee to Issue Talk Radio Ban.  State officials in Rhode Island will soon be ordered to stay off the airways, provided the interviewer happens to be a talk show host.  A spokesman for Gov. Lincoln Chafee tells the Providence Journal that talk radio is essentially "ratings-driven, for-profit programming," and "we don't think it is appropriate to use taxpayer resources" to have state employees use work time to "support for-profit, ratings-driven programming."

Plan would treat animal abusers like sex offenders.  People convicted of felony animal cruelty offenses would have to register just like sex offenders do under a proposal being pushed by Houston Rockets owner Les Alexander.  Alexander is one of the advocates hoping lawmakers take time to focus on animal welfare in the upcoming legislative session.

The Stealthy Spread of Socialism in the U.S..  The biggest challenge facing Republicans in the 112th Congress is not Barack Obama.  It is not Harry Reid and the Democrat-controlled Senate.  It isn't high unemployment, repealing ObamaCare, the threat of Islamism and shariah in America, the deficit, or the looming insolvency of several (mostly blue) states.  These, broadly speaking, are symptoms.  The disease is socialism or, at the very least, a pervasive socialistic mindset.

Bootleg Lightbulbs Coming to California.  Old reliable, the 100-watt light bulb — safe, cheap, and bright enough to read, write, cook, shave, and put on your makeup by, will be gone January 1.  The California Energy Commission in September 2010 published its 226-page Appliance Efficiency Regulations, whereby the 100-watt incandescent light bulb will be outlawed at midnight on December 31, 2010.  Californians with self-imposed rationing, running out of both energy and common sense, have declared that consuming electrical power is a social vice.  Electric power must be curbed, along with banning Dr. Pepper and Happy Meals.  And it's not just light bulbs.  These appliance standards will regulate and ban hundreds of products including...

What to Ask Progressives.  Dear Americans, these are some questions I have collected in 16 years of living in your country.
  • Ever noticed that for the past thirty years, we've been hearing we have less than ten years to save the planet?
  • When the media portrays the killing of terrorists as "slaughter of civilians," while slaughter of civilians is portrayed as "resistance to occupation," is the media really being neutral?  Whose side are they really on?
  • If Hollywood types are so opposed to capitalism, why is there a warning against unauthorized distribution of their movies?
  • Why is experimenting on animals cruel, but experimenting on human embryos compassionate?
  • How come industrial logging is a crime against nature, but the destruction of forests by wildfires is a natural cycle of life?

To congressional Democrats:  Merry Christmas, and thanks for nothing.  Dear Pelosi/Reid Congress — In the words of the monotonously repetitive holiday song, I want to wish you a merry Christmas.  What a distinguished record you have amassed:  The stimulus, which added, oh, about $1 trillion to the deficit and did not, as heralded, either end the recession or drive down unemployment.  [And] Obamacare, which, if it ever takes full effect, will impersonalize and socialize medicine along the lines of the European model and create government medicine with the regulatory hammer of the Internal Revenue Service and all the efficiencies of the Postal Service.

What Do Liberals Have To Show For 50 Years Of Horrible Policies?  [Scroll down]  When President Lyndon Johnson launched his "War on Poverty," the poverty rate was trending down.  When he offered money and benefits to unmarried women, the rate started flat-lining.  Women married the government, allowing men to abandon their moral and financial responsibilities.  The percentage of children born outside of marriage — to young, disproportionately uneducated and disproportionately brown and black women — exploded.

More about Poverty and Dependency in America.

Nancy Pelosi: A Ruler of Fools.  Nancy Pelosi doesn't have much longer as Speaker of the House.  But if there's one constant in our ever-changing world, it's that Pelosi will remain unconscionable until the gavel is wrested from her hand.  During a recent speech on the House floor, she expressed opinions about unemployment insurance and tax policy that seem irrational even for her.  Pelosi supports extending unemployment insurance beyond the current 99-week limit.  To substantiate her position, she touted unemployment benefits as a burgeoning economic catalyst.  All we need do is and tap into their power.  Pelosi informed Congress that "[u]nemployment insurance ... returns two dollars for every one dollar that is put out there."  A two-dollar return for every one invested is a lofty promise.

The Left's Politics of Retribution.  Disproportionately taxing the wealthy is a critical plank in the ideology of the left, and the reason for that is simple.  When liberals think of George Bush, they think of big business destroying society.  When they think of big business destroying society, they think of rich, corporate fat cats.  And as much as they would love to, they are unable to send George Bush to the poor house, so settling the score with the rich, corporate fat cats is the next best thing.  That's what it is all about:  retribution.

The Constitution keeps getting in the way of the left's agenda.  On December 13, 2010, U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson signed a Memorandum Opinion declaring unconstitutional a key provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 — better known as ObamaCare. ... The core issue examined by Judge Hudson was whether or not Congress has the power to regulate — and tax — a citizen's decision not to participate in interstate commerce, to wit, the purchase of insurance.  Judge Henry correctly points out in his decision that no reported case from any federal appellate court in history has extended the Commerce Clause to include the regulation of a person's decision not to purchase a product — notwithstanding its effect on interstate commerce.

Behind the broccoli: Liberalism's war on liberty.  ObamaCare and the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 are the things that expose modern liberalism for the iron fist in the velvet glove.  Can't feed yourself?  Dinner's on us.  Out of work?  We'll pay you to stay unemployed.  After all, you're too stupid to make your own best decisions in what used to be personal matters.  All we ask in exchange for your freedom is your vote.

Reid threatens to keep Congress into next year.  Forget about going quietly into the night.  Senate Democrats on Tuesday unveiled a broad agenda for an end-of-session sprint that, in other years, could be a whole year's worth of activity — ranging from an arms-reduction treaty with Russia to a major immigration bill to overturning the ban on gay troops.  And that's not to mention the nearly 2,000-page, $1.1 trillion massive spending bill Senate Democrats said they'll try to push through.

The Modern Left (Unmasked).  The left embraces "social justice," a concept in which the State — not the individual, guided by the Constitution or any god — is the ultimate authority to determine the best interest of its wards.  The intent is to subvert the "evils" of the marketplace and create an "equal opportunity" for all citizens to be entitled to a piece — not merely a chance at a piece — of the pie.  Further, top proponents hold that the State should manufacture the condition through legislation, progressive taxation, and the redistribution of wealth.

Leasing Your Life From The State.  One of the many beneficial side effects of driving Democrats out of power is that they become more open about their beliefs when they're panicked.  Such a moment came on Megyn Kelly's Fox News program on Wednesday [12/8/2010], when Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY) freaked out over the estate tax. ... This is one of the purest expressions of reflexive Marxist impulse in recent memory.  You don't own anything in the mind of the Democrat Party.  It all belongs to the State, and it always did.  You are allowed to keep what our wise and benevolent masters decide to let you keep, and when you die, they're entitled to take it all back.

Eco-Diplomacy, The Chicago Way.  Confronted with a demonstrably cooling planet and a corrupt and fraudulent global climate-change bureaucracy, our government is reduced to bribes and coercion to cobble together a new agreement.  In the absence of sound science and a rationale for committing global economic suicide, we are quite simply trying to make the world an offer it can't refuse.

FCC proposal to regulate news draws fire.  Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) pushed back on Monday [12/6/2010] against a contention by a Democratic FCC commissioner that the government should create new regulations to promote diversity in news programming.  Barton was reacting to a proposal made last week by FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, who in a speech suggested that broadcasters be subject to a new "public values test" every four years.

The Unemployment Crisis Catch-22.  The historical facts are quite clear on the subject:  lowering tax rates always results in economic growth by leaving more investment resources in the private sector, where real jobs must be created.  Lower tax rates have always resulted in increased tax revenue streams by way of economic expansion.  So why are Democrats so committed to raising taxes?

The Great Weaponless Conquest of America.  An ambitious man or men, need not shed blood anymore, to conquer a nation.  They only need to exploit man's ignorance and stupidity and his inability to be aware of what goes on around him.  First, they infiltrate government at every level with their trained followers and set their agenda with new law, after new law.  Increasing control of the masses, over a long period of time is their goal.  They don't need guns to control the people, they only need willing subjects who are looking the other way.  Second, they take control of the news media and the venues of information and feed the people what the patient, silent conquerors want them to know.  Third, with the help of the government that they now control, they establish "their" curriculum in the public schools and colleges, pumping out brainwashed converts with each graduating class.

Union Member Advocates for End of Capitalism, Private Property Rights.  Calling for civil unrest and the end to private property rights, Sharon Black of the Baltimore All-Peoples Congress, tried desperately to rouse communists and socialists everywhere at the Workers World Party's annual conference on November 13th and 14th in New York City.  Black — whose name is a fitting one for her dark agenda — wants an end to capitalism and the United States of America and yearns for a return to the glory days of the Soviet Union.

Thirty-six Reasons to Vote Democrat.  [#5] If you want to pay through the nose in taxes until you are 70 so union thugs in purple shirts can retire in security at age 50 — vote Democrat.  [#6] If you like the fact that people who actually know the Constitution get laughed at by people who are ignorant of it — vote Democrat.  [#7] If you want the entire country to be like Detroit, Philadelphia, New York, New Orleans, Chicago — vote Democrat.

Waiting for the King's Return.  In post-election reality, it does not really matter how many seats the Republicans won, it matters only if they will do something meaningful to halt the progress of the Socialist Transformation of America to One World Government.

'Progressive' Is a Funny Name for Poverty!  The slogans of Big Brother's ruling party in George Orwell's 1984 included Love is Hate and War is Peace.  Today's leftists unwinding the country back to pre-constitutional poverty call themselves Progressives.  They are truly Regressives, but perhaps truth is too hard for politicians.  The original thirteen colonies encouraged using free-standing timber for energy to promote development; later governments promoted coal, then oil and hydroelectric power for the same reasons.  That, along with promoting roads and railroads, provided for the industrialization of North America, the process that produced American wealth.  Our Progressives despise all that.

Incrementalism:
 Conservatism's Boll Weevil.  Initially defined during the Cold War, the salami principle is an analogy reflecting the way in which liberals have historically advanced their agenda.  No sensible individual would eat an entire salami in one sitting.  By cutting it into thin slices and feeding it to a person over time, though, it can be entirely consumed.  The same has been true with liberal policy.  Although the complete platform would be repugnant to the majority of the people, much of it has been achieved through small steps over time.

Obama's Grand Strategic Error.  The grand strategy of the Chicago socialist community was Leninist:  the worse the better.  Lefty thinkers at the Midwest Academy dreamed up plans that would destabilize capitalism and then destroy it.  Community-organizing outfits like ACORN would bully the banks and flood the mortgage market with dead-beat borrowers.  Same thing on health care.  They would load up the insurance companies with mandatory benefits and crash the health care industry.  A frightened populace would demand a government takeover of housing or health care, and bingo:  full socialism in America.

Unions target your private retirement savings.  Will the government outlaw your 401(k) plan?  It seems like an absurd possibility, yet earlier this month two Democratic senators, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., held a hearing on Capitol Hill exploring the possibility of doing exactly that.

Obama Battles Reagan.  One suspects that Ronald Reagan would not be surprised by the rise of Barack Obama.  Nor would he ever believe that the fight is over, regardless of who wins and who loses on Election Day of 2010.  The human urge to grimly control others, to force, to dominate, to suppress personal freedom and individual excellence in the name of the common good has always been and will always be among us.  He would surely not be surprised to know that the American people in 2010 — now understanding the Obama agenda for exactly what it means — are in open rebellion against that agenda.

The Inexplicables.  Barack Obama entered office; nationalized health care; ran up record $1 trillion deficits; promised to hike taxes on the rich; pushed cap and trade through the House; took over large chunks of banks, insurance companies, and auto corporations; made hard-left appointments from Van Jones to Sonia Sotomayor ... Yet if one were to read mainstream Democratic analysis, there is almost no acknowledgment that the party has become far too liberal.

You Just Might Be a Marxist.  While [these] are intrinsically Marxist notions, many hold them who do not consider themselves Marxists.
  •  If you believe, as the president does, that "it's good for everyone when we spread the wealth around," you might be a Marxist.
  •  If you believe that "the rich" don't "need" tax rate reductions, you might be a Marxist.
  •  If you believe that, at some point, other people have "made enough money," you might be a Marxist.
  •  If you believe that there is a floor on the value of everyone's labor, and it is a single number applicable in every state of the union, regardless of the cost of living, then you might be a Marxist.
  •  If you believe that unemployment checks are the surest, fastest way to stimulate the economy, you might be a Marxist.

Time to rebuke the radical Democrats.  The Democratic Party is now an agent of European soft socialism — not the sort that wishes to own the means of production, but the model that wants taxes very high, and to make public benefits ubiquitous, if not very satisfactory.  It is run by an elite with more than enough personal assets to enjoy comfort and ease despite the double-digit unemployment their policies have brought about, and to avoid the lines that Obamacare imposes while accessing whatever drugs and surgeries aren't available on the non-Cadillac health care plans they have mandated.  This is the Democratic Party of anti-Israel gestures and pro-ground zero mosque declarations.  Its enemies are the Fox News Channel, Catholic bishops who believe in their catechism, entrepreneurs who want to reinvest their profits, and parents who want their kids out of the classrooms of lousy teachers and out of the schools of lousy principals.

An Open Letter to Rush Limbaugh and His Listeners.  [Scroll down]  This was solidified for me on Christmas Eve of last year, when Democrats rushed Obamacare through the Senate in the dead of night, through various secret channels, and every single Democrat voted for its passage (even supposed moderates like Evan Bayh in Indiana, who quickly realized his vote would cost him re-election ... so the coward retired rather then face angry voters over what he did).  I just don't believe Democrats should be given elected office by voters because they cannot be trusted to even read bills before they vote on them, not even when said bills seek to permanently alter the entire American economy.  This is reckless and reprehensible to the point of treason.  I was a Democrat for 32 years before the heavy-handed push for Obama alienated me from the party...

Outsourcing Myths.  In the 2004 election, with the economy in full recovery mode, Democrats launched an all-out attack on outsourcing to win votes.  It didn't work.  This year, in a much weaker economy, they're trying again.

Liberals at War With Liberty.  Liberals have been seducing Americans out of their liberties for decades with false promises of security.  Prior to Obama, we were on a slow march toward statism, but now we are on a rapid gallop.  That's mostly what next week's congressional elections will be about.  Ordinary Americans are horrified and outraged that Obama and his enablers in Congress are fundamentally transforming America from a beacon of liberty to a bankrupt socialist state.

Socialism and Reality.  They Hate Our Guts and They're Drunk on Power.  Democrats hate Democrats most of all.  Witness the policies that Democrats have inflicted on their core constituencies, resulting in vile schools, lawless slums, economic stagnation, and social immobility.  Democrats will do anything to make sure that Democratic voters stay helpless and hopeless enough to vote for Democrats.

Those Dirty Democrats.  The Democrats have been the ones who, with a mandate after the 2008 election, contributed and exacerbated the economic crisis.  Barack promised unification, but has divided.  The Democrats slammed a healthcare travesty down our throats without any hesitation or consideration and thought that the American people would just take it.  But, as polls show, we simply won't.  The Democrats have no agenda and with their backs against the wall, they must lash out and denigrate and smear their way to Election Day, in the hopes of preventing an outright slaughter.

They're Not Socialists.  All statism is built upon a rationalization of apparently noble ideals; perfecting human nature, helping the oppressed, lifting the poor out of misery, alleviating unemployment, and so on.  Some people see themselves as doing good through the use of force, benevolent dictators, so to speak, and the more good the better, according to their line of thinking.  The more sincere, helpful, and energetic the statist sees himself or herself, however, the more people suffer.  Stalin, Mao, and Hitler all thought they were doing humanity, or at least a portion of humanity, a tremendous favor.  Robert Mugabe and Fidel Castro justify the poverty and oppression of the people in Zimbabwe and Cuba on the basis of fairness and equity.

Keen Graphs of the Obvious.  Not to put too fine a point on it:  liberals have been wrong about almost everything, and conservatives have been right about almost everything, at least in my lifetime (half a century).  That goes not only for the economy, the role of government, and climate change, but also for many "social issues" as well.
 •  The death penalty seems to actually deter murder.
 •  Higher rates of handgun ownership do not appear to cause more crime.
 •  Putting more people in prison seems to reduce crime.
 •  Increased concealed carry of handguns by law-abiding citizens coincides with reduced homicide rates.
 •  The nuclear family is disappearing, yet the safest place for a child is in the home of her married, biological parents. A child is also less likely to be poor if her parents are married.

Sherman's March.  A California congressman wants to eliminate right-to-work laws in 22 states where workers don't have to join unions.  If even-higher unemployment is his goal, he has the right idea.

Obama's Post-Election Attack Plan.  Just in case you have not heard the news, Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are gearing up for the mother of all battles just after the election.  They know that the American people are about to go to the polls and hand them a massive repudiation of their left-wing agenda, and they're not happy.  Refusing to accept defeat, these three are planning a counter attack.  Instead of taking to heart the unmistakable message of the American people, they're moving, full steam ahead, in the opposite direction.

If You Are Not a Leftist, Why Are You Voting Democrat?  The Democratic Party is now America's version of a European Social Democratic or even Green Party.  In domestic policy, there is no significant difference between the American and European parties.

Interview with Sally Pipes on ObamaCare at Six Months.  [Scroll down]  "I would say the mainstream media, of course, always likes to increase the role of government in our lives, and Obama, Pelosi, and Reid believe that government can make decisions for the American people better than we can make for ourselves.  It's an ideological vision that they have, and that is not the American way.

The Biggest Target is Liberalism.  The [Obama] administration has reached back to the New Deal, the British National Health Service, and the Great Society for its "new, unheralded policies" to overcome our current problems.  It seems that no policy or concept is too antiquated, over the hill, or moribund for the Obama administration.  All these programs have been repeatedly discredited.  Like other collectivist, state-oriented ideologies, liberalism degrades by encouraging the lowest expressions of behavior — greed, hatred, and envy.  Liberalism robs all levels of society to fund its efforts — and not only contemporary society, but generations to come, yea, even unto the grandchildren's grandchildren.  Liberalism destroys entire social networks — unions, the educational system, and today, even the military, along with neighborhoods and cities such as Detroit, Newark, East St. Louis, and Camden.

'Crazy' Or Finally Wise To Elite Agenda?  'Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed," said Charles Krauthammer in a recent column, pointing out that overwhelming majorities of Americans have repudiated liberal agenda items such as:  ObamaCare, Obama's stimulus, building an Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero, redefinition of marriage to include same-sex marriage, lax immigration law enforcement and vast expansion of federal power that includes unprecedented debt and deficits.  The nation's elite and the news media see being against the Obama-led agenda as being racist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, mean-spirited and insensitive.

The Gospel of Obama.  My story is not an unusual one; it is typical among most of the liberals I know.  I see the same behavior patterns and mindset in those around me.  Thus, liberals are determined to become model, global citizens.  They've morphed into politically correct zealots, the ones who proselytize their faith with hardcore fanaticism.  By doing so, they wash away their sins.  When a culture banishes God as the ultimate arbiter, a guilt-ridden populace is the inevitable outcome.  And stripped of God, what other path is there to liberation than liberalism?

Reaping the Whirlwind.  There is a sense of foreboding rising in this country. ... Our prosperity, our security, and even our safety are fast fading away.  Our own president and his party are facilitating our demise.  The signs are everywhere.  Every new piece of backroom congressional legislation chips away at a few more freedoms, undermining our republic by preventing open and honest debate.  Behind the scenes, Obama's henchmen wield sledgehammers against free commerce, gun ownership, freedom of speech, and energy.  The billions in taxpayer money going to leftist and socialist organizations cement their toxic influence into the very fabric of our government.

By Any Means Possible — The American Civil War of 2010.  For readers not so inclined to delve into the history of Marxism, while the theories of setting the working class free at the demise of the rich may sound glamorous in theory, the application of true Marxism by Communist countries — dating as far back as the turn of the twentieth century — has resulted in the loss of millions of lives, as well as ecological ruin.

Words sugarcoat politicians' bad ideas.  [Scroll down]  Take the simple phrase "rent control."  If you take these words literally — as if they were money in the bank — you get a complete distortion of reality.  New York is the city with the oldest and strongest rent control laws in the nation.  San Francisco is second.  But if you look at cities with the highest average rents, New York is first and San Francisco is second.  Obviously, "rent control" laws do not control rent.

Send In the Clowns.  When liberal Democrats hold to their views that higher taxes and more government spending are the way to revive an economy, they acquire no negative labeling.  In fact, they are no longer referred to as liberals, but as "progressives."  Who could be against progress?  Which is the point of the word.  When their policy fails to produce the announced results, they are not called fanatics, but remain progressives.  Liberals who refuse to admit their misplaced faith in Keynsian economics when it doesn't work are like cult members whose misplaced faith has been exposed as bogus.  In fact, liberals dig in their heels claiming it isn't that too much has been spent, but too little.

Barack Obama Vs. Majority Public Opinion.  Obama chose the most left-wing Supreme Court justice in history, Elena Kagan.  He ignored the Gallup poll showing that 42% of Americans wanted a new Supreme Court justice who would move the court in the conservative direction, while only 27% wanted it to move more liberal.  Obama is even pressing for "card check," one of his many payoffs to the unions, even though 61% of Americans oppose this, according to Voter Consumer Research. Card check would make it easier for unions to organize workplaces by getting rid of the secret ballot.  Obama is still pushing cap-and-trade, which the voters have dubbed "cap and tax" because it will make electricity and all kinds of energy cost every American thousands of dollars a year.

Barack and Hillary:  Ideologically Identical.  The security of our nation is in danger as a direct result of the policies, ideology, and affiliations of our president.  Those who clamor for socialism despite its miserable track record invariably defend it by saying it simply wasn't implemented correctly.

Liberals Losing the Culture Wars.  This year, liberals demanded Americans respect the triumphalist mosque near Ground Zero as an expression of American commitment to religious freedom.  At the same time, liberals sued to remove a cross in a remote area of California's Mojave Desert and sponsored hate crime legislation that would put Christian pastors in jail for reading Biblical passages condemning homosexuality.  The hypocrisy had gone too far.

Socialist Party of America reveals 70 Democrats as belonging to their caucus.  Two things of note in this revelation.  The first is the astonishing number of Democratic House members who not only belong to the Socialist Party of America, but even more incredible, don't mind if people find out about it.

Obama Continues Pushing Absurd College Agenda.  Just like the notion that federal deficit spending will revive the economy, the idea that getting more young Americans through college will make the country more competitive and prosperous is utterly mistaken.  Of course, Obama will never abandon it.

The Unhealthy Motivations of Liberals.  In general, low self-esteem and a lack of self-love are the basis for the ideology of liberals.  Liberals are those who would use government to reduce the freedoms of some people to provide benefits for others.  Liberals argue for fairness and equality for all people, but neither is possible.

A Liberal Judge Lights a Fuse.  Look what the culture war has done to liberals.  Seventy years ago liberals set out to fight against the white Southern obsession with race.  Now, after America elected a black president, liberals can think of nothing but race.  An African American acquaintance confidently told me recently that opposition to President Obama was all about race.  Liberals have been fighting for half a century against "homophobia" by which I think they mean hatred rather than fear of homosexuals.  But a gay acquaintance recently told me how he "loathed" Sarah Palin.  Then there are the feminists.  It was the marginalization, the humiliation of women that brought them into the streets and the lobbies.  So what do they do?  They have gamed the education system to humiliate boys.

The Danger of a Government with Unlimited Power.  The fundamental thrust of governments such as that of President Obama is to abrogate the rights of private property, aiming at the holy grail of their secular religion:  redistribution of income and wealth to reduce everyone to an equally low state of economic equality.

Liberals?  Progressives?  Just Call Them Control Freaks.  Some advocates of big government now call themselves progressives — without specifying exactly where it is they want America to progress.  When that question is answered accurately, a better new name for liberals suggests itself:  Control Freaks.

America on the Brink.  When I read the title of [Terence P. Jeffrey]'s new book, "Control Freaks:  7 Ways Liberals Plan to Ruin Your Life," I didn't much care for the title.  Control Freaks  — a little too hyperbolic, maybe?  Then I read it.  There is no hyperbole here.  If anything, the problem's with the subtitle.  Liberals aren't planning to ruin our lives.  They're well on their way.

Reality and the American Left.  The 20% of the population who consider themselves Liberal or Progressive have succeeded in dominating not only government, but most of our institutions.  It is this domination that has led the United States to the brink of bankruptcy and societal upheaval.  Yet as a group, they are oblivious to the damage they are causing to a country which has given them so much and asked for so little in return.

Of Course Obama's a Socialist.  A hundred-odd years ago, everyone in the educated class from Boston Transcendentalists in the east to hard-drinking Jack London in the west wanted to be called socialists.  Then they decided they wanted to be called Progressives.  When "Progressive" became a dirty word, then the educated class wanted to be called liberals.  Of course, after a generation of liberal programs, liberal corruption, and liberal failure, "liberal" became a dirty word.  So liberals renamed themselves back to "progressive."  In the Vietnam War, liberals were proud to sneer at patriotism.  Now they throw a fit at anyone who questions their patriotism.

Will Senate Democrats Stifle Free Speech?  The DISCLOSE Act is a desperate attempt to influence the November elections, and minimize Democrat losses.  Senator Schumer and the legislation's other sponsors aim to have a law on the books that will take effect prior to November regardless of whether a regulatory system is in place to enforce the burdensome new reporting requirements.  The Act, its reporting burdens, and penalties are set to take effect 30 days after it has been signed by President Obama.

Beware The Dems' Lame-Duck Agenda.  As John Fund reports in the Wall Street Journal, Sens. Jay Rockefeller, Kent Conrad and Tom Harkin are already looking forward to what they might get passed in a lame-duck session.  Among the major items being considered are card-check, budget-balancing through major tax hikes and climate-change legislation involving heavy carbon taxes and regulation.  Card-check, which effectively abolishes the secret ballot in the workplace, is the fondest wish of a union movement to which Obama is highly beholden.  Major tax hikes, possibly including a value-added tax, will undoubtedly be included in the recommendations of the president's debt commission, which conveniently reports by Dec. 1.

When Did the Rules Change?  [Scroll down]  In 2008, American liberalism seemed poised for its comeback.  The pendulum of Arthur Schlesinger's "cycle of history" was swinging back toward a new progressive era.  Obama would be the liberal Reagan.  Now that all looks preposterous.  Of course, considerable blame can be laid at a White House that seems confused about how to relate to the American people when the American people don't share the White House's ideological agenda.

The myth that the border can't be secured:  Why does the left perpetually offer the excuse that what is necessary and right can't be done?  Liberals famously make lame excuses to explain away personal responsibility and defend defeat.  Take for instance the liberal mantra, "Kids have sex anyway might as well hand out condoms."  The left is of the belief that those divinely bestowed with a free will are powerless to control natural impulse.  Human beings are reduced to beasts, devoid of ability to choose right from wrong.  Thus, in liberal land, lack of a standard fosters the promotion of mediocre expectations and accomplishes the goal of excusing failure.

Gallup:  Majority of Americans Don't Know What "Progressive" Means.  Today [7/12/2010], Gallup released the results of a recent poll which quantifies why so many on the left have eschewed the liberal label in favor of progressive.  It finds that while just 12 percent of Americans say they would describe themselves as "progressive" and 31 percent say they would not, a majority of 54 percent are unsure about the meaning of the term.

The Editor says...
 Until the American public finds out what "progressive" means, it's a great place for socialists to hide.

Sour Grapes.  The Left and the media have been exposed for the frauds they are, and they've spent too much time in the sunlight now to ever go back into hiding.  They have shown themselves to be wolves in sheep's clothing, and they have no one's interest at heart save their own.  They've proven repeatedly that party loyalty is more important to them than the prosperity of their own country.

Hello, I'm a Racist, Pleased to Meet You.  [Being politically correct] means doing what's fashionable in our time, what makes you popular.  A man who believes in Truth, such as Thomas More, will die for his principles, alone, twisting in the wind.  A liberal goes the way the wind blows and will die for nothing.  Stand up to leftists en masse, and they'll fold like a tent.

The Inhuman Government.  The embrace of big government in the United States was driven by the belief in scientific government as a perfectible system.  This creepy worship of elitist technocracy lingers around the more idealistic liberal administrations, from FDR to JFK to Obama. ... The idea of a perfected government is at odds with democracy, which treats political chaos and voter misjudgments as valid tradeoffs for a leash on government.

A Socialist on the High Court?  Part Two.  As a student, Obama Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was so interested in the socialist movement that she wrote a thesis about its history in New York City from 1900-1933.  But the history of the Progressive Party, which ran FDR's former vice president Henry Wallace as its presidential candidate in 1948, helps bring the subject up to date and explains the current direction of the Democratic Party.  The Progressive Party was controlled by the Communist Party but efforts to work through the democratic process did not die out with its election defeat in 1948.  Communists and "progressives" then targeted the Democratic Party for a takeover from within.

A silver platter of GOP talking points for November.  Let's review some tasty silver platter entrees:
  •  Over $800 billion in stimulus spending that hasn't worked,
  •  Using TARP funds to cherry-pick which banks survive and which don't
  •  9.7% unemployment when Obama promised it wouldn't go above 8%
  •  A "pay czar" deciding how much corporate executives can earn

Are Democrats the New Whigs?  In dealing with the two major issues of the day, both yesterday's Whigs and today's Democrats created a platform in which the solution to one issue conflicted directly with their solution to the other issue.  The history of American political parties shows that a party relying on counterproductive solutions to solve the challenges of governing the country has stood, and will always stand, on shaky ground.

The Left-Fascist Axis Again.  [Scroll down]  So here are two ways to simplify the daily media circus.  First, the media are the cult of the Left, trying to twist your mind.  The "Left" equals global totalitarianism, which is Stalinism, which is Leninism, which is radical feminism, which is the hateful racism of the Reverend Wright and Louis Farrakhan.  Same story, different labels.  Keep it simple.  Whatever mask they try on, radical leftists are internationalists — meaning that they are against America as a sovereign nation.  That's Obama's real beef against us, and it's why he will never enforce our borders.

When Lame Ducks Bite.  This year, for the first time since modern budgeting began, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives has simply refused to pass a budget resolution.  Presumably, the failure even to take up a budget would free plenty of time for the Congress to complete the rest of its work.  But remarkably — and disturbingly — plans are already in the offing to postpone important legislative business until after the November elections.

You Vote, They Don't Listen.  It's official.  There will be a lame duck session of Congress even after voters have rendered their verdict on the work of the current incumbents in November.  This week, the House voted down a resolution opposing a lame-duck session to tackle hot button issues such as new taxes and climate change.

Second attack on the First Amendment.  Democrats are committed to attacking our First Amendment rights by passing a bill that will limit freedom of speech for groups with whom they disagree. ... The most troubling aspect of this is that the Democrats are fully aware that this legislation will not hold up to the scrutiny of the Supreme Court but, if passed, would have major implications on the upcoming elections because the court probably would not address the issue before November.  This Saul Alinsky-type approach is obvious:  Its goal is to take away our rights as Americans.

Which political party wants to take away your right to own a gun?
 Ohio Democratic Party unsuccessfully tries to get gun records.  The Ohio Democratic Party tried unsuccessfully this week to get information on all people licensed to carry concealed weapons in the Buckeye State.  The state party sent letters to Ohio's 88 sheriffs requesting the names and addresses of permit holders and the dates the licenses were issued.  Ohio has about 211,000 permit holders.

The Secret of America:  The entire goal of the Left is to murder the idea of the goodness and righteousness of freedom, of self-reliance, of independence, of merit, of virtue, of hard work, of honor, of courage, of sacrifice, of loyalty, of morality, of faith, of the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and property.  The Left, in politics, media, education and entertainment, despise the idea that is America.

Democrats' budget plan:  Tax and spend more.  House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday [6/22/2010] that Democratic congressional leaders have opted not to propose a budget this year.  "It isn't possible to debate and pass a realistic, long-term budget until we've considered the bipartisan commission's deficit-reduction plan, which is expected in December," he said.  This means Congress won't pass an annual budget plan for the first time since enactment of the Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

Commie Watch, Updated.  [Scroll down]  Just to recap, the Communist Party USA is in favor of
  •  President Obama, his win in 2008 (which the CPUSA takes some credit for) and his reelection in 2012.
  •  A Democrat majority in both houses of Congress.
  •  Charlie Crist, the AFL-CIO, Rick Nagin, Rudy Lozano, Organizing for America and MoveOn.
  •  ObamaCare, unemployment compensation, the Harkin education jobs bill, the Miller Local Jobs for America bill, the Murray bill.
  •  FDR and LBJ.
On the other hand, the CPUSA is against
  •  The Republican Party.
  •  The Tea Party movement.
  •  Arizona's immigration law.
  •  And, of course, free markets and limited government.

Are the Communists Coming?  It is getting increasingly difficult to distinguish between the agenda of the Democratic party, and the agenda of the Communist Party.  Joelle Fishman, Chair, Political Action Committee, CPUSA, says, "Our Party has an important role to play in keeping the focus on the fight for a new direction in our country for jobs, healthcare and an end to the war.  That is how the 2008 elections will be won." ... Does this sound like a Democratic rally or what?

Residents get 6 votes each in suburban NY election.  [Arthur] Furano cast multiple votes on the instructions of a federal judge and the U.S. Department of Justice as part of a new election system crafted to help boost Hispanic representation.

The Editor says...
 Why stop at six votes?  Why not give a dozen votes to everyone who is not (for example) a white male?  How about allowing ten votes per Democrat, and one vote per Republican?  All in the interest of fairness, of course.

Goodbye to One Man, One Vote.  If you thought that "one man, one vote" reflected the full flowering of representative democracy, think again.  In the village of Port Chester, N.Y., just a few towns north of my locality in Westchester County, there is a new system.  It's "one (minority) man, six votes" — brought to us courtesy of the U.S. Department of Injustice and a lunkhead of a federal judge named Stephen Robinson.

More about activist judges.

Democrat 'Suicide Bombers'.  [Scroll down]  Let's just think this through, which the Democrats obviously haven't.  Both the Cap-and-Trade bill, and a VAT imposition, would raise taxes on everyone in the country. ... These new taxes are not the type that can be withheld from a paycheck, or tacked discreetly on everyone's phone bill.  They are the type that will be paid every day.  They will be paid at the gas pump.  They will be paid at the checkout line in every store in the country.  They will be paid every single day.

Obama isn't radical enough for some Democrats.  Borosage knows that Obama is the most liberal president since Johnson.  He knows that Obama is moving the left's agenda more successfully than any president in the past 40 years, and yet he is "dismayed and disaffected."  How on earth can that be?  How can one see one's own ideology sustain its greatest movement forward in close to half a century and be... disappointed?  It takes a particularly extreme and rigid ideologue to consider President Obama insufficiently liberal.

Boxer Declares Climate Change as the Greatest Threat.  Terrorism.  Nuclear weapons.  Corrupt and oppressive regimes.  Sen. Barbara Boxer said last week that climate change — not any of that other stuff — will stand as the "leading cause of conflict" over the next two decades.

Today's PC police would arrest Abe Lincoln for sedition.  During his first inaugural address in 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously but inaccurately claimed that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."  Leaving aside the fact that 77 years later, many of Roosevelt's socialist leanings serve as a roadmap for President Obama, the inescapable reality of 2010 is that the only thing we have to fear is political unaccountability, an unethical media, liberal judicial activists, and those among us who want and demand something for nothing.

Which is the racial, profiling party?  Because liberals consciously notice the color, the ethnicity, the gender, the class, the physical ableness of an individual before anointment as candidate, friend, colleague, employee rather than the person the answer is... liberals!

QUIZ:  Who said it — Democratic leaders or Communist Party USA?  Comrades flocked to New York City two weeks ago for the 29th national convention of the Communist Party USA.  While reviewing materials from the event, we had a sudden sense of déjà vu: the feeling that we had heard these talking points before.  Maybe you have as well — they're espoused, in near identical form, by the president and his fellow Democrats.

The Real Reason the Left Loves Illegals.  The history of the left in this country is a history of division.  Whatever conflict was current — labor vs. management, class vs. class, race vs. race — there you'd find the left, stirring things up in order to derive as much political benefit as possible.  A workable democratic system demands a willingness to seek consensus and engage in compromise.  The left prefers Balkanization and permanent conflict.

Why Radicals Matter.  Like Barack Obama, Bill Clinton also campaigned as a moderate.  Once elected, however, he surrounded himself with some of the most radical leftists ever appointed to the Cabinet.  (Many of them have re-enlisted with this administration.)  Behind the scenes, they worked furiously to undermine the system.  And now, decades later, we're seeing the results.  Clinton's policies — not just his unethical conduct — were recipes for disaster.

The Leftist 'Purification' Movement.  The purificationist dream is a world without borders, governed by a global network of NGO's.  Almost all current activist organizations containing the words "green", "justice", "peace", or "solidarity" would find a position in the ruling structure.  These NGO's would gravitate toward forming a totalitarian regime since, as [Ernest] Steinberg points out, they are "unaccountable to an electorate and escape political checks and balances..."  Even more disturbing is the increasing coalition between progressivism and radical Islam.

Modern Liberalism & Islam:  An Uncanny Resemblance.  Both Neo-Liberalism and traditional Islam present unmistakable hallmarks of Fundamentalist thought.  (Neo-Liberalism defined here as the early 20th century attempt to hide socialism behind the term "liberalism.")  Arguably, the main fixation behind both ideologies is controlling others, seeing to it they obey all the rules.  In other words, both have a predilection towards totalitarianism.

Islam and the Left — Two Sides of the Same Coin.  The Islamists and the Leftists have the same goal.  Absolute power.  Islam like Communism is a means to that end.  This is what makes them so dangerous.  Their goal is to create absolute tyrannies based on ideologies that promise a better world.

Socialism: The New Feudalism.  The left should study history and the rhetoric of a distance political system called Feudalism.  Many people have a misconception that the early socialist thinkers like Jean Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels were original thinkers, writing ideas about collectivism and equal sharing of property.  But one only has to look back a few centuries to see they were simply recycling old failed ideas with some new jive attached.

They're All Obama Liberals Now.  Liberals have always denied they intend to unduly shackle the free market.  They say America is exceptionally prosperous — though it never occurs to them why — and can afford robust entitlement and redistributive schemes.  But in no way would they favor anything extreme that would push the market to the tipping point.  Well, now that they are completely in charge, we've seen what they will do.  Obama liberals believe not in America's promise (and Martin Luther King Jr.'s hope) of equality of opportunity, but in equality of outcomes.

What Motivates Obama:  Leftist Turnout.  Why is Barack Obama vilifying Fox News?  Why does Harry Reid push an immigration bill he knows can't pass?  Why won't Chuck Schumer compromise on regulatory reform, and why does he try to hang Goldman Sachs around the GOP?  Why did Bill Clinton blame conservatives who oppose big government for the Oklahoma City bombing?  All share one motivation:  to increase their base's turnout in the off-year elections of 2010.

Obama Has Enraged the "Citizen Class".  Those of us among the citizen class generally agree that the United States is a good country.  While far from perfect, we see our nation as being a place of tremendous opportunity, and a force for goodness around the world.  We also agree that being a U.S. citizen is a significant and distinct thing.  While we respect the notion that all human beings are worthy of their "basic human rights," we see the rights imparted to citizens of the United States as being something different, something "over and above" the category of "basic human rights."

Where are the "separation of church and state" people now?
 Pelosi Told Catholic Cardinals, Archbishops and Bishops to Push Immigration Reform.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she has told Catholic cardinals, archbishops and bishops that she wants them to speak from the pulpit for immigration reform and tell Catholics who oppose it that reform "is a manifestation of our living the gospels."

Defining Dumbness Down.  Having no substance of its own, the left is inherently parasitic; like a cancer cell or virus, it survives by posing as a healthy member of the same host it then attacks and ultimately destroys.  This pattern of "mimic-attack-conquer" has given us liberty-hating "liberals," leftist mainline churches that publicly embrace what their own teachings explicitly prohibit, and educators whose goal is to ensure that all children get left behind.

The Progressive Assault on America.  For over a century, liberal-progressives have focused on replacing our Constitutional republic with a statist, social welfare state.

Transgender anti-discrimination bill is a tough sell for centrist Dems.  Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership are pushing legislation, written by Rep. Barney Frank, that would made it illegal for employers to discriminate against transgendered people.  The bill scares centrist Democrats, who don't want to be forced to vote on a hot-button issue popular on the left as they approach November congressional elections in which heavy Democratic losses are expected.

Wake up, America:  Democrats aren't Democrats Anymore, They're Communists.  Each and every Democrat political priority can be broken down to a simple concept:  they are all designed to take money and power away from individuals, families, communities, businesses, charities, and states and transfer it directly to the federal government.  Centralized government control of vital national resources, which pretty much means everything when you break it all down, is practically the definition of communism.

20 Examples of How the World Would Look if Big Government Worked.  If you ran into people who insisted on trying to pound nails with a screwdriver no matter how many times they were shown a better way, wouldn't you think there was something wrong with them?  What if those people not only used a screwdriver, but demanded that everyone else use a screwdriver instead of a hammer, too?  Worse yet, what if those people did this for decades on end?  Well, guess what? We have people like that in this country.  They're called liberals and the screwdriver they're using to try to fix America's problems is called big government.

Last Binge Of A Condemned Congress.  Having nothing to lose as they tumble toward November's electoral cliff, Democrats have gone into legislative overdrive.  With the hangman ready, the condemned are ordering the whole menu.

Marx, Keynes, Pelosi.  [Scroll down]  Keynes has given us a glimpse into the heart of modern progressivism:  For now, progress requires a respect for work, for jobs, for economics.  So the left embraces the use of government for economic ends.  But ultimately all of this is for the sake of transcending "pseudo-moral principles" like precaution.  So the left embraces big government while disdaining the need for self-government.

What the world needs now is more real liberals.  There were many who came before us, including John Stuart Mill, the British philosopher whose "conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control."  (For convenience' sake, I am again quoting Wikipedia.)  That's my kind of liberal, and why — for the first 45 years of my life — through the Kennedy era, in opposition to the Nixon era, and even into the Clinton years ("The era of big government is over!") I considered myself a liberal.

Liberalism is no longer about freedom.  We know that conservatives want government to conserve traditional values.  They say they're for limited government, but they're pro-drug war, pro-immigration restriction and anti-abortion, and they often support "nation-building."  And so-called liberals?  They tend to be anti-gun and pro-choice on abortion.  They favor big, powerful government — they say — to make life kinder for people.  By contrast, libertarians want government to leave people alone — in both the economic and personal spheres.

Progressive Death.  Progressivism is all-the-rage nowadays, with liberals having jettisoned the "liberal" label for the less maligned tag of "progressive." ... One of the only things we really know about progressives, and that they know about themselves and their ideology, is that they favor constant "change," "reform," an ever-shifting, ongoing "evolution," or, yes, progression.  And therein is an inherent, significant difficulty:  progressivism offers no clear, definable end.

Without the Consent of the Governed.  Now that Obama & Co. have found the legislative mechanisms to subvert the Law of the Land on the federal health care grab, they intend to rush forward with the passage of "financial reform" — "energy reform" — and "Immigration reform" — none of which are any type of "reform." ... They plan to advance their anti-American agenda no matter how many stand opposed, and in such a manner that it can never be reversed.

Liberals and the Violence Card.  Liberals are perfectly comfortable with antigovernment protest when they're not in power.  From the halls of the Ivy League to the halls of Congress, from the antiwar protests during the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq to the anticapitalist protests during International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings, we're used to seeing leftist malcontents take to the streets.  Sometimes they're violent, breaking shop windows with bricks and throwing rocks at police.  Sometimes there are arrests.  Not all leftists are violent, of course.  But most are angry.  It's in their DNA.  They view the culture as corrupt and capitalism as unjust.

"Give Me 'Niceness' or Give Me Death".  I believe that one of the greatest obstacles facing opponents of the socialist agenda of Obama Democrats is this misguided insistence that we always have to give them the benefit of the doubt — as if it were virtuous not to be vigilant in safeguarding our sacred liberties.  Only if we first recognize and then clearly speak out against what they're truly about will we have any chance of stopping their suicidal blueprint for America.

The Naked Left.  The left loves to hide.  This is why leftists reject the label "liberal" in favor of "progressive" or some other meaningless term.  This is also why leftists must describe their opponents as the "hard right" or "right-wing extremists," rather than simply respond to the serious policy issues their opponents raise.

Ivy League Useful Idiocy.  [Scroll down]  And yet ironically, it is the activist community organizers who are the community destroyers, as they pit their followers against the policies that would otherwise help them advance in society into the productive positions I mentioned.  They advocate for the minimum wage, creating unemployment.  They advocate for green jobs, jobs that destroy wealth and by extension greater real job creation as dictated by consumers.  They advocate for labor unions that end up wrecking the companies that created the labor in the first place.  They advocate for socialized medicine, which like all experiments in central planning produces a worse and more costly service.  They advocate for artificially cheap credit for things like homes that end up distorting and crushing the economy.  They advocate for affirmative action which institutionalizes reverse racism and denigrates the people it purports to help by implying that those of a certain background cannot make it on their own merits.  In sum, they attack the free market and individual liberty and as a result punish their communities with bankruptcy and decay.

Socialism's Downfall.  Socialism has failed everywhere it has been tried, and it will continue to do so despite the best efforts of the die-hard true believers in the Obama administration and the rest of the world.  The most recent example of this failure:  Euro-Socialism is presently bankrupting the countries that embraced it in Europe.  This will result not only in more social and economic upheaval, but also the ultimate demise of the ill-conceived European Union.  The original and current proponents of socialism fail to take into account one very basic but immutable factor:  the fundamental nature of the human race.

Marxism:  A Study In Slacker Mentality.  Marx is dead.  Marxism on the other hand keeps coming back, like cancer, under a government controlled health care plan.  It is the carrot on the stick the elite uses to beat the people on the head with.  It is called many different things including progressivism.  If America chooses this path, the people are choosing to abandon the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and freedom.  There is a difference between a Marxist and an Anti-Marxist; Both have read the Communist Manifesto but only the Anti-Marxist understood it.

KGB Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.  [Scroll down]  Most people believe that [communism] is dead.  Some people, particularly in the United States, believe that the idea of global socialism is dead.  But it is not.  If you look at its development in Europe and Latin America, you see that there is now more socialism than ever before.  Because of public opinion, or rather, the media, political parties, political movements, parliaments, and institutions are all becoming more and more socialist.

A Good Night For Tyranny.  The people who pledged to unite America have divided it to a point not seen since the Civil War.  The battle lines are drawn — not geographically, but ideologically.  On the one hand we have the "progressives" — leftists who align themselves with other infamous Marxist tyrants who use the power of government to subjugate, tax, and control its populace.  Leftists who use class-envy warfare and promise free goodies to parasitic masses who think the world owes them a living simply because they draw breath.

America's Political Crisis:  The American people instinctively sense that there is something terrible happening, something that is antithetical to the indomitable spirit of benevolence, self-reliance, independence, and freedom that has characterized our nation from its beginning.  Our government has been hijacked by collectivist radicals whose every act is designed to expand their power and chip away at our freedom.  One never knows what new government fiat may emerge on any given day, what its effects will be, and whose lives will be damaged for the benefit of what purportedly needy segment of the population.  This is the nature of the real crisis.

Reflections on the Revolution in America:  The present attempt to remake America is the effort of the liberal well-to-do — highly educated at mostly private universities, nursed on three decades of postmodern education, either with inherited wealth or earning top salaries, lifestyles of privilege indistinguishable from those they decry as selfish, and immune from the dictates they impose on others.

The Truth About Progressives — aka Marxists:  To fully understand the progressive movement and their current rush to grab one-sixth of the US economy via unconstitutional federal health care mandates, one must follow the trail that leads from the Maoist Movement of the 60s that started in Berkley California, and the Marxist Movement that has culminated in the joint venture between the Communist Party USA and Socialist Party USA, today's Democratic Socialists of America.

It's Not Socialism, It's Communism.  If you felt a frisson of fear on news that the Senate had passed Obamacare the day before Christmas, then you now know what it was and is like to live in a dictatorship.  The voice of the people was ignored in a demonstration of raw political power. ... Healthcare "reform" is not about uninsured Americans.  It is not "socialism."  It is Communism, effectively putting the entire nation's healthcare system under state control.

Turning America Into a Banana Republic.  America was a democratic constitutional republic, governed by the rule of law, a beacon of liberty to the entire world.  But no more.  After just one year of Barack Obama's fundamental change, aided by the far left House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from San Francisco, and the easily confused Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, America has been transformed from a Constitutional Republic into a Banana Republic.

Does Obama Employ the Marxist Doctrine of Creative Destruction?  [Scroll down]  Does Obama have something like a Cloward-Piven principle in mind for shaking out resistance to his economic plans to force Americans to accept socialism by necessity?  The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" was designed by Columbia University professors Richard Cloward and wife Frances Piven.  Their strategy was simply a method used by leftists to encourage as many eligible people as possible into signing up for all the social welfare programs available.  This is meant to then bankrupt the system.  After this occurs, the plan is to push a country towards socialism.  But the general strategy can also be adapted to other methods of bankrupting a nation.

America's 20 Most Miserable Cities.  Guess what they all have in common.  They're all controlled by liberal Democrat politicians.

Why Democrats Don't Care about $9.7 Trillion Debt:  [Scroll down slowly]  Most Americans do not understand the difference between liberal and left.  They do not realize, for example, that there is no major difference between the American Democratic Party and the leftist social democratic parties of Western Europe.  They do not know that from Karl Marx to Obama, the left (as opposed to liberals) has never created wealth because it has never been interested in creating wealth; it is interested in redistributing wealth.

An Orwellian redefinition of the Constitution:  The proponents of the most regressive idea of government on the planet (Centralized control by a small group of elites who rule "for the people's own good") are now relabeling themselves as "Today's Defender's of the Constitution."

The Cut-and-Paste Doctrines of the Left:  Why is it that the doctrines of one leftist cause can be obtained from another by simply cutting and pasting a few phrases?  Because each activist is an anti-capitalist who blames bourgeois privilege for the institutional oppression directed against the proletariat.  In American society, the left has decided that our proletariat should include people of color, women, homosexuals, animals, and the environment, while the face of the bourgeoisie is that of a white, capitalist, Christian male.  Each leftist identifies with a specific cause, and collectively, they work to bring about a revolution which will usher in our own imitation of the former Soviet Union.

The 'Progressives' Are Really 'Oppressives'.  [Scroll down]  Take the word "progressive," for example.  The very word is positive.  Who can possibly be against progress, and how can stagnation or regression be better than progress?  While many of us know that Progressivism has led to some of the most brutal, violent, oppressive regimes in the modern world, those who apply the term to themselves obviously do not see it in a negative way.

Socialism and Stuff:  Socialism is the easiest thing you can romanticize, because it's a big fat exaggeration of "sharing."  As kids, we were always told to share, because sharing is good. ... Socialism has always piggybacked on this notion:  that it's just not right for you to have so much, when others have so little.  Never mind that you've earned what you've got, while the others sit around watching [television].  Socialism is government forcing you to share your stuff with jerks.

The Left's Great Motivator:  Leftist ideologues comprising environmental extremists, progressives, liberals (the hijacked definition), socialists, and communists believe that the ends justify the means -- that governance may use any means necessary to achieve predetermined outcomes.  Characteristics of the leftist ideology include a heavily regulated economy and/or government owned industry, equal outcomes and economic leveling, multiculturalism, moral relativism, and the perfection of mankind.

Progressives and Conservatives.  When the Founders were drawing up plans for the Republic they looked at the history of past republics and concluded that democracy was the least problematic form of government but that it posed the danger of a populist tyranny.  So they instituted a system of checks and balances to guard against tyrannies of the majority and to provide the public with a cooling off period in which their emotion driven agendas could be corrected by reflection.  Progressives, by contrast, ... have in their heads an image of what the future should look like based on emotion (hope and change), and they discount the experience of past and present as products of ignorance, prejudice and selfish interests, which they are determined to overcome.

Big Brother, can you spare a dime?  They say you can't put the genie back in the bottle, and the same goes for presidents.  The voters summoned President Obama into existence with their chant of "Hope and Change" and now he is poised to grant three wishes held dear by liberals:  Unlimited health care for all American citizens ... Unlimited citizenship for all American residents ... And unlimited government for all time.

Is the Southern Poverty Law Center Terrorizing Decent American Patriots?  The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is very influential in the current administration, almost single handedly responsible for defining "domestic terrorists" for the Department of Homeland Security and ratcheting up the racial rhetoric like never before in U.S. history, in the name of so-called "social justice."

The Transformation of the American Dream into the American Nightmare:  The left has made a specialty of demeaning the American Dream as bourgeois, capitalist, exploitative, consumerist and middle classist.  There is a reason for that since the entire idea of the American Dream competes with the entire agenda of the left.  The American Dream is premised on the idea that social and economic mobility can be accomplished through less government and more industry, rather than more government and less industry.

From this moment on.  The Left is not about principles.  It is about itself.  It is about power.  Now that President Obama has been politically weakened, look for the mask to come back on.  The words of sweet reason, the entreaties to "make a deal," and feigned affection will now make a surprise reappearance.  When the Left cannot rule, it will try to govern.

Crisis of the Government Party.  Democrats are the Party of Government.  They feed it, and it feeds them.  The larger government grows, the more agencies that are created, the more bureaucrats who are hired, the more people who become beneficiaries, the more deeply entrenched in power the Party of Government becomes.  At the local, state and federal level, there are 19 million to 20 million government employees.  And if one takes only Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and earned income tax credits, we are talking of scores of millions who depend on government checks for the necessities of their daily life.

Liberal Economic Illiteracy:  It doesn't matter one iota that there have been three major tax cuts initiated by three different presidents since the 1960s — and every one of them resulted in increased revenue flowing into federal coffers.  It doesn't even matter that the largest one was passed, not by a Republican president, but by Democrat John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Environmentalism Refuted:  [Scroll down]  Ignorance of the ideas of [Ludwig] von Mises — the willful evasion of his ideas — has enabled the last three generations of intellectuals to go on with the delusion that capitalism is an "anarchy of production," a system of rampant evil, utter madness, and continuous strife and conflict, while socialism is a system of rational planning and order, of morality and justice, and the ultimate universal harmony of all mankind.

What Does 'Racial Socialism' Sound Like to You?  The United States today has slipped toward race-based socialism:  That's the true name for an overwhelming bias for one race above others, in employment, promotion, and educational opportunities.  Our media are constantly stirring the witch's brew of racial grievances, constantly making black people feel aggrieved and white people feel accused.  Our schools drive that lesson home with young and innocent kids in a totally ruthless way.  Repeat that for twelve years of schooling and TV, and you have a brainwashed kid.

The Government Still Hasn't a Clue.  Last month we saw the scientific climate experts exposed as conniving manipulators in Climategate.  On Christmas Eve, the United States Senate passed a health reform bill with 2,000 pages of undigested expert ideas on gaming the health system with untested administrative rules and commissions. ... These liberals, Progressives, or whatever they want to call themselves next are clueless.

The Left's End Times.  The global warming cult, in one sense, is the left's last stand:  It's a lashing out at the human race for all its perceived deficiencies, avarice, narrowness, and failings — or at least, that portion of the human race that resides in the west.  The human race stands in the docket accused of degrading the world with the intent of destroying it.  But the evidence doesn't bear out the charge.  It is instead the accuser who has and continues to destroy human life.  It's the left that's intent on making the end times a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Laughing at the Left.  If the consequences for this great nation of ours weren't so serious and the policies preferred by the left weren't so dangerous, one would really laugh, almost uncontrollably, at the beliefs and (il)logic of American liberals.  Based on things they have actually said or done, here are some of the things they really, truly seem to believe.  They believe we can spend our way out of debt.  They believe taking money from one part of the economy to give to another part somehow makes the economy bigger.  They believe people who have never run a business can run a business better than people who have spent their whole lives running businesses.

What's The Rush?!  What should we label this administration?  Democrat?  No.  They seem different than the olden-day Democrats.  Progressive?  Isn't that just a fancy name for Neo-Communist?!  Well, whatever the label that history will lay on them, they are America Haters.  They are Freedom Haters.  They are People Haters.  And, many of them are God Haters.  And, they are in a big, big hurry! ... because they are hoping to CHANGE our country from a Capitalist nation to a Socialist nation before anyone notices!  And, before the 2010 election!

The Great Hate of the Left:  Why is it considered "hate" to oppose the left but considered "civil rights" to oppose the right? ... Why is the Fairness Doctrine fair only if it shuts down the voices of conservatives?  Why do the left call themselves pro-choice when the only thing they choose to endorse is to kill an unborn or partially born baby?

The Long March From California to Copenhagen.  On the one, are those who believe personal freedom and liberty trump egalitarianism and fraternity. ... On the other side are those who wish a large government to ensure an equality of result.  Their notion is that personal responsibility, talent, behavior, luck, fate, etc. do not so much determine why one is well off and another not so.

Democrats trying to criminalize citizen journalism.  An amendment to a bill currently being considered by the Senate would deny ordinary citizens doing vital investigations in the public interest the same legal protections as professional journalists.  If it were to become law, the change could significantly stifle important citizen journalism efforts similar to the recent ACORN exposé.

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.

The shocking lesson from the climate scandal.  Liberalism, progressivism, post-modernism or whatever you want to call the pathology, originated out of and is perpetrated upon fantasy far removed from reality.  The counter culture revolution which produced the current phenomenom known as liberalism was based entirely upon make-believe.  Specifically, the youth of the 1960s fancied themselves somehow smarter, wiser and morally superior to their elders and all the tradition that preceded them.

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.

Secondhand Hate:  Another step downhill for modern liberalism.  The left, which invented first "hate speech" (opinions they didn't like) and then "hate crimes" (crimes judged less on the criminal's actions than on what he was presumed to be thinking), has now gone on to its epiphany, which is "hate" defined not by your words or deeds but by what other people have decided you really think.  "Hate" is no longer what you do or say, but what a liberal says that you think and projects on to you.

When Is a Person Not a Person?  [Scroll down slowly]  When legal decisions come down to philosophical theories, it means there is no fixed answer.  That is why most socialist ideas rely on 'relativism'.  It is an attitude to life that refuses morality, refuses to penalise murder, and refuses to acknowledge that anyone other than yourself has a right to life.  It also refuses to accept there are absolutes, which, in itself, is an absurdity.

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.

Augean Socialism.  If you don't think heavy regulation, elephantine bureaucracies, union rule and runaway spending amount to poison for an economy, take a gander at what decades of such socialist policies have done to Greece.

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.

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 overhaul 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.

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 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.

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 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.



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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.

The Constitution, Nazis, and the Corpse Man:  [Scroll down]  To understand the roots of Nazism is simplicity itself.  NAZI is an acronym (in German) for Adolph Hitler's political party, the "National Socialist German Workers Party."  Take out the words "National," and "German," and you're left with the "Socialist Workers Party."  The "Socialist Workers Party."  Hello?  That is unequivocally NOT a conservative outfit, folks — that's as Far Left as you can get.

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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