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Obama: I could fix tons of things, but those darned Republicans have stopped me
This fundraiser speech of Obama’s has gotten attention for his suggestion that a million New Yorkers moving to North Dakota, Nebraska, and Wyoming would help him and the Democrats out immeasurably. In fact, it wouldn’t have to be as many … Continue reading →
Karl Popper, changer
The Austrian philosopher of science Karl Popper, who emigrated to New Zealand in the late 1930s (when he was in his late 30s) and then to London, had flirted with Communism in his youth. Actually, he more than flirted with … Continue reading →
Health care and health insurance…
…are not one and the same. This fact continually gets lost in discussions of Obamacare, which was supposed to improve both but may end up improving neither in any substantial way. In fact, as this piece points out, it may … Continue reading →
Caring about Benghazi
We on the right condemned Hillary Clinton back when she issued the outrageous statement “What difference, at this point, does it make?” when being questioned in Congress about Benghazi. But it seemed to me even back then that Hillary had … Continue reading →
Tea Party problem: too many choices
What happened in North Carolina last night? I think that blogger CAC at Ace’s hits the nail on the head in this post, and points out a problem that GOP conservatives had better figure out a solution to or they’ll … Continue reading →
Orwell, Animal Farm, and socialism’s inherent contradictions
Yesterday commenter “Nick” wrote this on the thread about Krystal Ball’s Animal Farm summary: OK, OK, I hate to be this guy, but Orwell would have been fine with Ball’s reading. Orwell was a socialist. His problem with the pigs … Continue reading →
David Horowitz on his lifelong subject: the left
David Horowitz has devoted his entire adult life to the left. First, working for it. And then for the last three or so decades, fighting against it. One of the many ways to fight it is to inform people about … Continue reading →
MSNBC commentater Krystal Ball discourses on the plot and significance of Orwell’s Animal Farm
No, her name’s not a joke. And yes, this quote of Ball’s would be funny if it weren’t so sad and so scary that this women hosts a show at MSNBC: For his trouble, Piketty has predictably gotten the full … Continue reading →
All those objective moderates who love Piketty’s book…
…are revealing themselves to be the leftists that they actually are. I said as much in my Piketty post when I wrote: In case you’re wondering, Piketty’s book has been hailed almost universally on the left””and by “left” I mean … Continue reading →
Income inequality: hey, let’s take away most of the money of the rich
Yes indeed, that’ll fix it, according to French economist Thomas Piketty: Piketty’s terror at rising inequality is an important data point for the reader. It has perhaps influenced his judgment and his tendentious reading of his own evidence. It could … Continue reading →
At war: the two meanings of “liberal”
According to Peter Burrows at Business Week, Stanford law professor Joseph Grundfest remarked, when Brenan Eich was forced to resign as CEO of Mozilla, “This is a particularly fascinating situation, because it involves an illiberal reaction from a very liberal … Continue reading →