"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." ~Frederic Bastiat

Ten Tips for a Practical Growth Agenda

Seeded on Fri Dec 3, 2010 2:45 PM EST (keithhennessy.com)

Economist Keith Hennessy with some advice for the new Republican majority --and any sane Democrats that will listen.

economic-growth, pro-growth-policy, keith-hennessy

Politically Correct Portland Rejected Feds Who Saved City from Terrorist Attack

Seeded on Mon Nov 29, 2010 9:46 AM EST ()

Byron York tells us how political correctness has made Portland Oregon's very liberal city government look not just idiotic, but truly dangerous.

oregon, portland, war-on-terror, political-correctness, bush-derangement-syndrome, liberal-idiocy

Repeal the Seventeenth Amendement

Seeded on Wed Nov 24, 2010 7:02 PM EST (National Review Online)

George Mason University law professor Todd Zywicki makes the case.

national-review, 17th-amendment, todd-zywicki

Moderate Muslim Watch: How the Term "Islamophobia" Got Shoved Down Your Throat

Seeded on Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:47 PM EST (Richochet.com)

Claire Berlinski on the origin of the term most often used to silence critics of Islamist Islam.

muslim-brotherhood, anwar-ibrahim, islamophobia, moderate-muslim-watch, salim-mansur

Brass Oldies

Seeded on Thu Oct 28, 2010 10:01 PM EDT ()

Thomas Sowell on the fallacies that just won't go away. Part 1 in a three part series.

economics, thomas-sowell, new-deal, fallacies

Oh, That Weird Constitution!

Seeded on Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:14 PM EDT (National Review Online)

Jonah Goldberg destroys the recent liberal notion that the Supreme Court is the sole arbiter of constitutionality

constitution, politics, liberals, judicial-review, marbury-vs-madison

The Send Jobs Overseas Act

Seeded on Mon Sep 27, 2010 11:45 AM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

The Wall Street Journal weighs in on Obama's plan to make the US even less competitive than it is now.

democrats, politics, obama, corporate-taxes, overseas-profits-tax

Victor Davis Hanson: A Nation of Peasants?

Seeded on Thu Sep 23, 2010 6:22 PM EDT ()

Victor Davis Hanson on a disturbing trend in the American body politic.

politics, obama, victor-davis-hanson, leftist-politics, wealth-envy, zero-sum-fallacy

Stop Mocking the Tea Party

Seeded on Fri Sep 17, 2010 12:58 PM EDT (The Daily Beast)

Democrat pundit Kirsten Powers on the dangers of underestimating the Tea Party movement.

politics, republican-party, barry-goldwater, tea-party, christine-odonnell, kirsten-powers

Retirement Fund Trillions Lure Government Grabbers

Seeded on Tue Sep 14, 2010 9:18 AM EDT (American Thinker)

Peter Raymond on the Obama Administration's desire to confiscate private retirement account funds.

politics, retirement-plans, american-thinker, obama-administration, legalized-theft

The Size of Government and the Choice This Fall

Seeded on Mon Sep 13, 2010 2:49 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

Seeded by Daniel Lineberry (Clipped by observer3141)

Why not lift the safety net a few rungs higher up the income ladder? Go ahead, slap a little tariff on some Chinese goods in the name of protecting a favored industry.

democrats, politics, republicans, libertarians, national-debt, paul-ryan

Conservatism Does Not Equal Racism. So why do many liberals assume it does?

Seeded on Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:39 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

Gerard Alexander demolishes the underpinnings of liberal accusations of racism within the conservative movement.

nixon, republican-party, racism, reagan, conservatism, the-southern-strategy

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How Obama Thinks--The President isn't exactly a socialist. So what's driving his hostility to private enterprise? Look to his roots

Seeded on Fri Sep 10, 2010 11:00 AM EDT (Forbes)

Seeded by chouchou (Clipped by observer3141)

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history. Thanks to him the era of big government is back. Obama runs up taxpayer debt not in the billions but in the trillions.

white-house, politics, africa, obama, obama-administration, tim-geithner, obama-sr-president-of-the-unted-states

The Ground Zero mosque project is more in line with a rabat, which is built for Muslim raiders -

Seeded on Fri Sep 10, 2010 8:17 AM EDT (New York Post)

Seeded by kpr37 (Clipped by observer3141)

Should there be a mosque near Ground Zero? In fact, what is pro posed is not a mosque -- nor even an "Islamic cultural center."

terrorism, islam, world-news, soft-jihad, ground-zero-mosque

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Crony Capitalism: The Love Affair Between the Obama Administration and the World's Creepiest Company

Seeded on Thu Sep 9, 2010 3:35 PM EDT ( - Big Government)

Ken Boehm on the disturbing relationship between the Obama administration and Google.

google, politics, homeland-security, crony-capitalism, obama-administration

Majority of Voters in Battleground State of Ohio Would Rather Have Bush As President

Seeded on Fri Sep 3, 2010 1:20 AM EDT (publicpolicypolling.blogspost.com)

Public Policy Polling, a Democratic polling firm, has some sobering results for Democrats

bush, ohio, politics, obama, election-2010

Restoring Federalism: Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment

Seeded on Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:39 AM EDT ( - Big Government)

American history professor Alan Snyder with a brief piece advocating the repeal of the 17th amendment.( Apologies to jfxgillis for requiring him to visit the hated right of center biggovernment.com)

seventeenth-amendment, restoring-federalism

The Last Refuge of a Liberal

Seeded on Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:19 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

Charles Krauthammer on the liberal elites' reaction to the popular opposition of the Obama agenda.

politics, obama, liberalism, charles-krauthammer, democrats-losing

Dorsal Fins Surround White House

Seeded on Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:45 PM EDT (National Review Online)

Jonah Goldberg examines the prospects for Democrats in the next election and concludes it may even be worse for them than '94.

white-house, politics, jonah-goldberg, election-2010

A Pattern and Practice :The DOJ's Civil Rights Division has a history of ideologically charged investigations.

Seeded on Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:22 AM EDT (National Review Online)

Hans A. Von Spakovsky with an enlightening examination of the enforcement patterns and practice of the civil rights division of the DOJ.

arizona, maricopa-county, illegal-immigration, national-review, civil-rights-division, joe-arpaio

The Heartless Lovers of Humanity

Seeded on Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:10 AM EDT (Fort Freedom (website))

A wonderful gem from historian Paul Johnson as printed in the Wall Street Journal in 1987. Read and be enlightened!

paul-johnson, ayn-rand, intellectuals, karl-marx, final-solution, maynard-keynes

70 members of congress identified as socialists

Seeded on Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:21 AM EDT (FIRST THINGS: On the Square)

Seeded by Joan Gilday (Clipped by observer3141)

I find this shocking. Now I understand why all these democrats support Obama's policies of destroying our capitalist society, our healthcare, etc. Are they all muslims as well?

politics

We Muslims know the Ground Zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation

Seeded on Wed Aug 11, 2010 8:58 AM EDT (ottawacitizen.com)

Seeded by The Incredulous One (Clipped by observer3141)

Last week, a journalist who writes for the North Country Times, a small newspaper in Southern California, sent us an e-mail titled "Help." He couldn't understand why an Islamic Centre in an area where Adam Gadahn, Osama bin Laden's American spokesman came from, and that was home …

ny, terrorism, mosque, usa, muslims, controversy, islam, world-news, manhattan, 9-11