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Debating Wing Nuts
So liberals like Cass Sunstein of Harvard Law School think they have a way to humble “wing nuts.” Wing nuts are people who, from the liberal perspective, disagree with the liberal “vision” of massive government. As he considers how to debate wing nuts, Sunstein finds a … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, People
Tagged big government, Cass Sunstein, liberal mind, politics, wing nuts
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The Morality Of Capitalism
In an op-ed piece for the Washington Post, Steven Pearlstein suggests that the nation is caught up in a historic debate over free-market capitalism and poses the question: is capitalism moral? Pearlstein points out that over the last thirty years, the experiment with communism has been “thoroughly … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged antitrust, big government, capitalism, competition, current events, free markets, liberal mind, morality, Steven Pearlstein
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Demand Competition In Healthcare
Wise Boy (aka Ezra Klein) and other members of the Big Government priesthood often claim there is no evidence that competition can control healthcare costs. Although it’s true that many healthcare markets may be less competitive than they should be, … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged antitrust, big government, central planning, competition, ezra klein, liberal mind, price controls, self government
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More Medicare Is Not The Answer
Matthew Yglesias is again misrepresenting Medicare, advocating that more of it is the answer to high healthcare prices. As Steven Brill has pointed out, tightening the antitrust laws is the real answer to the problem (although Brill may not really believe his own … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged big government, central planning, liberal mind, Matthew Yglesias, ObamaCare
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Orwellian Word Games
Ezra Klein is again making an Orwellian argument to mislead readers, this time about taxes and spending. It appears that Klein, other liberals, and even a few misguided Republicans have agreed to use another word for “taxes,” especially those taxes that relate to what has become known as tax expenditures. … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged budget deficit, ezra klein, government spending, liberal mind, Orwellian, propaganda, tax expenditures, tax rates, taxation
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Ezra Klein: The Wise Boy
First, NBC News publishes a column online touting Hillary Clinton’s “defining moments” that included no accomplishments, and now The New Republic has come out with a veri-table love letter to liberal propagandist Ezra Klein, a/k/a Alfred E. Neuman (check out his Washington Post photo), that is equally light on … Continue reading
Posted in People, Politics
Tagged Alfred E. Neuman, big government, current events, ezra klein, liberal mind, self government
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Counterfactual Thinking
A recent Washington Post interview with economist Alan Blinder about his new book nicely illustrates liberal condescension. While discussing the effects of TARP and the stimulus bill, the Post’s reporter and Blinder questioned the reasoning ability of those who think that TARP and … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged counterfactual thinking, current events, liberal mind, liberals, stimulus spending, TARP
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Demanding Collective Action
In his second inaugural speech, President Obama calls for “collective action” on the part of the American people, claiming that: For the American people can no more meet the demands of today’s world by acting alone than American soldiers could have … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged big government, central planning, collective action, inaugural speech, liberal mind, straw man
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Brave Liberals
So now Quentin Tarantino has a new movie, “Django Unchained,” which features depictions of slavery in the U.S. In interviews, Tarantino claims that the truth about slavery was a thousand times worse than that portrayed in the movie. But what’s … Continue reading
Giving Up The Constitution
Writing in the NY Times, Louis Seidman, a constitutional law professor at Georgetown University, suggests that we give up on the Constitution, because according to him, our “insistence on obedience to the Constitution” is the cause of our “broken” government. Seidman … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged big government, constitution, current events, divided nation, government, liberal mind, liberals, self government
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