Tag Archives: America

Reason Magazine: Matt Welch: Progressive Puritans: When Did Progressivism Become Statism?

Source:The New Democrat  Progressivism, at least as it has been practiced in recent times, has been a political philosophy that is about using government to make society better at supporting people in need, not to run everything for everybody and … Continue reading →

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The New Republic: Jonathan Cohn: Tax Day 2014: ‘More Taxes Would Make a Better Society’

Source:The New Democrat  Well, I guess it is official now, with this piece from Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic (his link is  above)  the classic American liberal magazine is dead.  Or perhaps, it has just been taken over by Socialists … Continue reading →

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Christopher Cantwell: Top Ten Reasons Libertarians Aren’t Nice to You

Source:The New Democrat  Contrary to popular belief (and yes I feel like a geek for saying that) I’m not a Libertarian.  Anyone who doesn’t believe that will have all the evidence they need after they read this post.  I know … Continue reading →

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Slate: Jamelle Bouie: Jim DeMint, American Abolitionism & Constitutional Conservatives

Source:The New Democrat  Representative Michele Bachmann announced she was running for president in, I believe, August of 2011.  Her  presidential campaign lasted all of four months.  It was one of the shortest presidential campaigns in American history.  When she announced … Continue reading →

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American Thinker: Rick Moran: Can Stephen Colbert be Funny Without Making Fun of Right-Wingers?

Source:The New Democrat  There’s been this latest complaint, well not really a late complaint, it goes back to at least the 1960s, from the American Right that the American media, especially the entertainment industry, don’t like right-wingers and love to … Continue reading →

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Commentary Magazine: Tom Wilson: ‘Liberalism Ends at Home’

Source:Foreign Affairs– President Woodrow Wilson is the first of the liberal-internationalist president’s. Source:The New Democrat “It is striking that America’s campuses, a sphere arguably dominated by liberals and their agenda, have become places where real tolerance and freedom of expression … Continue reading →

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The New Republic: Noam Scheiber: Bed Wetting Leftists: Democrats Who Freak Out Over Setbacks

Source:The New Democrat  There’s a faction in the Democratic Party, the far-left fringe,  as well as the broader far-left in America,who, to put it simply, make the perfect the enemy of the good. Any Democrat who doesn’t give them exactly … Continue reading →

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New America Foundation: The Shot: Reniqua Allen: Civil Rights in Present Day

Source:The New Democrat  The 1968 Fair Housing Law was one of the best acts of the civil rights era of the 1960s.  It said that if you serve the public selling and renting homes, the public is the public and … Continue reading →

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The Onion: Landmark Supreme Court Decisions Lets Americans Cram Cash Down Politicians Throat

Source:The New Democrat  What the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance did last week was, essentially, to make bribery legal so that members of Congress will no longer have to feel guilty about taking money for voting for this … Continue reading →

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Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: Speech at the White House (12/17/79)

Source:The New Democrat This speech was given about three weeks after the Iranian hostage crisis in which Iranian Islamists took fifty Americans, working at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, hostage in November of 1979.  This was Thatcher’s first visit to … Continue reading →

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