The biggest issue of our time, swept under the rug:
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In my Townhall column today – The fickle finger of fairness? – I took President Obama at his word: “No bailouts, no handouts, and no copouts.” But as seen in this week’s video, below, others (like ABC’s Jake Tapper) think Obama is practicing class warfare to distract from all his landmark legislative achievements – which are so incredibly unpopular one might question the use of the word “achievement.”
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George Orwell 1984
On this day sixty-two years ago, George Orwell passed away, soon after the publication of his final novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, an ugly glimpse at a dystopian future where the world is run by totalitarian regimes.
At the end of the novel, the torturer O’Brien tells Smith that, “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.” O’Brien goes on to argue that “the individual is only a cell, Winston, and the weariness of the cell is the vigor of the organism.”
“You’ll fail,” Winston responds. “Something will defeat you.… some spirit … the spirit of man.”
In Orwell’s book, the spirit of man is defeated, destroyed. Thankfully, in our lives, we can write our own ending.
“The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.”—George Orwell, Letter to Malcolm Muggeridge (4 December 1948), quoted in Malcolm Muggeridge: A Life (1980) by Ian Hunter
The debt limit is in the news again, so this satire, from a few months back, remains timely:
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Video: No Child Left Behind
It’s been ten years. Federal government intervention into America’s local-and-state-run public schools has spent a lot of money, but not resulted in much good, down at the student level:
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Tom Sowell on warm, fuzzy words and phrases
Punching fog, warming up fuzzy phrases, and understanding “social justice”:
“Society” is neither omniscient nor omnipotent. The justice society can provide cannot require either complete knowledge or total power. Pretending it can, or should, is pure folly.