Friday, 3 of September of 2010
Reason TV has produced a video that profiles a new school voucher program in post-Katrina New Orleans that is enjoying tremendous success.
School vouchers and charter schools are a very libertarian approach to education that puts power and choice in the hands of parents instead of government bureaucrats. What a novel idea…
For the record, President Obama doesn’t support school voucher programs.
Starring….
John Stossel as Mister Fantastic
Virginia Postrel as Invisible Woman
Nick Gillespie as Human Torch
and Judge Andrew Napolitano as The Thing
I love them all.
I know the title of this post is a bold statement but consider the following evidence…
The Washington Post just reported that the CIA planned a “Saddam Hussein is gay” strategy prior to the war in Iraq in 2003.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone used the same strategy in the South Park movie Bigger, Longer & Uncut, four years earlier in 1999.
Coincidence? I think not. Conspiracy!
Rick Santorum, noted super genius and Ronald Reagan scholar, is optimistic about the GOP’s chances in 2010 but is wary of those wacko libertarians. Way to build that big tent, Rick.
BOCA RATON — Republicans have momentum this year, but potential 2012 presidential candidate Rick Santorum says the GOP won’t capitalize unless it embraces Ronald Reagan conservatism rather than Barry Goldwater libertarianism.
Santorum, for example, supported Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson in last week’s Republican Senate primary in the Bluegrass State.
“I’m for conservatives. I’m not for libertarians who say they’re conservatives,” Santorum said.
Let’s see… Would the Ronald Reagan to whom Mr. Santorum refers, be the same Reagan who was interviewed by Reason Magazine in 1975? That Ronald Reagan had some interesting things to say about libertarianism…
REASON: Governor Reagan, you have been quoted in the press as saying that you’re doing a lot of speaking now on behalf of the philosophy of conservatism and libertarianism. Is there a difference between the two?
REAGAN: If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.
THAT’S a politician who knows how to build a big tent coalition.
Santorum’s attitude smacks of a politician saying something like “Thanks for building up all that enthusiasm tea party people, now get out of the way, we professionals will take it from here.”
It’s this type of coalition fracturing attitude that will cause losses. Santorum is already trying to kick certain people out of the tent – as it’s being assembled – by lots of libertarian minded tea party people.
My advice? Roll up your sleeves and just help build the tent, Rick.
And while your at it, shut up.
From Reason.com.
Here’s a video where black tea party attendees speak out and completely destroy the Democrat/Media narrative about racism at Tea Parties.
If you’ve been paying attention, you know the only racial violence at Tea Parties was committed by white SEIU members against black tea party member/town hall attendee, Kenneth Gladney.
I guess it’s not that shocking when you consider the fact that most Americans don’t even know that the KKK was an invention of the Democrats.
Paging Keith Olbermann!
BONUS VIDEO: Andrew Breitbart explains it all on Glenn Beck:
Dan Riehl recently posted a video throwback to the the 2008 presidential campaign which was featured on Instapundit and Reason.
It got me thinking about the 2008 election and I suddenly remembered the “Obamacans.” Remember these morons?
Susan Eisenhower is more than just another disappointed Republican. She is also Ike’s granddaughter and a dedicated member of the party who has urged her fellow Republicans in the past to stick with the GOP. But now Eisenhower, who runs an international consulting firm, is endorsing Barack Obama. She has no plans to officially leave the Republican Party. But in Eisenhower’s view, Obama is the only candidate who can build a national consensus on the issues most important to her—energy, global warming, an aging population and America’s standing in the world.
SNIP
Former GOP congressman Joe Scarborough, who anchors MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” says many conservative friends—including Bush officials and evangelical Christians—sent him enthusiastic e-mails after seeing Obama’s post-election speeches in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. “He doesn’t attack Republicans, he doesn’t attack whites and he never seems to draw these dividing lines that Bill Clinton [does],” Scarborough told NEWSWEEK.
I wonder how the “Obamacans” will be voting in 2010 and 2012.
I bet I can guess…
And that question is…
I used to be a Kennedy-style “liberal.” Then I wised up. Now I’m a libertarian.
But what does that mean?
When I asked people on the street, half had no clue.
We know that conservatives want government to conserve traditional values. They say they’re for limited government, but they’re pro-drug war, pro-immigration restriction and anti-abortion, and they often support “nation-building.”
And so-called liberals? They tend to be anti-gun and pro-choice on abortion. They favor big, powerful government — they say — to make life kinder for people.
By contrast, libertarians want government to leave people alone — in both the economic and personal spheres. Leave us free to pursue our hopes and dreams, as long as we don’t hurt anybody else.
While we’re on the subject of Libertarians, the folks over at Reason are wondering if it’s time to lower the drinking age. Where were you guys when I was 18???
Obama and his supporters on the left still don’t get it. They seem to have no idea that a majority of Americans just don’t like their policy agenda.
That’s why we end up with stupid articles from the Huffington Post about how America has become “ungovernable.”
Bill Clinton had two years on “offense,” when he tried to push an ambitious domestic agenda, followed by six years on “defense,” after his party lost control of Congress in 1994. Barack Obama, despite his determined posture in his State of the Union address, seems to have gotten just one year on “offense,” now that Scott Brown’s Senate win has Democrats running scared. When a 59-41 Senate majority plus a substantial edge in the House is deemed too slender a margin on which to enact a relatively centrist health reform, we may as well ask it out loud: has America become ungovernable?
We also get venom from people like TIME’s Joe Klein who blames all of Obama’s failures on the American people, who are just a bunch of dumb horses, too stupid to be led to water.
Absolutely amazing poll results from CNN today about the $787 stimulus package: nearly three out of four Americans think the money has been wasted. On second thought, they may be right: it’s been wasted on them.
David Harsanyi posted an excellent article yesterday at Reason.com which pointed out two things.
1. Government needs more checks and balances, not less.
2. The American left is full of shit.
Observe his awesome awesomeness…
If you’ve been paying attention to the left-wing punditry these days, you may be under the impression that the nation’s institutions are on the verge of collapse. Or that the rule of law is unraveling. Or maybe that this once-great nation is crippled and nearly beyond repair.
You know why? Because the 40 percent (or so) political minority has far too much influence in Washington. Don’t you know? This minority, egged on by a howling mob of nitwits, is holding progress hostage using its revolting politics and parliamentary trickery.
Leading the charge to fix this dire problem is New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who advocates abolishing the Senate filibuster to make way for direct democracy’s magic.
It had better be quick. The populace is fickle. Jacob Weisberg of Slate believes that Americans are crybabies who don’t know what’s good for ‘em, causing “political paralysis.” Even President Barack Obama, after his agenda had come to a halt, claimed democracy is a “messy” process—as if that were a bad thing.
Imagine that we were living in an America where Republicans had control of the executive and legislative branches of government. Rich Lowry of National Review pens a piece saying that America has become “ungovernable.” Sean Hannity of FOX News devotes an entire program to the subject of “ending the Senate filibuster.”
Would the Paul Krugmans, Joe Kleins and Huffington Posters of America be nodding along in unison then?
Somehow, I doubt it.
This couldn’t have been an easy decision, there was so much to choose from this year.