My favorite articles of the day …
On Election 2009:
November 4, 2009 | Human Events
Election 2009: Change I can believe in!
By Ann Coulter… At 49 percent for Republican Chris Christie versus 44 percent for Corzine, the election wasn't even close enough to be stolen by ACORN. (Although Corzine did extremely well among underaged Salvadoran prostitutes living in government housing.)
… Just two days before the election, Obama was at a rally in New Jersey assuring voters that Corzine was "one of the best partners I have in the White House. We work together. … Jon Corzine helped get this done."
Except the problem is that voting for Obama a year ago was a fashion statement, much like it was once a fad to buy Beanie Babies, pet rocks and Cabbage Patch Kids. But instead of ending up with a ridiculous dust-collector at the bottom of your closet, the Obama fad leaves you with higher taxes, a reduced retirement fund, no job and a one-year wait for an MRI. …
On the Economy:
November 5, 2009 | Front Page Mag
Economic Myths and Irrelevancy
by Walter Williams[Johns Hopkins Professor Steve] Hanke says that the most repeated statement about the cause of the U.S. Great Depression is that it was caused by the October 1929 stock market crash. How could that be? By April 1930, the stock market had recovered to its pre-crash level. What is not taught in history books is the Great Depression was caused by a massive government failure. The most important part of that failure were the actions by the Federal Reserve Bank that led to the contraction of the money supply by 25 percent. Then, the name of saving jobs, Congress enacted the Smoot-Hawley Act in June 1930, which increased U.S. tariffs by more than 50 percent. Other nations retaliated and world trade collapsed. U.S. unemployment rose from 8 percent in 1930 to 25 percent in 1933. In 1932, the Herbert Hoover administration and a Democratic Congress imposed the largest tax increase in U.S. history, raising the top tax rate on income from 25 percent to 63 percent. The Roosevelt administration followed these destructive policies with New Deal legislation that massively regulated the economy and extended the Great Depression to after World War II.
Have today’s politicians and their economic advisers learned anything from yesteryear’s policy that turned what would have been a short, sharp downturn in the economy into a 16-year affair? The answer is very little.
On Society and Culture:
November 5, 2009 | Political Mavens
The Child Society
By William Katz… Today we have a society that seems incredibly juvenile. The man in the White House appears, at times, to be more a college student than a mature adult, more a student government president than a real one. Compare him to Reagan. Or, if you prefer a more age-similar comparison, to Kennedy.
The juvenile society poses serious dangers for our future. The childlike mind does not process information the way the adult mind does. It does not assume adult responsibilities. It is easily manipulated. Children, and those who act like children, accept restrictions that no free adult ever would.
Our schools, and our colleges and universities, have played a key role in developing and nurturing the kid culture. We have a young generation that does not believe it has any responsibility for national defense. Like children, its members simply choose not to play that game. Our entertainment industry, even some parts of our “serious” culture, project images and values that flash “young” and “carefree” rather than “responsible.” And our journalism…not much need be said about that. When NBC News can employ kid/adults like Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann, what can one say? Compare please to Huntley and Brinkley and Edward R. Murrow.
We are paying a price for the kid culture. We are paying it in lower standards, lower incentives to excel, and in an acceptance of a loss of fundamental freedoms. A society that will turn its health-care system, and one sixth of its economy, over to the federal government is not a society of thinking adults. It is more like a class of children that follows the teacher to the school assembly to listen to a speech on self-esteem by a principal who likes to be called by his first name.
On Political Philosophy:
November 05, 2009
Obamerika
By Greg Lewis… Since their publication, [Erich Fromm’s] The Authoritarian Personality and [Theodor Adorno’s] Man For Himself have provided the foundation for those on the left referring to anyone whose political beliefs were even minimally right of center as “Nazis,” a practice which persists to this day. The twisted, self-fulfilling logic of the left on this topic is perhaps best illustrated in a post by one Peter Mehlman, a contributor to the Huffington Post (and former co-executive producer of Seinfeld), who asserted that former President George W. Bush was actually worse than Hitler, because “[y]ou could argue that even the world’s fascist dictators at least meant well. They honestly thought they were doing good things for their countries by suppressing blacks / eliminating Jews / eradicating free enterprise / repressing individual thought / killing off rivals / invading neighbors, etc.”
Unfortunately, it is the current administration that exemplifies Mehlman’s “reasoning.” Obama and his cohorts eschew all authority, from the Bible to the U.S. Constitution, that they themselves do not generate. This translates to “any moral or legal principle that does not support the Obama administration’s political agenda or the idea that its leaders should have power over every area of our lives.” Through sweeping stimulus, health care, cap-and-trade, and net neutrality legislation, the current administration is attempting to commandeer the authority to dictate everything from executive pay to what end-of-life treatments are available to its citizens, from what we listen to on our radios and watch on our television sets to what opinions we can share on the internet and what cars we can drive. …
On the Strange, Mysterious, and Frightening:
(with visual aids)
November 5, 2009 | Mediaite
Playing Hooky: Olbermann Catches World Series Instead Of Hosting Show
by Steve Krakauer… Keith Olbermann went to see Game 6 of the World Series, watching the Yankees close it out, instead of hosting his 8pmET MSNBC show Countdown last night – the day after the first elections of the Obama administration. We know this because he wrote all about it on his MLB blog. There’s photo evidence he was hanging out…with a Fox News host! …
That’s Sean Hannity, right? Definitely. The guy who makes somewhat frequent appearances on Olbermann’s “Worst Persons” list, and was the “Best Person” two weeks ago – but, as you can imagine, not for anything positive. We looked it up: Hannity’s show was new, but was pre-taped (it’s normally live at 9pmET). So, Hannity and Olbermann – getting “along perfectly,” taking photos of each other. Cute, or the sign of the apocalypse? We report, you decide.
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Have a blessed day!
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