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In Fairness to John Dewey
His show trials commission and Sidney Hook. Also: Ben Stein and Obama’s latest war. Pawlenty and Franken. Plus more.
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“The left uses opposition to unpopular wars to recruit supporters the same way young men use poetry and cute dogs to pick up girls.”
Please stop corrupting the minds of our young. Only the
dog works.
— D.
Gurevich
Thank you, Ben.
—
Jeremiah in the Rockies
QUR’AN CRITICISM
Re:
George Wittman’s Democracy
and Islam:
Islam (as religion and as culture) is an oxymoron to the idea of democracy. Just spend some time learning about Islamic ideas and the historical record! Many of the “experts and academically-educated talking heads” from our universities and “think tanks” are blinded by arrogance and ignorance directed by political correctness.
Islam is the only major culture where political and theological (spiritual) powers are vested in one center (caliph). Historically, Islam is an imperialistic culture governed by Mohammed’s concept of jihad. The Qur’an’s Islamic doctrine of abrogation (naskh) is the theory where Allah’s later revelation to Mohammad cancels out the earlier ones. According to this idea the verses of the ninth sura (Verse of the Sword 9:5), “slay the unbelievers wherever you find them” repeal the peaceful verses revealed earlier. The ninth sutra is the last section of the Qur’an revealed to Mohammad.
It was with the assistance of arrogant, ignorant and
cowardly, politically-accommodating “intelligencia” that
fascism-Nazism and communism in the 2oth century could exist.
I wonder what can be expected today!
— Milan
Alexander.
ROBERT REICH SENT ME
Re: Peter Ferrara’s
Bush Tax Cuts Still Working — For Now:
A 15% tax rate for all individuals? What utter arrogant
nonsense. What is needed is a return to Eisenhower days with max
rates of 70%. Those with incomes over $250K do not pay anything
close to their fair share today. Every person earning $1M or more
should be taxed at a 50% rate at minimum. As for the thought that
having low taxes causes jobs, don’t make me laugh. That old
chestnut has been disproved more times than I can count. What low
tax rates do for the rich is enable them to retain more wealth, not
spend it. As for estate taxes, they should be raised to 50% of
everything over $500K. Let each successive generation start out on
a more or less equal footing.
— Michael Harrison
Lititz, PA
ASKING FOR TROUBLE:
Re: Robert Stacy McCain’s
The First Casualty of War:
Give me more Stacy McCain!!!
— Mike Anderson
El Segundo, CA
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Pecos Pete| 3.28.11 @ 7:27AM
Michael Harrison (above) says: "What low tax rates do for the rich is enable them to retain more wealth, not spend it."
Question for Mr. Harrison: Where, exactly, do the rich put the wealth they have retained?
Maybe they put it in coffee cans where inflation will reduce their wealth to zero.
Inquiring minds want to know.
Stuart Koehl| 3.28.11 @ 9:33AM
Never mind that: Given that those making more than $250,000 per year pay close to 50% of all income taxes, just what does Mr. Harrison think would be "their fair share"?
Just why do all these levelers seem to come from basket-case states like Pennsylvania, anyway?
Alan Brooks| 3.29.11 @ 12:40AM
Trotsky was a bad guy as well, he wanted what was tantamount to an infant-leftist revolution all over the world-- he was a boon to the Nazis; embarrassing that the #2 Bolshevik was Jewish.
Too bad Trotsky and Stalin didn't off each other in the '20s or before.
Dee See| 3.28.11 @ 7:47AM
US education has been re-engineered away
from education ----and toward economy use
and 'training' It's the Soviet polytech style.
It's really the brainchild of the HG Wells/Fabian
crowd, seeded, funded and set-up through the
EUGENIST 'benny-violent' capstone foundations
and their legions of NGOs and proxies.
They OWN education and no one gets anywhere
without their approval and support.
NOT UNTIL we have come to grips with this reality, and the staggering church and state issue
of the Social Darwinist, Luciferian occult societies
that lie behind all of it ---will anything change.
HUAC meets NUREMBERG ---get your tickets
now!
ENOUGH ROPE| 3.28.11 @ 11:18AM
Mr. Kengor,
What should be done about our public schools? Should public schools be eliminated entirely and replaced by private secular schools and private religious schools? If that were done it would defund the left and end the brainwashing of our students
Stormy| 3.28.11 @ 11:51AM
Michael Harrison suffers from the flawed mindset of Marxism. He seems to be ignorant of the fact that income and wealth acquired legally belongs to those that earn it. He, like all Marxists, such as Michael Moore, believe that the money belongs to the government, and "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need".
Mr. Harrison, no government that has actually practiced Socialism, Marxism, or Communism, take your pick, has ever been sustaining. The only thing that economic philosophy has ever produced is misery, at least for those that survived.
Creative Recreation | 8.10.11 @ 11:21PM
is good