Posts Tagged ‘progressivism’
A Time to Keep Our Heads and Stick to Our Moorings — David O. McKay
Prophet Statesmen, David O. McKay These are times when men should keep their heads, and not be swept from their moorings by every will-o'-the wisp theory that is offered as a panacea of our present ills. David O. McKay (1873-1970) served as ninth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Reaping the Whirlwind of Progressivism, Part I — William L. Anderson
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, William L. Anderson How Much More Can We Take? When I recently criticized an editorial cartoonist for slamming libertarians — he said a libertarian “lifeguard” would let everyone drown — he wrote back claiming that libertarians would abolish numerous federal departments and agencies, like the [...]
The Cowardice of Progressives — Charles Peguy
Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, French Poet, Charles Peguy It will never be known what acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of being insufficiently progressive. Liberty Letters are compiled and edited (with occasional commentary) by The Moral Liberal, Editor In Chief, Steve Farrell.
Robert Welch: Defining the Isms
Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, Robert Welch There are many stages of welfarism, socialism, and collectivism in general, but communism is the ultimate state of them all, and they all lead inevitably in that direction. In this final stage, communism, you have a society in which class distinctions are greater than in any other, but where [...]
Corruption in Government? Shocking!
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Sheldon Richman It’s funny how the people who push hardest for government intervention in more and more areas are the first to gripe that everything has become politicized. What were they expecting? Did they forget that government is a political institution? Paul Krugman and Chris [...]
Using Jefferson As A Cloak for Revolution — Steve Farrell
Democrats In Drag, Part 7, Steve Farrell Tyranny will never bind a great and free people by preceding its terrible deed with a confession of ill intent. To believe that is to believe nonsense. In free societies slavery is won by consent; and consent is won with a disarming smile, a sympathetic heart, a list of promises to groups, a series of [...]
The Problem Is a Lack of Health Care — The Moral Variety — Selwyn Duke
By Selwyn Duke There was, of course, nothing unpredictable about last Sunday’s health-care vote. It was fairly obvious that the Chicago mobsters would, using the Escobarian silver-or-lead tactic, scare up the votes needed to pass Obama’s baby. It was plain that “pro-life” Democrats such as Bart Stupak would, after the requisite [...]
The Goal Is Control — Henry Lamb
By Henry Lamb Whether they are called Democrats, Socialists, Marxists, or Progressives, the current leadership in Washington has but one goal: control. The current leadership has demonstrated its belief that government must control virtually every facet of the economy, of politics, and the life of every citizen. With unprecedented [...]
Contract With America: The Betrayal Begins — Steve Farrell
Democrats In Drag, Part 6, Steve Farrell On the steps of the U.S. Capitol on September 27, 1994, more than 300 candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives stood under an unusually warm, sun-filled sky and made history. All of them were there joining hands and rubbing shoulders with one goal in mind: to help launch a new revolution -- the [...]
Tea Party Progressivism — Steve Farrell
by Steve Farrell The Tea Party movement claims to be for the Constitution, but I'm not convinced they have not already been subverted by the same radical socialist progressives they say they oppose. Case in point: This morning we learn that the Tea Party movement has hired the American Civil Rights Union to push for a ballot recall of [...]
Health Care and Radical Monopoly — Kevin Carson
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Kevin Carson In a recent article for Tikkun, Dr. Arnold Relman argued that the versions of health care reform currently proposed by “progressives” all primarily involve financing health care and expanding coverage to the uninsured rather than addressing the way current models of service delivery make it so [...]
Constitutional Consistency — Is It Asking Too Much
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Steven Horwitz No one ever accused progressives and conservatives of being overly consistent about freedom. After all, we classical liberals frequently say we want the State out of both the bedroom and the boardroom, in contrast to progressives and conservatives who seem only to care about one of the two. [...]
Eradicating the U.S. Constitution by Design — Steve Farrell
Democrats In Drag, Part 5, Steve Farrell A half-century ago, in a classic exchange between two men on opposite ends of the moral and political spectrum, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev bragged to American patriot and Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson: "Your grandchildren will live under communism!" To which Secretary Benson [...]
Groveling in the Gutter of the Gulags — Steve Farrell
Democrats In Drag, Part 4, Steve Farrell If ever there was a person suffering under the delusion that there really was a nickel's difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, Newt Gingrich's surfing in Alvin Toffler's Third Wave and his application of the same as the launching pad of 21st century Republicanism should have [...]
Gingrich, Toffler, and Gore, A Peculiar Trio — Steve Farrell
Democrats In Drag, Part 3, Steve Farrell The most-heralded achievement and high water mark of Republican leadership since the revival of America's military superiority under Ronald Reagan is, without question, the coming forth of the "Contract With America" during the election of 1994. Its 100-day surge through the House of Representatives, [...]
Conservatism vs. Progressivism — G. K. Chesterton
Liberty Letters with Steve Farrell As to the two major modern political thrusts defined; G. K. Chesterton quips with a bit of wit and biting precision: "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the [...]
Clinton and Blair’s Center-Left Democracy — Steve Farrell
Democrats In Drag, Part 2, Steve Farrell Democrats In Drag, Part 1, "Technology, Sovereignty, and the Third Wave," raised a justifiable flap about the hush-hush history of that Tsunami for political and sociological change called the Third Wave or the Third Way. It presented the first layer of evidence that the 1990's famously popular Third [...]
Technology, Sovereignty, and The Third Wave — Steve Farrell
by Steve Farrell Introduction, Democrats In Drag, Part 1 On November 11, 1994, in a post-election victory speech, Republican House member Newt Gingrich revealed to Congress what his Contract With America, his Republican Revolution was all about. (1) He called it "The Third Way," a progressive movement he would interchangeably refer to as the [...]
Democrats In Drag — Steve Farrell
Democrats In Drag, Foreword, Steve Farrell When I began this project a decade ago, I recognized the title I chose, "Democrats in Drag," would be provocative and controversial, offensive and humorous, hated and praised, cursed and hallelujahed. I also knew it was marketable. Yet the bottom line is the title was chosen because it reflected an [...]
Obamacare and the Legacy of Progressivism — William L. Anderson
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, William L. Anderson The suspense is over and it is inevitable that the monstrous medical care bill will become law. There is no way to sanitize this thing, period. It is the ultimate “Progressivist” legacy. Paul Krugman, perhaps the most visible “Progressive” today, supports this bill because it vastly [...]
