The terrific PJ O’Rourke has a great article in the Weekly Standard entitled We Blew It. It’s complete genius and I urge you to read the entire thing.
My favorite bit:
What will destroy our country and us is not the financial crisis but the fact that liberals think the free market is some kind of […]

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This particular supporter seems to have not gotten the memo about Obama not being a socialist.

UPDATE: Compare and contrast.

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Original here.

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So does anyone still maintain he is not a socialist after listening to that?
Here’s a transcript of the money quote (emphasis mine):
If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court. I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, […]

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The New York Times revealed something interesting about their editorial borad’s thought processes in their long expected Obama endorsement.
Mr. Obama is clear that the nation’s tax structure must be changed to make it fairer. That means the well-off Americans who have benefited disproportionately from Mr. Bush’s tax cuts will have to pay some more. Working […]

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I no longer care who winds this election at all. Both sides are just going to make the government bigger and bigger, and neither has a clue about what to do to get through the economic situation.
Ten minutes into the debate, when Palin blamed “predatory lenders” for the economic problems without mentioning Fannie Mae’s […]

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Great explanation of how we got into this mess. 10 minutes and you will understand the root cause of the current crisis.

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Listen to this man! He knows what he is talking about!!

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Who’s responsible for the giant freedom destroying bailout we apparently are going to have shoved up our collective tailpipes? According to this Bloomberg commentary, it’s our old friends the Democrats:
It is easy to identify the historical turning point that
marked the beginning of the end.
Back in 2005, Fannie and Freddie […]

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Productive worker with questionable personal life seeks capitalist country with limited constitutional government.
Does anyone know where I could find one?

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Great sum-up of the speech here.
Despite the Clinton years, the Democrats seem to be stuck to some considerable degree in the 1970s and this speech would have been better given at the 1972 convention. Back then we really were isolated because of a war, faced unfriendly governments even in the West, had genuine economic problems […]

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John Tierney has an article up about Ray Kurzweil, futurist and author of The Singularity Is Near. If you agree with his ideas, as I do, it will change the way you view both the future and the present.
Here’s an excerpt to whet your appetite, but by all means, I implore you to read […]

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Well, maybe these particular thugs don’t break legs, but Wesley Snipes will be imprisoned and held for three years by a group of extortionists he refused to pay protection money to.
If only the depredations of this marauding gang could be resisted.. But they have quite a bit of firepower.

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Being forced to work without compensation equals slavery. Happy freedom from slavery day everyone! Until next year anyway…

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Credit where credit is due, our seat belt challenged New Jersey Governor John Corzine has submitted a budget that, shock of shocks, actually cuts spending!
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine had strong words yesterday for the Big Spenders of taxpayer money in his state: Game over, folks.
And while the reality of the $33 billion budget he […]

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Great news for the financially irresponsible. The givernment is coming to the rescue! (Hilariously, I just fat-fingered and spelled ‘government’ wrong, but if the shoe fits..)
The U.S. Treasury Department has been pushing the mortgage industry to agree to temporarily freeze interest rates for some borrowers who took out loans with low teaser rates […]

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Frederic Bastiat, from Selected Essays on Political Economy, published 1848.
If each man has the right to defend, even by force, his person, his liberty, and his property, several men have the right to get together, come to an understanding, and organize a collective force to provide regularly for this defense.
Collective right, then, has its principle, […]

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Obama gave a nice little lesson for a five year old.
[Obama] also suggested to the first-grader that wealthier people should help those who are less fortunate.
“We’ve got to make sure that people who have more money help the people who have less money,” Obama said. “If you had a whole pizza, and your friend had […]

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Uh oh.. Somebody call the Wahmbulance on this guy:
I am 24, live with my parents, can’t find work and am floundering in a sea of debt five figures high. I think of myself as ambitious, independent and hardworking. Now I’m dependent, unemployed and sleeping under the same Super Mario ceiling fan that I […]

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