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This week, the White House admitted that senior aides insulated President Obama from the IRS audit, deciding it was best to keep him “out of the loop.” While, the president has insisted numerous times that, ultimately, the buck stops with him, Jay Carney said that the president agreed with the decision of senior staff to keep him in the dark. With top IRS officials pleading ignorance (and the fifth) and given the evolving story from the White House, it’s worth asking: Is a...
Most on the Left will grudgingly admit that Big Government can go horribly wrong. The histories of Russia, China, and North Korea are the extreme examples. But, the Left claims, Big Government can work well if the right people are in charge.
In America, those right people were ostensibly those that Obama chose for his version of Big Government. As he himself proclaimed in 2008 to thunderous applause: “We’re the ones we’ve been waiting for!”
Tea Party Conservatives and Occupy Wall Streeters don’t agree on much, but they do agree on one thing — both groups despise crony capitalistsand crony capitalism.
Huge corporations, especially banks, insurance companies, and other big financial institutions are nominally born of free-market capitalism where success and growth comes from providing the best services at the lowest prices. One might think that these huge corporations would therefore favor unfettered competition. And...
In the audio excerpts below, Jonah Goldberg and Dennis Prager have an insightful discussion on the use of clichés by the liberals, how liberals make Big Government look attractive to the electorate, and what the prospects are for reversing America’s leftward slide.
Highlights of Goldberg’s remarks:
1. With the decline of family, community, and faith, liberals promote Big Government as a seductive surrogate for all three. (Hence the pronouncement “Government is the one thing...
One of many things I don’t understand about those on the Left is how naïve they are. Even if you get past their childlike belief that human nature doesn’t exist and that if you simply pass enough big government legislation, you can do away with greed, sloth, envy and evil, you still run into their conviction that nothing must ever be allowed to change the climate or the rate of federal spending.
I mean, even if we overlook the idiocy of believing that man controls the elements, and that i...
