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[(DIRECT LINK to original entry) This post is the intro to a compendium essay on liberal hate, demagoguery and violence in America. It is written to liberals in the first person, but is illuminating for conservatives as well.] Using guilt by historic association is a popular demagogic tool of contemporary liberals to demonize conservative opponents. As an example let’s examine the animus contemporary liberals have towards Christianity. Yes, of course, many liberals claim to be Christians, but they seem to have a hard time standing up for Christianity when it is demagogued by secular liberals. They often seem to be ashamed...

[Today is the third anniversary of the signing of Obamacare. This thread is a piece of an essay written in plain language to liberals in the first person, but also for conservatives that focuses on how government interference in the marketplace inflates the cost and degrades the quality of healthcare in America. It also exposes the real vultures of American healthcare with a 13% profit margin! Enjoy...] Healthcare Costs As Herman Cain poignantly states, “We don’ have a healthcare crisis in America. We have a healthcare cost crisis in America.” A liberal mantra has been that America needs Obamacare because the free market...

[This is a companion piece to an essay I posted earlier in the week in regard to the tenth anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq: #22 The Quiet Funeral of Bush Lied - Thousands Died! Bill Clinton's war with Serbia over Kosovo in 1998 starkly illustrates the double standards of contemporary American liberals. It is written in the first person to liberals, but also for conservatives.]     Liberals believe that former President Bush lied to the American people to get support for invading Iraq (this erroneous belief will be completely debunked in #22 The Quiet Funeral of “Bush Lied – Thousands Died!”)....

[Written to and for liberals, conservatives will also find this defining, and perhaps useful in challenging liberal acquaintances. A slideshow can be found at the link.]As a principle, would you prefer others to direct your life, or would you prefer to have the freedom to direct your own life?   Answer this question and I will tell you who you really are – and who you are not…   With this question we are reaching down to the philosophical bottom line of your life – the ideological core of your being. Please consciously answer the above question to yourself before continuing to read. (Voluntarily...

The following is an excerpt from an essay from the Nuclear Counterarguments Essay Series. It is the definitive counterargument to those who feel the invasion of Iraq was based on deliberate deceptions manufactured by the Bush administration. Anyone who perseveres through to the end of its equivalent of 43 X 300-word pages will never again doubt the sincerity of President Bush's decision to invade Iraq. The essay series is written to liberals in the first person, but it is also for conservatives.Perhaps no other issue heats a liberal’s pot up to boil more than the Iraq War. “Bush lied –...

[There basically two kinds of people in the U.S. of A. - people who want to live in freedom, and people who desire to be herded around. Ironically, the herd people are absolutely convinced that they are the ones who are truly on the side of freedom. That is what makes them such an actual threat to freedom in America. While they prance around boasting about the freedom that they believe they represent, they are instead shackling America in tyranny more each day. The following is a slideshow introduction on the Nuclear Counterarguments 22-Essay Series preview page. The series is...

Professor George Lakoff describes himself as a cognitive scientist. In his book, Moral Politics How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Professor Lakoff illustrates the problem of accurately describing the dichotomy between contemporary liberalism and contemporary conservatism in America. From the section, The Worldview Problem for Cognitive Science in chapter two:~The job of the cognitive scientist in this instance is to characterize the largely unconscious liberal and conservative worldviews accurately enough so that an analyst can see just why the puzzles for liberals are not puzzles for conservatives, and conversely. Any cognitive scientist who seeks to describe the conservative and liberal worldviews...

Congressional committees and hearings are not necessary to prove without doubt that the administration deliberately lied when it attributed the Benghazi consulate attack solely to demonstrators. A simple Google search for September 11-12 brings up dozens of media reports indicating that at the very least an organized attack took advantage of a possible demonstration as cover (we now know there was no demonstration). Experts from around the world were quoted as insisting that the attack was organized, with many naming names. Furthermore, evidence of an organized attack is multitudinous in these reports. For the administration to have claimed it had no information that...

[written September, 2011, but even more applicable today] Re:  Could this time have been different?Ezra Klein     Washington Post columnistEzra Klein: Some partisans offer a simple explanation for the depth and severity of the recession: It’s the stimulus’s fault. If we had done nothing, they say, unemployment would never have reached 10 percent.This is the wrong way to look at it. The unemployment rate numbers are so skewed as to be virtually worthless. For instance, if all of the people that have given up searching for jobs were included in today’s unemployment rate it would be over 11%: Townhall Total employment is...

The 1920s began with a severe post WWI depression even worse than the start of the Great Depression of the 1930s. During the Roaring Twenties (get the name?) Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge implemented an austerity strategy, including a re-embracing of the laissez-faire free market policies from the late nineteenth century. It included severely cutting taxes across the board, a huge reduction in government size, massive spending reductions, and extensive deregulation. Their only mistake was not cutting trade barriers, so when the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act was proposed in 1929 under new President Herbert Hoover to drastically increase tariffs and implement stricter domestic industry protection...

Flat-out: Empirical evidence illustrates that President Obama is undeserving of re-election.What do you think? Does Barack Obama deserve to be re-elected? Not based on what I see. (The following information was mostly gleaned from the Nuclear Counterarguments 16-book series.)Obama was elected to steer the economy toward recovery and he has not done so. Instead of learning from history where the Roaring Twenties teach us that austerity brings about a quick, robust and lasting recovery, he instead has followed FDRHoover’s Dirty Thirties strategy of stimulus spending, with the same failed results of a malaise without foreseeable end. (See #6 Austerity Versus Stimulus – What Is...

[October 2 /12]The story lately has been about over-sampling of Democrats in polls, leading to an orthodox media conclusion that President Obama has opened a large lead over challenger, Mitt Romney. I have a question, however.In 2010 the Republicans decimated the Democrats in what President Obama termed a “shellacking”. That election was fought based on voter approval of Obama’s first two years of policies. Well, now it is 2012, and President Obama’s approval rating is identical to that of late 2010: Obama’s Approval Rating Mirrors 2010. So, tell me how this won’t translate into another “shellacking”?We are constantly reminded that...

Creepy people buzz around Barack Obama like a dog who rolls in his own crap attracts flies. This post catalogues the many scoundrels (190+) that Barack Obama has associated with throughout his life and career. Behind only Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama is probably the single greatest example of liberal principle number five (from the Nuclear Counterarguments Book Series: #1 Deprogramming Liberalism with Nuclear Counterarguments): A contemporary liberal’s honorable motives and noble fight against contemporary conservatism excuses all liberal failures and indiscretions. The people and organizations that Barack Obama has palled around with paint a very ugly picture of dozens of...