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Socialism is a failed ideology. It was the avant-garde approach to how to do government in the Twentieth Century. The Soviet Union was the flagship petri dish that conquered, infiltrated or ingratiated themselves with many other nations to establish them as additional petri dishes (Hello, Cuba). We certainly now have a large enough, long enough sample set - and the results are in. The system is contaminated - Socialism does not work. Socialists feebly cry “But they weren’t Socialist - they were Communist,” which is a distinction with very little difference. Communism is Socialism - with a boot in the neck....

Thank goodness we last November gave the Republicans the Senate majority.Who besides the GOP would resurrect government money for ridiculous “green” “energy” – which is neither green nor energy? To the tune of tens (if not hundreds) of billions of dollars more down the juice-less rat hole. Oh yeah – every Democrat on the planet. Senate May Revive Expired Green Energy Tax SubsidiesThe Senate finance committee will be holding a markup hearing on expired tax subsidies members want to be revived for their constituents and campaign supporters, and this includes now defunct subsidies for green energy.A document released by...

Tonight at 9p ET on THE ANDREA SHEA KING SHOW Seton Motley, President of Less Government & Editor in Chief of StopNetRegulation.org Hey FCC: Approve the Comcast-NBC Merger, Alreadyby Seton Motley Comcast and NBC-Universal (NBCU) have been waiting to merge for, well, ever.  Or at least it seems that way. Mergers of this sort are supposed to be approved within 180 days of applying to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Justice Department for permission.  (As offensive as that may sound – two companies reaching mutually agreeable business terms having to then play Mother May I with the government – that is the...

Glenn Beck: The Death of Talk Radio? The New and Improved Fairness Doctrine Glenn Beck talks with Media Research Center’s Seton Motley about our new FCC Diversity Czar [Chief Diversity Officer], Mark Lloyd. Lloyd wants to require privately owned radio stations to pay a tax equal to their operating costs each year. That money would then be given to publicly funded stations (like PBS or NPR). Private radio stations, in essense, would be paying to fund the competition, not that they could survive this tax anyway.

Seton Motley on Glenn Beck about Mark Lloyd: ASSAULT ON CONSERVATIVE AND CHRISTIAN TALK RADIO Originally aired on Friday August 14, 2009 Comment from poster, Yosemitest: I recommend you open the video link to the right from youtube.com in a separate window and reduce its size to view just the 9:00 minutes of video. Then you can read along on the transcript below. BEGIN TRANSCRIPT MODERATOR: For years, the world has seen reality distorted, facts manipulated, and truth hidden. But there’s even more to the story than anyone has ever suspected. Because no one has been able to see...

...The most recent high-water mark in media health care bias was last Wednesday, when ABC broadcast on four separate occasions from the White House during what they said was a day of their "moderating" a health care "conversation" with President Barack Obama. So we decided to offer up the other side of the deliberation in which ABC - and the media as a whole - aren't engaging.

The Lion That Squeaked by Seton Motley | Published Yesterday | Opinion The Lion That Squeaked It appears there is less room at the Governor’s mansion than originally thought And then there were two? Carole Keeton Strayhorn Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn, who for the previous fifteen months has made it appear all but certain that she was ready and willing to run against current Governor Rick Perry in one or another politically affiliated capacity, has suddenly, it seems, acquired frigid feet, or at the very least blinked whilst staring down the incumbent. Last Monday, Madame Comptroller shocked the 2006 watch...