Thursday March 11th 2010

Daily Right 2/5/10

*The Great Peasant Revolt of 2010, by Charles Krauthammer.

“This being a democracy, don’t the Democrats see that clinging to this agenda will march them over a cliff? Don’t they understand Massachusetts?

Well, they understand it through a prism of two cherished axioms: (1) The people are stupid and (2) Republicans are bad. Result? The dim, led by the malicious, vote incorrectly.”

RELATED: They Forgot These People Vote, by Jennifer Rubin.

One cannot consider the electorate to be a bunch of rubes and get away with it for very long. One can’t pursue an agenda that the public disdains and get re-elected.”

*Hollywood Has Seen the Enemy…by Jonah Goldberg.

*Credibility is What’s Really Melting, by Mark Steyn.

““Climate change” is not a story of climate change, which has been a fact of life throughout our planet’s history. It is a far more contemporary story about the corruption of science and “peer review” by hucksters, opportunists and global-government control-freaks.”

RELATED: Save the Planet by Outlawing Lampshades, by Theodore Dalrymple.

*Dems Haunted by Revived Stereotypes, by David Paul Kuhn.

*The United States of Fiscal Folly, by George Will.

America’s destiny is demographic, and therefore is inexorable and predictable, which makes the nation’s fiscal mismanagement, by both parties, especially shocking.”

RELATED: A Federal Budget That Insults All Budgets, by Bill Flax.

Politicians used to be hamstrung by the rule of law, but our Constitution has been consistently ignored for most of the last century. Now it serves but a quaint remainder from where the fortunes we now waste sprang. We’ve endured these trends for decades thanks to the colossal accumulation of capital bequeathed to us by more prudent ancestors.”

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