[ClearCase_guy]

Looks very nice. I would also add "The Constitution exists to limit the power of the government, so that the American people can largely live their lives as they see fit."

[radar101]

Most of the world operates by the law of the jungle except when they fear the consequences of doing so

[knarf]

Well John, I believe you have articulated absolute truths, based on scripture, very well.

Here's your "Attaboy"

[ops33]

#8. You cannot tax your way to prosperity.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Yes. Liberalism is a mental illness.

[bobsatwork]

Nice article. However, I have a somewhat different take on the current state of liberalism. It has evolved into an entirely dishonest enterprise. They seek and maintain power by promising rewards to a voting majority, paid for by a voting minority. All their words seeking to “help” some new “victims” are code words to enhance the only thing they care about - maintaining power. I disagreed with just about all of FDR's domestic programs, but I never doubted his sincerity. Today, I see every leading liberal as self-centered, lying, multimillionaire power freaks.

[Grizzled Bear]

self ping for later...

[r-q-tek86]

ping

[machenation]

I appreciate your posting even though it it's not so insightful. I am not
generally a quitter but I am being bugged about the poverty my family
escaped because of government assistance without which today might be
different for me. However I think the U.S. is finished, it's just a matter of time,
$60 trillion of unfunded liabilities. I think that only people with means will
survive, those who can afford to hire bodyguards and feed them too. It ain't
going to be funny. I give it less than 10 yrs. I have to learn gardening and canning. But mostly a building to live in with brick walls for defense.

[The Toll]

#11. No matter how many times you repeat something, that will not make it true.

[PerConPat]

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel or envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

Both quotes, which are spot on, are attributed to Winston Churchill. IMHO, a childish hope that all will be well, if we just share, is at the core of Lefty confusion. Simpletons who cannot rise above the homilies that were pounded into their heads in the sandbox make excellent fodder for power crazed pols.

[MuttTheHoople]

About Rule 1:

Reminds me of the Whitney Houston song:

I believe that children ARE our future

Teach them well and let them lead the way

Show them all the beauty they possess inside

Give them a sense of pride to make it easier

Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be

This, and the demon kids chasing Judas, make these the two most darkly funny scenes in recent cinema.

[Condor51]

One teeny problem with this article is that 'liberals' don't exist anymore. They're Leftists / Socialists and outright Communists. The 'Progressive' of today like Nancy Pelosi, is yesterday's Commie.

Hillary is a not so closeted Marxist and Obama, HA, that (expletive deleted) is now quoting Karl Marx only using nicer words - as pointed out by Brit Hume a week or so ago. And as in his not so apology, apology, about Rev Wright where he blamed the evil corporations and Capitalism for today's problems.

There are 65 card carrying members of the Democratic Socialists of America sitting in Congress right now (aka Congressional Progressive Caucus) - led by Bernie Sanders and Pelosi. The DSA website used to have a direct link to Congress and its members, but was removed when they were outed.

These people should be in Federal Prison for sedition. They are a direct threat to the Republic. And 'Liberals' they ain't.

[B-Chan]

Great article, great post.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Criticisms of liberals can be kept to a much simpler set of arguments:

Your philosophy tells you it is a good thing to hit your hand repeatedly and hard with a claw hammer. You see other people do it and severely injure their hands. But you insist that you have to do it, because you will do it differently, so that it somehow “works”. When you do it, you severely injure your hand, but you insist that it works, that it doesn’t hurt, and it achieves the goal your philosophy promised. It not only worked, but worked better than any alternative could work. Thus, you are a liberal.

When others point out that you have severely damaged your hand, you deny it, and curse at them as being evil for denying your philosophy. When even you cannot ignore the pain, you insist that it is only because you didn’t hit hard enough, or that a vast, right-wing conspiracy of doubters somehow sabotaged the hammer, or your swing, with their vicious and Nazi-like negative thoughts and dark conspiracies.

You demand more and more money, and that everyone’s hammer must be completely equal, as is their swing to hit their hands. Perhaps if everyone swings at the same time, it will finally achieve what your philosophy says it will.

The increasing derision of others to the entire hand banging philosophy you greet by insisting that you are an idealist and a dreamer, not burdened with the bourgeoisie and boring effort to work for a living or raise a healthy and happy family. For you know that all families will be happy, once hand banging with a claw hammer is perfected.

Most of the rest of mankind make you sick to your stomach, because they neither recognize the greater truth of banging their hand with a claw hammer, nor respect it. Fortunately you have many allies in other nations who know the truth as well, unlike the doubting and sinning non-hand bangers in your own country.

It would be a good thing if the vast majority of humanity was destroyed, so that hand banging would be the normal state of affairs. Because surely, those forces strong enough to wipe out the vast majority of humanity would respect the hand bangers as the superior survivors.

Because, in the final analysis, hand banging is what makes the sun rise in the East, what gives the world its seasons, what makes the oceans wet and the sky blue. And if we hand bangers want, we can change any of it.

Thus is the power of hand banging, saith the liberal.

[goldstategop]

Religions teach us we will one day have a world where evil, sorrow and death is banished forever and every one will be happy and at peace with God and each other. That world doesn't now exist and when liberalism denies the task of fighting evil, it takes us all away from the realization of that world here on earth as the dream of mankind. We must be faithful to God, to our wives and children and our fellow men so the kingdom of God can be established within us and in the world. The reformation of the human heart is work we must do together with God. Man unaided cannot achieve a perfect world. Where liberalism goes astray is that denies it denies faith, family and the ideal of transcendent holiness. The very objects of liberalism are just the exact opposite. There is no easy fix for the condition of mankind. So we should ask ourselves how the world will be transformed. Our answer should be wherever we let God in. True change is hard and is the work of many generations. The end of that work is a world those alive then and all those gone before them is one that at that time we will all be privileged to be a part of. Let us then get to the work at hand.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Quix]

EXCELLENT.

THX