Slaves to the Welfare State
May 12, 2008 | Thomas E. BrewtonNew Orleanians born and bred in the welfare-state seem to honestly believe that they are not required to do anything to help themselves.
New Orleanians born and bred in the welfare-state seem to honestly believe that they are not required to do anything to help themselves.
How indicative of his character and beliefs is Senator Obama's having launched one of his political campaigns at the home of his friends Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers?
The light of God's truth has been snuffed out in Europe, now the least Christian and the most secularized and socialized part of the world.
Believing apparently that specifics are not necessary, Senator Obama promises us that his election will bring us all together in one happy family via a miraculous transformation of society and its citizens.
Today's clamor for more regulation of financial institutions to prevent another subprime mortgage meltdown is an exercise in self-deception.
If government pays farmers to sell corn for energy, even a modestly intelligent liberal should be able to comprehend that this will affect food prices.
Senator Clinton and the Los Angeles Times need to get their facts straight before making ignorant pronouncements.
Choosing human reason alone as the road to understanding means that morality is no more than the result of the latest public opinion poll.
Why did we get a massive over-building of single family homes and a plethora of bad mortgage loans?
Liberals blaming the takeover of Bear Stearns on capitalism is akin to blaming the homeowner if someone sets fire to his house.
A brief historical overview of changing banking practices abetted by the Fed’s inflationary expansion of the currency.
Socialism, of which liberal-progressivism is the American sect, is more than control of the economy. Most importantly it is mind-control through the public education system.
The role of the Federal Reserve has changed enormously, not for the good, since its creation in 1913.
There is more to life than sensual gratification.
Senator Clinton's campaign emphasis on skill and experience is out of harmony with affirmative action, in which diversity is the prime criterion.
The New York Times is distressed that private philanthropists can give money to any charity they choose.
Recycling is a modern-day liberal-progressive idol that is, like the idols of old, both ineffective and harmful.
The current Republican and Democratic economic stimulus plan is the latest version of a much tried and repeatedly untrue liberal-progressive panacea.
More on high-handed suppression of free speech by Canada's Human Rights Commission.
Liberals propose to follow the same game plan that gave us stagflation in the 1970s.
Have the Constitution's checks and balances come unglued?
The Baby Boomers, who performed a frontal lobotomy on their spiritual life, find the meaning of life in secular environmentalism.
Once again, inflation is not a result of rising demand by consumers or business enterprises. And the Fed's interest rate tinkering does not cure inflation.
Presidential primary campaigns illustrate politics as manipulation of, as well as pandering to, public opinion, with no necessary connection to political wisdom.
The "common good," Democrats' current campaigning slogan, is a new name for the same old attack upon the moral virtues championed by Plato and Aristotle.
Corporate globalism was preceded by the passing of relationship banking.
Mr. Krugman waves his magic wand and presumes to banish future difficulties for Social Security.
Upward pressure on oil prices intensifies.
Are Federal courts again going to override states' Constitutional rights?
Is Paul Krugman at it again?
Paul Krugman and his liberal confreres still yearn to play with their toys in fairyland.
A New York Times propagandist believes that the political state must supervise conduct to compel social justice in the mortgage industry.
A liberal Yale professor takes a critical look at his cohort's handiwork.
Senator Clinton is in thrall to the malign influence of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Central banks are not so wise or powerful as most people assume them to be.
Like Big Brother in George Orwell's novel, the Fed chairman uses words to mean the opposite of reality.
We tried it in the United States from 1781 until the Constitution was ratified in 1789.
The Fed attempts to stamp out the forest fires it keeps starting.
Collapse of the subprime mortgage market reflects the "don't trust anybody over 30" mentality of the Baby Boomers.
Breaking news about the religion of Darwinian evolution.