Is it in the spirit of scientific research to ostracize and to punish anyone who brings new and contradictory evidence to the table? The Spanish Inquisition was not an effort to discover the truth. It was a means to eliminate any dissent from orthodoxy. Today’s ferocious reaction by the scientific establishment against any voice...
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As Keynes observed, people often unknowingly are the prisoners of erroneous doctrine propounded by long dead theoreticians, in this case doctrine of Keynes himself. I have noted before that Wall Street Journal news reporters often display pervasive, sometimes subtle, liberal-progressive-socialist biases. Unlike the Journal’s editorial board writers, among other things, they still parrot the...
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Earthly things wither and die, but the Word of God prevails forever. Pastor Dan Gardner preached the sermon Sunday at the Cohocton (New York) Assembly of God Church. His text was Isaiah 40:1-8: Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been...
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New York Times columnist Bob Herbert denounces spending borrowed money, apparently unaware that he is stepping on the party line. Mr. Herbert is about as far left in his liberal-progressive ideology as any writer in today’s mainstream media. Yet he has glimpsed enough of the truth to identify consumption floated by excessive debt as...
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Everything, from people within the Weatherman Underground, to Bill Ayers’s own words, proves his mendacity. Doug Welsh on his Twitter site posted a link to Larry Grathwohl’s reply to Ayers. Mr. Grathwohl, from his personal knowledge as an FBI infiltrator in the Weatherman underground in the late 1960s and early 70s, confutes the self-serving,...
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Without acknowledgment of God-created human souls, society is reduced to a random collection of people guided only by pursuit of their individual ideas of pleasure and avoidance of what they find painful. In such a society, nothing is inherently right or wrong. Read Ben Shapiro’s Why Atheism Is Morally Bankrupt. John Dewey, in the...
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Liberal-progressive-socialists again eagerly anticipate returning to the disastrously failed economic policies of Franklin Roosevelt. Apparently religious faith in socialism outweighs rational consideration of evidence. The standard liberal-progressive-socialist litany is that socialism, in the New Deal and subsequent years, would have succeeded, if only the government had spent more money for a longer time. Many...
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Naomi Klein, a Canadian and the new rock-star evangelist of secular socialism, is representative of the New Left activists who populate the Democrat/Socialist Party. Radical-left activist doctrine ignores the historical fact that every cohesive and enduring political society must be ordered by a commonly held understanding of human nature and human morality. The profile...
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Liberal-progressives presume that they can do no wrong, so long as they take other people’s money for the benefit of the secular and socialistic welfare state. Citicorp’s Robert Rubin is getting harsh words from investors who ask why he should receive $115 million in annual compensation, while shrugging off any suggestion of personal responsibility...
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Advent is the time of preparing ourselves for Christmas to celebrate the coming of Christ Jesus for our salvation. It’s also a time for watchful awaiting the Second Coming. For her sermon today at the Cohocton (New York) United Methodist Church, Rev. Karin Porch’s text was Mark 13:1-37. Her focal points were, first, a...
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Classic socialism in action. Socialism is characterized by ignoring the free marketplace and empowering intellectual planners to control the economy with a cocoon of regulations and directives. In Europe (and today in China) economically moribund companies are designated national champions and kept alive at taxpayer expense, even when they can’t compete in the free...
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R. R. Reno explores the moral dimensions of capitalism. History demonstrates conclusively that free-market capitalism increases everyone’s standard of living far more and far faster than any variety of liberal-progressive-socialism. The question Mr. Reno asks, however, is whether free-market capitalism must be indifferent to the broader aspects of the common good. Must it be,...
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Why are today’s students often taught to hate the United States? Phyllis Schlafly sketches the aims of too many teachers’ colleges who train our teachers (Teaching “Social Justice” in Schools). Those aims are the ones notoriously espoused by Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, Senator Obama’s friends and co-workers in the Chicago schools project funded...
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Labor unions make us poorer and they prolong recessions. Senator Obama’s short-sighted support for wealth-redistribution taxation and for socialist labor unions is nothing new for Democrat/Socialist politicians. Both in England and in the United States, labor unions led the political assault to overwhelm the individualistic traditions that made those nations great and to impose...
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The mindless throngs assembled to worship their savior, Senator Obama, bring to mind José Ortega y Gasset’s The Revolt of the Masses. Street mobs and mass demonstrations are a product of socialism, beginning with the Parisian mobs who assaulted the Bastille on July 14, 1789, then dragged government ministers from their homes and hanged...
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Liberal-progressives’ conception of social justice always requires the political state forcibly to impose some form of equality. Social justice, in the catechism of the socialist religion, is no more than an exertion of raw power to force people to conform to what liberal-progressives believe conditions ought to be. Forced equality was the mode in...
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Liberal-progressivism’s preoccupation with self-indulgent hedonism, evidenced glaringly in abortion advocacy, is literally death, the abnegation of social cohesion through abandonment of personal responsibility and morality. A vote for Senator Obama is a vote for death. The spread of AIDs via rampant sexual promiscuity, facilitated by abortion, is only one small aspect of the phenomenon....
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Despite what you read in the press, the $700 billion “Wall Street bailout” program granting the Treasury and the Fed almost unlimited and only slightly defined authority to implement the bailout bill is hardly unprecedented. Most new regulatory programs are approved in broad principle by the public and by Congress. Legislative implementing language typically...
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The rock-bottom issue is the destructive nature of the secular religion of socialism, which is, next to Islam’s mandate for jihad, the most vicious and degrading religious movement ever to afflict humanity. The election of Senator Obama to the presidency will usher in a Federal government in which both the legislative and executive branches...
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To picture what Senator Obama’s economic policies hold in store for the United States look at the destructive impact of those policies in individual states. The New England States and New York once were the industrial heartland of the United States. After the Civil War, industrial growth moved westward into Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and...
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