“My Friend Sarah” is about a young girl who was the president of her school’s “Progressive” club, and then took an economics class. This video is the winner of the 2009 Fraser Institute Video Contest, and was made by George Mason University students Mark Meranta and Terra Strong.
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And most Americans do not understand the difference between liberal and left. They do not realize, for example, that there is no major difference between the American Democratic Party and the leftist social democratic parties of Western Europe. They do not know that from Karl Marx to Obama, the left (as opposed to liberals) has never created wealth because it has never been interested in creating wealth; it is interested in redistributing wealth.
The World Goes Silent on Guantanamo? [Victor Davis Hanson]
Given that there is now almost no left-wing furor over Guantanamo—reminding us that the problem was probably never the detention center per se, but rather the liberal narrative of George Bush as outlaw—there seems to have been an administration decision made not to worry much about reneging on the pledge to have closed it by January 2010.
One mystery remains, however—the apparent silence among Guantanamo’s critics in the so-called world community. Here at home we finally learned that the Bush as Constitution-shredder writ—based on the employment of tribunals, renditions, intercepts, wiretaps, troops in Iraq, the use of Predator drones—was not principled, but partisan, and so disappeared when Bush left and Obama embraced all his predecessor’s anti-terrorism protocols (and, indeed, in some cases trumping them, such as Predator targeted assassinations).
Why, though, did the so-called international community give up on the venom of its criticism of America as the illiberal lawbreaker, when our policies have continued unchanged? Apparently the world’s elites piggybacked on the liberal domestic bandwagon stereotype of Bush as the swaggering Texas white male cowboy, and are now OK with Obama, the Nobel Laureate and postracial internationalist, continuing his policies unchanged, albeit with a few requisite sops and empty gestures like the KSM trial-balloon, the faux-deadline on Guantanamo, and the loud inquisitions of former CIA interrogators.
When matters of anti-Americanism arise, we should remember all this.
R.C. Sproul interviews Stephen Meyer, author of Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design, on philosophy, evolution, education, Intelligent Design, and more. The interview is about 45 minutes in length:
Come, Holy Spirit, Come!
Let Thy bright beams arise;
Dispel the sorrow from our minds,
The darkness from our eyes.‘Tis Thine to cleanse the heart,
To sanctify the soul,
To pour fresh life into each part,
And new-create the whole.Revive our drooping faith,
Our doubts and fears remove,
And kindle in our breasts the flame
Of never-dying love.Convince us of our sin,
Then lead to Jesus’ blood,
And to our wondering view reveal
The mercies of our God.Dwell, therefore, in our hearts;
Our minds from bondage free;
Then shall we know and praise and love
The Father, Son, and Thee.(written by Joseph Hart in the mid-1700’s)
Lying About Bush’s Tax Cuts
With the Bush tax cuts set to expire, the left’s objections are based on lies. More
The Truth: the Bush tax cuts actually shifted the total tax burden farther toward the rich so that in 2000-2004, total income tax paid by the top 40% of income-earners grew by 4.6% to 99.1% of the total.
HOME ON THE RANGE with the Pioneer Woman.
Ree Drummond opens up on her accidental success–and what’s she’s doing with her ad revenue.
Why I no longer support legalizing marijuana
.A surprising number of scholarly studies in the last 25 years have demonstrated that marijuana use seems to cause an increase in psychoses such as schizophrenia, and somewhat less dramatic mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder.
- It’s a Conspiracy
- STEVE CHAPMAN: Chicago’s Pointless Handgun Ban: Why draconian gun control laws never work.
- VICTOR DAVIS HANSON ON CALIFORNIA’S DRONISM: “The well-off like nice cars, tasteful homes, good food, and appropriate vacations — but not the oil, gas, coal, nuclear energy, transmission lines, timber, cement, farmland, water pumps, etc., that bring that to them. . . . The less well-off want their versions of the same things — cool clothes, good music players, neat cell phones, the best plasma TVs, blue-ray players, video games — but are not interested in the hard study and discipline necessary for a society to create the sort of educated work force that makes and deserves such appurtenances.”
Well, Matthias Shapiro of 10000Pennies video fame created his own jobs graph showing just how great Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) economic stewardship has been for the American people. It shows how jobs have plummetted under her leadership:
This chart that I put together for The American magazine shows among other things why President Obama’s freeze of non-defense, non-homeland-security spending, minus gigantic loopholes, won’t do anything for us. That’s also why a PAYGO rule that applies to all new entitlement spending but doesn’t apply to the existing is a joke.
- Does an unborn child feel pain when it is killed? Medical technology now allows surgical procedures to be performed on very small unborn children. This advance in medicine alone takes away many of the arguments for abortions — more and more at-risk unborn babies can enter the world healthy. But more to the point of fetal pain, when surgeons perform this sort of procedure on babies in the womb, anesthesia is administered. Why do that unless the unborn baby can feel pain?
- As a nation, we might profitably ask ourselves whom and what we’ve really been worshipping in our 40 million “legal” abortions since 1973.
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