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Conservatives have basic beliefs; Progressives believe what ever suits the need of the moment. Conservatives hold to these principles: rule of law private property free market individual responsibility small government Progressives seem to have principles. However, they abandon them at the drop of a hat if it serves their purpose at the moment. For example, […]

It would be wonderful to be able to “wish” something and have it come true. Liberals think “it would be nice if poverty could be eliminated” and so they create legislation (Johnson’s “war on poverty”) and then they think the problem is solved. Or “it would be nice if everyone was covered” by health insurance. […]

When wealth redistribution runs amuck it is no longer “taxation” but becomes confiscation of private property. At some point, people will not stand for it. What is that point? Who decides what is fair? To me something is wrong with the idea that the people who make this decision are the “majority”, because the majority […]

The concept of wealth redistribution makes our government into a vampire: it sucks the blood of the successful. Why is confiscation of property tolerated under the guise of fair taxation? Yes, taxation is “constitutional”, Biblically sanctioned (“render unto Caesar”) and even Biblically  given philosophical impetus, where the tithe to the representative of God is now […]

Imogen Lloyd Weber on Sean Hannity, 13-Dec-10: far left bomb thrower, who instead of being able to carry on a conversation, free associates on loosely related topics, but does not respond to Sean’s questions or comments directly. A great example of liberal flame throwing, but not an example of a person who understands how to […]

Sometimes the case is made that our Constitution is “good” because it was “handed down by the Founding Fathers”, that is “divinely inspired”, that it has just been around for a long time, etc, etc. All such assertions are missing the point. None of these assertions need to be given much weight in view of […]

Why don’t those who champion oppressed minorities rise up about the flagrant discrimination again the rights of the Wealthy? Probably because this minority is not seen as being oppressed, but is more typically cast in the role of the oppressors. However, in a strange turn, the mechanisms of government power are now being systematically driven […]

For the Dems to accuse the Republicans of “holding the tax cuts hostage” misses the point – this is just congress doing business as usual. We will never have good government as long as the practice, which I dare say has existed since the founding of this country, of loading up bills with many irrelevant […]

I am tired of hearing the argument about how much worse it would have been without the stimulus, or any other of the Obama government takeover of the private sector. There is just much likelihood that things would have been better. There is no way to prove either case. To try to claim either one […]

Believing on faith is accepting something to be true regardless of evidence. Progressive ideals are thus faith-based. Here is a list of such ideals, that have never been shown to benefit society on this Earth: wealth redistribution, as opposed to respect for private property government by authority (“we make up the laws as we go”), […]