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This past weekend, I spoke about a number of issues, including the Obama administration’s hard left determination to impose more government control over banking, healthcare, energy, industry, and free speech. Needless to say, this ideologically driven agenda is driving America away from freedom and towards economic stagnation and geo-political weakness.
I also talked about the [...]

Faculty member, economist, and contributing scholar with The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College—Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson—explains, “The grand lesson of the 20th century is that Big Government retards economic progress.” “Many Americans seemed, and still seem, impervious to this lesson despite our own history. The same correlation was evident in the 1920s, when President Harding cut the size of federal spending in half, leading to a decade of prosperity, and in the 1930s, when the economy tanked under Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt and their huge expansions of government.” “Despite this clear historical evidence,” Dr. Hendrickson concludes, “President Obama is committed to growing government.”

Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992)
By Dr. Paul Kengor
A longer version of this article first appeared in American Thinker and also appears at The Center for Vision and Values.
Historically, social justice has meant different things to different people, and equally so today, where the term remains as frustratingly elusive as ever. Like the very progressives that champion [...]

This is a very interesting article by Angelo M. Codevilla from the July 2010 – August 2010 issue of The American Spectator.
Here is a clip…
Important as they are, our political divisions are the iceberg’s tip. When pollsters ask the American people whether they are likely to vote Republican or Democrat in the next presidential election, [...]