Posts Tagged ‘Socialism’
Un-American American History Courses
By Phyllis Schlafly Arizona's new law that requires the police to ask people to show ID, which was just knocked out by a supremacist judge, may not be the most controversial Arizona law about illegal aliens. Governor Jan Brewer signed another law this year that bans schools from teaching classes designed to promote solidarity among students of a [...]
Doctors Are Government Employees, So Why Expect Good Service?
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Theodore Levy Doctors speak frequently among themselves about problems in medicine: decreased collections; inability to spend more time with patients; difficulty getting consults from specialists, especially for Medicare/Medicaid patients; enormous time wasted with patients who aren’t really sick [...]
Senate Bill Marks Next Step in Federal ‘Sustainable Communities’ Plan
Liberty Alerts, CNSNews.com, Matt Cover (CNSNews.com) – A federal neighborhood planning program to provide grants for environmentally sound, sustainable living communities moved one step closer to being funded Tuesday, when the Senate Banking Committee passed the Livable Communities Act on a 12-10 party line vote. The act would provide money [...]
Sen. DeMint Warns President Obama Will Ratify Radical U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child
Liberty Alerts, CNSNews.com, Christopher A. Guzman Washington (CNSNews.com) - Sen. Jim DeMint (R- S.C.) said that if President Barack Obama gets his way and the Senate ratifies the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the precedent would be set to place parental rights under the jurisdiction of the international community. “We [...]
More Unaccountable Obama Czars
By Phyllis Schlafly Barack Obama has appointed another Czar from Chicago: the new Food Czar Sam Kass. Officially, he is labeled Senior Policy Adviser for Healthy Food Initiatives, but he's joining the list of more than 35 Czars given broad and unaccountable power over our lives, habits and spending. Everybody laughed when Senator Tom Coburn [...]
Obama And Holder Weaponize American “Justice” — Adamo
By Christopher G. Adamo In the past few weeks, America’s legal system has been subjected to an avalanche of outrages from the White House and Department of Justice. But while each individual event, if considered apart from the others, would be sufficient to warrant investigations of corruption and gross ethical lapses, when examined in its [...]
Report to Homicide Division — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, When I was a young police officer with only a couple of years experience, being told to report to the office hardly ever meant you’d done a great job. “Report to Homicide Division”, goodness, what did I screw up this time? I’d gotten back from vacation and the note was waiting the minute I stepped in the door. Upon [...]
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.
E.P.A. Goes Ape Over Plant Emmissions — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba Not a day goes by without our being told that something is going to kill us. Much of what kills people is genetic; little time bombs in our DNA that determine the state of our health. Anyone who reads the daily obituaries knows that Americans are living longer than any previous generation. Most of the population is dying of [...]
Why Doctors Don’t Want Free-Market Medicine — Theodore Levy
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Theodore Levy You may have heard that the AMA and “America’s physicians” favor universal health care. That’s true of the AMA, but that organization represents fewer than 20 percent of the nation’s doctors. And it’s true of many academic university physicians, but anecdotally it is obviously [...]
Selective Enforcement — Henry Lamb
By Henry Lamb Federal law currently prohibits the use of marijuana. California spit in the face of the feds and enacted a law that makes “medical” marijuana available to anyone who wants it. Now, a ballot initiative in the November election will remove the “medical” requirement and allow any adult to grow and use marijuana at will. The [...]
University of Illinois Professor Fired For Standing By Catholic Teaching on Homesexuality — Steve Farrell
By Steve Farrell Calling it hate speech, the University of Illinois has fired a Catholic professor hired to teach an introductory course on Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought for responding to a student question about why homosexuality is immoral under Natural Law. The professor, Ken Howell answered in his email: "Natural Law says that [...]
Elena Kagan Should Be Rejected — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly Barack Obama revealed his goal for the Supreme Court when he complained on Chicago Radio Station WBEZ-FM in 2001 that the Earl Warren Court wasn't "radical" enough because "it didn't break free from the essential constraints placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution" in order to allow "redistribution of wealth." [...]
Welfare Program Pays Felons’ Energy Bill
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In yet another fraud-infested welfare program to assist low-income residents with energy costs, the government has paid the air conditioning bills for thousands of dead people, convicted felons and federal employees. The $5 billion Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) supposedly helps the needy [...]
The Smart State — William L. Anderson
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, William L. Anderson Modern Progressives love the term “smart” to describe their approach to everything from zoning to energy. For them, attempts to expand the role of the State are smart, which means free markets must be “stupid.” By the late nineteenth century, Progressives believed that scientific [...]
Is Obama a Saboteur? — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, I recently took my mandated continuing education course hours in order to maintain my occupational license as a locksmith in the State of Texas; passed by the way, the world is a safer place knowing that. There were two classes, each four hours worth of credits to adhere to guidelines set up by the Department of Public [...]
Fiercely Independent Locksmiths of America — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, I woke up early from my slumbers to jot down a thought or two concerning the locksmith industry which I’ve been associated with since 1976. This weekend our country celebrates Independence Day, a chance to reflect on God having blessed us with our inalienable rights as declared some two hundred years ago. “We hold these truths [...]
Training Teachers to Promote ‘Social Justice’
Liberty Alerts, Education Reporter, Mary Grabar Disparagement of knowledge was evident at the National Council for the Social Studies conference I attended last November in Atlanta. There, 3,200 teachers were continuing their studies in pedagogy, and gaining continuing and graduate credit to bump them into higher salaries. Most worked for [...]
Rescuing Our Kids and Country From Karl Marx — Steve Farrell
By Steve Farrell It bears repeating: If we hope to halt, reverse and permanently alter America's descent into the gutter of debauchery and that political tyranny that is forever its companion — "education is the key." (1) And if so, it must be, it can only be that that education is initiated, financed, and controlled by parents, not by Karl [...]
Victory: University of Idaho Drops Charges of Harassment and Discrimination for ‘Offensive’ Speech
Liberty Alerts, TheFIRE.org, Peter Bonilla After FIRE intervened, the University of Idaho (UI) abandoned disciplinary charges of "harass" and "discrimination" against student Alexander Rowson relating to political statements he made at two campus events. On or about March 30, during César Chávez Day at UI, there was a musical [...]
Do We Need “Alternative Energy” Because of the Oil Spill? — William Anderson
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, William L. Anderson The Crisis Isn't Going to Waste As crude oil continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico, the politicians are waving the “green energy” shirt again. The logical chain goes as such: (1) crude oil is messy and dirty, especially when it is spilled into water; (2) “green” fuels and [...]
Bring Back Prohibition! — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba That’s right. Bring back Prohibition. It was such a success, right? Oh sure, it led to the development of organized crime, everyone ignored it, and it took a Constitutional amendment to get rid of it, but it did save so many from the evils of demon rum—not! Taxes on things people enjoy are generally called “sin” taxes. [...]
Wheat Is More Than Just a Crop — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba Long ago I was in a class studying history and a professor said something I never forgot. He said that no nation is more than two weeks away from revolution if it cannot feed its people. We know, however, that dictatorships like the former Soviet Union used famine as a political weapon against the Ukraine, that China has [...]
Just Say No to Elena Kagan — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, The next Supreme Court Justice will be picked by Obama, that’s a foregone conclusion; but does it have to be Elena Kagan? The qualification process in times past has proven to be nothing more than a dog and pony show. Something which should act as a red flag of warning would be the way the Obama administration has prevented an [...]
Social Issues vs. Fiscal Issues — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly The media are forever trying to create a division in the Republican Party between those who care most about so-called social issues and those who want priority for fiscal issues. Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is the most recent politician to fall into this trap by asserting that the next president "would have to call a [...]
Orient Express to Hell — James Bovard
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, James Bovard In 1986 and 1987 I slipped behind the Iron Curtain a few times to study economic perversity and political slavery. In November 1987 I flew into Hungary before heading on to the most repressive regime in Europe. The train from Budapest to Bucharest, Romania, was called the Orient Express. The [...]
It’s All State Capitalism — Sheldon Richman
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Sheldon Richman David Brooks For the Defense David Brooks, the New York Times resident conservative op-ed writer, is power’s best friend. He always tries to make it look so benign. In a column this week he begins by warning that we should not be fooled by the current friction between the government and [...]
You Can Fight City Hall! — Henry Lamb
By Henry Lamb When Smart Growth and Sustainable Development washed across the nation in the 1990s, property rights activists were overwhelmed. Visioning councils sprang up everywhere, and towns, cities, counties, and regions soon had “Vision 2020 Action Plans” that transformed normal communities into “Sustainable Communities,” and, for [...]
Dr. Strangehold: How the Republicans Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the “Third Way” — Diane Alden
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years The rallying cry for the journey down the "Third Way" ought to be: "Cry havoc! Slip loose the dogs of the trite bromide!" (Apologies to Shakespeare.) Gypsy Rose Lee might have described the "Third Way" as the intelligentsia and the political class gyrating, bumping and grinding to: "You Gotta Have a Gimmick." By [...]
A Rare Phenomena! — Steve Farrell
by Steve Farrell It is a rare phenomena, but sometimes Johnny-come-lately political movements get it right. Case in point: The Tea Party Revolution's wise choice to hold up the The United States Constitution rather than the Republican Party as the standard, the true red, white and blue American Ensign to which we must rally to save our [...]
