Tag Archives: Big Government

The Federalist: Opinion: David Harsanyi: “Sorry, Libertarians. You’ll Will Never Convert Liberals”: Distinguishing Liberals From Libertarians & Statists

The Federalist: Opinion: David Harsanyi: Sorry, Libertarians. You Will Never Convert Liberals This post was originally posted at The New Democrat on BloggerJust to correct David Harsanyi for a moment. The creation of the nanny state is not a “big … Continue reading

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The Atlantic: Russell Berman: Bernie Sanders is 2016’s Democratic Noisemaker

Source:The New Democrat  The far-left, or socialist-left, McGovernites if you will in the Democratic Party and outside of the Democratic Party need credibility if they are ever going to be taken seriously by anyone in America with real power let … Continue reading

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The Nation: Mike Konczal & Bryce Covert: The Real Solution to Wealth Inequality

The Nation: Opinion: Mike Konczal & Bryce Covert: The Real Solution to Wealth Inequality The New Democrat Before I explain why I disagree with the wealth redistribution argument when it comes to the income and wealth gaps in America. I’m … Continue reading

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Mises Daily: Blog: Andrew Syrios: A Brief History of Progressivism: What is Progressivism?

Classical Progressive Mises Daily: Blog: Andrew Syrios: A Brief History of Progressivism What is a Progressive? It depends on what you mean and almost who you ask. But whatever a Progressive is, they aren’t Liberals unless the idea of what … Continue reading

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Learn Liberty: Alex Kreit: Don’t be a Victim: The Drug War & You

Source:The New Democrat  I guess Alex Kreit is saying that “we shouldn’t be a drug war victim unlike the millions of Americans who are already drug victims”. Since this wasteful authoritarian paternalistic bogus War on Drugs was created by the … Continue reading

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USA Today: Jonathan Turley: Fighting Pot With Water

Source:The New Democrat  All the evidence that you need to know that Barack Obama is not a Liberal (even though I wish he was) is to look at his administration’s approach when it comes to the failed War on Drugs, … Continue reading

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The Week: Ryan Cooper: Conservatives Vastly Exaggerate The Unity of The Left

Source:The New Democrat  I agree that there isn’t a liberal version of the Tea Party as much as I wish there was as a Liberal myself. Occupy Wall Street obviously is not it for a few reasons. They are so … Continue reading

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The New Republic: Dean Starkman: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap

Source:The New Democrat  It is true that even since the American civil rights movement that even though African-Americans are doing much better than they were pre-civil rights that they still have a large income gap compared with Caucasian-Americans. And if … Continue reading

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Washington Examiner: Michael Barone: Why Government Isn’t Working and How to Make it Work Better

Source:The New Democrat  To put it simply government doesn’t work very well when it tries to do too much, or doesn’t do things that it shouldn’t be doing. There I said it and have made that clear. So there’s no … Continue reading

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Liberty Pen: John Stossel: Alan West & Alex McFarland on Personal Freedom

Source:The New Democrat  I have a real hard time listening to people who claim to be against big government and essentially say that “big government is essentially bad except when we are in favor of big government”. So they say … Continue reading

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