Obama has repeatedly reached for one of the lowest and most insulting rhetorical tricks in the book: begging the question. In his inaugural address, for instance, he labeled all criticis of government spending as “cynics” who “fail to understand . . . that the ground has shifted beneath them — that the stale political arguments that [...]
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Obama’s “Common Sense”
Posted in obama, Politics, Stimulus Bill, tagged begging the question, big government, debt, deficit, Liberals, Rhetoric, Socialism on 5 Feb 2009 | 4 Comments »
The Danger of “Leaders”
Posted in obama, Politics, Politics, Current Events, and Culture, tagged Art, Bailout, Constitution, Demagogue, Distributism, Economy, FDR, Great Depression, Herbert Agar, Imagery, obama, Posters, Presidency, Socialism on 17 Nov 2008 | 23 Comments »
If America lurches towards dictatorship, it will be more with a whimper than a bang. We won’t need to fear secret police so much as the oppressiveness of mass conformity, social pressure, the siphoning of wealth, and the spread of “official” viewpoints. I realize Americans’ fears of one’s political opponents assuming dictatorial powers are a [...]
Everybody Calm Down
Posted in obama, Politics, Current Events, and Culture, tagged Auster, Election, George W. Bush, Health Care, Immigration, Leftism, Marxism, McCain, Socialism, Steve Sailer, Steven den Beste on 6 Nov 2008 | 3 Comments »
I thought Steve Sailer’s analysis of McCain’s loss was useful. Some of the right’s best wedge issues–immigration, gun control, big government, and a bit surprisingly, gay marriage–were items which this faux maverick took great pleasure in bucking the GOP to the delight of his friends in the media. He was a terrible campaigner with terrible ideas and a [...]
Memories of Rhodesia
Posted in Military History, rhodesia, tagged Africa, African National Congress, African War, ANC, Anti-Communism, Bush War, Civil War, counterinsurgency, Crime, Mandela, Mbeki, Modern Wars, Mozambique, Mugabe, Namibia, Nationalism, rhodesia, SADF, SAS, Selous Scouts, Socialism, South Africa, soviet union, Special Air Service, SWAPO, UNITA, Zimbabwe on 21 Oct 2007 | 7 Comments »
The story of Rhodesia is an inherently tragic one. Europeans, who came to Africa in search of economic progress and confident in their power to spread Christian Civilization, soon found themselves swamped by demographic trends and nationalistic political ideas. These trends were the products of the very medicine and education that Europeans had brought to [...]
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