Tag Archives: Far Left

Commentary Magazine: Jonathan S. Tobin: ‘The Greek Crisis Echoed in Democrat’s Entitlement Stance’

Source:Commentary Magazine- U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (Democratic Socialist, Socialist Republic of Vermont) Source:The New Democrat  To state the obvious, America is not Greece. Greece, a country of eleven-million people, with an economy somewhere around two-hundred-fifty-million people and yet their central … Continue reading

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The National Interest: Jack Matlock: The House That Stalin Built

Source:The New Democrat  I saw a show on Book TV on C-SPAN last weekend with Stephen Kotkin who just wrote a book about Joe Stalin perhaps the most evil and worst dictator that at least Russia has ever produced if … Continue reading

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Commentary Magazine: Ben Cohen: Venezuela On The Brink

Source:The New Democrat  I guess Venezuela at its best would be like Scandinavia where you would have a mid-size country or so of twenty-five million people who is not only energy independent, but a net-exporter of oil, gas, food and … Continue reading

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The American Mind: Charles Kesler Interviewing William Voegeli- Ending The Welfare State

Source:The New Democrat This blog has already laid out why it is against the negative income tax. Handing people who up to this point at least haven’t been responsible with their lives in too many cases to the point not … Continue reading

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The American Mind: Individual Rights vs. The Administrative State

. Source:The New Democrat  I agree with some of what John Marini was talking about as far as the Progressive Era as far as Progressives back then wanting to change the country and put in public social insurance that people … Continue reading

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Real Time With Bill Maher: ‘Senator Bernie Sanders Sneers at Americans For Not Demanding European Style Social Benefits’

Source:The New Democrat What is lost in this whole America vs. Europe socialism vs. what I call real liberalism and others call classical liberalism debate, is the economics and economies of both. Well in America’s case at least a country, … Continue reading

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Washington Examiner: Why Leftists Are Turning Against Freedom of Speech

Source:The New Democrat First of all it is not “Liberals who are turning against Freedom of Speech”, just to correct the Washington Examiner editorial page. And you give me all you want about ‘Modern Liberals’ or contemporary Liberals. But Freedom … Continue reading

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American Enterprise Institute: Charles Murray: ‘It’s Not Liberals That is the Problem, But Progressives’

Source:The New Democrat Charles Murray hit it on the head in his AEI article about liberalism and how that is different from today’s so-called progressivism. Even though even what is supposed to pass as progressivism today is really not progressivism … Continue reading

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Townhall: Jeff Jacoby: ‘Lift the Embargo, But Liberate Cuba First’

Source:Townhall I’m in favor of lifting the American embargo on Cuba all together conditionally. And that means getting certain things from the Castro Regime in Cuba first. That they allow their people to share the same benefits of trade that … Continue reading

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Commentary Magazine: Tom Wilson: Leftist Fascism on The March

Source:The New Democrat Anyone who thinks that fascism is only a thing of the right, or even just the far-right, is not familiar with the communist republics around the world today or back in the day in Eastern Europe, especially … Continue reading

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