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Conversion of Democrats To Conservatives

Much has been made of the “Obamapublicans” or Republicans who are crossing over and endorsing or announcing they are going to vote for Obama.
First, has anyone met one of these?
Second, Were they ever really Republicans to begin with? I find it really hard to believe a true Republican would cross over for a Big […]

Plato Quotes For The Silly Season

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
The measure of […]

The Rise of Parentalism

Myths of the Nanny State
by Radley Balko
From the Cato Institute: In a recent paper published in the journal Public Choice, “Afraid to be Free: Dependency as Desideratum,” Nobel Prize–winning economist James Buchanan composes a new taxonomy of socialist threats to liberty. Buchanan argues that the conventional threats to freedom from managerial socialism (central planning) and […]

Who Owns Us? We Do.

Hillary not withstanding, Americans hold most of the US Federal debt. Actual the Feds hold most of the Federal debt. How is this possible? Well, first of all they are the government and they own the printing presses and they own the Federal Reserve. It’s basically their party.
From the The Skeptical Optimist.

I still trying to […]

France Bans Violence

Don’t like your public image? The solution is simple, ban your citizens from speaking ill of you.
Macworld reports:
The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of […]

No Child Left Behind

It is difficult to find an educator who speaks well of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). It is distained with great vigor. Even though the hallmark of the left Senator Teddy attended the signing with President Bush (the younger) and was seen smiling. How often does the good Senator smile around Republicans?

But in these ~5 […]

Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution

If you are like me you are wondering where the Republican party went. It seems true conservatives are wandering in the wild looking for shelter. Well we are not alone, the true branch of the Republican party still stands tall and from this we will rise again.
The Cato Insitute recently held a forum on “Leviathan […]