With midterm elections less than two months away, President Obama has announced plans for at least $50 billion in new government spending on the nation's transportation infrastructure. The administration and its supporters won’t call it a second stimulus plan, but most others agree that’s exactly what it is. A Rasmussen Reports survey finds that 55% [...]
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”--Edmund Burke, a founder of modern conservatism. Many of us ally with the Tea Party because we want to do something, if only to show up at rallies and add our presence to the force of their message. I discovered another [...]
Dr. Charles Krauthammer, a towering intellect and one of the country’s most widely read and influential commentators, has an incisive column in Friday’s Washington Post, “The Last Refuge of a Liberal.” It’s about “the arrogant elites whose undisguised contempt for the great unwashed prevents them from conceding a modicum of serious thought to those who [...]
I don’t think there has ever been a sharper distinction between the ruling class and the rest of us than in the controversy over the ground zero mosque. It allows members of the ruling class to parade their “moral superiority” while expressing their contempt and hatred for the rest of us. Dr. Thomas Sowell described [...]
Humanevents.com recently posted a three-part video interview of Dr. Thomas Sowell about his book, "Dismantling of America." We blogged earlier this week about Sowell's series of columns on the same topic. The links to the interviews: Part One, Part Three (Part Two and Part Three are the same), Part Four. Each part is a little [...]
Last week, Thomas Sowell, a leading conservative intellectual, published a four-part series of columns titled “Dismantling of America,” distributed by Creators Syndicate. The first of these is here; each column has links to the other three. Following are excerpts from each of his "Dismantling of America" columns, as published by Townhall.com: Part I-- The Constitution [...]
The emergence of a ruling class in the U.S. may be one of the most significant political developments of our generation. I believe it is, and I think that defeating the class before it completes its takeover of the country is one of this generation’s most important tasks. I blogged about this on 8/4 (“The [...]
Recently, politicians have gotten a lot of ink and air time by making fun of federally funded science projects. For example, Wake Forest University scientists are studying monkeys under the influence of cocaine in a project titled “Effect of Cocaine Self-Administration on Metabotropic Glutamate Systems.” How silly can you get? Let me try. I found [...]
I’m lucky that a great report on a topic of growing importance appeared today just in time for my debut post on this site. It’s from Rasmussen Reports, the renowned political polling firm: “67% of Political Class Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction, 84% of Mainstream Disagrees.” It’s found here. The report talks about the [...]