Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Pope Francis’s recent “Apostolic Exhortation Evangeli Gaudium of the Holy Father Francis, to the Bishops, Clerk, Consecrated Persons and the Lay Faithful on the Proclamation of the Gospel in Today’s World” outraged conservatives, most notably Rush Limbaugh, because it attacks capitalism. Even though I trust Rush, he admitted that he
Continue readingNobody ever accused Joe Biden of being coherent. Peter Heck, however, realized more quickly than I did that Biden was being exceptionally incoherent — or hypocritical or held tightly in the grip of cognitive dissonance — when he was asked to explain the relationship between his faith and his politics.
Continue readingTrust Thomas Sowell to explain why government-forced redistribution always fails, and to do so in language so clear even a child educated in public schools can understand: You can confiscate only the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth — and that future wealth is
Continue readingThere’s a famous story about Milton Friedman’s response when confronted with make-work projects: While traveling by car during one of his many overseas travels, Professor Milton Friedman spotted scores of road builders moving earth with shovels instead of modern machinery. When he asked why powerful equipment wasn’t used instead of
Continue readingIt’s a Halloween parable about the Occupy movement (and it’s leader, Barack Obama). The scary ending fits in well with the Halloween theme: Hat tip: Power Line Blog
Continue readingObama was caught during his speech to minority journalists making noises that sounded remarkably like reparations talk: “I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged,” the Democratic presidential hopeful said. “I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it’s Native
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