Government Seeks to Track Body Mass of Children


 
Is it prima facie Orwellian to have a bill proposed by the government called the “Healthy Choices Act”? Think about it. 
Let’s just assume that it isn’t for now. Let’s instead commit to judge the creepy statism of any particular legislation by the creepy statist measure it proposes to enact.
In this case, it looks like [...]

The Bible Does Not Command Government-Imposed Redistribution of Wealth


Yesterday, The Huffington Post ran an article by a professor of international studies at UNC Chapel Hill, Jonathan Weiler, who claimed that
the right’s hostility to “socialism” is quite striking given its simultaneous insistence that our first duty as Americans is to pay fealty to God’s law, which explicitly calls for re-distributing wealth
Reverend Jim Wallis, the leftist [...]

More Leftist Distortions On the Arizona Immigration Law


The O’Reilly Factor last night invited two pro-immigration activists to address the overheated racial hostilities that are coming more out into the open, as the debate over what to do about illegal immigration intensifies.  Not surprisingly, they added fuel to the fire with blatant distortions of Arizona’s new immigration law.
“You’re absolutely right that tension is rising,” [...]

Gold-Plated Stupidity: Media Matters’ Ludicrous Attack On Beck


Will Bunch of left-wing character assassination site Media Matters for America has penned what has to be one of the dumbest items I have ever read from the George Soros steno pool.
In a blog post titled, “Beck fans strike gold…for now,” Bunch argues that Glenn Beck is causing a speculative bubble in gold by hyping doom [...]

Obamacare and the Call of Henry Thoreau


Whether you like it or not – Obamacare is now the law of the land. Whether you felt in your heart that you were being cheated by your government, or witnessed your liberal neighbor drool while gazing in admiration at the ubiquitous images of “The New Messiah” signing the treacherous bill, this mendacious monstrosity, these 2000 pages of [...]

Why Is ACORN Lobbying HUD While HUD Investigates ACORN?


Lobbyists for ACORN’s largest and best-funded affiliate, ACORN Housing, which recently changed its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America, disclosed in a lobbying reporting form that they have been lobbying a federal agency that is reportedly probing ACORN Housing. Among ACORN affiliates, ACORN Housing has taken in the most taxpayer money over the years.
As [...]

Elena Kagan: A Cookie-Cutter Leftist Nominee


It’s official: Solicitor General Elena Kagan is President Barack Obama’s second nominee to the US Supreme Court.  Today on the Daily Beast, Peter Beinart revisits Kagan’s anti-military zealotry over “don’t ask, don’t tell”—unsurprisingly, it doesn’t bother him enough to oppose her confirmation (though he does offer an intriguing nugget about administration allies offering to help [...]

Hijacking Democracy in Greece


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Communists and anarchists exploit Greece’s financial crisis to foment a violent revolution.

Obama’s Big Government Problem


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The president doesn’t seem to grasp when too much is a bad thing.

Hollywood Gets It Right, Again


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Iron Man 2 delivers a pro-free market, anti-government control message that is crucial for our contemporary culture.