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Asking For Revolution

Posted in Activism, Government Corruption, Socialist Politicians, tagged , , , , , , on March 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
Someone has to say this and it may as well be a perennial rabble-rouser like me.
In the Declaration of Independence, the founding fathers made it clear that the federal government was to be subservient to the people.  More specifically, they [...]

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Liberalism: Immoral, Not Just Wrong

Posted in Collectivism, Socialist Politicians, tagged , , , on March 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In these challenging economic and political times, it is easy to get overwhelmed by the volume of new proposals and the accompanying focus group tested disinformation campaigns.  People often get so caught up in arguing the details of a program or slew of new entitlements that they can no longer see the big picture.  The [...]

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Visualizing the National Debt

Posted in Economics, tagged , , , , , on March 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

BillShrink has an interesting and informative visualization of the National Debt (i.e. Obama’s credit card in our names).  Click on the image to see it in a larger format over at BillShrink:

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Counterintuitive Thoughts on 2010

Posted in Elections, tagged , , , , on March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In the short video interview embedded below Scott Rasmussen estimates that in the 2010 elections the GOP will pick up 5 to 8 seats in the Senate and 25 to 30 seats in the House, which would result in the Democrats retaining control of both chambers.  Though I think that the carnage inflicted on the [...]

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Progressives and Willful Historical Ignorance

Posted in History, tagged , , , , , , on February 16, 2010 | 19 Comments »

Hat tip to Dan Riehl for initially pointing me to this news story via Twitter.  You can follow Dan on Twitter here.
Proposed changes to the North Carolina high school history curriculum have many people upset with critics correctly pointing out that the state is simply cutting out the first half of U.S. History.
This article on [...]

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Obama’s phony budget freeze

Posted in Dishonest Politicians, tagged , , , , on February 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Matthias Shapiro, the guy behind Political Math, has produced another short but illuminating video in which he discusses President Obama’s announced budget freeze.  Like his other visualizations, which include the Obama Budget Cuts Visualization and The National Debt Road Trip, this one cuts through the chaff and puts things in perspective.  In short, the freeze is a joke.
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Hardball Politics Meets Dangerous Naivete

Posted in Collectivism, Socialist Politicians, tagged , , , , on January 10, 2010 | 6 Comments »

The American left is playing hardball, and too many Americans do not realize that we need to respond in kind or we risk losing everything that made America the greatest country in the history of humankind.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
I was utterly disgusted in the [...]

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False Dichotomy Tyranny

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on January 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »

A logical fallacy is a flaw in the structure of an argument so serious that it ultimately renders the conclusion itself invalid.  The SGU team (podcast link here) provides a great list of 20 logical fallacies on their web site.  Many of them are likely recognizable, like the familiar ad hominem and the ever-present non sequitur.  If you give their list [...]

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Who Pays The Price For Collectivism?

Posted in Collectivism, tagged , , , , on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Writing over at Hot Air, Doctor Zero shatters the myth of who gets the short end of the stick in a collectivist system:
Collectivists sell their politics with a promise of “equality,” generally understood by their audience as a promise to redistribute the wealth of the rich to improve the lives of the poor… but this [...]

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When the only tool you have is a hammer….

Posted in Collectivism, Socialist Politicians, tagged , , , on November 26, 2009 | 8 Comments »

When the only tool that you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail.  That analogy applies perfectly to statist ideologues like Barack Obama.  This graph from a J.P. Morgan research report (hat tip: The American) does a good job of visually explaining why our naive, government-loving president seems to have [...]

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