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Tag Archives: socialism
The Permission for Resistance
Brief except of a talk at the 92nd Street Y between Salman Rushdie and Irshad Manji, discussing the possibility of reform against extremism in the Islamic faith. Rushdie draws a fine parallel with the experience of the Western left during … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Foreign affairs, Uncategorized
Tagged 92nd Street Y, Cold War, criticism, iron curtain, Irshad Manji, islam, reform, resistance, Salman Rushdie, socialism, totalitarianism, western left
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Christopher Hitchens on Robert Mugabe
I’d heard that Hitch addressed the situation in Zimbabwe in his introductory remarks at the Freedom Fest 2008 debate with Dinesh D’Souza, but I hadn’t seen the video of it until today. It’s worth a watch. The subject of the … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs
Tagged Africa, anticolonialism, Catholic, Christopher Hitchens, Dinesh D'Souza, Freedom Fest, God, Harare, hypocrisy, ideology, Maoism, Mugabe, mythology, nationalism, racism, religion, Rhodesia, Robert Mugabe, secularism, socialism, western, Zimbabwe
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Family in Trouble
American Daily The single most important building block of any nation is her families. Destroy that and you can easily lay claim to a nation’s soul. I agree. I think we have failed to maintain the nuclear family and lost … Continue reading
Posted in MikeR's Page, Uncategorized
Tagged Culture, family, government, left, liberal, pessimism, religious, socialism, Society
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Free To Fail
As anyone who reads my blog knows, I love competition. Bridge is all about using your mind and creativity to best advantage – and then hoping that you can best the opponents due to it. In America, we’ve always been … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Economics, Peg's Page
Tagged Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, socialism
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Backdoor Kyoto — The Next Chapter
The march of the watermelons towards control of US policy continues apace: Polar bears will now be listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. But in announcing the listing, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne said the decision should … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, energy, Environment, Law, MichaelW's Page, regulation, science
Tagged capitalism, climate change, climate policy, Dirk Kempthorne, Endangered Species Act, environmentalists, ESA, global warming, globalization, greenhouse gases, polar bears, socialism, Supreme court, threatened species, watermelons
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Another Western Way of War
From a somewhat shocking interview of Victor Davis Hanson by Swiss newspaper Junge Freiheit, Abe Greenwald clips a portion where Hanson ferociously thrashes the contemporary European Weltanschuuang. He calls it a secularized, socialist pacifism, that has deluded a continent into … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Abe Greenwald, Europe, intelligentsia, interview, Junge Freiheit, pacifism, secularism, socialism, United States, Victor Davis Hanson
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The Sickening
A Cuban medical office with a sign reading “No prescriptions available.” Photo by: Dr. Darsi Ferrer [via The Real Cuba]. News of Fidel Castro’s retirement has elicited some interesting responses. Chris Bertram’s has to be one of the most arrogant … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Education, Foreign affairs, Health Care, MichaelW's Page
Tagged apologists, communism, Cuba, Education, Fidel Castro, Health Care, Michael Moore, retires, socialism, The Real Cuba
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The Blessing of our Vice
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. -Winston Churchill
What Else Fascism?
There’s editorial sensationalism, and then there’s Keith Olbermann. Consider Mr. Olbermann on Bush recently: “If you believe in the seamless mutuality of government and big business, come out and say it! There is a dictionary definition, one word that describes … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Bush, business, cynicism, dictatorship, fascism, government, Keith Olbermann, militarism, nationalism, plutocracy, power, socialism, t-sirt
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Blood For Oil
Joseph Kennedy II supports blood for oil. In recent months, my TV has been bombarded with ads from Joe Kennedy promoting his Citizens Energy program, such as the following: The heating oil distributed by Citizens Energy comes from Venezuela on … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, energy, Foreign affairs, Hugo Chavez, MichaelW's Page
Tagged Chavez, Citizens Energy, command economy, Economics, Exxon, food shortages, heating oil, heavy crude, Joseph Kennedy II, nationalization, oil, oil market, oil production, OPEC, PDVSA, price ceiling, price fixing, price floor, socialism, starvation, Venezuela
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Death by Fairness
photo: Simón Pais-Thomas Mick at Uncorrelated has another lovely post on the essentially vile character and politics of Mike Huckabee. Toward the end of his remarks he briefly hits Huckabee’s proposed Fair Tax: …and politically DOA policy planks like the … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Lee's Page
Tagged black market, Canada, cigarettes, conservative, consumption tax, economy, fair tax, Huckabee, IRS, libertarian, Mexico, Mike Gravel, Neal Boortz, Ron Paul, smuggling, socialism, taxation, trade, Wal-Mart
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Anti-FARC March in D.C.
John Lilyea has the goods: So I decided to add my voice to the millions worldwide from here in DC. I was really surprised that an ad hoc organization put together such a large demonstration in such a short period … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Hugo Chavez, MichaelW's Page
Tagged Colombia, D.C., drug trafficking, FARC, John Lilyea, march, socialism, Terrorism, Venezuela
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Chavez’s Demise
Assuming he doesn’t double down on the oppression, will come as his oil company collapses.
The food crisis accelerates
Following through on what was reported yesterday, Hugo Chavez continues to step up the pressure on food producers: Venezuela’s top food company has accused troops of illegally seizing more than 500 tonnes of food from its trucks as part of … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Hugo Chavez, Lance's Page
Tagged FARC, food shortages, Hugo Chavez, price controls, socialism, Venezuela
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Retreat to the Fringe
Social conservatives and particularly crypto-socialist social conservatives (or “populists” if you prefer), are inevitably going to be a minority faction within the GOP. But to their great credit they themselves recognize this. The implications of that self-awareness are dire for … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lee's Page
Tagged 1988, Abadgaran, agenda, Coup d'État, democratic, Domestic Politics, Edward Luttwak, extremist, GOP, insurgent, Iowa, John McCain, majority, Mick Stockinger, Mike Huckabee, money, New Hampshire, Pat Robertson, populism, religion, Republicans, social conservatives, socialism, South Carolina, speed
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Toward a New Italian Left
Here’s a fascinating little article on Walter Veltroni, the mayor of Rome and the new leading light of the Italian Left. Vetroni has worked to create a more moderate and flexible social democratic political culture in Italy. Modeling his new … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged American, Democratic Party, Democrats, extremism, ideology, Iran, Italy, moderation, socialism, Third Way, Tony Blair, Walter Veltroni
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The Smell Of Socialism
What does socialism smell like? At first blush I can’t be much more specific than “pungent and bad.” Luckily the enterprising Catalan Socialist Party has brewed up a concoction as a campaign stunt that promises to answer this confounding quandary: … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Humor, MichaelW's Page
Tagged Catalan Socialist Party, communism, elections, perfume, propaganda, socialism, Spain
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That Didn’t Take Long
Hugo Chavez breaks his vow to not seek president-for-life powers again. According to Chavez the new referendum will ask: “two questions: ‘Do you agree that Hugo Chavez should continue as president?’ and concurrently ‘Do you agree to a small constitutional … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged dictatorship, Hugo Chavez, Naomi Campbell, socialism, Venezuela
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Venezuela’s coming Kristallnacht
McQ points us to a new, if all too familiar, turn the ugly situation in Venezuela is taking: Venezuelan Jews, long uneasy with the Chávez government’s alliances with Iran and other Middle Eastern countries that espouse anti-Israel views, are concerned … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Hugo Chavez, Lance's Page
Tagged Hugo Chavez, jews, socialism, totalitarianism, Venezuela
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Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
Echoing a wonderful discussion we had in the fall of 2006 on the nature of Fascism (see here, here and here) Jonah Goldberg writes a book which bristles at the use of the term by the contemporary left. I would … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Culture, Domestic Politics, History, Lance's Page
Tagged capitalism, Domestic Politics, fascism, FDR, Germany, History, Hitler, Italy, left, liberalism, Mussolini, National Socialism, right, Roosevelt, socialism
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Milton Friedman vs. Naomi Klein
Happy New Year! To start off the year right, let’s have a look at a mock-up of a debate between Naomi Klein, reporter-activist extraordinaire, and Milton Friedman, king of economic liberty (via Instapundit). This video was put together by Devil’s … Continue reading