Over on my Facebook page , someone pointed out a review of a new book called The Self-Made Myth: The Truth About How Government Helps Individuals and Businesses Succeed . Not having read the book, I don’t know whether it or the review itself is more grating, but I bet it’s close. The review, at least, is an exercise in question-begging, gratuitous assumption, and… Read More
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Progressive: “Ron Paul Will Return Us to the Dark Ages!”
I was reading this article on Raw Story about how the Occupy people did their stupid “mic check” thing to Ron Paul, the guy who’s more anti-bailout than they are. I couldn’t help glancing at the comments, and I saw the usual we’d-be-dead-without-Joe-Biden line. A commenter listed… Read More
“Social Justice” Strikes Again
Matt Miller, a reader of this blog, has just alerted me to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Faithful Citizenship page . There we are introduced to things like The Candy Game , a “social justice” and “fairness” learning game. We read items like: Social Justice. Changing unjust rules, such… Read More
More on Ron Paul’s “Extreme” Positions
I designed this short resource page to accompany the video I made about a Mother Jones article called “Ron Paul’s 15 Most Extreme Positions.” On the war on drugs, see my “Futility and the War on Drugs”: On the Federal Reserve and the U.S. economy, see this article and this article , as well as the… Read More
"Glenn Beck Should Revere Theodore Roosevelt"
That’s the creepy title of a Newsmax article taking Glenn Beck to task for being critical of Teddy Roosevelt. Read the article for yourself. It’s written at a third-grade level, and amounts to a list of standard leftist assertions that “most reasonable Americans” agree with. (Remember, Newsmax is a “conservative”… Read More
“Glenn Beck Should Revere Theodore Roosevelt”
That’s the creepy title of a Newsmax article taking Glenn Beck to task for being critical of Teddy Roosevelt. Read the article for yourself. It’s written at a third-grade level, and amounts to a list of standard leftist assertions that “most reasonable Americans” agree with. (Remember, Newsmax is a “conservative”… Read More