Showing posts with label liberalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label liberalism. Show all posts
“Democratic Socialism” Means The Loss of Liberty
by Richard M. Ebeling. Democratic Party hopeful, Bernie Sanders, recently outlined what it means for him to be a “democratic socialist.” The problem is that the same label might be applied to most of the other candidates running in both the Democratic and Republican parties running to be the nominee for presidency of the United States. One ... MOREDavid S. D'Amato: The Most Liberal Value - Free Speech
A free society tolerates words that hurt. Current attacks on free speech reveal progressivism as a uniquely American iteration of fascism that shares many of its historical and ideological roots. Recent events on American college campuses have prompted a debate on where we should draw the line that divides permissible from impermissible ... MOREWalter E Williams: Education Disaster
It is not for too little money. The 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress report, also known as The Nation's Report Card, shows that U.S. educational achievement, to put it nicely, leaves much to be desired. When it comes to reading and math skills, just 34 percent and 33 percent, respectively, of U.S. eighth-grade students tested ... MOREJohn Nolte: Why CNN Is Dying - The Network Shamlessly Used The Paris Bloodbath To Push For More Gun Control
CNN is collapsing. After a bit of a resurgence under chief Jeff Zucker,
the left-wing cable news network’s ratings are falling back to earth.
After a year of trumpeting ratings wins over third-place MSNBC (while
still getting beat like a drum by Fox News), there are fewer and fewer of those wins,
and not because MSNBC is doing all that much better. ... MOREWhen You're Popular, You Don't Need Freedom Of Speech
by Andrew Sirios. The rise of the left, the demise of the west. Free speech is not something that people would normally see as a
realm of economics, but in many ways, an economic understanding of the
support and opposition to free speech can shed a lot of light on what’s
happening now in the West. The first thing that needs to be noted
is that ... MOREVictor Davis Hanson: The Oldest Divide - Urban Vs. Rural
The freedom culture is outnumbered. Of all the growing divides in America—red-blue, conservative-liberal, Republican-Democrat, white-nonwhite—none is sharper than that between city and country. The nation’s urbanites increasingly govern those living in the hinterlands, even as vanishing rural Americans still feed and fuel the nation. At the ... MOREGeorge Will: Supreme Court Picks Will Be Critical
Slowing the rate of tyranny. A supremely important presidential issue is being generally neglected because Democrats have nothing interesting to say about it and Republicans differ among themselves about it. Four Supreme Court justices are into the fourth quarters of their potential centuries — Stephen Breyer (77), Antonin Scalia (79), ... MOREWalter E Williams: The Liberal And Progressive Vision
Here's my question to you: If an evil person is guaranteed that he can inflict physical pain upon others and guaranteed to never suffer pain himself, what happens to his willingness to inflict pain? You say, "What do you mean, Williams?" OK, I will make my question more concrete. Suppose a young punk knows that he can knock out an innocent person ... MOREThe Underbelly Of The California Drought
by Victor Davis Hanson. People should be represented as well as salmon. Even the high mountain lakes and reservoirs are about empty – and equally void of vacationers who have few places to boat, fish, and ski, and are unsure where the next forest fire will break out and force evacuations on often one-lane winding mountain roads. Four years of ... MOREJohn Tierney: The Reign of Recycling
Recycling 40K plastic bottles offsets 1 flight. If you live in the United States, you probably do some form of recycling. It’s likely that you separate paper from plastic and glass and metal. You rinse the bottles and cans, and you might put food scraps in a container destined for a composting facility. As you sort everything into the right bins, ... MOREWhat Ben Carson Means By Political Correctness
by Kevin Drum. Here is Ben Carson on Wednesday: At a campaign event in New Hampshire, Carson noted that many people believe a situation like what took place in Germany in the 1930's and 1940's could never happen in America. "I beg to differ," Carson said. "If you go back and look at the history of the world, tyranny and despotism and how it starts, ... MORETrump on 60 Minutes: “We Need Socialized Medicine”
by Emily Zanotti. This weekend, I got my third health insurance cancellation notice in three years. First, they cancelled the wonderful individual plan we bought for ourselves before the Obamacare law kicked in, after threatening to raise the price on it by over 50%. Then, they cancelled the plan we selected from the then-nonworking ... MORESF’s LAST GUN SHOP To Close Over City’s New Regs
by Jessica Chasmar. San Francisco’s
last gun shop has been a defiant fixture against the liberal city’s
suffocating arms policies for more than 60 years, but a new set of
regulations is forcing the owners to finally throw in the towel. The proposed new regulations would require High Bridge Arms in San Francisco’s Mission District to videotape all transactions ... MOREVIDEO: A Banned Segment From Saturday Night Live
The 1998 Robert Smigel animated short film "Conspiracy Theory Rock", part of a March 1998 "TV Funhouse" segment, has been removed from all subsequent airings of the Saturday Night Live episode where it originally appeared. NBC claimed the edit (critical of their parent company) was done because it "wasn't funny". NBC is owned by General Electric/Westinghouse.
Thomas Sowell: The Left Has Its Pope
The Pope is unwittingly calling for more poverty. Pope Francis has created political controversy, both inside and outside the Catholic Church, by blaming capitalism for many of the problems of the poor. We can no doubt expect more of the same during his visit to the United States. Pope Francis is part of a larger trend of the rise of the political ... MOREWalter E Williams: Liberal Reasoning - Idiotic or Dishonest?
A very convenience understanding at minimum. Many people argue that liberals, socialists and progressives do not understand basic economics. I am not totally convinced about that. Take the law of demand, for example, one of the fundamental principles of economics. It holds that the lower the cost of something the more people will ... MORE
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