“When historians look back on this period, they will see it as another progressive era. It is not a liberal era — when government intervenes to seize wealth and power and distribute it to the have-nots. It’s not a conservative era, when the governing class concedes that the world is too complicated to be managed […]
Archive for the '(modern day) Liberalism' Category
May13th2010
“Liberals sometimes argue that their preferred approach to family life reduces the need for abortion. In reality, it may depend on abortion to succeed. The teen pregnancy rate in blue Connecticut, for instance, is roughly identical to the teen pregnancy rate in red Montana. But in Connecticut, those pregnancies are half […]
May6th2010
Unions Kill Voucher Bill In Chicago
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Economics, Education, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Unions and Vouchers. 1 CommentThe Chicago Tribune gives the details:
The legislation got through the Senate in March after being championed by Sen. James Meeks, D-Chicago, and suburban Republicans. But by Wednesday, teachers unions had regrouped and its supporters found themselves pleading with opponents to overcome a furious lobbying effort to stop the bill.
“Think back […]
Apr15th2010
“A recent survey by Pew revealed that 86 percent of conservatives agree that “not reporting all income on your taxes is morally wrong” compared to only 68 percent of liberals. Conservatives want lower taxes but feel they should pay what they owe. Liberals want you to pay more but don’t stress about paying their own.” — Ron Guhname
Apr5th2010
“For several decades the most dynamic part of the US economy has been Texas. Rich people, middle-class people, and working class people are voting with their feet and moving to Houston and Dallas and Austin. Whites, blacks and Hispanics are moving to Texas. Not because of oil wealth (Louisiana has even more oil per capita), […]
Mar25th2010
The Path To Single-Payer
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Economics and HealthCare. 0 CommentsHow does ObamaCare lead to Single-Payer? The steps are explained in a conversation overheard between Dennis Kucinich and Obama:
Obama: Dennis, I know you want single-payer and so do I. I’ve made that clear on numerous occasions. We both see the public option as a step to single-payer, but that’s a step too far. I can’t […]
Mar22nd2010
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Economics, HealthCare and ModernPolitics. 2 Comments“But there is one thing of which I am nearly perfectly certain: If we pass this thing, no American politician, left or right, is going to cut any of these programs, or raise the broad-based taxes necessary to pay for them, without any compensating goodies to offer the public . . . […]
Mar22nd2010
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Economics, HealthCare and ModernPolitics. 1 Comment“We’ve been arguing about the health care bill, in all its many iterations, for more than a year. Along the way, liberals have made a lot of predictions about what its passage will mean for America — for our health care system and our health, our economy and our long-term solvency. […]
Mar18th2010
Democrats of 2010 Are The Republicans of 2006
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism and ModernPolitics. 0 CommentsNational Journal writes:
Embattled incumbents with ethics problems. Allegations of sexual harassment leading to a competitive open seat. Dems have seen this movie before — only last time, it happened to the other guys.
Now, a beleaguered Dem majority has to hope their party can withstand a building wave that favors the GOP, and […]
Mar17th2010
Jay P. Greene, professor of education reform at the University of Arkansas, writes on the recent vote to end DC Vouchers:
It was perfectly predictable but still sad to watch. The U.S. Senate voted 55-42 yesterday against continuing the DC voucher program. Among Republicans only Olympia Snowe voted against the program. Among Democrats […]
Feb9th2010
Obama On Education
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Education, Hispanics (Minority Issues), ModernPolitics and Vouchers. 2 CommentsJay P. Greene, professor of education reform at the University of Arkansas, writes on Obama’s Education policies:
In a major address last March, President Obama declared that his administration would “use only one test when deciding what ideas to support with your precious tax dollars: It’s not whether an idea is liberal or conservative, but whether […]
Jan26th2010
Explaining The Supreme Courts Decision To Overturn Campaign Finance Reform
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism and ModernPolitics. 0 CommentsYou need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
CATO explains.
Jan25th2010
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Judicial Nominees and ModernPolitics. 0 Comments“The anguished cries of left-leaning folk over the Citizens United ruling seem to me to be emanating from an alternate universe, so bizarre are they. This was a case about whether the state can suppress the distribution of an unflattering documentary about a powerful political candidate produced by a small group of private citizens. The crazy thing […]
Jan14th2010
“Alabama has the same per capita income and slightly faster growth rate as the Social Democratic EU.15, which Krugman wants us to believe is a “Dynamic” region that the US should “learn from”. Has Paul Krugman ever written a column asking us to learn from the economy of Alabama? Of course not. That would […]
Oct30th2009
Is Racism Still Important?
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and ModernPolitics. 2 CommentsA continued theme on Matthew Yglesias blog is that conservatives in general are more concerned with anti-racism than racism, this is how he explains it:
“…most conservatives, think that the preeminent racial problem in the United States is that white people are too put upon by political correctness. Conservatives are very very very concerned about this […]
Sep18th2009
“You have got to see this video to believe it! It’s an undercover gonzo journalism exercise in which two reporters pretending to be a pimp and a prostitute go into the Baltimore office of ACORN asking for its help in importing underage Latin American girls for a sex ring, and committing tax fraud to do […]
