Category Archives: Politics

The UN Is Destroying Kosovo

November 7, 2008 – 8:06 pm

It amazes me that American liberals trust the U.N. to do a good job managing international crisises and other countries, but distrust the United States when it tries to do the same. It amazes me because the U.N. is an incredibly incompetent organization. Liberals are horrified by the perceived incompetency of the Bush administration. Yet [...]

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Tax Breaks for the Rich

October 31, 2008 – 2:59 pm

Barack Obama and the Democrats have been hammering the Bush tax cuts ever since they were signed into law. Over the last 6 years we’ve heard an endless litany of complaints about the tax cuts. Most complaints center around the claim that Bush cut taxes for the wealthy, gave away huge amounts of money to [...]

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Failed Economic Policies

October 31, 2008 – 2:45 pm

Quote of the day.

Obama laughs off the charge of socialist behavior — and to be fair, socialism isn’t the precise term to affix to his ideas. It’s more like Robin Hood economics. On a recent campaign stop, Obama joked that, by the end of the week, McCain would be accusing him “of being [...]

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Free Trade and Christian Charity

October 29, 2008 – 5:15 pm

It’s popular among the Christian left to talk up the “Old Testament” values of social justice: caring for the poor, paying fair wages, not perverting justice, etc. They’re fond of the Old Testament prophets and the prophets jeremiads against wealth and privilege.

Increasingly, the Christian left is also fond of promoting Democrat candidates and talking about [...]

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Don’t Freeze the Future

October 29, 2008 – 3:45 pm

Life is full of risk. No matter how hard we try, we can’t eliminate that risk. Nor should we. Risk leads directly to rewards. Not all of the time. Sometimes risk leads to failure. But those failures teach us what we need to know in order to reach the rewards. More than that, it’s impossible [...]

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Elizabeth Edwards thinks you’re dumb

October 29, 2008 – 9:16 am

Elizabeth Edwards thinks you’re dumb.

Edwards - who has battled breast cancer since 2004 - said McCain’s plan fails in all important areas by leaving the decision-making process up to individuals, who can frequently “make stupid economics decisions.”

That’s why we should put individuals in government in charge of your health care decisions. Because everyone [...]

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McCain’s Healthcare Plan

October 28, 2008 – 2:46 pm

I’ve said before that McCain’s healthcare plan is one of the few proposals he’s made that I actually like. Robert Carroll explained some of the benefits in the Wall Street Journal.

The McCain health-care insurance tax credit may well be one of the most misunderstood proposals of this presidential election. Barack Obama has been [...]

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Could You Be Forced into a Union?

October 28, 2008 – 2:36 pm

Do you want to join a union? In Barack Obama’s America, you may be forced to. Obama has promised to sign the Employee Free Choice Act, if elected President. What would the Employee Free Choice Act do? Well, take this example.

The Union targets Joe’s employer for unionization. There are 100 employees in the [...]

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Major Redistributive Change

October 27, 2008 – 3:26 pm

Obama, 7 years ago, lamented the fact that the Civil Rights movement wasn’t able bring about more wealth redistribution.

If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court. I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so [...]

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The Department of Peace and Non-Violence

October 27, 2008 – 3:23 pm

A sign of things to come?

The DC Examiner reminds us that already proposed in the House (HR 808) is the creation of a new, multi-billion dollar, cabinet-level monstrosity: The Department of Peace & Non-Violence. (Thanks to Dr. Andy Bostom for calling this to my attention.) The DPN-V would house such [...]

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