Commentary by Dick Young on Will You Join Us? By Matt Kibbe, The American Spectator As Matt Kibbe points out, Americans have been had. They voted for ‘change’ but got more of the same, spending, taxing, and borrowing. Americans simply want government to leave them alone, but it won’t. Politicians and bureaucrats simply won’t allow […]
Archives for August 2010
Obama Aims for International Government
Commentary by Dick Young on Detailing Obama’s Endless Radicalism by Christian Toto, Human Events Christian Toto reviews a new book, The Post-American Presidency by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, which explains President Obama’s radical drive to internationalize the United States. The president strives to let the U.N. control as much of U.S. policy as possible, […]
Obama’s Recovery Has Failed
The economy looks like it may be floundering again. What has all the stimulus bought for Americans? All the debt that has been piled on ($1.3 trillion in deficit spending this year alone, according to new CBO figures) has served to make future generations poorer, but done nothing to alleviate the problems of the here […]
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Top 25 Musicians
Dick Young’s essential 25 musical artists, ranked in order from #25 to #1. Check back each week for the latest listing and an essential album or three from each. Click here for #25. Number 25 on my list of 25 essential musical artists is the group I rate as America’s second-best rock-and-roll band, Little Feat, […]
The Inexperience of Obama
Commentary by Dick Young on Worse Than Carter by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., The American Spectator Americans have elected the most inexperienced president in history with Barack H. Obama. Whether one is for or against the building of a mosque two blocks from the World Trade Center, the inexperience of the president bubbled up when […]
The Battle for America’s Soul
A tug of war is under way between the Marxist-influenced, Obama-fronted Radical Progressive Movement (RPM) and the Tea Party-led forces focused on objectivism, or the belief that the purpose of government is to protect the sovereign rights of an individual. Caught off the mark and leaderless is the old-line Republican Party, having been marginalized by […]
The Battle for America’s Soul
The goal of Karl Marx as cited in the Communist Manifesto playbook is for the proletariat to use political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie and to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state.
IRS Keeps Gold Sale Records
So Much for ‘We the People’ – Thomas Sowell, National Review New laws passed in Obamacare will force some buyers and sellers of gold coins and bullion to disclose their purchases to the IRS. With that information the IRS could easily develop a list of Americans who have purchased or sold gold coins. Is that […]
Bond Market Bubble and a One Term President
Our One-Term President – Tom Bethell, The American Spectator The economy is still in big trouble, and with Barack Obama in office for nearly 20 months, it’s getting harder and harder to play the “blame Bush” card. It looks like Barack Obama’s time in office will be limited to one term, if he doesn’t resign […]