Anyone who aspires to greater heights than their peers will tend to meet with indignation. It’s a bizarre herding behavior which a rare breed overcomes on their way toward success.
Charles Payne at the DHFC West Coast Retreat: The Real Class Struggle Is the Poor Supressing Their Own
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Has the Ayn Rand “Cult” Brainwashed the Tea Party?
April 12, 2011 By
Leftist Rule for Engaging Conservative Ideas #1: conservatives’ motives are never what they claim. It must be rigorously asserted that right-wingers are invariably driven by impulses more sinister than making people better off or trying to find solutions to the problems we face. New Republic senior editor Jonathan Chait knows that lesson by heart—on the Daily Beast, he argues that from the lowliest Tea Partier all the way up to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the Right is animated by a view of “the poor as parasites” and “the rich as our rightful rulers,” a dogma we’ve picked up from philosopher Ayn Rand.
The Bible Does Not Command Government-Imposed Redistribution of Wealth
May 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Glenn Beck Gives Obama The Silent Treatment
May 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In a visually compelling format Glenn Beck heaped justified ridicule on one of the many false precepts of progressivism, to wit, that it is somehow “unfair” that some people have more money than others.
To do this, Beck gave President Obama (and his audience) the silent treatment on his TV show. (video link)
As a video clip showed the president [...]
Race and Resentment
May 5, 2010 By 19 Comments
How the Left’s attacks on achievement fuel racial hostility.
Obama-style Socialism
May 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism is now in paperback.
Jonah Goldberg has written an important article in Commentary on what he calls the “neo-socialism” of the Obama administration. I like this label. It is both accurate and more palatable than the term “neo-communism” which I have applied to the hard left. But given the twenty-year political partnership [...]
New Hope in New Jersey
April 13, 2010 By 6 Comments
In the state’s latest tax war, Republican Governor Chris Christie is standing firm.
Robin Hood: A Conservative Hero
It’s popular these days for conservatives to criticize the defender of the poor and the oppressed, Robin Hood. Hood, they say, is nothing more than a socialist pretending to be a hero. He is, if you will, Karl Marx with a bow and couple of arrows. He steels from the wealthy and gives to the [...]