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These liberals were repulsed by the Soviet promise of an earthly utopia. The Bolsheviks created their own gods in their own image, repeating that first sin: Ye shall be as gods. This included John Dewey, father of modern American public education. Interestingly, Dewey was initially duped by the Soviets, who adored his educational work.... To his credit, the professor eventually saw the light, becoming a staunch critic of Stalin. It took Dewey a few years, but he came around. I think Dewey’s own earlier departure from the faith numbed his awareness of the evil staring him in the face.

Inside the know-it-all echo chamber, there is simply no legitimate reason for rejecting the know-it-all agenda. Opponents are assumed to be dimwits unwilling to accept creative ruling class ideas. Crook believes that the impending electoral rejection of the Obama agenda constitutes a "vote for paralysis" indicating a "system of government" that is "broken."

America has tried valiantly, as a nation, and with pretty good success, to be tolerant.  We aren’t perfect, but as a matter of policy we have striven to reach the goal of tolerance.  We permit, under our law, freedom of – and from – worship.  As a matter of law we do not discriminate.  We do, however, have the naïve expectation that these others, whom we tolerate, share our attitude.  

In the case of Islam we are deceived in this.  When you are told, condescendingly, that YOU are an “Islamophobe” because you feel insulted or feel the memories of the innocent lives lost to Islamic terrorism are defiled by a Hamas-linked mosque built within spitting distance of the site of one of the most horrendous acts of violence ever perpetrated against America, should you not ask where Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf was and what he and his fellows were doing as they watched the towers crashing down, entombing thousands of our countrymen?

In just two weeks, on Novembe ^,  what I believe could be the most significant election in my lifetime-maybe even in the history of this country- will be in the record books.  Some people would say I am over stating this fact.  I don't think so.  If things continue the way they are we are on our way to destroying this country. 

However, if we regain a voice in Congress, we have a huge task ahead of us.  I think most of us here would agree that the government  has to be turned back or we are on a collision course with disaster.

It does make a difference on which end you put the additional ‘0.”--The BENEFIT then multiplies to $9,307,286,685,600.00 TRILLION dollars worth of BENEFITS for American citizens, plus a few who aren’t.  His Most Honorable Senator Kent Conrad charts his way through this “web of deceit” with the syrupy comment: “The legislative estimate ‘disregarded’ the federal bill’s tax credits for health insurance buyers, improved Medicare BENEFITS and increased payments to North Dakota health care providers.”  

If you are covered by a typical health insurance plan which requires you to pay part of the cost of each doctor visit, Congress has not saved you money by passing healthcare reform. Instead, it has mandated that you spend more than you might choose to spend on so-called ‘preventative’ healthcare. If you don’t pay for it up front with co-pays, you will pay for it through higher premiums. The only way to keep premiums from rising is if the ‘free’ care is taxpayer funded, and then someone still pays for it. The fundamentally flawed line of argument for government healthcare.

Do you ever feel like Alice in Wonderland?  I know I do.  Everywhere we look we find evidence that nothing is what it seems, labels are misleading us, the behavior of some of our people in authority is - to say the very, very least - bizarre.  We have this in both parties, both as matters of personal conduct and accepted social function and as a matter of official public policy.

For instance, it must really be confusing for loyal Democrats these days.  What is a Democrat to do?

Like it or not, imposing values is what arranging civilization is all about.  And like it or not, you’re part of this process.  The only difference among any of us is in what and how much we impose — and in that some of us actually understand this is precisely what we’re doing.

So we can avoid talk about morality if we want, but it will do nothing to ensure that morality won’t be imposed on us.  It only guarantees a descent into error that, ultimately, ensures that immorality will be. 

The consequence of hate crime laws was entirely different from the intent. The intent was to prevent a crime based on the threat of severe punishment. The effect is to punish the perpetrator for the thought behind the crime.

The truth is that Americans have a choice. We can look at reality, facts like those presented here and in my two previous posts and realize that jobs will always be destroyed as other jobs get created due to progress. Or we can brood and demand that politicians "protect American jobs." One approach has always led to increasing wealth and income. The other approach always shuts down the engine of prosperity.

The sad fact is - there are far less speculative ways to kill a billion or so people than carbon emissions.  The trigger of the murder  weapon may lie  in the proposed cure  - the suppression of CO2. and its effect on world food production; and the victims will likely be the poor, not the rich .  Here’s how its going to work.

Nothing in Joe's writings justifies the abuse he has taken over the years. There is no greater proof of the nobility of his heart than the way he endured so much undeserved abuse with good humor. He remained faithful to the truth while others lied about him. Although he died of complications of diabetes rather than from a poisoned sword, he nonetheless died, like Hamlet, a noble and consistent friend of truth in a nest of villains.

The audacity and elitist arrogance permeating the "who is rich" debate screams from a comment made by, surprise, an academic. Observing that taxpayers who earn in the $200,000 to $250,000 range don't consider themselves "rich," UC Berkeley economics professor J. Bradford DeLong, a former Clinton Treasury official, says:

It is pathetic and embarrassing that somebody with five times the median household income, someone in the top 2 or 3 percent of the population, thinks of himself as just another ‘average Joe.’

Actually, what's pathetic is an academic who has never created a job or worked in a for-profit professional capacity in his entire life considering himself qualified to pontificate on the issue of rewarding achievement in the private sector.

“They cynically, contemptuously targeted the Religious Left. And it’s downright depressing to see the success they had. They knew these liberal Christians were trusting souls, who agreed with them on certain sympathies—workers rights, civil rights, wealth distribution. The communists exploited that trust…. So, the communists lied to liberals. And as the communists operated covertly, not openly admitting they were communists, they enlisted liberals in their petitions, marches, protests, publications. Without these duped liberals/progressives, the communists were dead in the water, exposed as the tiny fringe they were.”

In this latest e-publication from The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College, “V&V Q&A: On ‘Dupes’ and the Religious Left” (789 words), the Center kicks off a series of weekly interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor, professor of political science and executive director of the Center, on his latest book, "Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century." This series focuses on a dominant theme of the book: the Religious Left.

History is clear on the track record of interference: Markets and economies grow much stronger over the long term when political interference is minimized. Keeping the "helping hands" of all-knowing libs out of the economy will spur a healthier and stronger economy.

Reality will then have made liberal interference look dumb--which it always does.

The three-day period from October 31 to November 2—All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints’ Day, and All Souls’ Day—used to be known as the time of the “Festival of the Dead,” and was commemorated throughout Europe.  A festival of this type has also been observed at or near the first of November by Peruvians, Hindus, Tonga Islanders, Australians, and Ancient Egyptians.  It is at this time, almost everywhere, that attention is paid to the appeasement of the dead. 

The larger public needs to be reminded that taking or regulating banks, health insurance, automobile companies, and (if the EPA has its way) nearly every pot, puddle, and breath of air in the country, is not in keeping with America's traditional understanding of constitutional boundaries. And yet, the ruling class, with its fits of labeling, launches into tirades against these Constitution-citing Americans, accusing them of fascism.

Excessive taxation generates negative feedback. As individuals' spending power drops, businesses sell less. Manufacturing output drops, followed by business income and tax revenue. Stated simply, when government confiscates too much income, the economy weakens and people grow poorer. Worse yet, increasing the rate of confiscation won't ever take in enough to eliminate the government debt nuisance to taxpayers.

But refusal to grasp such truth permeates the left side of the sociopolitical spectrum. Barack Obama dedicated an entire book to describing how his father's dreams, not reality, inspired a personal-turned-presidential agenda. Now most Americans see nightmares in Obama's dreamed-up schemes.

Getting the “big head” is a deadly sin, Profile of North Dakota, Painter James Rosenquist, a complimentary glass of chardonnay, I have no money for anything, UND’s focus will now be quality more than quantity, biggest corporate fraud in the history of Minnesota, ND is one of eight low debt states, Gordon Kahl, historically bad rural roads, the solution seem rather obvious, new gifts for constituents, DAKTOIDS

No matter which method you choose, please vote.  I know of no better way to thank those who defend us and those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, than to cast your ballot.

In recent comments to CBS’s Leslie Stahl, Carter blasted Kennedy, blaming him for the Carter administration’s inability to pass a national ‘health plan.’ Carter described Kennedy as ‘irresponsible and abusive.’ ‘The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now,’ Carter told Stahl, ‘had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or ‘79…. It was his fault. Ted Kennedy killed the bill.

These words are being written en route from Adelaide, home to a Melbourne whose already thuggish public culture has been rendered that little bit more desolate by the news that Joseph Sobran is no longer with us. Others undoubtedly shall bring their expertise to bear regarding Joe's importance to America. Perhaps a few words might be appropriate on the topic of Joe's importance to Australia (a country he never visited), or, at least, on his importance to one particular Australian.

To paraphrase an old saying: News is News is News. But most of us know that “News” is managed: it’s manipulated, dressed up, revealed in part, or delayed in reporting, or not reported at all. Depends upon the news source doesn’t it? We have learned that the old and trusted sources of news are no longer trustworthy; we refer to them as the Main Stream Media, MSM for short. The short list of MSM’s would be: Television networks ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS (Public Broadcasting); Cable networks CNN, MSNBC; radio network NPR. On the print side of news is the Associated Press, called the AP--the giant of the news industry who supplies (sells) prepared copy of the news to perhaps 90% of our nations newspapers; exceptions may be large daily papers who have their own reporters and writers such as the New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and perhaps a few others. Many of these papers will include stories from AP in their daily press; the exception may be the Wall Street Journal with a rare printing of an AP story when it is germane to their article.

One particular time in church, my son was looking through a stack of pictures my wife had given him, as the scripture reader walked up to the lectern.  When the reader got ready to read, my son saw a picture of himself and he yelled out, “Who’s that bonehead?”......

Since the beginning of this thing which humans call "industry," the natural progression has been for jobs to originate in a high-cost place of origin, usually where the product being built was invented. The jobs eventually end up in a low-cost manufacturing operation somewhere else. This is an economic truth. One can pretend not to see, but one cannot avoid the truth--not for long.

The American free market has been operating with staggering success for two centuries. Over that time, the American economy has been the fastest-growing economy that the world has ever known. We've had the fastest-growing prosperity in the history of civilization. The free market made it all possible. And the darned thing runs best when left free.

The libertarian chant, “I don’t care what you do, just lemme alone” sounds very reasonable, indeed.  But as hate-speech laws, forcing people to buy health insurance and a thousand other nanny-state intrusions prove, when people become morally corrupt enough, they don’t leave you alone.  They tyrannize you.  A prerequisite for anything resembling libertarian government is cast-iron morality in the people.  And we should remember that, to echo Thomas Paine, “Virtue is not hereditary.”