It is difficult to see the revival of The Fairness Doctrine as something other than an attempt finally limit the ability of conservatives to air their point of view.
Beware the politician with statist intentions. The Utopian dream inevitably comes to the same dark end. You can only “share the wealth” until the wealth runs out. Entitlement programs are not self-funding and government is unproductive. The high minded promises and condescending explanations about the need to sacrifice for the good of the country and the patriotic opportunity for “the rich” to pay more taxes, culminate in essential theft on a national scale. America is not immune to the natural laws of cause and effect. The “free ride” ends eventually.
Senator Obama has consistently expounded a deeply held belief in the equality of results over the equality of opportunities. He is committed to the idea that the state, should be responsible not just to create an environment where individuals can control their own destiny but that the state should guaranty a certain destiny which is largely uniform. His allegiance is not so much to the middle class as it is to a single class the boundaries of which are defined and controlled by the State. By any but the most narrow of definitions that is the sum and substance of Socialism, even if John McCain can’t bring himself to say it to the MSM.
That is a radical change for America although it is certainly not a new idea. If that idea worked there would be no social discord in Europe. To read the MSM, there is nothing but love at home in the EU. Those who have spent time in Europe know this is not the case.
How many times have you heard the “man on the street” manifest his intention to vote for Barack Obama because, well, he just sounds Presidential. They get a kind of vacant glassy eyed look and mumble something about how he looks the part of a President.
There is a lot more to Barack Obama than meets the eye and apparently, the mind, of the swing voter who estimates the duties of the president to be somewhere between Game Show host and News Anchor.
Senator Obama and the DNC have a well articulated plan and it looks something like this . . .
According to the Wall Street Journal, The California Teachers Association is the major donor behind the “No on 8″ movement. Clearly, not all members of the CTA support “No on 8.” Their actions further support suspicions that the pro-gay agenda includes teaching young children to regard gay marriage in the same light as traditional marriage.
. . . Yet last week the union donated $1 million to the “No on Proposition 8″ campaign. Of the roughly $3 million raised by opponents of the measure so far, $1.25 million has come from the teachers’ union. “What does this cause have to do with education?” said Randy Peart, a public school teacher in San Juan who was contacted by a local television station. “Why not put that money into classrooms, into making a better place for these kids?”
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The current Axis of Socialism, Bush Paulson and Bernanke, is only a shadow of things to come.
Many Americans seem to be evaluating the presidential candidates based on their persona or their gifts for oratory while there is so much more at stake. The combination of radical liberal Legislative, Executive and Judicial branches of government has implications that are almost certainly not contemplated or understood.
For many Americans our way of life may be seem inevitable but we are on the brink of giving away our birthright for a mess of pottage.
Obama surrogates are squealing as the polls tighten. Like Pallin, Joe the Plumber resonates because he is recognizable to the real middle class.
Obama contends the discussion about Joe is diversionary which of course it is not. The fact liberals are screeching about Joe is prima facia evidence the story hurts Obama. The liberal media are positioning Joe as a McCain stunt calculated to distract from the real issues; taxes, jobs and the middle class way of life. What is diversionary are the attempts to focus attention on Joe’s licensure or the reaction of the local pipe fitters union. Everyone will be shocked to hear them come down on the side of the liberal.
Joe is the karmic nexis of all these issues. Someone who just wants to the government to watch the borders, keep the peace and stay out of his way while he works hard to make his way in the world. Like every other socialist parasite, Obama sees Joe as a host organism from which he can draw blood; money he can take from Joe and use to buy votes from those who doubt themselves.
Is there anything more unlike change than the idea of redistributing wealth to curry favor?
After all the discussion of budgets and bailouts, pork and plattitudes, no matter what State you live in, each vote matters profoundly for what it says about what we as Americans hold sacred and what is really important to us as a nation and as individuals.
The Catholic Church has produced a compelling admonition for all Americans, Catholic or otherwise, to exercise their consitutional rights in behalf of those who cannot represent themselves; our children, born and soon to enter the world.
Liberals on CNN and MSNBC are foaming because Sarah Palin asked the congregation of her Pentocostal Church in Wasila, Alaska, to pray for US Soldiers in harms way.
For liberals this constitutes a logical argument to the effect that Palin is unfit to govern. In liberal speak, praying for the men and women who leave the comforts of home and family and risk their lives to protect our freedoms and our way of life is “controversial.”
This thinking betrays two fundamental misunderstandings about the Christian philosophy, expounded in the Bible and deeply held by a majority of Americans. First, there is a God and it is not in harmony with His teaching that a strong people should stand by and watch as a weaker people are victimized. Second it is incumbent upon God’s children to learn His will and follow it.
Agree or disagree with Palin’s religious point of view but knowing she holds these two assertions to be true, her request to the Wasila Church of God represents integrity not kookiness. Liberal’s blind fear of anything like overt Christianity continues to separate them from mainstream America.
Rachel Maddow borrowed some lines from her old Air America buddy Al Franken, calling McCain and Palin Lying liars with their pants ( and skirt ) on fire .
With Keith out, Rachel was compeltely unplugged. It’s hard, watching this tirade, not to remember Wolf Blitzer, Campbell Brown and company licking their wounds the night of Palin’s speech and talking about how mean the Republicans were.
The widening probe of insider trading on Wall Street is expected to examine transactions at Steven A. Cohen's SAC, one of America's largest and most successful hedge funds.
Traditionally, the super-rich didn't bother with mortgages, but that changed in the boom years -- and it is still going on. Recent big-time borrowers include hedge-fund titans and baseball magnates.
Obama will face new friction in China over his choice to limit Chinese imports to the U.S. and views that he hasn't done enough to overhaul the financial system.
PELOSI’S HEALTH MONSTER: As senators remained in the dark late last week about the details of the huge committee-approved Senate healthcare bill, over on the House side of Capitol Hill, Speaker Pelosi last Friday unveiled a 1,990-page bill that, not surprisingly, is loaded with mandates, tax increases and a government-run public option and. . .