Obamacare: Point and Counterpoint

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/obamacare_point_and_counterpoi_1.html

The Moral Case for Health Care?

Our nation was established upon this shared moral code: individual citizens are endowed with certain moral rights, and among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Since we possess these fundamental rights with or without the formation of government, the government of the United States was established not to create these rights, but to secure our free exercise of them. A right to life implies a governmental duty, not to give life, but to secure an individual's freedom to live. A right to liberty implies a governmental duty, not to grant liberty, but to secure individual autonomy. A right to the pursuit of happiness implies a governmental duty, not to award happiness, but to secure the free application of that pursuit. This is the shared moral code that can frame a thoughtful debate on health care policy.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/the_moral_case_for_health_care.html

If Obama were a Marxist, what would he believe?

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/if_obama_were_marxist_what_wou.html

Extending the Recession Indefinitely

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". George Santayana

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." Albert Einstein

Keep these quotes in mind as you read this great article on the current administration's approach out of this financial quagmire.

http://mises.org/story/3764

Capitalism vs. Corporatism

Replacing a government monopoly with a government-sanctioned corporate monopoly simply transfers the bureaucratic inefficiency and corruption from one entity to another. Whether we are discussing farm subsidies, bailouts, corporate favoritism, or licenses and privileges given to certain companies, we are in fact seeing the myriad ways that government has reared its head into the markets. Government and corporations invent scheme after scheme to ensure the superficial appearance of free enterprise, line the pockets of each, and shield the government from any blame. Corporatism may have failed, but true free-market capitalism has never even been given a chance.

http://mises.org/story/3761

Thoughts from the Famous

"After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community.
It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."
-- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) French historian

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt.
He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice."
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921

Thoughts from the American Thinker

UN Climate Reports: They Lie - http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/un_climate_reports_they_lie.html

US dominates Medical Nobel Prizes - http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/10/us_dominates_medical_nobel_pri.html

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/10/graph_of_the_day_for_october_5.html

SNL getting in on the act

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/10/04/video-snl-goofs-on-obama-for-accomplishing-nothing/

Obama's thoughts on the constitution - this should give you some insight as to why we are moving in the direction we are

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck

Obama and community organization

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU&feature=related

Contrasting conservatives and liberals

If a conservative doesn't like guns, he doesn`t buy one.
If a liberal doesn't like guns, he feels that no one should have one.
If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn`t eat meat.
If a liberal is, he wants to ban all meat products for everyone.
If a conservative sees a foreign threat, he thinks about how to defeat his enemy.
A liberal wonders how to surrender gracefully and still look good.
If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a liberal is homosexual, he loudly demands legislated respect.
If a black man or Hispanic are conservative, they see themselves as
independently successful.
Their liberal counterparts see themselves as victims in need of
government protection.
If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his
situation.
A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.
If a conservative doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Liberals demand that those they don't like be shut down.
If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church.
A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God or religion silenced.
If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.

Hydrogen Barackside

The indoctrination continues

Check out these youtube videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aqMTD5UFmU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTm5rp8r6fE