Obama's Catholic Plan

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The Main Stream Media and the Tea Party Movement

Enjoy this satirical perspective!

http://www.pjtv.com/v/3293;jsessionid=abcNgiMuIiLjuhHXcUwEs

Healthcare Intervention: The Bigger Picture

http://mises.org/daily/4213

You Can't Blame Capitalism

We haven't had a truly capitalistic society in American since the early 1900s. We have a mixed economy and it is accelerating toward socialism at an unprecedented rate. Ayn Rand was prescient in her book "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal". Read some of her comments/insights.

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/mixed_economy.html

Is Healthcare a Right? The ideal of government-provided health care, aka a “right” to health care, is in complete contradiction to the proper understanding of rights put forward by the Founding Fathers. This is why the acknowledged “father of the Constitution” James Madison said “Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government” and “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”

http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?id=13873

Know Your Enemy

“And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”

http://www.redstate.com/hogan/2010/03/22/you-know-your-enemies-and-they-stand-before-you/

REPEAL

The reason government-run health care has been the holy grail of the left for decades is that liberals realize as much as we do that it is a giant step toward the creation of a European-style welfare state. This is an evolution Americans have always resisted because it is alien to our national character.

Instead of empowering families and individuals to make their own choices, Obamacare empowers the bureaucracy to make those decisions for them. It is this unelected bureaucracy, unanswerable to the electorate, that will determine the content of health benefits packages, including medical treatment and procedures, and how much will be paid for those services. Yesterday’s legislation brings us one step closer to fully government-run medicine, with expanded government power over the financing and delivery of medical services that is sure to ration care in the name of cost control.

http://blog.heritage.org/2010/03/22/morning-bell-repeal/

Aristotle's Warning

The easiest thing for a demagogue to do in a democracy is to sweep up the populace with rhetoric about what people are owed in life simply because they are equally born. For the demagogue, the easiest targets are those individuals who have achieved a higher and wealthier position in society through their own efforts. But the mature statesman must recognize this and refrain from igniting democratic energy with rhetoric about redistributing wealth:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/aristotles_warning.html

The Catholic Church and Social Justice

http://biggovernment.com/kashiver/2010/03/21/obamacare-a-social-justice-nightmare-for-the-whole-world/

Why are we moving toward Socialized Medicine

According to the American ideal, men are not their brother’s keeper–we are independent individuals with inalienable rights to support our own lives and happiness by our own efforts. That means taking responsibility for your own medical needs, just as you take responsibility for your grocery shopping and car payments. It means no one can claim that his need entitles him to your time, effort, or wealth. Where is the willingness to defend this ideal by saying, “Your health care is your responsibility–and if you truly cannot afford the care you need, then you must ask for private charity–not pick your neighbor’s pocket to pay for it”? The Founders said you have a right to pursue your own happiness. Obama says you have a moral duty to serve mine.

http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=23957&news_iv_ctrl=2402

Insights from Yaron Brook from the Ayn Rand Center

In a recent Investor's Business Daily op-ed, Mr Brook wrote:

According to the American ideal, men are not their brother’s keeper–we are independent individuals with inalienable rights to support our own lives and happiness by our own efforts. That means taking responsibility for your own medical needs, just as you take responsibility for your grocery shopping and car payments. It means no one can claim that his need entitles him to your time, effort, or wealth. Where is the willingness to defend this ideal by saying, “Your health care is your responsibility–and if you truly cannot afford the care you need, then you must ask for private charity–not pick your neighbor’s pocket to pay for it”?

Paul Ryan - Prophet of Disaster

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/03/paul_ryan_prophet_of_disaster.html

Republic on the Precipice

http://biggovernment.com/mpatterson/2010/03/15/republic-on-the-precipice/#more-90126

A Roadmap for America's Future

This is my favorite Congressman, Paul Ryan(R) from Wisconsin. Listen and read to what he has to say. His ideas resonate more with the American People than they do with the Washington politicians and bureaucrats. He is the ranking minority member on the House Budget committee. With an informed and invigorated electorate, he will become the Chairman of that committee in November. We need intelligent and responsible legislatures like Representative Ryan.

http://www.roadmap.republicans.budget.house.gov/

Progressive vs. Oppressive

The correct term should be "oppressive," not "progressive," because statist/progressive/totalitarian governments have to oppress individual freedom in order to force people to conform to the will of the state, which invariably just ends up in one form or another of enslavement, from confiscation and "redistribution" of earnings all the way up to gulags and show trials.

Never adopt your opponent's use of the word "choice." Instead, use the word "abortion" -- or better yet, "no choice." Certainly the unborn gets no choice. Never let them use "fairness," as in "fairness doctrine"; instead, use the word "unfairness." Never let them use the term "social justice"; instead, use the term "social control." Never let them use "working poor" because that assumes that only poor people work. Never let them use "climate change"; instead, say "climate hoax." Never let them use the term "health care reform," and instead say "health care takeover." Think about every word used, and if any term is tactically advantageous to the progressive cause, then refuse to use it. Always correct them, every single time -- otherwise, you cannot win this war of ideas. And never, ever let them call themselves "progressives" when in reality they are "oppressives."

Healthcare in a Free Society - by Representative Paul Ryan

http://www.hillsdale.edu/images/userImages/mvanderwei/Page_4221/ImprimisFeb10.pdf

The Scandinavian-Welfare myth revisited

Great article from the von Mises institute daily newsletter

http://mises.org/daily/4146

Healthcare is already heavily taxed

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/healthcare_is_heavily_taxed_no.html

Pictures are worth Tens of Thousands of Words

Insights from Lawrence Kudlow

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=525586

For a good laugh, click on to this link:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/top_100_films_of_obama_era.html

Producers vs. Looters

Using Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" as a backdrop, these writers make some salient points.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0302/Apple-vs.-GM-Ayn-Rand-knew-the-difference.-Do-you

Trillon Dollar deficits for the next decade

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/03/cbo_trillion_dollar_deficits_f.html

Tea Party Amendment

Tea Partyers will no doubt be impressed by the fact that the idea comes from no less than Thomas Jefferson. In 1798, the Declaration's author wrote: "I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government."

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=522845

Here is the actual editorial

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704231304575091622911663494.html

Wreckonciliation - the Nuclear option