Sep

22

Obama’s Fairy Tale

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“The most childish of all the things being said in the august setting of a joint session of Congress last week was that millions of people can be added to the government’s health insurance plan without increasing the federal deficit at all.”

Thomas Sowell on Fables for adults

Jul

7

Approaching Despotism

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“For one thing, avoid the comfortable idea that the mere form of government can of itself safeguard a nation against despotism.”

“When a competent observer looks for signs of despotism in a community, he looks beyond fine words and noble phrases.”

It has been 63 years since this film was created and that begs the question—what direction is your community and country headed in?

Feb

15

Ron Paul’s latest update on the native criminal class

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Progressives continue Neocon policy of “Don’t give anybody time to read the bill before you make them vote”
Yes, that’s “Change You Can Believe In!” May they all be stimulated as they rot in hell.

Feb

7

Alexander Hamilton: The Founding Father of Economic Statism in America

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The Future of Freedom Foundation
Thomas J. DiLorenzo at the Economic Liberty Lecture Series


Economic Liberty Lecture Series: Thomas J. DiLorenzo from The Future of Freedom Foundation on Vimeo.

Jan

18

A Dummy for Keynesian economics

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Jan

18

Keynesian economics is for dummies

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Jan

16

Ponzi Scheme Propaganda Film

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Your Social Security

Jan

16

Anthem for the Obama administration

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An elitist assemblage of One Worlder’s, Wealth Redistributor’s, Nationalizer’s, Climate Commies, Conscription Enthusiasts, Foreign Interventionists, Gun Grabbers, Central Planners, and Constitution Shredders—collectivist plunderers of all sorts.

Dec

30

Donald J. Boudreaux presents Mencken’s timeless insights

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As Murray Rothbard wrote in H. L. Mencken: The Joyous Libertarian, “No one truly immersed in Mencken could emerge quite the same again; no one could retain the same faith in our “statesmen” or in the democratic political process itself, no one could ever be quite the same sucker for all manner of ideological, social, and political quackery, the same worshipper of solemn nonsense.”

Donald J. Boudreaux of Cafe Hayek, who is truly immersed in Mencken gives us some timeless Mencken wisdom.

Mencken’s timeless insights

By Donald J. Boudreaux
Friday, December 26, 2008

L’affair Rod Blagojevich reminds me that if I could bring one person back to life for an evening of good food, stiff drink and sterling conversation, that person would unquestionably be H.L. Mencken (1880-1956).

Mencken was a newspaper reporter, magazine editor, literary critic and expert on what he called “the American language.” But he was, in my view, above all this country’s unmatched observer and recorder of politics. So sit back and feast on these intellectually nutritious and tasty tidbits of Mencken’s political wisdom.

In Mencken’s view, the typical politician is a “merchant of delusions,” a “pumper-up of popular fears and rages.”

READ ON AT THE PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW

Dec

30

Obama is like FDR, only dumber

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Like F.D.R., Only Worse
by A.W.R. Hawkins
12/23/2008

When F.D.R. took office in 1933, our country had been in a depression for approximately three and half years. Not unlike today’s severe recession, the depression he faced was international in scope, but the faltering economy of the United States predominated. F.D.R.’s “solution” to the economic hardships we faced was a socialism-made-simple approach that included everything from an expansion of government through more regulatory oversight and tax increases to the creation of employment opportunities via jobs for which the private sector saw no need.

READ ON AT HUMAN EVENTS

Mr. Hawkins does a pretty good job comparing Obama’s New New Deal with FDR’s New Deal at Human Events. Dumb ideas always manage to find their way back to bring ruin on a new generation of victims, reborn new and improved—usually even dumber than the original. As H.L. Mencken wrote, “The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.” There’s an important distinction there, a man with idiotic ideas that would effect a large number of other people typically wants to use the force of government to impose his ideas on others. If he could only rely on voluntary participation in his dumb ideas, practically nobody would listen. Government on the other hand can do what no sane and moral person could ever do; they can give idiocy—legitimacy. Why anybody would allow some idiot elected by idiots to have control over their lives and property I’ll never understand.

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