True governance is impossible without alienating parts or all of your base. Can anyone describe the philosophy of governance of the modern Democrat Party without invoking the image of Santa Claus? Competing interest groups do not want governance, they want entitlements and privileges.
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Dangers of Government Dependency – Econ 101
Contrasting the dependency mentality in the Obama’s “Life of Julia” campaign with the traditional American approach of self reliance and individual achievement. Video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation.
On Being “Green”
Nobody wants to live in a polluted area, no matter what political leanings he/she may have. Most Americans take good care of their environment and volunteer to clean pollution. We passed some good regulations years ago and we have cleaned up our act in many areas, giving new life to formerly abused habitats, reducing pollution drastically.
Limbaugh calls celeb in chief Barack Kardashian Obama
“He is becoming the male Kim Kardashian” – Rush Limbaugh. Team Obama is pushing celebrity status as Obama’s election theme. Well there is not much else to push is there?
Potential Victories for Individual Rights in 2012
Best case, we could look back on the Great Recession as the era when Americans finally wised up and got the government OUT of the private economy. The Obama era might come to be known as America’s “hitting bottom,” kind of like a drug addict on his final binge of self-destruction before stopping for good.
Time for a marriage amendment – Court Strikes Down The Defense of Marriage Act
Witness the Obama Administration’s initial decision to defend DOMA against constitutional attack, only later to abandon its defense of the law.
Obama, 168 House Members Defend Sex-Selection Abortion in Democrat War on Women
NRLC says Obama and 168 U.S. mostly Dem House members “complied with the political demands of pro-abortion pressure groups, rather than defend the coerced women, and their unborn daughters, who are victimized by sex-selection abortions”
Needed: A New Era of Classical Liberalism
Today’s “progressives” scream that the government should stay out of the womb and the bedroom, but they have no problem with the government reaching into the doctor’s office, the bank account and just about everywhere else.
Penn. Democratic leader defects to GOP, cites Catholic faith as reason
Jo Ann Nardelli, a state committeewoman and founding president of the Blair County Federation of Democratic Women, has switched her political affiliation to the GOP, citing her Catholic faith and President Obama’s embrace of gay marriage as reasons. – The Daily Caller
How and When to Discriminate?
“Discrimination—even ‘obvious discrimination’—is not necessarily wrong at all. Indeed, any sane society discriminates at virtually every turn, as do individuals. The law itself is an instrument of comprehensive discrimination.”