Guest Editorials
BY DR. PAUL KENGOR | FEBRUARY 25, 2011
The “Purpose” and “Job” of Government: Wealth Redistribution?
A teachable moment on the purpose of government recently occurred on MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,” who has picked up the torch for the departed Keith Olbermann. It was Mon, Feb. 7, the day after Obama sat for an interview with Bill O’Reilly of Fox News. Keep Reading...
BY J. MATT BARBER | FEBRUARY 24, 2011
Mainstreaming Radical Islam
The term “useful idiot” is believed to have been coined by Vladimir Lenin. It originally described liberal Communist sympathizers in Western nations who, as the Soviet leader explained, would “sell us (Soviet Russia) the rope with which we will hang them (the West).” Keep Reading...
BY KATHY BERNHARDT | FEBRUARY 23, 2011
We, Scottsdale voters, urge the County Attorney Office to investigate
Our founders instituted a public-funded education system to ensure that a classical education is taught with American values, free from politics. Here in Arizona, that core principle is being challenged in a way that taints our elections and harms our children and community. Keep Reading...
BY MENCKEN'S GHOST | FEBRUARY 23, 2011
Concentrated pain and dispersed joy in Madison
Hallelujah! As seen by the demonstrations in Madison, Wisconsin, true social justice is finally beginning to prevail in the nation.
The country’s longstanding political system of concentrating benefits, or joy, on special interests and dispersing costs, or pain, across all taxpayers is being turned on its head in bankrupt states. Now pain is being concentrated on special interests and joy is being dispersed across all taxpayers. Keep Reading...
