In This Dimension

The Size of Government and the Choice This Fall

Congressman Ryan and Arthur Brooks write in the Wall Street Journal today that the choice this November isn’t between parties or candidates - it’s between two stark choices of the future: Will America remain the wealthy free-market country and international beacon of freedom and liberty it has  for over 200 years, or will we devolve into the failed European social welfare model?

Unfortunately Ryan and Brooks understate the issues involved.

The choice is not between two models, each of which delivers some definition of “success” to varying sub-groups of society at varying costs to society at-large, costs particularly borne by those sub-groups not[…]

Fidel on Cuba’s Economic Model: It doesn’t work

For all you free-market liberty-loving folks finding yourselves at-odds with the local lib/prog who constantly bloviates on the utopia Cuba has become since the advent of THEIR Savior (and who want America to become more like Cuba under the RULE of OUR Savior, Obama), this:

Turns out not even Castro thinks their economic model works anymore.

I [Jeffery Goldberg] asked him [Fidel Castro] if he believed the Cuban model was still something worth exporting.

“The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore,” he said.

Surprise, surprise, surprise!

Someone tell Michael Moore.

From Powerline.

Disgusting Shari’a and Saudi Islam

While the rest of the world struggles forward in the 21^st Century, the Saudi brand of Islam remains - willfully, stubbornly, revoltingly - rooted in the 7^th.

Here is an article on a sentence handed down in the Saudi “judicial” system. Technically speaking, of course, the court finds guilt and the victim, or the victim’s family, decides the sentence. This is a technicality. With the government allowing the victim to select any kind of punishment, the government remains responsible for any selection made.

The concept that governments are there to protect the rights , freedoms and liberties  of - to say nothing of not[…]

The Future of the World According to Progressives

If this doesn’t scare you, either you aren’t paying any attention at all, you have no children, or you are among the enemy.

Here are the opening paragraphs of this linked commentary on the article written by a professor @ SUNY (linked below):

To the contemporary conservative, progressive ideology is often murky and incomprehensible.  It is very difficult for some on the right to understand the apparently illogical and unrealistic machinations of the radical leftist mindset.  Their political objectives, if achieved, inevitably lead to further demands for concessions toward an ever-greater ideological purity.

Something even darker and more malevolent is happening, however.  The various[…]

Maybe the Brits Will Tell Obama Where to get Off?

So today, The One has promised us, he will meet with the CEO of BP and “inform him that he will…”

Where on earth does Obama come up with the idea that he gets to “inform” a foreign national how that national will behave in international waters while running his business?

Did I miss something - like barack’s coronation - while sleeping?

This idiot actually thinks he is some kind of a king or something.

Newsflash, obama - not only are you NOT a king, you are an idiot and less and less of the world has any use for you as the days[…]

Who is Protecting America and our Allies?

So here’s a question for you.

The primary Constitutional duty of our military is to defend the Constitution - and the nation. In a sane world, America’s military is allowed to do this through deterrence. Deterrence, of course, works with sane opponents, not insane ones.

What is a working definition of “insane” on the current world stage? Any nation whose residents strap bombs on themselves or their subjects or their children in the name of some absolutely barbaric Middle-Age totalitarian, despotic “religion,” is a working definition of geopolitical insanity.

Given that America has for nearly 200 years told nations of the Eastern Hemisphere[…]

Understanding Obama - a View from Abroad

June 10, 2010

The Man Who Would Be King

By Steve McCann

Over the heads of some of the sycophants in the mainstream media there appears to be the proverbial light bulb turning on. After sixteen months of the Obama presidency, questions are being asked about not only his competency, but what motivates this putative savior.

The current President of the United States, acting in a way that would make Nero proud, continues to fiddle while not only the United States burns, but the rest of the world begins to spin out of control. The economy and the financial future of the country are in[…]

Here’s a Must-Watch for Every American

No intro needed….

London Daily Telegraph on Obama

Remember Obama was going to repair our relationships with our allies?

For unknown reasons, voters actually BELIEVED that a liberal nutso-anti-American president with no understanding of anything outside the classroom other than what he’d read from Alinsky  could actually “repair” international relationships - or any other kind. I mean, heck, he’s already set-back American race relations 40 years, and he’s only been in office 16 months!

(One could make the case this is a result of liberal-union-mal-education of two generations of American voters, but I have made that case so many times I am tired of repeating myself. Do be aware, however,[…]

The “Peace Process”

The problem with the way in which peace has been sought in the Middle East since 1948 is that all attempts have been based on not losing, or on appeasement. One would think that Neville Chamberlain proved for all time that appeasement never works with a determined foe. One would be mistaken.

No attempts have been based on history, on winning, on doing what is right, or on what’s best not only for the people of the region, but the people of the world.

Let’s begin with the latter: What would be best for the people of the region and the world?

Easy answer: Peaceful[…]