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• Sen. Rand Paul Calls for Reduction in Aid to Israel…While in Israel

  January 8, 2013 at 9:05am

  Good for Rand. The following is a study by an Israeli free market think tank regarding the negative impacts of US aid to Israel.

  Institute of Market Studies by Yarden Gazit.
  http://www.jims-israel.org/pdf/PPusaidEnglish.pdf

  Short version:
  http://www.jims-israel.org/pdf/PRUSAidEnglish.pdf

• Wikipedia Will Officially Blackout in Protest of Anti-Piracy Act This Wednesday

  January 17, 2012 at 11:54am

  In reply to bamaboy1626.

  I disagree.

  When Napster existed, I downloaded music 12 hours a day.

  That said, I ended up purchasing almost 40 cd’s that year to support those I really liked. the others never got listened to so its like not having owned them at all.

  I still get the point, you dont HAVE to buy the product and many will go along with that. Just not everyone.

• NC to Recommend Compensation for Eugenics Victims

  January 10, 2012 at 8:29am

  In reply to Bill Rowland.

  Minimum wage laws are just one prime example where progressive eugenic advocates used laws enforced by government to indirectly exclude “the unemployable” or “low-wage races” from gaining employment. Back then, Fabian socialists and progressives acknowledged the consequences of greater unemployment with minimum wage laws (like their Classical Econ opponents) but, as Sidney and Beatrice Webb put it, “this unemployment is not a mark of social disease, but actually of social health.”

  It rids the “unemployable” from the labor force to segregate them and sometimes sterilize them.

  My blog on that and much more
  http://traditionalliberalism.blogspot.com/2011/10/progressive-era-eugenics.html

• Santorum Criticizes Ronald Reagan on Taxes & Social Security During NH Speech

  January 5, 2012 at 12:04pm

  In reply to TRONINTHEMORNING.

  Santorum is fiscally liberal (I am classically liberal-major difference in philosophy)

  “In the 2003-2004 session of Congress, Santorum sponsored or cosponsored 51 bills to increase spending, and failed to sponsor or co-sponsor even one spending cut proposal. In his last Congress (2005-2006), he had one of the biggest spending agendas of any Republican — sponsoring more spending increases than Republicans Lisa Murkowski, Lincoln Chafee and Thad Cochran or Democrats Herb Kohl, Evan Bayh and Ron Wyden.” –Club for Growth

  the Club for Growth is not a left wing organization

  He blows the same ambiguous smoke of “free markets and bla bla. his record shows otherwise.

  Even the Blaze says he is big government conservative technocrat!
  http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2012/01/04/santorum-conservative-technocrat/

  This is not the guy for the GOP unless you want status quo. big govt conservatives (AKA progressive conservatives or neocons).

  If tea partiers start favoring this guy, they are TOTAL Hypocrites. And I am a TP sympathesizer unless they vote for Santorum, Gingrich, or Romney. RP is the only one who truly represents the constitution and liberty.

• Santorum Criticizes Ronald Reagan on Taxes & Social Security During NH Speech

  January 5, 2012 at 11:47am

  In reply to bhelmet.

  Ron Paul is anti-imperialist, non-interventionist in foreign policy. This is no surprise and should be no surprise that many people from different ideologies support this policy, including modern progressives (remember, older progressives greatly favored war and war socialism as a way to unite and collectivize the economy and society)

  Rexford Tugwell is a well known progressive economist who deemed the war “an industrial engineer’s utopia” and was part of FDR’s “Brain Trust” who were the designers of the New Deal. He loved war because it allowed for a “great experiment in control of production, control of price, and control of consumption.” After the first world war, he said that “We were on the verge of having an international industrial machine,”He was happy about the second war for it allowed the government to take greater control of society. He later said that “Fascism was ”the cleanest, neatest, most efficiently operating piece of social machinery I’ve ever seen. It makes me envious.”

  Soros is opposed to Paul’s stance on economics and the role of government but he and other progressives may still support his foreign policy. Again, no surprise. Defense, yes. Militarism, no.

  Paul co-sponsors bills to audit the Fed with Bernie Sanders (independent democratic socialist). Does that make Paul a socialist? Of course not! Even other Republicans like DeMint have added themselves to the Audit bill.

  Stop trying to twist things.

• Meet the Israeli ‘Tea Party’ Promoting Free Market Ideas in Uncharted Territory

  January 5, 2012 at 10:21am

  In reply to CatB.

  Republicorp.
  That comment has nothing to do with Ron Paul or his supporters (I am one and do not feel that way)

  Actually, a free market think tank in Israel says that US aid hurts and undermines Israel’s security

  Summary
  http://www.jims-israel.org/pdf/PRUSAidEnglish.pdf

  Full study:
  http://www.jims-israel.org/pdf/PPusaidenglish.pdf

  And yes, progressives and democratic socialists hijacked the term “liberal.”

  Liberalism- The Terminological Theft (my blog with quotes on this hijacking)
  http://traditionalliberalism.blogspot.com/2010/10/terminological-theft-liberalism.html

  F.A. Hayek said in the Road to Serfdom…

  I use throughout the term ‘liberal’ in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American usage it often means very nearly the opposite of this. It has been part of the camouflage of leftish movements in this country, helped by muddleheadedness of many who really believe in liberty, that ‘liberal’ has come to mean the advocacy of almost every kind of government control.

  “I am still puzzled why those in the United States who truly believe in liberty should not only have allowed the left to appropriate this almost indispensable term but should even have assisted by beginning to use it themselves as a term of opprobrium. This seems to be particularly regrettable because of the consequent tendency of many true liberals to describe themselves as conservatives.”

  Many conservatives (not neoc

• Santorum: Conservative Technocrat

  January 5, 2012 at 9:57am

  In reply to Casmige.

  MAMATANGO

  Ron Paul is anti-imperialist, non-interventionist in foreign policy. This is no surprise and should be no surprise that many people from different ideologies support this policy, including modern progressives (remember, older progressives greatly favored war and war socialism as a way to unite and collectivize the economy and society)

  Rexford Tugwell is a well known progressive economist who deemed the war “an industrial engineer’s utopia” and was part of FDR’s “Brain Trust” who were the designers of the New Deal. He loved war because it allowed for a “great experiment in control of production, control of price, and control of consumption.” After the first world war, he said that “We were on the verge of having an international industrial machine,”He was happy about the second war for it allowed the government to take greater control of society. He later said that “Fascism was “the cleanest, neatest, most efficiently operating piece of social machinery I’ve ever seen. It makes me envious.”

  Soros is opposed to Paul’s stance on economics and the role of government but he and other progressives may still support his foreign policy. Again, no surprise. Defense, yes. Militarism, no.

  Paul co-sponsors bills to audit the Fed with Bernie Sanders (independent democratic socialist). Does that make Paul a socialist? Of course not! Even other Republicans like DeMint have added themselves to the Audit bill.

  Stop trying to twist things. He is no So

• Santorum: Conservative Technocrat

  January 4, 2012 at 4:23pm

  In reply to Lawrence7.

  ISTATUE

  The left are the only ones saying that? Get real.

  The Club for Growth says, as I said below:

  “In the 2003-2004 session of Congress, Santorum sponsored or cosponsored 51 bills to increase spending, and failed to sponsor or co-sponsor even one spending cut proposal. In his last Congress (2005-2006), he had one of the biggest spending agendas of any Republican — sponsoring more spending increases than Republicans Lisa Murkowski, Lincoln Chafee and Thad Cochran or Democrats Herb Kohl, Evan Bayh and Ron Wyden.” –Club for Growth

  Rush provided no sources. Nothing and the Club for Growth is not a left wing organization. Get real. He is a big government progressive Wilsonian foreign policy neocon.

• Santorum: Conservative Technocrat

  January 4, 2012 at 3:55pm

  In reply to MarketsClear.

  Paulid.

  That is truly an incoherent remark.

  Mussolini said “Fascism has taken up an attitude of complete opposition to the doctrines of Liberalism, both in the political field and in the field of economics”

  Political and economic freedom are the opposite of Fascism.

  The American classical liberal writer, John T. Flynn wrote in his book As we go marching,
  “the New Dealers … began to flirt with the alluring pastime of reconstructing the capitalist system … and in the process of this new career they began to fashion doctrines that turned out to be the principles of fascism.”

  Flynn, in another penetrating examination of the “creeping revolution” in the U.S.A., The Road Ahead, stated
  “. . . the line between Fascism and Fabian Socialism is very thin. Fabian Socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian Socialism plus the inevitable dictator.”

• Santorum: Conservative Technocrat

  January 4, 2012 at 3:52pm

  In reply to Lawrence7.

  SACREDHONOR1776

  In addition to your postings, see my blog with many more quotes on fascism from progressives.
  http://traditionalliberalism.blogspot.com/2010/09/fascism-keynesianism-socialism.html

  Mussolini said “Fascism has taken up an attitude of complete opposition to the doctrines of Liberalism, both in the political field and in the field of economics”

  Economic liberalism= free markets.

  Rexford Tugwell is a well known progressive economist who deemed the war “an industrial engineer’s utopia” and was part of FDR’s “Brain Trust” who were the designers of the New Deal. He loved war because it allowed for a “great experiment in control of production, control of price, and control of consumption.” After the first world war, he said that “We were on the verge of having an international industrial machine,”He was happy about the second war for it allowed the government to take greater control of society. He later said that “Democracy was the problem, and Fascism was “the cleanest, neatest, most efficiently operating piece of social machinery I’ve ever seen. It makes me envious.”