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