Posts Tagged ‘Socialism’
Reagan on Freedom v. Tyranny, Good v. Evil, God v. Atheism
American Minute with Bill Federer A graduate of Eureka College, IL, 1932, he announced for radio stations in Iowa. He married Jane Wyman and had children Maureen and Michael. He was a Captain in the U.S. Army Air Corp during World War II, then became an actor, appearing in over 50 films. He was President of the Screen Actors Guild, [...]
Don’t Let Kids Drink the Kool-Aid
By Phyllis Schlafly Don't Let Kids Drink the Kool-Aidis the provocative title of a book by Marybeth Hicks and published by Regnery. She says that the culture wars are over and parents lost. An entire generation of young socialists has come of age, and few parents have even noticed. Marybeth Hicks tries to remedy this ignorance by telling [...]
ACLJ: Take a Stand With Us Against Obamacare
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice Can Congress require you to purchase health insurance? Is it constitutional for Congress to penalize you if you don't? Those questions are at the core of legal challenges of ObamaCare, which the Supreme Court will consider in March. Our position is clear: the individual mandate is wrong. [...]
Mark Levin on ‘Ameritopia:’ ‘We Now Live in a Post-Constitutional Country’
TERRENCE P. JEFFREY, CNSNEWS.COM In an interview with CNSNews.com about his new book—“Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America”—Mark R. Levin said he believes America has already largely become “a post-constitutional country.” The book, released Monday, compares the Utopian and unworkable schemes laid out by political philosophers [...]
Jefferson and Adams on Old Age, Grief, and the Refiners Fire
BY STEVE FARRELL Is grief an evil? More to the point, is there something fundamentally wrong with you or me, or a family member, or the neighbor down the road, or the poor fellow across the ocean having an absolutely devastating day, week, month, year, decade or, perhaps, lifetime – as some of our politicians, physicians and psychologists [...]
Looking to the Dollar, Gold, and “Mutti” to Save the World
By Alan Caruba The most formidable couple in the world during the 1980s was Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher, a conservative and a woman of iron will, must be looking across the Channel with some amusement to see how her German counterpart, Chancellor Angela Merkel, is literally the only person keeping the [...]
Democracy Corrupted: John Adams
Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, John Adams 1786 But when a new race of men grows up, these, no longer regarding equality and liberty, from being accustomed to them, aim at a greater share of power than the rest, particularly those of the greatest fortunes, who, grown now ambitious, and being unable to obtain the power they aim at by their own [...]
Walter Williams: Hoping the Goat Will Die
Tyranny Unmasked, Walter E. Williams When you recognize that celebrities earn salaries that are some multiples of CEO salaries, you have to ask: Why is it that rich CEOs are demonized and not celebrities? A clue might be found if you asked: Who's doing the demonizing? It turns out that the demonizing is led by politicians and leftists with the [...]
Forget the Wall Street Protesters: Why We Should Hate Capitalism
By Selwyn Duke Okay, you can lift your lower jaw off the floor. I haven’t joined the dark side: My problem isn’t economic but lexical. I do hate capitalism — the term. As you know, in the eyes of many, “capitalism” has become both a four-letter word and the target of such. For example, New York Magazine questioned a group of Wall [...]
Peter Pan’s Green Cake was Poisoned — T.F. Stern
By T. F. Stern, I remember watching the movie Peter Pan as a young boy and feeling physically ill at the thought of Peter eating the poisoned green cake which had been placed where the Lost Boys would find it. The shape of the green cake has changed over the years; now it’s disguised as green energy. The poison introduced in [...]
Occupy Wall Street Gibberish — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, If there was any doubt in your mind about the level of education, or lack thereof, here in America; cast your eyes on some of the demands being put forth by those intent on disrupting Wall Street as reported by Kerry Picket of the Washington Times. File this under, Gobbledygook! Star Trek fans will appreciate [...]
A High Stakes Clash of Economists
By Alan Caruba “We need an impulse, a jolt, an acceleration…Let us experiment with boldness on such lines, even though some of the schemes may turn out to be failures, which is very likely.” Who said that? Was it President Obama? Franklin Delano Roosevelt? Neither. It was John Maynard Keynes, a British economist. The year was 1924 and [...]
"Why Has ‘Capitalism’ Failed?"
By Selwyn Duke While discussing socialism on a talk show recently, I was confronted with the question: If “capitalism” is so great, why has it failed? Of course, ever since our financial crisis hit, this query has become all too common. Now, after informing the host that I avoid the word “capitalism” — as it was originated by a [...]
Washington’s Magical Thinking
By Alan Caruba The term, “magical thinking”, has been around a while to describe what individuals do to cope with the vicissitudes of life. I, for example, regularly buy a Mega Millions lottery ticket in the hope of winning when, logically, rationally, I know the odds are millions to one of that ever happening. Magical thinking can be [...]
An Open Letter to the Locksmith Industry — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, June 21, 2011 Texas Department of Public Safety Private Security Board 6100 Guadalupe, Building E Criminal Law Enforcement Building Austin, Texas 78752 Subject: Locksmith License Renewal Requirements An Open Letter to the Locksmith Industry Honorable John E. Chism, Honorable [...]
What We Learned from Budget Debate II
By Phyllis Schlafly Today I'm going to tell you more interesting things we've learned from the debate about the federal budget. 1. It is really possible to balance the budget by 2020, and the Republican plans prove that it is doable. If we delay taking the necessary steps, we will soon be spending every dollar of federal revenue on [...]
John Bryson: Redistribute Wealth To Keep Poor From Cutting Trees
Liberty Alerts, Matt Cover, CNSNews.com John Bryson, President Obama’s nominee to head the Commerce Department, told a UN energy conference in 2009 that a global wealth redistribution program was needed to keep poor people in developing countries from using their own forest resources. “What we’ve got to do is find ways to map out [...]
Red Flag of Earth Day — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Our anti-capitalist comrades, tree huggers and whaling ship protesters have April 22nd on all our calendars, Earth Day ; a time to mark the progressive movement’s entrance on to the grand stage of political upheaval. Who would have thought Gaylord Nelson’s efforts would have made such inroads into destroying [...]
Shared Prosperity — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Every news source and pundit has already put in their “two cents worth” regarding Obama’s proposed budget fix; why the need for one more? Maybe if I added a little humor to the mix some on the left might grasp what we conservatives are trying to say; at least that’s better than getting hostile. Obama gave us [...]
Worried About Government Shutdown? — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, There’s a poll question on KPRC’s website that asks, “Are you worried a government shutdown will affect you?” The question doesn’t cover my concerns about whether or not the government might function even less proficiently should certain non-essential functions be put on hold until such time as a budget is [...]
Cool, Calm, Scientific Revolutionaries In Spectacles
Tyranny Unmasked, Garet Garrett In the naive American mind the word revolution had never grown up. The meaning of it had not changed since horse-and-buggy days, when Oliver Wendell Holmes said: "Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles." It called up scenes from Carlyle and Victor Hugo, or it meant killing the Czar with a bomb, as he may [...]
An Open Letter to All Locksmiths — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, This article was originally posted on Fiercely Independent Locksmiths of America’s website as, An Open Letter to all locksmiths regarding Proposed Texas Legislation HB2577 , SB1400 and HB1867 . I read the introductory line regarding proposed legislation on the GHLA website and have to wonder why, “It is important that [...]
Follow the Yellow Brick Road — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, The Obama administration has been following an agenda, one which many American citizens refuse to accept as even possible, the destruction of our economy and way of life. It hardly seems possible one of our own, much less our president would actively seek to ruin the most powerful industrial nation ever; but evidence is [...]
Cheers for Repeal of ObamaCare
By Phyllis Schlafly The U.S. House did what its candidates had promised and the voters expected: the House passed repeal of ObamaCare, the centerpiece of Socialism. According to public opinion polls, support for repeal remains strong among the American people despite Obama's prediction that once his favorite bill was enacted into law, we [...]
Many Are Called… — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, I just completed reading a book written back in 1967 by H. Verlan Andersen, Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen. A quick read, only 83 pages from cover to cover; about the amount of time it takes to watch the movie Avatar or Titanic. Don’t let the title fool you, it’s not just for scripture thumpers; this book is a [...]
Education Should Be Universal and Compulsory
Tyranny Unmasked, 1919, Nikolai Bukharin Before anything else, it is necessary to make education universal and compulsory. Under the new organization of life, on new foundations, it will be necessary for those young in years to become accustomed to useful labor. The pupils in the schools must therefore become accustomed to various kinds of [...]
Organ Grinding — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, I doubt if many have actually seen an old fashioned organ grinder, a street musician from antiquity; with or without a fabled monkey collecting donations from a crowd of equally disadvantaged onlookers. We’ve immortalized them through the magic of cinematography; but the latest versions of organ grinders are quite [...]
Operation Progressive — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, There’s another Green group praising the EPA’s attack on America’s fossil fuel industry and legislators who support energy independence , this one’s called Operation Free . It will take a moment to continue while I wait for flower petals, birds singing sweetly and butterflies to clear away; the ambience filled air which [...]
Govt. Plunder Infinitely Worse Than Individual Plunder
Called Unto Liberty: 20th Century Sermons J. Reuben Clark Jr., 1935 When governments plunder and then legalize it, they may not expect their citizens to do less than better the example; and to say further, mass robbery and plunder are no different from individual robbery and plunder except they are infinitely more disastrous and dangerous to [...]
Fisher Ames: The French Revolution, Socialism, and Poverty
Liberty Letters, Fisher Ames The leaders of the French Revolution excited the poor against the rich; this made the rich poor, but it never made the poor rich. _______________________ Source: Fisher Ames, Famous Quotes, Poverty.
If Socialism Comes, Govt. Bonds Offer No Safety
Prophet Statesmen, J. Reuben Clark Jr. And may I make here one observation about government bonds? Many trustees invest their trust funds in government bonds on the assumption that such bonds are the safest of all securities and that if they become worthless every other security will be worthless. But the whole history of the world, from the [...]
Welfare Dependency: It Didn’t Just Happen
By Chris Clancy A quote attributed to Margaret Thatcher goes as follows: "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." Before welfare states there was help available for those who were in dire need. It was provided voluntarily by charitable people and organizations. Any such help given could be described as [...]
Deficit Spending a Serious Threat
Prophet Statesmen, 1962, Ezra Taft Benson In the past quarter century, there has been a tremendous shift from individual to governmental responsibility in many phases of economic and social life. There has been a rapid shift of responsibility from the states to the federal government. In the last thirty years state and local government [...]
Federal Insurance for Insuring Power
Prophet Statesmen, J. Reuben Clark Jr. Before this war began, the Government had already entered the general insurance field with a Social Security plan, which covers unemployment compensation, Federal insurance contributions and benefits, and Federal old age and survivors insurance benefits. Other socialistic plans—such as socialized [...]
Fuel Fix Logo Evidence of Two Americas — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, The Houston Chronicle has a regular environmental blog called Fuel Fix, articles intended to inform the masses on topics related to the oil industry and anything else which might impact climate or society in general. Loren Steffy wrote an article, Henhouse Open, Foxes Welcome , letting everyone know the evil GOP planned to look [...]
Charity or Robbery? Honor or Dishonor?
Prophet Statesmen, Albert E. Bowen No government—federal, state, or municipal—has any money or anything else out of which to bestow bounty, except what it first takes out of the pockets of its individual citizens. It follows that whenever any one, “aged,” or indigent from other causes, takes help out of the public treasury, he is [...]
Charity? Or A Political Tool To Gain Political Power?
Prophet Statesmen, J. Reuben Clark Jr. Just as “we the people of the United States” in ordaining and establishing our Constitution did not delegate to the government the power to go into private business, so we aimed, as far as was wisely possible, to keep our government under the Constitution, away from immediate, financial dealings with [...]
Just As Culpable
Prophet Statesmen, J. Reuben Clark Jr. We may first name the obvious “dole” complex—the complex that believes that the Government can and should support the body politic. This, plus planned hunger and want to give apparent justification for the “dole”, have been major factors with the revolutionists of other countries. Any [...]
Social Security Is Not Insurance
Texas Straight Talk with Ron Paul Perhaps the biggest media story of 2010 was the influence of Tea Party voters on the congressional landscape. The new congress comes to Capitol Hill with a mandate to end profligate spending and restore fiscal sanity, we are told. But when the House and Senate convene in January, the newly elected members [...]
Who’s to Blame? Who Can Fix It?
Prophet Statesmen, J. Reuben Clark Jr. Eminent men and able men of great experience and wisdom are blaming the people for looking more and more to the Federal Government to meet their wants and to exercise governmental control over them, and this to the destruction of local self government, the rights of the States, and the rights of the [...]
Robbing Humanity: Evil of Time Wasting Schemes
Prophet Statesmen, J. Reuben Clark Jr. In a material way, man at his birth gets from Nature time, mind, and muscle, and this is all that he gets. Mankind works out its material destiny by the use of these three component elements. Destroy any one of these and we are lost. No amount of sorrow or remorse or repentance can bring back the destroyed [...]
As long as grass is green and the sky is blue… — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, There’s a line in the movie, Little Big Man , which sums up how government keeps promises. The movie’s message had to do with our Federal government’s treaties with the Indians as spoken by Little Big Man, a white man adopted by the Human Beings, “This land was promised to the Indians for as long as grass grows green and [...]
The Collapse of Great Civilizations: The Familiar Pattern
Prophet Statesmen, Ezra Taft Benson History teaches that when individuals have given up looking after their own economic needs and transferred a large share of that responsibility to the government, both they and the government have failed. At least twenty great civilizations have disappeared. The pattern is shockingly similar. All, before [...]
Prostituting and Politicizing The Abundant Life
Prophet Statesmen, Harold B. Lee The abundant life, for example, as the prophets of every dispensation have taught it, was a term used to refer to the living of a Christ-like life of service and sacrifice, the forgetting of oneself into immortality. But today that term has become “politicalized,” if there is such a word, and prostituted by [...]
A Vicious Curse to Meet and Conquer
Prophet Statesmen, Henry D. Moyle Today we have a special curse, a vicious one, to meet and conquer. Our social order has so changed right before our eyes that we are almost unconsciously expecting to receive everything from someone else without any effort on our own part. It is selfishness in its worst form. We are unconsciously, unwittingly [...]
Obama Signs Socialist Farmers Bill to Compensate Black Farmers
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucus, CNSNews.com President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed the Claims Settlement Act of 2010, a bill awarding $1.15 billion to African American farmers to settle claims that the U.S. Agriculture Department discriminated against them. This is on top of earlier legislation awarding black farmers $100 million. In 1999, [...]
Thou Shalt Pay for That Which Thou Shalt Receive
Prophet Statesmen, Joseph Smith Jr. Thou shalt not take thy brother’s garment ; thou shalt pay for that which thou shalt receive of thy brother. Source: The Prophet Joseph Smith, Doctrine and Covenants 42:54, 1831. Joseph Smith was the founder and first President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
From the Lower Regions
Prophet Statesmen, Heber J. Grant There are always, I believe, striving with us two spirits, one that is the inspiration of the Lord and one that is not . . . . the spirit that inspires work is from our Heavenly Father. The spirit that would have us get something for nothing is from the lower regions. Source: Heber J. Grant, The Church Welfare [...]
Something for Nothing Spirit
Prophet Statesmen, Heber J. Grant I have been impressed with the fact that there is a spirit growing in the world today to avoid giving service, an unwillingness to give value received, to try to see how little we can do and how much we can get for doing it. This is all wrong. Our spirit and aim should be to do all we possibly can, in a given [...]
The Outcome of the Income Tax
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Scott W. Hahn ___________________ The moment you abandon the cardinal principle of exacting from all individuals the same proportion of their income or of their property, you are at sea without rudder or compass, and there is no amount of injustice and folly you may not commit . . . —J. R. [...]
