Tar and feathers … One afternoon this past April, a Florida mom and dad I’ll call Cindy and Fred could not get home in time to let their 11-year-old son into the house. The boy didn’t have a key, so he played basketball in the yard. He was alone for 90 minutes. A neighbor called the cops, and when the parents arrived—having been delayed by traffic and rain—they were arrested
statism
May 24, 2012
ObamaCare — did someone mention “crony capitalism”? [Darleen Click]
Not only an unprecedented expansion of Nanny Government, but more details on how certain industries have taken Federal carrots. For a law that supposedly sticks it to big business, President Obama’s health care overhaul sure has a lot of industries counting on it for profits. In recent weeks, plenty of new evidence suggests Obamacare was a boondoggle for special interests. Hedge fund honcho Larry Robbins told the crowd at the
March 21, 2012
Progressive Authoritarianism and the Fluking of America [Darleen Click]
As an addendum to Jeff’s post on Left/Progressive/Liberal “morality” and their earnest belief that those that refuse to submit to it are either evil or the pawns of evil; which, in turn, calls for evermore control of society by law and regulation, democracy be damned when it doesn’t cooperate. In many ways it explains the grudging envy many Leftists have for Arab-Palestinian jihadists or Chinese communists. Behold in New York