======== Jason L. Riley – June 16, 2014 7:24 p.m. ET ‘The concept of historic reparation grows out of man’s need to impose a degree of justice on the world that simply does not exist,” writes Shelby Steele in “The Content of Our Character.” “Blacks cannot be repaid for the injustice done to the race, but we can be corrupted by society’s... Read more
Archive for the ‘Socialism’ Category
Behind the East German Lie
May 18 | Posted by mrossol | Socialism, The LeftI’m first generation American, but ‘the East” was never far from my thoughts. ============= After three generations, a family’s faith in the state disappears. May 6, 2014 12:22 a.m. ET From “Red Love: The Story of an East German Family,” a new memoir by Maxim Leo: I think that for both my grandfathers the [German Democratic Republic] was a kind of dreamland, in which they... Read more
I’m Fighting to Restore a Free Society
April 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, SocialismI agree with Mr Koch on most of his thoughts below. [emphasis is mine] ========== I have devoted most of my life to understanding the principles that enable people to improve their lives. It is those principles—the principles of a free society—that have shaped my life, my family, our company and America itself. Unfortunately, the fundamental concepts of dignity, respect, equality before the... Read more
The Price of Cowardice
April 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, SocialismFrom Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1970 Nobel lecture, accepting the prize in literature: The spirit of Munich has by no means retreated into the past; it was not merely a brief episode. I even venture to say that the spirit of Munich prevails in the 20th century. The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden... Read more
Why aren’t we helping the poor? – B Gates
March 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Socialism, The LeftMr Gates gets another one right! ===== From an interview with Bill Gates in the March 17 issue of Rolling Stone: Should the state be playing a greater role in helping people at the lowest end of the income scale? Poverty today looks very different than poverty in the past. The real thing you want to look at is consumption and use that... Read more
The Troubling Numbers in the Obama Budget
March 12 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, Socialism, US DebtI think the key item Galston brings up is that in the past much Federal spending contributed to infrastructure improves – these provided a real multiplier impact. Spending on consumption.. not at all. ===== When he was governor of New York, Mario Cuomo famously remarked that “You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose.” To which he might well have added, “And... Read more
