Tag Archives: statism

Progressives and Willful Historical Ignorance

Posted on February 16, 2010 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Obama’s phony budget freeze

Posted on February 5, 2010 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Hardball Politics Meets Dangerous Naivete

Posted on January 10, 2010 by

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 … Continue reading →

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False Dichotomy Tyranny

Posted on January 7, 2010 by

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, … Continue reading →

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Who Pays The Price For Collectivism?

Posted on November 27, 2009 by

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 … Continue reading →

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When the only tool you have is a hammer….

Posted on November 26, 2009 by

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) … Continue reading →

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It’s On, You Statist Bastards

Posted on November 21, 2009 by

I really never thought that it would get this far, given that public opinion hardly supports the notion that Americans want the Democrats’ so-called Health Care Reform (i.e. Socialist Health Care Takeover). Rasmussen’s latest numbers show only 47% in favor … Continue reading →

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We Need a New Congressional Agency

Posted on November 18, 2009 by

I never thought that I would utter these words, but we need a new congressional agency.  This new agency, the Congressional Constitution Office, or CCO, would be modeled after the independent Congressional Budget Office. The Congressional Budget Office has been … Continue reading →

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We have been here before

Posted on October 29, 2009 by

Hat tip to Ramparts 360 for the image.  I had seen this before somewhere and found a larger version in a post over at Free Republic. This could have been penned today.  The wagon is labeled Young Pinkies from Columbia … Continue reading →

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The Dishonest Socialist Straw Man

Posted on October 8, 2009 by

While ostensibly commenting on the latest crock-umentary from Michael Moore in a post over at Hot Air titled Socialism: A Hate Story, Doctor Zero makes some very sharp observations about the straw man of socialism.  First, his brief comment on Moore’s … Continue reading →

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