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| May 3, 2020

266 COMMENTS

We are being conditioned and acclimated to having to stand in long lines for food.

We are being conditioned to finding, after an hour of waiting in line, that the shelves are empty.

By David Foster

David Foster

I also blog at Chicago Boyz.

| April 7, 2020

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The coronavirus crisis has led to much discussion of modeling. One of the largest modeling projects in human history was the Soviet Union’s attempt to manage its entire economy on a top-down basis, including the use of sophisticated and then-state-of-the-art mathematical tools. Red Plenty…part novel, part nonfiction…is about the Soviet Union’s economic planning efforts as […]

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By Keyden Smith-Herold

Keyden Smith-Herold

I am the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of The Daily Analytical (www.dailyanalytical.com), a new conservative blog founded in 2018. My writing focuses on current events, policy, and culture. I will always champion American values and promote policies which will continue to put the United States on the path of freedom, liberty, and prosperity. Feel free to share your comments below my posts!

| February 26, 2020

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Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who is seeking the Democratic nomination for President, has proposed a 2¢ wealth tax on all assets over $50 million. Senator Warren has claimed that this tax will pay for universal childcare for every child age 0-5, raise wages for all childcare workers, provide free tuition for all vocational schools, community […]

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Bernie Sanders: The Democratic Mainstream Candidate

By Postmodern Hoplite

Postmodern Hoplite

Graduate of San Rafael High School, (San Rafael, CA) 1981. College includes: New Mexico Military Institute (AA Liberal Arts, 1983), University of California, Davis (BA Rhetoric, 1986), Salve Regina University (MA International Relations, 2004), US Army War College (MA Strategic Studies, 2008), Salve Regina University (PHD Humanities, 2018). Colonel, US Army Reserve (Ret.) Branch qualified Infantry, Logistics and Chemical Corps. Certificated Teacher (Washington State) in K-8 Multiple Subjects, Bi… [more]

| February 24, 2020

53 COMMENTS

Apparently, Bernie Sanders really does represent the mainstream core of the modern Democratic party.

Until now, I had generally assumed that the Vermont Senator represented only a relatively limited portion of enthusiastic supporters. Such supporters did not reflect the broader population of the Democratic Party, and that Sanders’ primary successes would top-out at around 25-30 percent. Saturday’s Nevada Caucus proved me wrong, but not in the way I would have expected.

Weekend at Bernie’s

February 24, 2020

16 COMMENTS

Hosted by Greg Corombos, Jim Geraghty

Start your week with the Three Martini Lunch as we dissect the good, the bad, and the crazy concerning the Nevada Democratic Caucuses. Join Jim and Greg as they experience more than a little bit of schadenfreude as Democrats thoroughly freak out over Bernie Sanders dominating the vote on Saturday. But they get more serious as ’60 Minutes’ and even CNN remind everyone how radical Sanders is and how he praised Fidel Castro and Marxists in Nicaragua and the Soviet Union. And they unload on Nevada Democrats for running terrible caucuses plagued by having too few officials to run some precincts effectively and still not finishing the vote totals by Monday morning.

Dem Debate Brawl, Economic Satisfaction Soars, Should Billionaires Exist?

February 20, 2020

3 COMMENTS

Hosted by Greg Corombos, Jim Geraghty

The Democrats debated in Las Vegas last night and they put on quite the show. Join Jim and Greg as they walk through the major dust-ups between Bloomberg and Warren, Bloomberg and Sanders, and Klobuchar and Buttigieg and try to figure out what the impact will be on the race for the nomination. They’re also thrilled to see a new poll from Gallup showing Americans with the highest satisfaction in the state of the U.S. since 2005 and lopsided numbers of citizens optimistic about the economy and where it is headed. And they go back to the debate to focus on NBC’s Chuck Todd asking Michael Bloomberg whether billionaires should exist.

By Aaron Miller

Aaron Miller

| February 17, 2020

10 COMMENTS

The Chinese government demands socialism be taught by priests. Many churches have been demolished. Christian funerals have been banned. A steadfast bishop lives on the street because the government threatens anyone who would house him.

Wolf vs. Mazie, Another Top Terrorist Dead, Walsh Prepared to Back Bernie

February 7, 2020

10 COMMENTS

Hosted by Greg Corombos, Jim Geraghty

Wrap up this crazy, eventful week with the Friday Three Martini Lunch. Jim and Greg start with a quick cheer for the January jobs report before moving on to the three main discussions of the day. First, they get a kick out of Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono telling CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that President Trump wasn’t really acquitted and Blitzer pointing out in detail that, in fact, Trump really was found not guilty. They also celebrate the intelligence and military precision that combined to target and kill Qassim al-Rimi, the leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. And Jim unleashes a devastating rant against now former Republican presidential candidate Joe Walsh, who has now flip-flopped to the point where he vows to vote for whoever wins the Democratic nomination, even if it’s an avowed socialist.

By Ajalon J. Stapley

Inactive

Ajalon J. Stapley

| February 6, 2020

29 COMMENTS

“I want these billionaires to stop being freeloaders,” demands Elizabeth Warren during an interview with CNBC.

“This extraordinary, unprecedented concentration of wealth and power and privilege must be broken apart,” says the former Texas congressman, Beto O’Rourke, to a cheering audience at his first presidential rally, “and opportunity must be shared with all.”

By CarolJoy, Above Top Secret

CarolJoy, Above Top Secret

| February 3, 2020

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For me, being a Republican means identifying with the notion of rugged individualism. That although it is true that governance is necessary, as after all, citizens do need stop signs, fire districts, and to maintain an army, it is equally true that as citizens we require and demand the right to live and breathe freely. […]

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By Dan Wilson

Dan Wilson

IT Professional. Amateur author. Avid follower of news & politics. Interested in future technology, societal trends, and unifying themes.

| January 22, 2020

23 COMMENTS

As I mentioned in my last post, foreign and domestic progressives think America stands as the main stumbling block to the global peace and utopia that might just lay around the bend. I used to think that most of the world thought of America as the big bully or at least that in every conflict […]

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It Started with World Peace

By Dan Wilson

Dan Wilson

IT Professional. Amateur author. Avid follower of news & politics. Interested in future technology, societal trends, and unifying themes.

| January 22, 2020

80 COMMENTS

I’ve decided to start writing in hopes to take a journey of understanding to delve into why progressives hate conservatives and, evidently, the idea of America. I don’t have all the answers yet, but I hope some on this site with take the journey with me.

When I was a kid in the ‘80s, I often heard the prayer, the hope, and the goal of “World Peace” repeated. I believe that most, if not all of the progressive efforts of the last century and a quarter are aimed at achieving this goal. If we can understand the underlying reasons for this, we can better understand what progressives hope to accomplish and why they hate us.

By James Pethokoukis

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James Pethokoukis

James Pethokoukis is a columnist and blogger at the American Enterprise Institute. (Previously, he was Washington columnist for Reuters Breakingviews, the opinion and commentary wing of Thomson Reuters.) In addition, he is an official CNBC contributor. Pethokoukis has written for many publications, including The New York Times, The Weekly Standard, Commentary, National Review, The Washington Examiner, and The Daily. Pethokoukis has appeared numerous times on MSNBC, Fox News Channel, Fo… [more]

| January 15, 2020

13 COMMENTS

Bernie Sanders supporters are quick to make clear that their guy doesn’t want to turn America into Cuba or Venezuela or the old Soviet Union. By “democratic socialism,” the US senator from Vermont means Scandinavia, more or less. And what’s wrong with that? The Nordic nations are pretty nice. Even President Trump has conceded that Norway produces a quality immigrant.

But does Sanders really want to import Scandinavian “socialism?” He brags that his universal health-care plan eliminates patient cost-sharing. But Scandinavia has it. Sanders wants to raise a lot of revenue through heavy taxes on business and investment. Scandinavia doesn’t. Sanders has a big problem with billionaires. Scandinavia doesn’t. Indeed, as I have written, “The egalitarian Nordic nations have as many billionaires, relatively, as the US and more concentrated wealth, at least as measured by the share of wealth controlled by the top 10 percent.”

By Susan Quinn

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Susan Quinn

Retired consultant, avid biography reader and meditator

| December 17, 2019

77 COMMENTS

“Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren’t about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?” — Ben Shapiro

I’ve never heard socialism described this way, and it makes sense: anyone who is supposedly religious can’t subscribe to both socialism and religion. Well, of course, they can, but it must be difficult to ignore the cognitive dissonance.

By Kephalithos

Kephalithos

I am a mustachioed bas-relief sculpture wearing some sort of bivalve as a hat. I used to spend my days (and nights) glowering at the n’er-do-wells who shuffled, handcuffed, into Fremont, Ohio’s jail. But the jail closed long ago, so I now glower at n'er-do-wells of a very different sort — the bureaucrats. Just kidding. I am, in fact, a newly minted Hillsdale graduate with hopes of becoming an architectural historian. (Post)modernity is my foe; the archaic, my muse… [more]

| December 14, 2019

26 COMMENTS

If the 20th century was a slum, the 21st may turn out to be a slough of despond.

Many members of my young generation are basketcases — ever teetering on the edge of breakdown, strangely aware and unaware of their own condition. Some seek redemption in politics; some immerse themselves in subcultures and fandom; some wallow in their self-loathing. Most simply drift through life, shrugging and LOLing and YOLOing in that familiar digital way.

By Ajalon J. Stapley

Inactive

Ajalon J. Stapley

| November 29, 2019

35 COMMENTS

Opinion: Capitalism is a corrupt system, where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Fact: Capitalism has created more wealth for more people, than ever in the history of the world.
Fact: The poor in America are still richer than about 70% of the rest of the world.
My opinion: Capitalism in itself is not a corrupt system; people are easily corrupted and the system need not be replaced.

Opinion: Democratic Socialism is a better economic system for the US than capitalism.
Fact: Socialism is defined as “[a system] in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the [government],” and “[a system] in which there is no private property.”
Fact: This is what happened in the USSR, Cuba, and Venezuela, and it resulted in extreme poverty for all, except those in power.
Fact: The Nazis were the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.

By Susan Quinn

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Susan Quinn

Retired consultant, avid biography reader and meditator

| November 24, 2019

43 COMMENTS

The efforts to slur, silence and punish people who refuse to kowtow to the Leftist agenda are increasing. With the talk of socialism, the Left continues to try to control our thinking, stop our discussions and attack any ideas that differ from their own. Recently I noticed a use of language that surprised and alarmed me. I’d like to briefly summarize their actions to date, and then share the most recent attacks on what we say and do.

One of the earliest efforts to control the language, and in particular to castigate people who disagreed with them, appeared as political correctness:

By LC

Ideologue, nerd, former physicist, cynic, conservative, admirer of the US Constitution. I like to describe myself as a chick in her thirties that acts and thinks like a man in his fifties.

| November 13, 2019

25 COMMENTS

Socialism seems to attract many of our millennials. So let’s go through some Khmer Rouge slogans and sayings to get a sense of what real socialism is. And no, real socialism is not Norway or Sweden, but Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge regime. A regime that was ruled by the right people: the highly educated, the intellectual elites.

All slogans and sayings are taken from Henri Locard’s book Pol Pot’s Little Red Book: The Sayings of Angkar, which I talked about in one of my previous posts.