Tag Archives: Center Right

Sam Seder: The Difference Between Libertarian and Neoliberal Ideology

The New Democrat Sam Seder is basically right here.  Neo-Liberals, and I guess I’m one of them according to Sammy, believe that government has a role to play in helping the less-fortunate help themselves by providing childcare, education, help finding … Continue reading

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The Washington Post: George Will: ‘Progressives Are Wrong About the Essence of the Constitution’

Source:The New Democrat  The more I hear from today’s, so-called, Progressives, the more I believe that they are from a different country or, at least, have lived a long time in another country. They don’t seem to see the U.S. … Continue reading

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The Washington Post: Alyssa Rosenberg: ‘If Conservatives Lost the Culture War, That Doesn’t Mean Liberals Won it’

Source:The New Democrat  When people use the term “Culture War,” it’s not immediately clear what they’re talking about.  It could be some pop culture war between Hollywood and Nashville, the capitol of country music, or, perhaps, the broader Bible Belt. … 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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Professor Milton Friedman: Limits To Freedom

Source:Hoover Institution– Professor Milton Friedman in 1999. Source:The New Democrat “What are the elements of the libertarian movement and how does one of its most illustrious proponents, Milton Friedman, apply its tenets to issues facing the United States today? Milton … Continue reading

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The New Republic: Issac Chotner: Ross Douhat Column on Young People: Individualism & Liberalism

Source:The New Democrat  This blog talks a lot about labels, especially what they mean in politics.  Thus, when I read a column in the  New Republic, that no longer looks like that great liberal magazine that once questioned the influence … Continue reading

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The Hill: Judd Gregg: Dems Now Look Ahead to Hillary

Source:The New Democrat  At risk of sounding like a sexist, even though I’m not, I’m not on the so-called HRC Bandwagon just yet, because the campaign to elect Hillary Clinton president in the third month of 2014 is more than … Continue reading

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Sam Seder: Caller: Did Affirmative Action Hurt the Liberal Project?

Source:The New Democrat  Affirmative action didn’t hurt the cause of actual Liberals because Liberals believe in equal opportunity for all regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and so forth.  The key word is “opportunity,” that people are not judged by … Continue reading

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Firing Line William F. Buckley Buckley: Representative Ron Paul (1988)

Source:Firing Line With William F. Buckley– talking to Libertarian Party presidential nominee Ron Paul, in 1988. Source:The New Democrat  “Ron Paul and William F. Buckley discussing a Constitutional Republic and the necessary evils of government. In 1988, Ron Paul was … Continue reading

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Murray Rothbard On Neoconservatives

Source:The New Democrat  Except for Jack Kemp, who definitely wasn’t a Neoconservative but a Barry Goldwater/Ronald Reagan get big government out of my wallet and bedroom classical Conservative, Murray Rothbard pretty much nails what Neoconservatives are when he called them … Continue reading

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