*Rhetoric of Fear Behind Health-Care Agenda, by Matt Patterson.
“So how do you convince people who are happy with what they have to go along with radical change? Convince them that what they are happy with can be lost at any time, and through no fault of their own.
In other words, scare them.”
ALSO by Matt Patterson: 2010 Dawned With Record Cold Gripping the Earth
*Troubling Democratic Tremors, by Donald Lambro.
*Our Obama Saga: Part One, by Victor Davis Hanson.
“The hypocrisy of left-wing redistribution politics and the enjoyment of the high-life, brought about by the fruits of capitalism, is a heavy anchor for Obama. Tim Geithner does not like to pay high taxes. Nancy Pelosi does like nice jets. Barack Obama likes junkets. So does Harry Reid. Charles Rangel likes hiding income on resort property. John “two nations” Edwards likes “John’s Room” in his mansion, and Green Al Gore enjoys his most ungreen estate. In other words, “progressivism” is easily identified as cynicism, as a condescending plaything of the well-off, who are exempt, either by government largess or private capital, from the very strictures they would impose on less knowledgeable others.”
*Simple 5 Step Process for Understanding the Deficit and Peoples Reaction to It, at The Daily Caller.
Change you can believe in.
*The Obama Spell Is Broken, by Fouad Ajami.
*Condescender in Chief, by Kathryn Jean Lopez.
*A Republic, If You Want It: The left’s overreach invites the Founder’s return, by Mathew Spalding.
“The American people are poised to make the right decision. The strength and clarity of the Founders’ argument, if given contemporary expression and brought to a decision, might well establish a governing conservative consensus and undermine the very foundation of the unlimited administrative state. It would be a monumental step on the long path back to republican self-government.”
Do yourself a favor and read the whole thing.
*I suppose it’s been long enough to post this now: Spitting on Howard Zinn’s Grave, by David Horowitz.
“Howard Zinn was a Stalinist in the years when the Marxist monster was slaughtering millions of innocent people and launching his own ‘final solution’ against the Jews. Put another way, Howard Zinn was helping Stalin to conduct those slaughters and to enslave all those who had the misfortune to live behind the Iron Curtain. Howard never had second thoughts about his commitment to leftwing totalitarians and never flagged in his political commitment to freedom’s enemies. In the years since Stalin’s death, Zinn supported every enemy of the United States in every war, and devoted his writing talents to every socialist tyrant including Mao Zedong who killed 70 million Chinese in peacetime because they got in the way of his progressive agendas.”
