Leftism

Socialist America sinking

July 20, 2009July 20, 2009 by Orthodox Editors

WND | Patrick Buchanan | July 18, 2009

After half a century of fighting encroachments upon freedom in America, journalist Garet Garrett published “The People’s Pottage.” A year later, in 1954, he died. “The People’s Pottage” opens thus:

“There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom.” [Read more…]

The Economy Is Even Worse Than You Think

July 15, 2009July 15, 2009 by Orthodox Editors

Things are getting worse by the day, yet Obama and the communist Democrats are refusing to face reality and do what’s necessary to help businesses and the US economy.
Wall Street Journal | Mortimer Zuckerman | July 14, 2009

The recent unemployment numbers have undermined confidence that we might be nearing the bottom of the recession. What we can see on the surface is disconcerting enough, but the inside numbers are just as bad.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics preliminary estimate for job losses for June is 467,000, which means 7.2 million people have lost their jobs since the start of the recession. The cumulative job losses over the last six months have been greater than for any other half year period since World War II, including the military demobilization after the war. The job losses are also now equal to the net job gains over the previous nine years, making this the only recession since the Great Depression to wipe out all job growth from the previous expansion. [Read more…]

What’s This? Praise for Malaise?

July 14, 2009July 14, 2009 by Orthodox Editors

American Thinker | Ken Blackwell | July 14, 2009

Recently, some misguided Republicans caucused and advised us all to “get over our nostalgia for Ronald Reagan.” Is that what they think it is? With such confusion all around, it’s no wonder that some liberals are poised to bring back Jimmy Carter’s “malaise.”

No kidding. This past weekend, the Washington Post’s Carlos Lozada favored us with a long book review in the paper’s Outlook section. Lozada finds much to praise in Prof. Kevin Mattson’s new book, What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President? It’s a lengthy study of President Jimmy Carter’s famous-or infamous-speech of July 15, 1979. That’s the address to the nation that came to be characterized as “the Malaise Speech” [Read more…]

Stop The Madness That’s Killing Jobs

July 13, 2009July 14, 2009 by Orthodox Editors

Investor’s Business Daily | July 2, 2009

Stimulus: More grim news — 467,000 jobs lost in June, with unemployment hitting a 26-year high of 9.5%. Some people are rightly starting to wonder: Where’s that stimulus we were promised?

The stock market’s reaction on Thursday said it all — with the major indexes plunging 2.4% to 2.9% on the news of a continued job hemorrhage. Despite some economic green shoots here and there, no one’s sure when jobs will start growing again. [Read more…]

The Audacity of Conceit

July 11, 2009July 11, 2009 by Orthodox Editors

American Thinker | Victor Volsky | July 10, 2009

Intelligent idiots, smart fools, multi-degreed morons – lots of monikers could describe a category of individuals dismayingly prominent in the ruling elites of the West. They are the people so divorced from reality, so engrossed in bookish pursuits that – for all their undoubted intellectual accomplishments and often as a direct consequence thereof – they invariably end up with egg on their faces whenever they try to engage in practical activities. [Read more…]

Honduras at the Tipping Point

July 6, 2009July 6, 2009 by Orthodox Editors

Why is the U.S. not supporting the rule of law?
Wall Street Journal | Mary Anastasia O’Grady | July 6, 2009

Hundreds of emails from Hondurans flooded my in-box last week after I reported on the military’s arrest of President Manuel Zelaya, as ordered by the Supreme Court, and his subsequent banishment from the country.

Mr. Zelaya’s violations of the rule of law in recent months were numerous. But the tipping point came 10 days ago, when he led a violent mob that stormed a military base to seize and distribute Venezuelan-printed ballots for an illegal referendum. [Read more…]

Carbon Police Enforcing Environmental Radicalism in England

July 6, 2009July 6, 2009 by Orthodox Editors

This is what’s in store for the US if Obama’s “cap and trade” insanity is passed and forced on the American economy. God help us!

The Sunday Times | Jonathan Leake | July 4, 2009

The boys in green are coming as the Environment Agency sets up a squad to police companies generating excessive CO2 emissions. The agency is creating a unit of about 50 auditors and inspectors, complete with warrant cards and the power to search company premises to enforce the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), which comes into effect next year.

Decked out in green jackets, the enforcers will be able to demand access to company property, view power meters, call up electricity and gas bills and examine carbon-trading records for an estimated 6,000 British businesses. Ed Mitchell, head of business performance and regulation at the Environment Agency, said the squad would help to bring emissions under control. “Climate change and CO2 are the world’s biggest issues right now. The Carbon Reduction Commitment is one of the ways in which Britain is responding.” [Read more…]

Cap and Trade: The Big Con

July 5, 2009July 5, 2009 by Orthodox Editors

American Thinker | John Griffing | July 3, 2009

Masquerading as an instrument of environmental salvation, the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill will result in one of the largest seizures of wealth in human history. The legislation will wreak havoc on American manufacturing and industry, and coerce the conformity of an already economically squeezed populace. The bill is a transparent power grab, based on a fictional crisis-the left’s ever-dependable threat of global warming. [Read more…]

No Laughing Matter – America’s Path to Marxism

July 2, 2009July 2, 2009 by Orthodox Editors

FrontPageMag | Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson | July 2, 2009

Who won the Cold War? That’s a no-brainer. The United States prevailed while the Soviet Union collapsed, and the People’s Republic of China dumped Marxism; capitalism (free markets and private property) triumphed over socialism (centrally planned markets and state-owned property); an ethos of individual rights proved to be more resilient and healthy than collectivist ideology; relatively small, democratic government clearly was demonstrated to help a society prosper far more effectively than elitist Big Government.

How ironic, then, that voices in Russia and China are mocking our current Big Government policies. Those whose countries took the tragic, impoverishing detour through Big Government hell now react with scorn and derision as we Americans charge headlong down that same path. What an amazing spectacle it must be for them to see the victor of the Cold War borrow many pages from the losers’ playbook. [Read more…]

The ugly face of liberalism

July 1, 2009July 1, 2009 by Orthodox Editors

American Thinker | Selwyn Duke | July 1, 2009

It has been interesting watching the response to the Honduran military’s recent ousting its nation’s president, Manuel Zelaya. Barack Obama called the action “not legal” and Hillary Clinton said that the arrest of Zelaya should be condemned. Most interesting, perhaps, is that taking this position places them shoulder to shoulder with Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega and Venezuelan’s roaring mouse, Hugo Chavez, who is threatening military action against Honduras. Now, some would say this is an eclectic group – others would say, not so much – regardless, what has gotten them so upset? [Read more…]