Marxism in America?

Listen to Lt. General W.G. Boykin's perspective

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0wmw8zw2LA

One of the best political ads of this 2010 campaign season - a must see

http://theweek.com/article/index/208568/call-me-senator-funniest-political-ad-of-2010

Ray Steven's thoughts on Illegal Immigration

http://app.talkfusion.com/fusion2/view.asp?NTUyMjg0_3165435

Socialism and Reality

Those who believe they have a manifest destiny to rule and are faithful to socialist tenets have an overwhelming egocentric psyche and a predisposition to control the populace and economic activity through laws, regulations, taxes, intimidation, and in extreme cases, outright force. The result is the inexorable march toward state control of the economy. Despite the history of failure, every new generation of adherents to socialist ideology believe that they can make this arrangement work and maintain their unwritten agreement with the citizenry.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/10/socialism_and_reality.html

Klavan on the Culture

THE EXTREMISTS ARE COMING!!!

http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&mpid=80&load=4311

Chinese professor lectures students about America

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN-LFK6fa44

Social Justice

The fair taxes demanded by the left ignore the uncomfortable truth that the rich receive less from government than most of us. When the rich send children to private schools, public schools need less money from taxpayers. Wealthy Americans who live in gated communities need less police protection than other Americans. The rich do not need Medicaid, public housing, or welfare. Those who produce little or nothing and who pay almost no taxes gobble up huge amounts of taxpayer-funded services. Our noble instinct for charity governs part of this help for the poor, and charity is a modest, real virtue. But coerced government transfers of wealth are not charity at all. When the serpent slithers into the picture, then the gratitude toward charity felt by the poor morphs into the venomous predator of social justice.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/10/social_justice_and_fair_taxes_1.html

The Left still doesn't get Poverty

Since 1964, the U.S. has spent $15.9 trillion on means-tested welfare programs. After adjusting for inflation, welfare spending is 13 times higher today than it was in 1965. Welfare spending has grown more rapidly than Social Security, Medicare, education, and defense. And what do we have to show for these efforts? According to the Census Bureau, a record high 3.7 million Americans fell into poverty in 2009. The out-of-wedlock birthrate is now 40% and the African American out-of-wedlock birthrate is 72%. When the War on Poverty began the out-of-wedlock birthrate was just 7%.

http://blog.heritage.org/2010/10/19/morning-bell-the-left-still-doesnt-get-poverty/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell

Obama Nation: Panic in the Streets

The Limits of Liberal Demagoguery

What Joe Biden blurted out this week -- that Democrats can't run on their policy accomplishments because they are "just too hard to explain" -- captures the problem of liberalism perfectly. It is seductive in theory but inexplicable in practice. The key to its political appeal is that it never be applied.

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/10/14/the-limits-of-liberal-demagogu

Capitalism Saves Chilean Miners

From the drill bit and fiber-optic cables which were made in Pennsylvania and Japan, respectively, to projectors used on Samsung cell phones from Korea, Henninger praises the incredibly "vibrant" Chilean economy for opening up to the possibility of such miracles. "It all came together out there in that desert to bring these men up from half mile down."

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/10/capitalism_saves_chilean_miner.html

By encouraging the idea that a job is a ‘right' and that the government will provide you with this ‘right,' socialists have brought about the very cycle of entitlement that assures conflict and collapse of any civil society. This is now manifest in the conflict between the workers, children, and government of France. They all see their own interests as supreme, expect full compliance with their demands, and the government is now in the untenable position to have to meet unrealistic goals or face significant social unrest.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/10/hows_that_socialism_workin_out.html

James Madison on Virtue

"But I go on this great republican principle, that the people will have virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom. Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks--no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. If there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them." -- James Madison (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President Source: Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788

Celebrate Columbus Day

"The spread of western civilization across a savage wilderness deserves to be celebrated, and Columbus Day is that celebration. The 1492 voyage was epochal not only because Columbus revealed to Europe the existence of vast lands in this hemisphere, he also showed others how to get here and return safely. Western civilization’s stress on the value of reason led inexorably to its distinctive individualism. Western thinkers were first to declare that every individual, no matter what his skin color or ancestry, is fully human, possessed of reason and free will—a being of self-made character who deserves to be judged accordingly, not as a member of a racial or tribal collective. And thanks to John Locke and the Founding Fathers, individuals were recognized as possessing individual rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness—rights that made slavery indefensible and led to its eradication, at the cost of a civil war.

These are the facts we are no longer taught—and the measure of that educational failure is the disdain with which Columbus’s holiday is regarded in the country that owes its existence to his courage. It is time to take back Columbus Day, as an occasion to publicly rejoice, not in the bloodshed that occurred before Columbus’s arrival and after, but in our commitment to the life-serving values of Western civilization: reason and individualism. We do so by honoring the great explorer who opened the way for that civilization to flourish in the New World."

Food Stamp Nation

“The lessons of history … show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit.” FDR

http://buchanan.org/blog/food-stamp-nation-4517

Reagan vs. the Progressives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esMLPUBE4D4

4 weeks - Remember November

http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2010/10/four-weeks-remember-november.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+NewZeal+(New+Zeal+Blog)

"A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government;
and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources.
All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either." -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

ECOFASCISM

This has got to be a new low for the environmental/global warming/climate change movement. This commercial was airing in the UK. With its "No Pressure" campaign, writes the UK's Telegraph, "the environmental movement has revealed the snarling, wicked, homicidal misanthropy beneath its cloak of gentle, bunny-hugging righteousness."

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/no-pressure-new-environmental-campaign-glorifies-eco-fascism/

Why the Progressives are going down in November!

Democratic control for four years in Congress, and two in the White House has been exactly what many predicted: an ideologically-driven disaster of epic proportions. For years, progressives obfuscated their true intentions, because even they knew most Americans couldn't stomach them. The elections of 2006 and 2008 changed everything. Progressives bought into their own hype, believing they had pulled off a multi-generational transformation of the American mindset. As a result, they showed Americans their true colors: unbridled arrogance, utter contempt for the average citizen's intellect, and a ham-fisted, never let a crisis go to waste determination to bend the electorate to their will, using government as a club.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0910/ahlert.php3

Quotes of the day

"The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market economy nor even general abundance constitutes the crowning achievement of human life. If a nation’s spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core cannot stand." -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) Russian novelist, Soviet dissident, imprisoned for 8 years for critizing Stalin in a personal letter, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1970 Source: National Review article (Sept. 23, 1991, p.24)

"Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President

"We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts....Self-government means self-reliance."
-- Calvin Coolidge (1873-1933), 30th US President