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Retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Allen West (Screenshot) “Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.” —Perth, Scotland, 28 May 1948, in Churchill, Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 & 1948 (London: Cassell, 1950), 347. “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” —House of Commons, 22 October 1945. Above are two respective quotes of Sir Winston Churchill regarding that collectivist economic model of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels we call socialism. Just last week, Fox Business...

AMERICANS WARMING TO SOCIALISM OVER CAPITALISM, POLLS SHOW”, states a poll at FoxNews.com Well of course they are. Most Americans are not critical thinkers. They look to the pack or the herd. Either they haven’t been trained how to be critical, independent and objective thinkers, or they’re simply too lazy to learn. Or both. As a result of no critical thinking, it doesn’t occur to people why America is a far, far better place to live materially — even if you’re in the poorest sector — than anywhere else on earth. No country on earth has a crisis of immigration...

AMERICAN SOCIALISMBy Nathan TuckerPresident Obama's infamous remarks at Roanoke are premised in socialism-the conviction that government action is needed to make the free market fairer and more equitable.  It is the mistaken belief, shared by far too many politicians today, that individual rights are the citizens' dutiful sacrifice on the alter of a collectivist utopian society achievable only by government planning.Socialism in Western democracies is often cloaked in the mantra of compassion-the desire to produce greater equalization of outcomes by protecting individuals from the vicissitudes of the free market.  It is the conviction that government intervention is necessary to make...

To bankers and politicians who insist that the world will come to an end if the US Congress does not approve the proposed US$700 billion bailout package, I wish to say: "It is not the end of the world. It is just the end of you." Sadly, it won't be. America's financier caste will live to fleece another day. There are no atheists in the trenches, and no free-marketeers in Congress after a nearly 10% fall in stock prices. A chorus of erstwhile conservative voices led by the likes of Newt Gingrich, the Republican firebrand of the 1990s, now argues...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Inside the mind-set of the public employee unions Nobel economcs Laureate Milton Friedman makes a powerful case that the United States today is at least 50 percent socialist. His argument relies on two uncontroversial premises: First, socialism is defined as government ownership and control of the means of production; second, the classic test of ownership is who receives the income from those means. Friedman then points to the economic data: Forty percent of American national income now is spent by federal, state and local government, while another 10 percent goes to...

(Op-ed column from The Hill newspaper on Friday, 06/14/02) (960) (This byliner by Bernie Sanders, U.S. Representative from Vermont in the House of Representatives, first appeared in The Hill June 14 and is in the public domain. No republication restrictions.) Congress Can No Longer Ignore Corporate Control of the Media Bernie Sanders One of our best-kept secrets is the degree to which a handful of huge corporations control the flow of information in the United States. Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read....