In These Times

Here we go again. In 1964, over 80% of Black children lived in two-parent family units. Now less than one-third of Black children live with two parents. This is a tremendous change, with devastating social costs in broken families, crime, drug use, and social pathology. What happened? LBJ's Great Society and the War on Poverty (WoP) happened, that's what. The War on Poverty paid poor women to get rid of the men in their lives, and cost $6 trillion over a thirty-year period, until it was terminated as a bad job. Then during the Carter Administration, the Democrats passed the Community …

Posted to It's Not Easy Becoming Green

Ken - It is 1330 CST as I write this. The only election result I have seen was from Dixville Notch, NH, where Zero took sixteen votes and McCain took five votes, out of nineteen registered voters. Regardless, I want to make some comments on some of your absurd takes on the American condition. ... we can make the world a far better place than it is today. While the world needs to be a better place, your Marxist foolishness won't help. In the last century the number of democracies has increased from about twenty to well over one-hundred twenty. Some …

Posted to Old Dreams, Present Opportunities

Ken - I got it wrong. I regret having misread the election so badly, and apologize for doing so. I certainly agree that Obama's election is a remarkable and positive cultural and social event. I need not repeat my misgivings about his qualifications and ideology at this time, though these would seem to be more important considerations for this office. Congratulations to President Obama.

Posted to Old Dreams, Present Opportunities

Its churches are known for a lively and energetic style of worship. They also tend to be, like Ashcroft, theologically conservative and doctrinaire. Its followers have typically been �born again� as adults and are infused by the Holy Spirit during worship, manifested through dancing or speaking in tongues. They also tend to uphold rigorous traditional moral standards in the face of what they see as a sinful world, believe God�s will is revealed to believers through prayer and signs, insist on the importance of prophecy, and view the Bible as the literal word of God. Sounds just about like Zero's church …

Posted to On a Mission From God

The marriage of American capitalism and democracy has always been a Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee affair � stormy and erratic since its hasty wedding. But during the debate over a Wall Street bailout this week, we watched that matrimonial knot unwind into a tangled tale of terror. Why, sure. And Marxism is noted for its peace, prosperity, and happiness, if you ignore the millions repressed, imprisoned, and dead from starvation or a gunshot to the back of the head. Unfortunately, Marxism works as poorly, if on a smaller and less deadly scale so far, in the USA as it does …

Posted to Saying “No Deal” to This New Deal

Weatherman members Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans were convicted of transporting 740 pounds of explosives for use in domestic terrorist bombings, and were imprisoned for long terms. Hillary had perfect rebuttals for Zero throughout the long Democratic campaign, but she could not use them. The last act of the Clinton presidency was to pardon a bunch of exceedingly guilty people, including Rosenberg and Evans. Bill shot Hill in the foot, because Hill could not bring up the fact that Weatherman bomber Ayers was a political confederate of Zero, without bringing attention to Bill's pardon of the guilty Rosenberg and Evans. Then …

Posted to Was Hillary’s speech a turning point?

In practical terms, everything in this article is blatant nonsense. The single most interesting piece of blatant nonsense is the accusation that President Bush is "taking broad liberties to subvert the Bill of Rights". But then there is nothing that tells us what the President has done or has tried to do to subvert the Bill of Rights. Perhaps it was the attempt at gun control? Oh, no, wait, that is what the Demonicrats are doing. Maybe it is the restrictions on religious freedom? Well, no, that is the Leftist Demonicrats, led by the ACLU. How about the FISA laws? Wait, …

Posted to Feeding the Beast

Moraff - Well, OK, reporter. Report to us why you said that President Bush is "taking broad liberties to subvert the Bill of Rights". That is a very serious charge to make against the President fo the United States. But you treat it as a self-evident throw-away line, and make absolutely no attempt to prove, illustrate, or justify your position. Meanwhile, as I pointed out, the Demonicrats really are trying to subvert the Constitution. And it is all politics. Pelosi supported FISA before she did not support FISA. Obama did not support FISA before he did support FISA. Both of them …

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Tim - Let's have a review of the bidding here. Moraff is claiming to be a respected, competent reporter. My point to Moraff was: Report to us why you said that President Bush is �taking broad liberties to subvert the Bill of Rights�. That is a very serious charge to make against the President of the United States. But you treat it as a self-evident throw-away line, and make absolutely no attempt to prove, illustrate, or justify your position. So, Moraff replies: I am, in fact, a registered Independent and an outspoken supporter of gun rights. Which, of course, has absolutely …

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WTH - I have been preparing a post for you, so I will just answer your points and make a point of my own. Your point on President Bush President Bush's favorable rating is less than 30% nationwide, but it is 56% in Louisiana. The poll checked the popularity of President Bush, who got a 56 percent overall favorability rating, higher than in recent national surveys. - July 01, 2008 http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/capital/index.ssf?/base/news-6/1214890809159290.xml&coll=1 But wait a minute. The Marxist rap on President Bush, and the constant theme of the MSMM and the Soros news outlets is that Bush is an evil genius or …

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Wangle States in Profile: The State Policy Reference Book (State Policy Research, Inc. 1991) lists Louisiana�s illiteracy rate at 16%, the nation�s worst. Just out of curiosity, how did you happen to go back nearly two decades to produce a datum that is outdated and is irrelevant to this discussion? But it is not idle curiosity, of course. You have graciously informed (warned) us that you are Marxist. Marxists are, by definition, corrupt and inefficient. This is universal, whether we are discussing a Marxist state or a Marxist individual. The Soviet Union collapsed of corruption and inefficiency. Dan Rather collapsed of …

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Tim � A Bush rally? A Bush rally would be for Republicans, and, like any pep rally, would be notably lacking in substance and heavy on enthusiasm. So what was it that you expected to learn? When Andrew Jackson was elected President, his followers thronged into the White House and stood on the furniture in muddy boots, the better to see. Some of us have more refined manners now, and we learned the hard way to improve protection of the President; he almost never goes out and mingles. You cannot go to the Annual Gridiron Dinner or a press briefing without …

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Wangle - By saying I'm a Marxist I merely mean that I believe in the fundamental truth of the labor theory of value and that history can be understood in terms of class struggle. OOOOO-Kay! Let's parse this one. "By saying I'm a Marxist I merely mean ... " You do not "merely" mean a goddam thing. Marx set out to destroy Western civiliazation and Judeo-Christian historical values, and substitute a somewhat unoriginal and utterly unproven master system that has never worked in general or in particular, in macro- or in micro-, in broad scope or detailed item. The 100 million …

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Sheesh, Wangle, sometimes you Marxists are as dumb as dog shit. This is in response to your sequential posts starting at Aug 25, 2008 at 10:14 AM. I am well aware that some people of education, culture, and good intent embrace Marxism; that is not in question. The question is: why do they persist in their delusion when all results of all Marxist experiments have resulted in failure, disaster, or catastrophe, depending upon to what degree Marxism is followed? Why do they credit Marxism with successes in which Marxism played no role? Why do they deny Marxism's failures way past the …

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Wangle - As a self-confessed Marxist, you can't get any more ridiculous than you are. OBAMA 2008 - Because THIS time, Marxism might work! Listen, dim bulb, the American Constitution does work. We do not need to change, supplement, or reverse it with a foreign philosophy that has never worked. So, why do you refuse to answer my questions and fall back on Marxist propaganda for the solution to all problems? Vonnegut, indeed! Why not quote dos Passos or Kahlo or Marx if you are searching for irrelevant Marxist nonsense? Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but …

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Wangle - Finally read the first paragraph and realized that was a Vonnegut speech and not my own words? For some reason you assume I do not know that Vonnegut is Marxist, or who Eugene Debs was. Stupid of you. I am well aware of the Wobblies, and some of the personalities they ginned up in their minor footnote in the American labor movement. So, why are you so focused on Debs? Haywood and Flynn both died in the Soviet Union, and Flynn was given a state funeral by her Marxist masters in Moscow. So, why Debs? The IWW was noted …

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Oh, come now. If "amass(ing) not a single significant accomplishment" makes one ineligible for high national office, what the hell is Zero doing at the head of the Demonicrat Party? I presume Zero has to find someone to run with Himself, but the potential running mates are taking themselves out, voluntarily and involuntarily, at an alarming rate. Maybe they know something? A couple of weeks ago, the buzz was that a Republican female was being considered, I don't remember her name. But at the rate Zero is going, he may have to select a Whig or a Tory or a Know …

Posted to Will Obama Wave Bayh Bye to the White House?

Wow! An expose of a Christialn mediator dealing with opposing viewpoints, in the climatololgy field, no less. And he has also mediated in political and labor disputes. This is terrible. Maybe we ought to take it to the Supreme Court. Or we could just go back to sleep. Z-Z-Z-Z.

Posted to Unholy Allies

Thomas P. Christie is a dedicated public servant, a patriot, an extremely effective administrator, and an honorable American. Not the Marxist idiot type that is normally featured in ITT, but we thank you for the recognition. And yet this article did not get around to mentioning Christie's greatest single contribution to America. John Boyd was a wild man, a fighter pilot, a warrior, a scholar, and a philosopher. Boyd changed the art of war, and Christie provided vital help in some of Boyd's greatest achievements. While in the Air Force as a flight instructor, Boyd developed mathematical tools that proved American …

Posted to All Guns, No Butter

Progressive. That has a nice positive ring to it. The Progressive movement in the United States was active in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Republican President Teddy Roosevelt was a leading Progressive reformer. Some of the adherents of Progressivism had unsavory aspects, such as racism and euthanasia. Communists became active in the United States about this time, but no one wanted anything to do with Communists, particularly after the murders and starvation in Ukrania and Russia starting in the 1920s. Communists ran for office in the United States, but no one would vote for them. The Communists changed their name …

Posted to Does a Nationwide 'Progressive Movement' Actually Exist?

Gavin - It is easy to make fun of the ridiulous. Even so, that is surely one of the funniest things I have ever heard in my life.

Posted to In Defense of the '60s

Sirota - Good! As in Good God, this is the dumbest thing I have ever read! The states with the highest union membership are doing the worst economically. The industries with high union membership are collapsing: Toyota (non-union) recently surpassed GM (union) as the world's largest car manufacturer. And you want to increase the burden on unionized industries by increasing wages and increasing regulation and work restrictions? That is no way to increase productivity, and increasing productivity is the only way we can make the world a better place, for workers and for everyone. Universal union membership in the USA will …

Posted to Six Little Words To Fix America's Wage Crisis

Well, not all newspapers are doing poorly and not all TV news is doing well. The dividing line between media outlets that do well and those that do poorly is quite distinct; the further Left the outlet, the worse it does. The NYT, once one of the most respected newspapers in the world, has turned itself into an outlet for Marxist propaganda aimed at destabilizing the United States Republic and it's values. Consequently, the NYT, it's circulation, and it's economic value are plummeting. Who the hell is going to pay to read anti-American propaganda? The Daily Worker is not doing so …

Posted to Bad Days for Newsrooms — and Democracy

The right to weapons for self-defense is a bourgeois value. All of the items in the Bill of Rights are bourgeois values. Marxists set out to destroy bourgeois values lo, these many years ago. Marxists in the USA demand our weapons, establish speech codes, promote multiculturalism, create restrictions on the Christian religion (but usually not on other religions) precisely because our freedoms are a threat to the Socialist utopia they hope to establish. You can bet your ass the more Socialists whine, the more threatened they are by the freedoms they are whining about. But every single Socialist experiment has ended …

Posted to Gun-toters in La-La Land

Al - A more likely reason is that shrill anti-gun fanatics (like Ms. Washington) have hijacked the issue. And why do you suppose that they would want to do that? People like Ms. Washington also want to restrict the free expression of the Christian religion, as the ACLU does, and restrict our freedom of speech, as Bill Moyers does in another ITT article this week. These people are called Socialists, and they have been attacking American values for nearly a century. They have also tried to win political office, with poor results, here in America. When they could not win political …

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WTH - You are correct, we agree on most things except the economy. Economic arguments are meaningless to you because of your personal experience in your home state. But look, you live in a relatively high-tax state, a state without Right-to-Work laws, and a state that routinely elects corrupt Democratic machine politicians. And you wonder why your economy is bad? I understand that Prius was going to build a new automobile manufacturing facility in California, but decided that the California tax structure and regulatory environment made the project not worthwhile. So, Prius is going to Mississippi. If you can't go to …

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Alan, Jon - The Vietnam War was started by a Democrat, continued and escalated by a Democrat, and ended by a Republican. The Democrats found that intolerable and unforgivable, and destroyed the Republican, who was criminally and politically less culpable than either Kennedy, who stole the 1960 election and damn near got us in a nuclear war, and Johnson, who pissed away $6 trillion (six trillion dollars) on the War on Poverty Socialist experiment that resulted in the near-total destruction of black family life in the United States for generations. So, it is with some amusement that I observe the continuing …

Posted to Earth to Ken Brociner

Jon B - Well, let's have a review of the bidding. In our previous correspondence, in "The American Left: What Progressives Can Learn From Obama" article, I reported that Blondemike had threatened to shoot me, among other things, and I said, more or less, that you Socialists are all nucking futz. Then you declared that my position and Blondemike's position were morally equivalent and accused me, in the form of a question, of being wrong based on "Two wrongs make a right?". So, Socialist revolutions always attack and kill those who oppose them and a lot of innocent by-standers besides. You …

Posted to Earth to Ken Brociner

Jon B - Cute. Irrelevant. You falsely accused me of being disrespectful (truth is a defense) and now you are way off-topic, thus violating the only two guidelines given for this site. Would you care to address the issues raised in this discussion? Almost certainly not, but I continue to try. My observation is that Socialist Revolutions are never led or supported by the workers who are supposed to be the beneficiaries of the Revolution. Socialist Revolutions are led by militant elitists, who kill off the workers who do not appreciate the efforts of the elitists on their behalf. Can you …

Posted to Earth to Ken Brociner

Yo Ken - You withdrew from our excellent discussion on a previous thread, to our mutual detriment, but I am intrigued by some of your comments here. I note that democratic political entities that encourage discussion and dissent tend to have fierce internal conflicts before they go out and stomp whomever and whatever needs to be stomped. Israel is the leading practitioner of this dynamic, with the United States as a distant but capable second. This process, often thought of as inefficient, is actually a key component of successful democracies throughout the world. I therefore think the current fierce discussions within …

Posted to What Progressives Can Learn from Obama

Greg - I have six E-mails that you have posted messages this afternoon, but only two actual posts are now on this website. I am most interested in your third post and this in particular: "Progressive" is one of those fun words that is inherently neutral of content but has an implied meaning that we can argue over. I mean progressive means being in favor of progress, right? But progress toward what? That is the real question. So to some people the industrial revolution was progress and progressive. We can progress toward the cliff and our doom, or we can progress …

Posted to What Progressives Can Learn from Obama

Jon B - I am shocked - shocked! - that you find me insulting and that you are insulted. I was not insulted when Blondemike (aka Michael P. Hardesty) wanted me to send him my address so he could beat me up. I was not insulted when he wanted to shoot me with his genuine .357 mag. I was not insulted when Maria wished me dead, but Maria had the good grace to edit the comment out. All right here on ITT. Far from being insulted, I was amused and bemused by the irrational and violent tone of the anti-war (anti-violence?) …

Posted to What Progressives Can Learn from Obama

I am surprised that Sheppard is still referring to "global warming". The new phrase is "climate change", and "climate change" is the current usage by both Al Gore and Barack Obama. "Global warming" is as outdated as Y2K. There has been no net global warming since 1998, and there has been emphatic global cooling for the last eighteen months, co-existent with a sudden lack of sunspot activity. Since global cooling inconsiderately and unaccountably does not fit into Gore's specious hypothesis on global warming, Gore could not very well continue pretending things were getting warmer when the thermometer was saying that it …

Posted to A Textbook Case

I have no sympathy for the estrogen or melanin arguments that have dominated the Dimocratic campaign to date. Who cares? But I cannot help but note that the Soros interests have hijacked the political process in order to promote their candidate Obama. How else could a nobody from nowhere suddenly become an international phenomenon with millions of dollars of political backing? Hillary may not have been the ideal candidate because of her baggage, but how does Obama, with no baggage, or resume, or history, suddenly spring from nowhere? I don't suppose even-handedness is a realistic possibility, much less a realistic ideal, …

Posted to Damned If Feminine, Damned If Feminist

Wolf - You think charisma is a good quality in political candidates? Perhaps charisma is a good quality in con artists and used car salesmen, but it is not a good quality in political candidates. JFK had charisma and lied about the missile gap, and had little else to recommend him, and he still needed his father's money to steal the 1960 election in Chicago. The results were near catastrophic. Krushchev and Kennedy had a summit, and Krushchev decided that Kennedy was weak and irresolute, which led directly to the Cuban missile crisis when we almost got involved in a nuclear …

Posted to Damned If Feminine, Damned If Feminist

Since you have to provide identification to drive a vehicle or cash a check, it would not seem to be too burdensome to provide identification when voting. But that is not what the Leftists are up to. They have whined constantly about the close Bush win in year 2000, but that is irrelevant now. The new voter fraud issue is Obama's theft of the Democratic nomination from Hillary. There is no way a nobody from nowhere could hijack a presidential nomination without Soros' money and political organization. But that is exactly what we have seen happen.

Posted to The Right's New Attack on Voters

In the early years of this Republic, Europe took a dim view of everything about the Western Hemisphere: " ... due chiefly to atmospheric conditions, in particular excessive humidity, all living things in the Americas were not only inferior to those found in Europe but also in a condition of decline." - James Ceaser, "A Genealogy of Anti-Americanism," >Public Interest (Summer 2003). http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/951675/posts The European attitude, similar to that expressed above, has a very long history, as documented by Ceaser and others. So, taking a dim view of the Western Hemisphere in general and the United States in particular has a …

Posted to Does the E.U. Hate You?

President Reagan predicted, worked for, and accomplished the collapse of the Soviet Union, monumentally assisted by the Soviet Socialists' incompetence and inefficiency. American Socialists ridiculed, obfuscated, and denied President Reagan's accomplishments, as is their wont. Now Sirota is looking backward to how the Socialists can stop the war, but the war is over. Al-Qa'eda is defeated in Iraq. Mookie is defeated in Sadr City and Basra. The Iranis have failed in their effort to subvert Iraqi democracy. And the American Socialists ridicule, obfuscate, and deny President Bush's accomplishments. The Socialists complain bitterly about the "costs" of Afghanistan/Iraq, but in real figures …

Posted to Why Democrats Won’t Stop the War

WTH - Thanx for the input. In real terms, the effects of inflation are minimal, as everything in our economy is denominated in dollars. The actual price rises are in fuel and food. The Democrats and Socialists have resolutely refused to tap American fuel sources (East, West, and South coasts, ANWR, and more coal than anybody else), creating artificial shortages that have contributed mightily to the costs of energy. And the shifting of food supplies to fuel production has contributed mightily to worldwide shortages of food. I am told that the corn to provide 25 gallons of ethanol would feed a …

Posted to Why Democrats Won’t Stop the War

While the 1972 campaign had the potential (if McGovern gone on to defeat Nixon) to radically transform American society while also having significant international impact, an Obama victory in 2008 would lead to important reforms in the years ahead. Well, yes, but back in the real world McGovern was crushed in the popular vote and in the Electoral College, meaning that the great majority of the American people rejected McGovern's Leftist views, regardless of Brociner's admiration for those views. Now, stop and consider: When was the last time an overt leftist was elected to the office of President? Exactly never, of …

Posted to McGovern, Obama, and 'transformative' change

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Posted to McGovern, Obama, and 'transformative' change

Ken - You seem to relish the opportunity to bait leftists. bait, verb To torment with persistent insult or ridicule: badger, bullyrag, heckle, hector, hound, taunt. Informal needle, ride. Idioms: wave the red flag in front of the bull. See treat well/treat badly/treat. To disturb by repeated attacks: annoy, bedevil, beleaguer, beset, harass, harry, pester, plague, tease, torment, worry. See feelings, pain/pleasure. To excite (another) by exposing something desirable while keeping it out of reach: tantalize, tease. See excite/bore/interest. I have neither tormented, nor insulted, nor ridiculed, nor bullyragged you, so what are you going on about? Is ITT a journalistic …

Posted to McGovern, Obama, and 'transformative' change

Ken - The magnitude of McGovern�s loss to Nixon in 1972 was due to a wide variety of factors - many of which had nothing to do with McGovern�s progressive politics. Why, sure! The Soviet Union collapsed as a result of Socialist corruption, inefficiency, and incompetence, in addition to Marx�s faulty philosophy, and I have no trouble attributing McGovern's collapse to additional factors characteristics of McGovern's Socialist ideology. Ditto Dukakis. Ditto Mondale. Ditto Gore. Ditto Kerry. Did you actually read what I wrote? Kerry is the classic case of moral corruption combined with Socialist ideology. Kerry voted against the Gulf War, …

Posted to McGovern, Obama, and 'transformative' change

Totsuka - I have been in project management most of my life. All projects go through six phases: 1. Enthusiasm. 2. Alarm. 3. Panic. 4. Search for the Guilty. 5. Punishment of the Innocent. 6. Praise and Honor for the Uninvolved. The Enthusiasm phase for Iraq began in 1998 when the United States Congress (100% of the Senate and almost 90% of the House) voted for the Iraq Liberation Act 1998 and President Clinton signed it into law. Among the many listed reasons for the Iraq Liberation Act was that Saddam had Weapons of Mass Destruction (MWD). Senators Kennedy, Rockefeller, Biden, …

Posted to McGovern, Obama, and 'transformative' change

Now that Sen. Barack Obama has taken care of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright ... Or the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has taken care of Sen. Barack Obama. Whatever.

Posted to Obama Not Feelin’ the Love from Smiley

U.S. Media Trivializes Campaign 2008 Naaaah. The candidates have trivialized themselves. I thought John Kerry was the least accomplished major party candidate in history in 2004, and damned if the Dims didn't come up with their final three who were even less accomplished candidates in 2008. Do you really think that simultaneously running as a war hero with faked credentials and an anti-war hero with a solid gold record of traitorous talk against your own country qualifies you to be president? Neither race, nor gender, nor the dirty tricks BO and Hill are playing on each other are really significant in …

Posted to U.S. Media Trivializes Campaign 2008

I have never understood why the term �socialist� gets spat out like a wad of snot by people. How about a wad of coagulated blood? Well, let me try to explain it to you in words of one syllable, appropriate to your level of comprehension. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) killed some 40 million innocent people while establishing their socialist utopia, which collapsed from corruption and inefficiency. Communist China starved some thirty million of their own people while establishing their version of socialism, and then killed more, including some of my relatives, in the Cultural Revolution and the …

Posted to U.S. Media Trivializes Campaign 2008

The New York Senator’s last-ditch efforts to win the Democratic nomination could rely on the “Race Chasm” and the trampling of democracy. Say, what? The whole idea of superdelegates was designed and intended to trample democracy. Left to their own devices, the Democratic Party comes up with some real lulus when it comes to picking presidential candidates; after the McGovern disaster in 1972, the superdelegates were to make sure the party did not stray so far into blatant Socialist orthodoxy that the Party would again be humiliated. The plan did not work too well: Carter, Mondale, Clinton, Gore, Kerry, and now …

Posted to The Clinton Firewall

Socialists say the damnedest things. You know, of course, that LBJ's welfare program in the Great Society cost $6 trillion, and the only result was the near total destruction of Black family life in the United States. Destruction of families and morality are principles of Marxism, and it worked just as you planned. So what are you bitching about now?

Posted to Debt: Our 9 Trillion Pound Gorilla

Hope in the Time of NAFTA? Hope? You sound like that vacuous idiot running for president. A few facts are much more to the point than all the hopes of Osama, Obama, and Bonnie and Clod. NAFTA passed in 1993, sponsored by Republicans and endorsed by President Clinton and some Democrats in Congress, and, more particularly, by Clinton�s wife on numerous occasions. Economists, the people who study markets, jobs, and economic growth, are virtually unanimous that free trade improves everyone�s economic well-being in the aggregate. Manufacturing employment rose for five years after NAFTA, stabilized for two years, and only started down …

Posted to Hope in the Time of NAFTA

The term �progressive� has evolved a great deal over the past 35 years. Well, yes, and it evolved even more in the years before that. Within the last century, in the USA, the Communists could not get themselves elected during the Great Depression, so they began calling themselves Socialists. The Socialists could not get themselves elected, so they began calling themselves Progressives, hijacking a perfectly honorable name (except for the racist and eugenic aspects) for their Leftist objectives. The Progressives could not get themselves elected, so they began calling themselves Liberals, hijacking another perfectly honorable name for their Leftist objectives. Now …

Posted to Liberals, Progressives and the Left

MM - So, if Fascism and Communism are the two sides of the capitalist coin, how do you account for the collapse of the Soviet Union into corruption, inefficiency, and bankruptcy, while the United States staggers from triumph to triumph? This despite the Sinisteres' decades-long predictions and insistence that the USA is "failing". In fact, Fascism and Communism are each collectivist and totalitarian, while American democratic capitalism is uniquely individualist and thrives in a (relatively) free environment, both in theory (the Constitution of the United States) and in practice. The Sinisteres want the USA to fail, but so far, no luck. …

Posted to Liberals, Progressives and the Left

Sirota's article is very insightful, and provides an important piece of the big puzzle. Class warfare would seem to be an appropriate battlefield for two Marxist class warriors. A different piece of the puzzle that Sirota does not address is the nature of the debate within the two parties: * Clinton and Obama have very similar views on the important policies: out of Iraq and into populist Socialist economics. But the Democratic Party's long absorption with identity politics is revealed to be a fraud. Identity politics was the tool of party bosses to organize and marginalize the various tribes to their …

Posted to The Democrats' Class War

Slow Eddie - Fast Eddie you are not. There is no difference between the two parties. The most mild and most predjudicially jaundiced glimpse of the "two parties" reveals just how fatuous your observation is: * Terrorists attacked us multiple times during the Clinton administration: Somalia, the African embassies, USS Cole, WTC I, etc. We made no meaningful response to these multiple attacks, and bin Laden was convinced that the USA would not defend itself, hence 09/11. After Bush's vigorous response to 09/11in Afghanistan and Iraq, we have not been attacked again. Al-Qa'eda has substantially destroyed its credibility and effectiveness trying …

Posted to The Democrats' Class War

WTH - I have long been amused and bemused by your nonsensical statements on the economy and on politics. You seem to think that everything that happens is bad, all these bad things are the politicians' fault, and the politicians do all these bad things for the worst possible reasons. All of your assumptions are wrong. For example: On economic issues both parties are under the influence of big money through lobbyists. George H.W. Bush initiated NAFTA and Clinton pushed it through. During the Great Depression, we deliberately restricted trade in an attempt to save American jobs, and all we accomplished …

Posted to The Democrats' Class War

Eddie - I do plod on and tromp through the muck and mire,until I get tired and have to rest.I pick myself up and try to make sense of what is going on around me.I like eheller try to get information from all sides and humbly try to make sense of what I see,hear,and read.I am not a great thinker and yes I can be slow,but I do my best. Eddie, you are far to modest. Is (sic) bush/cheney (sic) being held accountable for an illegal war? George Orwell was talking about you and people like you when he said: One …

Posted to The Democrats' Class War

Jon B - "One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: No ordinary man could be such a fool." Orwell, when he wrote that in 1945, was referring to a few in Britain that thought the Americans entering the Second World War were doing it to suppress an English revolution rather than fight the Germans. He was talking about British conspiracy theorists, that's all. But taking quotes out of context and getting caught makes scorp the big fool, as if he hasn't proved this repeatedly before. Ummm, no, as a matter of fact. That is rich, Jon …

Posted to The Democrats' Class War

Jon B - You have gone from uncomprehending to incoherent. Why don't you take some time and actually read what Orwell had to say in his essay, Notes on Nationalism? You would learn many wonderful things and save yourself from further embarrassment. So what English revolution was to be crushed by the US? It was nothing but conspiracy theory to think that the US was entering the war in Europe for that reason particularly as the US was aiding Britain prior to actually declaring war on Germany. Like all conspiracy theories, this one is nonsense. But Orwell clearly identified this conspiracy …

Posted to The Democrats' Class War

Jon B - First, as usual you have completely changed the subject of the original subject of David Sirota. I keep forgetting about your classic tactic of blatant essayist red herring. Jon B, sometimes you are as dumb as a turnip. The title of Sirota's article is, "The Democrats' Class War". The whole article is about Clinton and Obama saying one thing and doing another, and reversing positions, in dealing with those they perceive to be the lower classes. WTH introduced the unemployment aspect to the discussion. Clinton, Obama, Sirota, and you accept the class nature of the current political contest, …

Posted to The Democrats' Class War

mwalimu - Let's call it TeamAmerica. Naaaah. Call it Team Socialist. That would be more appropriate for a team led by Clinton, Edwards, and Obama. Even at the height of the Great Depression, with its devastating social and economic upheavals, the American people were too smart to embrace Socialism. You Socialists want to overturn our Constitution (freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of religion, right to keep and bear arms), the very things that have made our country strong, and install your own genocidal Socialism (USSR) or suicidal Socialism (EUSSR). I find it mildly disturbing that you have attracted so …

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The NIE, in an abrupt reversal of the U.S. intelligence community�s previous best guess, stated that Iran has not had an active program for building the bomb since 2003. A mild euphoria gripped Washington, except the White House where spokespeople were sheepish, and the right-wing think tanks where Iran hawks muttered darkly about State Department derailment of the Bush-Cheney agenda. Within two weeks, however, the euphoria wore off, and the old bipartisan consensus�Iran is a threat�reemerged. Well, there was certainly a lot of muttering on many sides. The �abrupt reversal� from previous intel estimates did attract serious attention. But interestingly enough, …

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As always, ITT publishes stuff and leaves out the most interesting parts. Al-Rawi has been accused of association with al-Qa'eda, aiding terrorists in moving between Britain and Pakistan, concealing terrorists in Britain, and moving funds in support of al-Qa'eda operations. Al-Rawi's return to Britain followed an extradition request by Britain, where he was wanted on terrorist charges, and which followed negotiations between Britain and the USA to assure that adequate security safeguards were in place for al-Rawi in Britain. These charges against al-Rawi are somewhat more serious than having a "suspicious" "common store-bought battery charger" in his luggage. My horseback estimate …

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Change, like hope, is a word in which people can make an emotional investment without requiring thought or work. Rational adults do not waste time with emotionally charged nullities. A big chunk of our population has a child-like faith that they can wish upon a rock star, who will take care of them without effort on their part. So, why are so many Demonicrats in a state of arrested development?

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The United States of America is a Federal Republic, and is defined as such in the Constitution. The Founders feared the tyranny of raw democracy, and built in restraints that protect minorities, minority viewpoints, and electoral procedures, and that also balance the contending forces. The Senate and the Electoral College are the two most visible aspects of our Federal Republic. Each state, large and small, California and Rhode Island, has two Senators and the Senate has important functions to perform, on the rare occasions it chooses to perform them. This keeps a few large states from dominating many small states, and …

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Damian - Kennedy's theft of the 1960 Presidential election and Johnson's theft of his first Senate term are well documented. The only documentation of President Bush's 2000 election is by the Supremes, the highest court in the land. That is not quite the same as the squalid and corrupt Dimocratic practice, regardless of the Dims braying and bleating about year 2000. ... betcha didn�t know that certain Ohio Republicans are going to jail over that election ... In fact, I spent considerable time researching that very question back a couple of years ago. I am certainly not going to say that …

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Oh, come now, Damian, don't be such a Sinisturd. RFK, Jr.'s article in Rolling Stone is "impeccably sourced", while the Supreme's decision in 2000 is evidence of electoral theft? Meanwhile, the Sinister MSM overlooked or ignored massive voter fraud in Ohio? That would be highly untypical; the MSM is more likely to perpetrate voter fraud, as CBS attempted to do in forging the Bush ANG records. It does not occur to you that the Sinister hysteria in Ohio did not merit serious consideration, not even by your media allies? As I pointed out, Kathleen Dreamer is identified as both a Republican …

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Modesto - I "will find a fist in (my) mouth one day"? What is with you Sinisteres and violence? Why do you not prefer reasoned (or unreasoned, as you often do) debate? I have been threatened with death, beheading, assault, and the wish for my death on this site, always by Sinisteres. I can't say it has never happened, but I certainly have never seen any physical threats to anyone by any Dexter. The only thing I will say is that I am perfectly willing and able to defend myself from physical and verbal assault. The irony is that you Sinisteres …

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Damian - ... Dan Rather�s reporting was accurate. Let's see if I understand this correctly: ABC fired Dan Rather and Mary Mapes for reporting the news accurately. Not likely. Not only would reporting the news accurately be a first for ABC, you are a prime example of why Sinisteres are widely regarded as insane little dumbshits.

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LXXI. The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. - Rubaiyat, Omar the Tent Maker My apologies to ABC and to ITT readers. I seldom watch network television, as they are all a bunch of Sinister ideologues in precipitous moral and financial decline. (For that matter, I have never in my life listened to Limbaugh, Hannity, or O'Reilly.) So, can all your Tears wash out the 100 million dead victims of Communism? No. How about …

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JJ - I'm lucky, I' a liberal in a liberal state; if you are contrary to your State' prevailing ideology, the EC makes your vote pointless. Ignorance is bliss. As a self-confessed "liberal in a liberal state", you also display all the characteristics of the Sinister education you suffered: historical ignorance and utter lack of logic. The EC was one of a few provisions put in the Constitution to coerce the southern states to ratify it - so was counting most black people as 3/5 of a person and we eventually got rid of that disgrace. I absolutely defy you to …

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Damian - ... I have heard almost everything you have said in this thread before, and almost all of it has come from partisan hacks, so you can understand why someone who pays attention to the media would be confused. Well, you should be well qualified to recognize a partisan hack if you saw one, including the Sinister media, but I somehow doubt that you do. Like this: You should ask the sweatshop workers in China what they think of their economic growth. Very shortly before Nixon went to China for the express purpose of opening the Chinese economy to the …

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Damian - Jean Piaget, the Swiss psychologist, described human cognitive development as a series of stages. In the Pre-Operational stage of early childhood, youngsters from the ages of about two years to about seven years exhibit certain characteristic communication modes, including what Piaget termed "Egocentrism". Children at this level tend to talk past one another, with little reference to or understanding of what the other says or means. Talking to a Sinstere is sort of like talking to a two year old, but at a different, more sinister, "stage" of development, if I may stretch Piaget's organizational scheme. The most basic …

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Damian - I never advocated or showed any tolerance of robbery, genocide, or any other crimes, and you fucking know it. Well, not exactly. You advocate every Sinister position and repeat every Sinister propaganda in contemporary American politics. Have you forgotten that a central premise of Marxism holds that bourgeois morality must be destroyed and that any lie is justified to effect that destruction? So, you practice dishonesty, but not the criminal corollaries that eventuate as a result of your Sinister philosophy? You expect me to believe that? Couldn’t you just acknowledge that “mistakes were made” as Krushchev did, talking about …

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Damian - ... betcha didn't know that certain Ohio Republicans (plural) are going to jail over that election ... Ever since I suggested that Republicans were just as guilty as Democrats of election fraud ... You are right. And I still don't know that. The site you provided still does not work, and the only Republican(?) (singular) cited is still identified with different party labels on different sites, and at any rate she did not have any effect on the outcome of any election; her crime was cutting corners in a recount verification. Do you have a legitimate case of voter …

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"Why Is Yazan Sawalha in Prison?" My horseback estimate is that he is a Palestinian terrorist. Israeli Intelligence is the best in the world, unlike our own stumblefart Sinister-infiltrated Intelligence services. The Israelis do not make many mistakes when trying to identify the people who are trying to kill them. Asking the Israelis to clean up after themselves when taking down a terrorist is a bit much. Tell the Palestinians to quit firing rockets into Israel, and the Israelis will not have any terrorists to go after.

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Welcome back, Natalie. Your incisive comments on Kelo are exactly right. Why would Fortunato argue that the Leftist Supremes' decision in favor of stealing poor peoples' property be the fault of Conservatives? Leftists like Fortunato generally are clueless, but this is ridiculous. Note, too, that Fortunato cited six unanimous(!) decisions in his attempt to prove that Conservatives are stomping all over the rights of the common man: * Whren v. United States, 1996 * Los Angeles County v. Rettele, 2006 * United States v. Grubbs, 2006 * Long Island Care at Home Ltd. v. Coke, 2007 * DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno, …

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Poor Zizek. His slavish devotion to his impossible Marxist dream has addled his brain, not to mention that it has muddled his thinking. But I suppose Zizek's muddled thoughts are no greater or less than Marx's own muddled thoughts. But that is no excuse, of course. Consider: There has been an irregular but inexorable progression from the primitive to the current advanced state of personal freedom and economic development. If the current situation is not perfect, neither has it terminated. Democracy, the rule of law, and free-market capitalism have contributed to this advance, and there is no end in sight. And …

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In Russia, after the collapse of Communism, the government adopted �shock therapy� and threw itself directly into democracy and the fast track to capitalism�with economic bankruptcy as the result. (There are good reasons to be modestly paranoid here: Were the Western economic advisers to President Boris Yeltsin who proposed this approach really as innocent as they appeared? Or were they serving U.S. strategic interests by weakening Russia economically?) Zizek is not "modestly paranoid", he is big time bonkers. Russia was already bankrupt; that is why it collapsed. "U.S. strategic interests" required Russia to survive and prosper. We definitely did not want …

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Good take, Louis. You might point out that Lenin strained mightily to fit medieval Russia into Marx's philosophical industrial economy model. The industrial world had developed over a period of several centuries when Marx made his observations, positing that industrial workers would take control of their own futures. Marx's scientific socialism "proved" that history was inexorably moving toward a socialist Utopia, and that the state would wither away. The advanced state of capitalism was necessary to make workers aware of their exploitation, and that in turn was a necessary step toward Socialism. So, how did Russia get from a medieval past …

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Jon B - I recall distinctly reading about a job seeker in year 2000. This young man was a college graduate, age 24, and was desperate to find work. The only entry on his resume was as CEO of a multi-million dollar dot.com start-up which had never made any money and which had crashed when the NASDAQ fell by 50% in Clinton's last year as President. Try to keep the young man's story in mind as you read this. Sorry to take so long to respond. It took a while to quit laughing at your ridiculous assertions and then to decide …

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Zimcan - Your idea is interesting, but why apply it to China, for gosh sakes? Egypt had a great civilization long before China. I am sure we can learn much from Egypt. And just what is it that you wish to learn from China? Confucius taught a moral and ethical system that worked quite well until it was corrupted by the warlords and Sinisteres, who brought war and death and destruction to China. Confucius' teachings are now regarded as an impediment to modernization, that is to say, Confucius would frown on the modern Communists, who killed and starved upwards of 30 …

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Jon B - You shitting me, boy? Most of your quotes are from Jeremy Rifkin and NYT, blatant Sinisteres and dubitable sources at best and grossly corrupt and inaccurate at worst. How could it be otherwise? Has there ever been a Socialist bureaucracy, such as Rifkin proposes, that did not end up inefficient and corrupt? No, of course not. "The European Dream" is not reality now (Rifkin is projecting and clearly admits this), and will end up the same way as the Soviet dream did after 1918, in more death, more destruction, more inefficiency, and more corruption. . Lending her support …

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Jon B - And once again for the umpteenth time Scorp thinks I'm a democrat and is wrong. Naaa. Calling you a Democrat is just a polite way of saying that you are a Marxist, which is the cover Marxists typically use when they are not pretending to be Progressives (!) or Liberals (!!!). Marxists need cover because they are ashamed that one of the tenets of their philosophy holds that conventional/bourgeois morality must be overturned. In practice, that means that dishonesty is a principled way to gain political power if you are a Marxist. But Marxists cannot just come out …

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Jon B – Liberalism (the philosophy, not the Sinisteres) is based on the primacy and sovereignty of the individual, to the exclusion of kings, nobles, priests, potentates – and commissars. The most concise and eloquent statement of liberal principles is the Constitution of the United States of America. The first ten Amendments to the Constitution enumerate the rights of free men, including their right to protect themselves from government and from each other. Fortunately, most people are decent, hard-working, and non-aggressive. But if everyone is free to do what they want, conflicts invariably result. That is why the United States was …

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Jon B. - You don’t have to give me a history lesson I already know. What is it that you know? The barest flash on history books should make it obvious that Marxism, in all its disguises and in all its locations, results in stagnation and rot at best and death and destruction as a more normal condition. Meanwhile, back in the real world, democracy, the rule of law, and capitalist free markets work extremely well, and have expanded geometrically for the last hundred years because of its remarkable successes, in social, economic and military spheres. Look at China; constrained as …

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Never heard of any of these rags. But if you think they have some importance, I'll take your word for it. But if the radical Leftist small press is in decline, the radical Leftist large press is also in decline: NYT, WaPo, LAT, not to mention CBS, NBC, and ABC. So, what does it all mean? If nobody is willing to buy your message, how will you continue to distribute your message? Don't do like your predecessors, Lenin and Stalin. They robbed banks to finance revolutionary activities. Not very moral of them, but then they did not claim morality anyway. Just …

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I was astonished, and gratified, and suspicious, that Paul Krugman identified himself as a liberal, as in the title of his book The Conscience of a Liberal. If Krugman is a liberal, he must support freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to keep and bear arms, the right to private property, and all of the liberal values as enshrined in the Bill of Rights. Alas, no. Krugman is not a liberal, but is a Liberal, which is the most illiberal ideology since Marx, on whom it is based. The Communists could not get themselves elected during the Great Depression …

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WTH - The dollar has fallen over 20 percent since 2002 and 9 percent this year - one of the biggest tax increases in our lifetimes. Ummm, no. While the dollar has fallen against foreign currencies, domestic wages and prices have barely moved at all, consequently it has had no effect on your income or outgo. The only exception to this is our improved competitive position in world markets, as American goods are less expensive and imports are more expensive. We are, in fact, exporting more and importing less in the last few months. You are the one who complains, quite …

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WTH - The idea that an economy is �manageable� is a myth. If the economy is not perfectly manageable, there are many things we can do to create conditions that foster growth and jobs, and to alleviate potentially disastrous conditions. The dot.com Bubba Bubble was an incipient disaster, and Bush and Greenspan took the correct actions to provide investment funds, which restored growth and jobs after a very mild recession. We are now in the biggest, longest lasting period of growth in the nation's history. By way of comparison, Japan in the 1980s was on a growth pattern that many otherwise …

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WTH - On a parallel note, free-market democracy is thriving throughout the world. A century ago there were only about twenty functional democracies world-wide. Now there are well over one hundred. Right now, there are exactly four nations that are overtly hostile and threatening toward democracy: Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and China. Russia, Iran, and Venezuela have pegged their anti-American fortunes on the rising price of oil. Russia, at least, should know better, since the collapse of the Soviet Union was substantially the result of the fall of prices for oil and other commodities superimposed on their corrupt and inefficient economy. It …

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WTH - I'm glad you gave a bit more thought to my China question. Your first response was flip and unworthy. Now give some thought to the alternatives. When Nixon went to China, the leadership of China was a bunch of totalitarian murderers with atomic weapons. What is the appropriate response, hide in a bomb shelter? I have always thought that the Chinese people are the finest natural capitalists on the the planet. Empowering those people may not be without risk, but it beats any alternative. You keep concentrating on petty and provincial trade matters. You have run a constant anti-competitive …

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We have exactly what we produce. No more, no less. The distribution of our products depends exactly on the attractiveness of those products: style, comfort, price, whatever. The fact that the automobile producers have achieved some degree success and prosperity is an exact measurement of their customers satisfaction with those products. No discussion of the auto industry after WWII is valid unless you understand the role of Robert Strange McNamara and W. Edwards Deming. You know Robert Strange McNamara. He was the one who brought you the Edsel and Vietnam. Who the hell was W. Edwards Deming? If you are an …

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Jane - ... but I would add that the McNamarra (sic) model was not so much a production model as a social and political model, one that ensured a particular versoin (sic) of the US post war social settlement. Well, no. You would be entirely mistaken. McNamara was numerical-analytical (and anal retentive), and showed no awareness of social factors at all. His engagement in politics was incidental to his fearsome reputation as an analyst, and his catastrophic political failures were a direct result of the inapplicability of his analytical methods to political and social problems. But he had JFK and LBJ …

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The New Road to Serfdom. Same as The Old Road to Serfdom. The old road to serfdom was inspired by Marx-Engels Socialism, and grew to hold sway over a substantial portion of the globe, it's peoples, and it's resources, all in a period of about a century and a half. Then, in it's various manifestations, it collapsed from corruption and inefficiency, rapidly in the Soviet Union, and more slowly as capitalist principles were embraced in China and India. The only remnants of the original Marxist serfdom are Cuba and NorK, two of the poorest, most benighted, corrupt, and inefficient countries on …

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Brociner seems to have settled on "Progressive" as the proper term for term our Leftists. May I suggest "Neocommunist" as a more appropriate label. In the early years of the Twentieth Century, a new Collectivist philosophy, originating in Europe in the 1800s, arose in the United States. Known first as �Communism�, it attracted few followers among the American electorate, who had extensive reports on the horrific death and destruction that accompanied the imposition of Communism in Russia. Communism in the United States did not not thrive, but neither did it go away. Communists changed their name to �Socialists�, but Socialism also …

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WTH - You have a charmingly naive and thought-free view of the world. Everything you don't like, you find something or someone to blame it on, even if there is no correlation whatsoever. And you don't let facts get in your way. The I.D. crisis is a universal political problem in the U.S. and has been for some time. Oh, come now. The American Revolution and the War Between the States are examples of true ID crises, when Americans fought against Americans over who they were and what kind of country they wanted. Far from being a "universal political problem", this …

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Matt - (Hillary) Clinton most certainly supports such Liberal institutions as international free trade, a market based economy, rights-based restrictions on the power of government, protection of private property, rule of law, and checks and balances among governmental powers. Hillary supports the rule of law? Does she now? I hadn't heard. Whitewater. Jim and Susan Mc Dougal, Susan went ot jail. Castle Grande billing records. Cattle futures. Billy Dale and the Travel Office. The FBI files. Hubbell, went to jail. Lippo Group. And the three separate fraudulent compaign contribution scandals involving illegal contributions by Chinese agents. Every one of these incidents …

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Matt - ... a low-brow attempt to smear Clinton via negative association. Clinton is not associated with her own quotes? Well, that is certainly a novel interpretation. Especially since she has said essentially the same thing in different contexts over a period of years. And the contexts are quite accessible if you care to look them up. I distinctly remember at least two of them from news coverage at the time. So, you ignore (or embrace) Hillary's criminal activity and her radical plans for the American people, the American economy, and the American government. Noted. Of the several possible interpretations of …

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Matt - The negative association I was referring to was (obviously) your pairing of Clinton with, you know, Hitler, Stalin, Kim Jong Il, Goebbels, etc. Ummm, no. I did not pair Hillary with anyone. �I certainly think the free-market has failed.� That is Hillary's statement, and it stands alone. And if it sounds like something that Marx or Lenin or Molotov might have said, that is probably only a coincidence. We have already examined Hillary's committment to the rule of law, which is about on par with Stalin's committment to the rule of law; Stalin robbed banks to finance the Communist …

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Matt - You still have failed to offer any substantive critique of Clinton's policies. Au contraire! I have done nothing else on this thread. Did Lenin and Stalin tell the world that they were going to kill 40 million or so of their own people, and destroy the Russian economy? What would have been the effect if they had done so? We are blessed with the knowledge of Hillary's assault on the health care system in the 1990s, and her repeated comments on her plans to assault the free market if she gets elected. If you don't remember, review the quotes …

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Waypast and Raven - Good take on the Second Amendment. The Bill of Rights were the first Ten Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Liberal philosophy sprang from the Enlightenment, which largely originated in Great Britain and revolutionary France. The Bill of Rights was the distillation of centuries of philosophical development, and is at the foundation of our stable and flourishing Republic. The Rights enshrined in the Constitution belong to the people; the government did not grant these Rights to us, we own them. The ability to defend our Rights is fundamental to the preservation of all our Rights; …

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jdege - I disagree with all liberals. Because I disagree with their basic premises. But I don't think all of them are idiots, and I don't think all of them are malevolent. Some are. Most are simply ignorant. They think the world works the way they would wish it to work, or that it would work the way they'd wish it to work if only enough people believed. And that because they have good intentions, the results of their policies will be good. I think that's dangerously naive. But I don't think it makes them bad people. Naaah. They are bad …

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Major Major This guy is having some problems, and he goes to a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist talks to him for a bit, and then decides to give the guy a Rorschach test. He tells the patient to look at these inkblot images, and to say the first thing that the images remind him of. The psychiatrist holds up the first image, and the guy immediately says, "Oh, that reminds me of sex." The psychiatrist holds up the second image, and the guy says, "That reminds me of sex, too." The psychiatrist holds up the third image and the guy says, "That …

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Captain A - Hitlery? Billery? Why don't we all just settle on Hillarity? "Do I even need to point out that most of their "studies" wouldn't be academically or statistically rigorous enough to pass muster in a high school civics class?" You obviously haven't been in a high school civics class since the Neocommunist NEA has taken control of the curricula and eliminated thinking.

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Major Major - You foolishly obsessed about Lott, and got nowhere. Now you are foolishly obsessing about Canada gun laws, and are getting nowhere. THIS IS NOT CANADA. This is the United States of America. The people are sovereign. The government is our servant. The police are our servants. We have the right to own firearms. We may use our firearms well or poorly (mostly well, by a very large margin), but the government has nothing to say about it if no crime is committed. Murder is a crime, but failure to register a firearm is not a crime, because the …

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.45 Be my guest. I did not intend the list to be all inclusive. Your comments on the Jihadist situation in Europe are well taken. We have gone into Europe twice in the last century to clean up their mistakes, and I firmly believe we will go in again to clean out the Jihadists.

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Major Major - Oh, come now. You have gone from faulty interpretations of Lott, to irrelevant comparisons with Canada, to illiterate and irrational confusion of polar opposites. Patriots and tyrants, indeed. If you can't make a coherent argument, and can't distinguish between, for example, George Washington and Robert Mugabe, you must be the educational product of the Neocommunist NEA. Just how old are you, anyway?

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jdege - MM does not care what Milton said. Milton is a dead white male. Dead white males are not politically correct. The wisdom and insight that inspired the creation of our world have given away to political correctness, appeasement, pacifism, and globalism which are the defining values of the Neocommunists. The Communists and Neocommunists have an unrelieved history of death, destruction, and failure, all of which are irrelevant to True Believers who think that political correctness will bring a new Utopia, and Americans will become the New Soviet Man. Not as long as you and I enforce the Second Amendment. …

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Why are we discussing accidents, suicides, and domestic thugs? Thirty thousand gun deaths a year represents one/ten-thousandth of the people of the United States. And some of those gun deaths are quite commendable. There are tragic and regrettable gun deaths, but they are not a threat to our cultural survival. Totalitarians are a threat to our survival and to our cultural survival. In the last century, Russia and particularly Germany were Western cultures in which totalitarian terrorism became dominant. Millions of innocents died at the hands of the Fascists and Communists, not to mention the millions more that died in combat. …

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"Liberal" may be the most misused term in our language. The Constitution of the United States of America is a pre-eminent liberal document. Democracy is a liberal value. Self protection is a liberal value. Freedom of speech and religion are liberal values. So, why is it that gun opponents are almost exclusively Liberal Democrats? Why does the Liberal ACLU attempt to restrict Christian expression, and not that of other religions? Why did forty-one Liberal United States Senators attempt to restrict a private citizen's freedom of speech? Why are Liberals trying to restrict what is said on the radio, but not what …

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.45 Your points are well taken. We in the USA have a long history of rejecting Collectivists: Socialists, Communists, Progressives, Liberals, or whatever they are currently calling themselves. But if these ideologues have exhibited atrocious, murderous, inefficient, and corrupt behavior, they do have a certain persistence. So, can they establish themselves, much less prevail, by pretending to be other than what they are? Can Marxists triumph by pretending to be Progressives, or Liberals? In my previous post, I discussed Gramsci's Cultural Communism, whereby he advocated taking over institutions (schools, churches, poitical parties, the media, etc.) in order to take over the …

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Sheesh! You succeed in doing good in the world and all the nutjobs come out in force to criticize. Another War We Can't Afford In the first six months of 1942, immediately after Pearl Harbor, the United States wrote purchase orders for war materials and related war efforts that exceeded the GNP. The national debt during WWII reached over 125% of GNP. Right now the national indebtedness is falling in comparison to GNP. To say that the United States "can't afford" another war is patently ridiculous. This is the only war in American history in which the deficit is falling. Winning …

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Anarcho - ... the result of that war will ultmately cost the public ... You are assuming that 09/11, Beirut, and Mogadishu were cost free. Can you justify that novel historical and economic interpretation? Every time a person stands in line at the airport, it reasonably costs him $50 per hour, money that was not required and time that was not lost before 09/11. A reasonable cost for 09/11 is somewhere north of $1 trillion, and still counting after all these years. Social programs have already been slashed ... No shot, Sheerluck. The biggest social program was Welfare, brought to us …

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Maria - ... if you read the list of wars you mentioned youwill see that they were started by your country's succesive governments and that must surely mean something. Well, yes, it means that you are grossly ignorant of history and/or your leftist ideology has left you incapable of coherent thought. WW2 was started by Germany's attacks on Czechoslovakia and Poland and raged in Europe for two years while the United States was still locked in isolationism. The USA became directly involved when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, at which time Hitler declared war on the United States, and not the other …

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aolaw - Maybe the GOP will reign him in if only for the sake of the 2008 congressional elections. And maybe you Collectivists will pull your collective heads out of your collective behinds, but I doubt it. The last time the anti-war forces made a lot of noise, they drove the electorate away from McGovern to Nixon, in a near record Electoral College defeat and popular vote defeat in presidential election history. The MSM has been going on and on and on and on about how badly the War on Terror has been, so that no one recognizes good news when …

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RP - And what would that "win" entail, Scorp? Why, it might look something like this: ... support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime. ... support Iraq's transition to democracy by providing immediate and substantial humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people, by providing democracy transition assistance to Iraqi parties and movements with democratic goals, and by convening Iraq's foreign creditors to develop a multilateral response to Iraq's foreign debt incurred by Saddam Hussein's regime. In fact, this is the law of …

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RP - Ummm, since all I did was quote United States Law, and point out that many Dimocrats embraced that law and the reasons we went to war, I'm a hoot? Clinton is not a hoot? All the United States senators in 1998 are not a hoot, but I am? You are not a prophet, you can't even tell what the past was, much less what the future will be. My horseback estimate is that al-Qa'eda in Iraq will continue to lose local support, the Sunnis and Shi'ites will come to an armed truce, business and civil life will continue to …

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... the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is releasing a get-tough regulation that would force employers to either fire workers whose names and Social Security numbers don�t match or risk a fine of up to $10,000. Corporation and labor advocates both fear it could lead to mass layoffs of immigrants. Can we agree that "workers whose names and Social Security numbers don�t match" are suspicious? There are several millions of illegal aliens in this country who invent, buy, or steal fake identification and SSNs. Inventing, buying, or stealing fake identification and SSNs is (1) against the law and (2) easily …

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This crisis is more akin to a lymphoma or termite infestation ... Termite infestation, guaranteed. Only a wooden-headed Progressive could find a problem which is "(l)argely unrecognized by the American public, unacknowledged by those in power, and denied by professionals in uniform" and which has no symptoms, as described in detail in the second paragraph of the article. The American public is solidly behind the US Military, while respect for politicians is extremely low. So, Foster sees a problem with the military that no one else sees? Say what? So what? The Progressives made a massive bet against the United States …

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MM - Every Progressive academic has impressive credentials and a wooden head. Ask Ward Churchill. Many people in positions of authority and responsibility are functional idiots. I first recognized this in the Army, and, to my surprise, discovered that the same thing was true in business, where you might think that the need for markets and profits might serve to discipline the organization. But no, there are idiots in business, as well as in the military. So, the first thing you have to do is to learn to distinguish the idiots from the non-idiots. You particularly want to avoid those idiots …

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Hayden - One example: despite limiting press access far more than occurred in Vietnam, despite an unusually low number of mainstream media correspondents inside Iraq, far more stories have emerged about criminal acts committed by soldiers and groups of soldiers than were reported in Vietnam. ... That does suggest a breakdown in training and command structure. You obviously were never in Vietnam. I was, twice. You are full of shit. You have no recollection of My Lai, fragging, or combat refusals. Those were parlous times in Vietnam and Iraq, in contrast, is a politically correct cakewalk in comparison. Ralph Peters has …

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WTH - Perhaps we should admit and accept that the war has been mishandled in many ways. Name two. Surely everyone understands that war is serious business, and blood and treasure will be expended. These two criteria are primary to the evaluation of any military endeavor. At the time of the Iraq War Resolution 2002, the Pentagon estimated 5000 American combat deaths in Iraq. Hillary, Biden, Dodd, Edwards, Feinstein, Kerry, Reid, Rockefeller, and Schumer voted for this War, and these deaths, because it was vital to United States national interests. Total American combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan are now substantially …

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WTH, Hayden - "Too few troops". "State Dept. and CENTCOM". Ad infinitum, ad asinintiy. According to the Progressives: * Everything that George Bush did was bad. * Everything George Bush did had the worst possible results. * Everything that George Bush did was done for the worst possible reasons. So, how in the hell did he fight two major wars which are having substantial success in spite of the Dims attempts to sell us out, and with BY FAR the fewest casualties and the least cost of any war in American history? Why do you think we had too few troops, …

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Hayden - "Revisionist history at its best ... " And you can point out a historical error or omission in my arguments?

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John Edwards is not the obvious posterboy for either poverty or unions. He has no history as an advocate for either cause, either as a lawyer or as a politician. On the contrary, Edwards has done much to impoverish the very people he seeks to represent. Doctors in North Carolina cite Edwards as a main cause of the rise in their medical malpractice premiums, dating back to when Edwards was winning multi-million dollar awards in medical malpractice suits and driving some doctors out of North Carolina or out of the medical profession altogether. Higher insurance premiums and fewer medical practitioners both …

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MM - You really need to get yourself better informed. There is this marvelous Internet system called "Google" which contains all kinds of fascinating information. I highly recommend it. Edwards earned (?) 50 awards of $1 million or more, and he kept one-third of each award. Edwards concentrated on psychiatric and cerebral palsey malpractice cases, and the science does not support the arguments that Edwards convinced the jurors of. Do not end a sentence with a preposition. Edwards used a combination of psychic chicanery, witchdoctory, and flim-flamery to make himself very rich, and fifty unfortunate people moderately rich, and left millions …

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Davion - You are as gullible as a goose. In twenty years as a tort lawyer, Edwards made himself rich, and did absolutely nothing to help the poor, except for the fifty people whose cases he won. Millions of people in North Crolina and across the nation ended up paying higher insurance premiums. After becoming rich, Edwards opted for political power, and then he discovered the attractiveness of poverty and unions. How convenient! He (Edwards) has thus far dedicated and proven himself to a cause which most politicians seem to ignore. You shitting me, boy? There was a man named Johnson …

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Not only are the statements and sources reported in this article quite dubious, as WTH has pointed out, there is a quite simple solution to the problem. The Geneva Conventions prescribe rules for conducting warfare. If the terrorists would follow these rules, such as wearing uniforms and avoiding civilians during conduct of military operations, they, the terrorists, could virtually eliminate any confusion leading to civilian deaths. Perhaps Cook and ITT could use their influence with their friends, the terrorists, to follow existing international rules? Convincing President Bush to lay-off of the head-hunters and practitioners of human sacrifice is obviously not going …

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God - And Progressives - Save This Honorable Court! A rose is a rose is a rose ... And a Progressive is a Liberal is a Socialist is a Communist. This is the third iteration of the Progressive theme and meme in the last century. The original manifestation of Progressive thought had a genuine concern for social welfare in a more primitive economic environment. Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican President, was a leading political embodiment of the Progressive movement in the early Twentieth Century. Much progress was made in social justice during this period. The Great Depression was a time of stress …

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Matt - Sorry my comments went so far over your head. I will try to clarify some of your misperceptions. Straw man? To the degree that Collectivists are able to take control of a state, the people suffer. This is true of the total control exercised by the corrupt, inefficient Communists in the USSR, China, Vietnam, North Korea, and Cambodia, and it is also true of the EUSSR, which is corrupt, inefficient, and disintegrating. Tens of millions of victims of Communism are dead men, not straw men. If your mental faculties are not well developed, Collectivism can be very seductive. The …

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Matt - The straw man you've erected is this notion of a Collectivist hiding out in American society - someone who harkens for totalitarian state control of all property. That is nonsense, of course. I have not referenced nor inferred economic Communism nor "totalitarian state control of all property" at all. As you are undoubtedly aware, Antonio Gramsci, in Italy before WWII, criticized classical Marxism for its emphasis on economic aspects in the world struggle for Collectivist domination. Gramsci advocated a cultural Communism, rather than an economic Communism, whereby institutions (schools, churches, courts, social organizations, political parties, not just workers) were …

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Pussycatpussycat - I know that in it's history it (Supreme Court) has been larger than the current number of nine justices. Was a law passed preventing this? Can anyone answer that? The Supreme Court has always had nine Justices, as established in the Constitiution. FDR attempted to increase the number of Justices, in order to gain a majority to pass his programs. He was able to pass a lot of programs, but the American people firmly rejected messing with the Constitution and the Court. All your other "facts" and opinions are wrong as well. I did an extensive study of voter …

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Tigertiger - Well, that is a response. Of sorts. I suppose. You have not tried to verify my observations on the 2004 election. You certainly have not made your own observations. You just KNOW. Like you knew that the Supremes were "larger than the current number of nine justices", but they were not. Ignorance is bliss. I predict you will have a happy life, as long as some one else defends your right to ignorance, someone else preserves your freedoms. someone else makes the sacrifices that have made our country strong. Enjoy.

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Eric - Excellent. Thank you.

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"We did not worry if our work would upset funders; we just worried about whether the work would help our communities.� The Revolution Will Not Be Funded argues that foundations perpetuate First World interests and free-market capitalism, thus preserving many of the problems radical activists wish to eradicate, such as the unregulated concentration of wealth. So close, and yet so far. Do you see the contradiction? The observations in this article and book are quite penetrating and refreshing, until they collide with the conventional leftist ideology. Capitalism, indeed! The thrust of the article could be summarized as anti-bureaucratic, and is absolutely …

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Democrats are selling out the economic populism that got them elected in the first place No shit! And that's not all that is being sold out. Democrats are selling out many principled positions they once held: * Supporting democracy in oppressed states. * Defending the United States from socialist totalitarians and terrorists. * Supporting liberal values, including freedom of speech and the right to keep and bear arms. In place of the democratic ideals that made us strong and free, Democrats have adopted such dubious propositions as political correctness and diversity as their guiding principles. Try defending yourself and your country …

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A defense mechanism is a psychological device that alleviates stress without solving the problem that causes the stress. There are many recognized defense mechanisms, and they fall into three broad categories: denial of the problem, substitution of a non-stressful lesser problem for a real problem , and substitution of a non-solution for a workable solution to a problem. Examples of defense mechanisms include withdrawal, deceit, rationalization, ritual, projection, displacement, and daydreaming. Our real problem is that there are people out there who would like to kill us, if they are not able to convert us to their way of thinking, or …

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mhouston - Nice try. Jet-A is the standard commercial jet fuel in the USA and is primarily a mixture of hydrocarbons in the kerosene range, plus additives to give anti-icing, anti-static, and anti-corrosive properties. Kero is comprised of hydrogen and carbon, and it combusts incompletely to give CO2 and water vapor. The molecular weight of carbon is 12 and the molecular weight of oxygen is 16. The oxygen comes from the atmosphere, not from the fuel. Therefore, the total weight of CO2 from fuel combustion in a jet aircraft is 12/44 from the fuel and 32/44 from the air. So Monbiot's …

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Maria - Twice in your lifetime we came uncomfortably close to living in a murderous, totalitarian world. If the Jihadists have their way, we may yet achieve that unhappy fate. Fortunately, they do not have the wherewithal to capture our world and destroy our democracy, but they could do some serious damage, much more serious than 09/11. It is worth our time and effort to avoid the fate the Jihadists plan for us. No one, certainly not me, is denying a problem. But problems are for solving, not for retreating from as leftists traditionally do. There is no shortage of energy. …

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WTH - We are eye-ball to eye-ball on this one. Immediate members of my family experienced the terror, and horror, of communist oppression, and I have a good understanding of the destruction of the individual in pursuit of collectivist goals. I know that leftists ignored the genocidal atrocities of the socialist empires for ideological reasons. I can well understand that leftists not only ignore the Jihadists atrocities, but support the Jihadists against American ideals, again for ideological reasons. They can easily ignore the moral realities of 09/11, in pursuit of their asinine ideological agenda. Our task is terminate progressivism, as they …

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WTH - A small suggestion. It may be the shady side of your family�s �black sheep� is an unconscious manifestation of the repressed and unexamined shady side of your family. The nature of human psychology is that it is never a �one-sided phenomenon�, but the inter-penetrating, inter-related and inter-active consequence of the conscious and unconscious thoughts, expressions and actions of all involved. Our psychological make-up is a swamp that only persevering compassionate feeling and self-critical rational examination can aid us to rise above. Externalizing blame, guilt and responsibility only embeds us deeper into the mire. This is as true of our …

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Loony Booty - Archie Bunker wasn�t a dingbat. It was Edith who was called a dingbat by Archie. How little comprehension you have. Let me try to pierce the fog that surrounds the functions of your cranium, using words of one syllable: R-CHEE WAS THE DING-BAT. You obviously didn't get the joke in one of the most popular series in TV, and thereby missed the whole point of the show, and most of the humor. If you missed the entire point of a simple-minded TV series, how do you expect to understand the way the world functions? You can't. You don't. …

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Loony - Hey. Loony, you made the national news! Victor Davis Hanson wrote an article on you, Blissfully Uneducated. You really, really, really, really ought to read what Dr. Hanson has to say. Dr. Hanson is a real scholar, unlike the left-wind ideologue hacks you studied under. Just as you believe anyone who says anything that raises the notion of economic democracy or egalitarian justice must, must, must be brainwashed by a frozen and antiquated presumptive construct of Marxist ideology and wedded to monolithically uniform collectivism because it is opposed to, and the only allowable explanation within, your own narrow and …

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Loony - I am sure that you did not strain my poor little brain. Statistically, it would be extremely improbable that your verbal skills and comprehension come anywhere close to mine, and your big words in service of small thoughts do not recommend either your verbal abilities or your reasoning capabilities at all. You sound as if you are somehow ennobled by working in agriculture. I am sure you are, just as I am ennobled by working in engineering. If there is any discipline that is more ennobling than others, it is scholarship, and Dr. Hanson is a prime example. Activities …

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Loony - Global warming is a joke? This is a rational argument? You�re lost, buddy. You have nothing but spew. No reason at all. But that is not true, of course. This is my comment and your response in a previous discussion on global colding: * (Scorp) CO2 output was reduced world-wide during the Great Depression, with no corresponding decrease in atmospheric CO2. (Loony) This assumes that atmospheric CO2 concentrations are linearly correlated with CO2 emissions. They are not. The world�s oceans serve as a huge buffer that by absorbing the largest proportion of CO2 emitted, tends to smooth out the …

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President Reagan's degree was in economics. I am not sure if or when the USA ever had an economics-trained president before Reagan, but I am fairly certain that it had not happened in the previous hundred years. The USA economy was flat-lined for seventeen years after President Johnson mismanaged Vietnam and the Great Society programs, with no plans for paying for either one of them. There were three recessions during this period. The economy barely kept up with population growth during this time. It is no coincidence that President Reagan instituted radical economic reform and tax cuts, followed immediately by investment …

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Tabonsell - Reagan's economics degree was in economics that gave us the Great Depression and depressions of the 1840s, 1870s and 1890s. Unemployment under Reagan hit 10.8 %, the highest since 1940 when we were still in the Depression. Reforms by FDR apparently saved us from a Reagan depression. You have missed your calling, sir. You should have been a professional cherry-picker. There is no question that Reagan grew up in the Depression and was a staunch believer in FDR and his programs. It was only later that he developed his new ideas on the economy, influenced more by JFK than …

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Tabonsell - Regarding anticipation of the fall of the Soviet Union: Try reading. William O. Douglas' dissenting opinion in Beauharnais v Illinois (1952) in which he documented what you say isn't available. Fair enough, and here it is: BEAUHARNAIS v. ILLINOIS, 343 U.S. 250 (1952) The only thing Douglas wrote on this case was: MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, dissenting. Hitler and his Nazis showed how evil a conspiracy could be which was aimed at destroying a race by exposing it to contempt, derision, and obloquy. I would be willing to concede that such conduct directed at a race or group in this …

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Tabonsell - Don't be such a cherry-picking Densan. Faced with high and rising unemployment, high and rising inflation, high and rising interest rates, and a stagnant economy from the Carter years, a comprehensive economic package was required. The most visible piece of that package was the Reagan tax cuts, but it also indexed taxes, maintained fiscal and monetary policy to fight inflation, and relaxed business regulations. The 1981 tax cuts amounted to 5.6% of GDP, and were soon realized to be excessive. In 1982, modest tax increases amounting to 1.2% of GDP were passed to correct the tax structure. Your argument …

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To be sure, the Bush administration�s foreign policy is provoking the kind of global anger that motivates terrorists to attack the United States. I really don't expect knowledge, much less comprehension and understanding, of history from the likes of Liberals in general, and Muwakkil in particular, but this is ridiculous. Fundamentalist Islam has motivated terrorists for 1400 years. The only major respites from Islamist terror followed major Western victories and Islamist defeats at Tours/Poitiers, Lepanto, and Vienna. Islamist terrorism was most recently prominent in the administrations of Carter, Reagan, Bush I, and Clinton. To suggest that Islamist terror is the result …

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ZTNJV - Firstly, real wages are not really falling. A simple statement of a simple truth, solidly backed up by economic statistics and multiple studies, as documented by Alan Reynolds, Steve Conover, and others. But this is not the leftist position. The Dimocratic Party, the New York Times, and leftists everywhere insist that incomes of the lower economic groups are falling. They also insist that unemployment is NOT near record lows, but that government and economic u