Told You So

Cal Thomas on the failure of multiculturalism.

The START of a Bad Thing

After reading Arms Agreement Gets 2011 Off to a Bad START by Christian Whiton, I've realized that the Obama Administration has a long list of things to do and is focused on checking things off of the list rather than how well they are doing them. Quantity over quality. How juvenile.

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Government Favoritism Creates Bubbles

I think the biggest reason why government should not vary from its short list of enumerated powers is the inevitable unintended consequences. Keynesian economics is nothing but a bubble machine. Every time the government pushes on the economic system, something ugly pops out somewhere else. If the government gives some group an advantage, this costs some other group. Generally, these consequences cannot be accurately forecast. To me, this is reason enough that the government should not take excursions beyond the boundaries of its enumerated powers.

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Low Taxes Lead to Growth

A concept that is so obvious to so many, but so opaque to so many others: Apparently low taxes lead to growth.

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The Horrors of the Great Leap Forward

The New York Times' article Mao's Great Leap to Famine discusses some of the horrors that are becoming more and more known about the Great Leap Forward. The "Great" must only be in size, not quality. As a father, the story of the fate of the little boy who stole a bit of grain particularly affects me. How anyone can justify any goal when events like that occur on the way is beyond me. Excuse me if I see communism, socialism and western liberalism as just degrees of the same thing. Government by good intention is nothing but evil.

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You Don't Own Your Property

I don't even understand this decision:

http://blogs.forbes.com/danielfisher/2010/12/13/supreme-court-rebuffs-costco-in-copyright-challenge/

This doesn't even seem to be a liberal or conservative thing. Just crazy.

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Conservatives Need to Stop Apologizing

David Limbaugh suggests that Conservatives need to quit apologizing and suggests that it is Liberals who are most guilty of hyperbole in this article:

http://www.newsmax.com/Limbaugh/conservatives-capitalism-Obama-Christians/2010/12/14/id/379877?s=al&promo_code=B4DF-1