Here’s an interesting post on the Cliff Notes for The Education of Henry Adams. A passage in which Adams is clearly lamenting the stifling of the religious impulse is perversely interpreted as being a celebration of the same. The poster notes that she has encountered such anomalies in Cliff Notes …
“Secret” and “corrupt” are the two words that best describe the process by which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid produced his trillion-dollar government takeover of our health care system. — Newt Gingrich
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A “takeoff” on Mao’s Little Red Book is utterly inappropriate — unless, of course, this booklet is also intended to justify the murder of millions. “In America, We Have a Constitution. It Begins: We the People…” — Newt Gingrich
An unsettling question has begun to nag as Team Obama’s conduct of security policy becomes ever more inconsistent with common sense — and, at least in some cases, manifestly at odds with our national interests: Whose side are they on? — Frank Gaffney The same question had to be asked …
Participatory democracy means that the people vote to give full powers to the president to carry out the will of the majority. Thus, participatory democracy is only the act of voting. After that there is no more participation because participation is embedded in the will of the president. — Luis …
Whenever I speak about my experiences living in the USSR, my American friends respond that such things can never happen in a democracy like the United States. They don’t understand why I am repulsed when I hear the president talk about “sacrificing for the collective good,” which sounds so compassionate, …
Three years after the Russian Revolution, an Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises, argued that Communism would fail and explained why. Communism, or socialism, couldn’t succeed, Mises wrote in 1920, because it had abolished free markets so that officials had no market prices to guide them in planning production. — Bettina …
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many have not yet understood the lesson of that historic event, says a Vatican spokesman. “Unfortunately, in the world other walls have been erected and are being erected.” — Zenit It’s not a pleasant thought, but we all know that there …
Today, November 9th, is “World Freedom Day,” an international commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Evil Empire — a commemoration that I, personally, had a hand in establishing.
