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In case you ever had any doubt, this played on the opening day of the Democrat National Convention: If you have any clue what’s going on at all, this should scare you. The government is the ony thing we all belong to? Public OpinionPoll Results

In light of the economies of several very socialist countries in Europe collapsing in rather embarrassing flames.  And in light of several other, much larger countries being on the brink, France decided they didn’t like the austerity measures being imposed by their President, Nicolas Sarkozy, and voted him out.  Replacing him with an avowed socialist, [...]

Al Franken has a problem: DEAR REPUBLICANS: My boss is not my doctor. My health care choices are none of my boss’s business — and none of yours, either. Seriously — what’s wrong with you guys? Signed, Al Franken & YOUR NAME + OTHERS HERE He thinks allowing individual employers to decide how to best [...]

That’s the headline.  That’s pretty much the meat of the story.  Timothy Geithner thinks Obama won’t re-appoint him. I think he’s giving Obama too much credit. I don’t think Obama could care less whether he stays or goes.  The position is moot under Obama. Obama has one economic philosophy, tax the rich and give it [...]

Yeah!  Tell me another one!  Whew.  OK.  Let’s get serious.  Obama, as usual, is attacking the concept of personal responsibility.  The concept that people willingly and knowingly incurred a debt is meaningless to Obama.  Completely.  Under his watch, the student loan program has been removed from the private sector and made federal  ( that’s called [...]

The Senate passed the finance reform package.  They’re sending it to Congress.  It’ll pass.  It’s 2,300 pages.  It’s 390,000 words.  When I asked a finance person what the impact would be on my personal bank, and my investments, he said “very little, if any”.  Obama’s advice was a little more direct: “Unless your business model [...]

I’m not allowed to put her entire thesis here, but some parts I can.   And: Through its own internal feuding, then, the SP exhausted itself forever and further reduced labor radicalism in New York to the position of marginality and insignificance from which it has never recovered. The story is a sad but also [...]

Bertha Lewis, CEO of Acorn, is proud to be a socialist. She applauds anyone who calls themself a socialist.  But, that’s not the best part: “Any group that says, ‘I’m young, I’m Democratic, and I’m a socialist,’ is all right with me. You know that’s no light thing to do — to actually say, I’m [...]

Nancy Pelosi bitched for a decade about how unethical the Republicans were.  The Democrats were all puritanical and could do no wrong.  On a weekly basis since Nancy was put in charge of ethics of Congress, we’ve had to deal with one flap after another.  William Jefferson got the ball rolling, and it’s rolled since.  [...]

I’ve stolen that title from Classically Liberal.  It’s not really the point I’m shooting for, but it’s close enough and the article is a riot.  A lot of people have been claiming Obama’s socialist.  I have for that matter.  However, people supporting Obama have dismissed those claims as rhetoric.  However, Obama’s White House PR person [...]