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By Thomas Sowell

• Most of us may lament the fact that so many more people are today dependent on food stamps and other government subsidies. But dependency usually translates into votes for whoever is handing out the benefits, so an economic disaster can be a political bonanza, as it was for Franklin D. Roosevelt. Don’t count Obama out in 2012.

• Politicians can solve almost any problem — usually by creating a bigger problem. But, so long as the voters are aware of the problem that the politicians have solved, and unaware of the bigger problems they have created, political “solutions” are a political success.

“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man,” wrote science fiction writer Robert Heinlein. “Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are all the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as bad luck.” Jack Kelly

“Sally Kohn, a self-identified ‘community organizer,’ praised the Wall Street loiterers on CNN’s website, comparing the protest to the Boston Tea Party, which she claimed, ‘helped spark the American Revolution,’ adding, ‘and yes, that protest ultimately turned very violent.’ First of all, the Boston Tea Party was nothing like tattooed, body–pierced, sunken-chested 19-year-olds getting in fights with the police for fun. Paul Revere’s nighttime raid was intended exclusively to protest a new British tea tax. (The Wall Street protesters would be more likely to fight for a new tax than against one.) … The Canadian environmental group behind Occupy Wall Street, Adbusters, has compared the Wall Street ‘revolutionaries’ to America’s founding fathers. (Incidentally, those who opposed the American Revolution fled after the war to … Canada.) The — again — Canadians exulted, ‘You sense they’re drafting a new Declaration of Independence.’ … The tea partiers didn’t arrogantly claim to be drafting a new Declaration of Independence. They’re perfectly happy with the original. Tea partiers didn’t block traffic, sleep on sidewalks, wear ski masks, fight with the police or urinate in public. They read the Constitution, made serious policy arguments, and petitioned the government against Obama’s unconstitutional big government policies, especially the stimulus bill and Obamacare. Then they picked up their own trash and quietly went home. Apparently, a lot of them had to be at work in the morning.” –columnist Ann Coulter

By Marybeth Hicks
Barely enough time has passed for bologna sandwiches to begin rotting in school lockers, yet the 2011-2012 school year is shaping up to be one of the stinkiest ever, if we’re measuring in episodes of putrid political correctness and radicalism.

From “radical math” (yes, you can teach math for social justice), to revisionist history (Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States” remains a listed resource for A.P. American History students), from eco-radicalism that passes for hard science to government classes that barely mention the word “republic” when describing that thing our Founders created, we seem to have lost sight of the real purpose of America’s public schools.
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By Michelle Malkin
Media progs and Soros monkeys are working overtime to discredit yesterday’s Detroit News report on alleged White House intimidation of, and pressure on, Ford Motor Company over its popular ad critical of the government auto bailout. As I pointed out yesterday, it’s just another one of those Chicago coincidences that the Attack Watch goon squad’s most recent targets just happen to be…auto bailout critics.

My column below sets the latest Ford fiasco in the proper context: the long pattern of bullying by this White House. Obama defenders in the media believe that transcribing official denials will “put the story to rest.” ATF/DOJ/WH whitewashers love these tools.

Dan Ikenson at Forbes isn’t bowed: “To the extent that the administration wants to tout the bailout as evidence of its “successful” economic stewardship, it should know that there are plenty of us willing and able to do the auditing on that claim.”
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Diana West
Only the U.S. military could build a defensive wall of words — “dismounted complex blast injury” (DCBI) — around the bare fact that single, double, triple, even quadruple amputations are up sharply among U.S. forces on foot patrol in Afghanistan. So are associated pelvic, abdominal and genital injuries, according to a newly released report.

Even the antiseptic language of the report is excruciating, as when it calls for “further refinement” of “aggressive pain management at the POI (point of injury),” or highlights the need to train more military urologists in “phallic reconstruction surgery.”

It isn’t management but prevention that is called for.
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Major Stu
When the government wants more of something, it gets subsidized, and when they want less of something, it gets taxed. It has been suggested, only half in jest, that the logical extension of this mantra is that the poor should be taxed more, and those with jobs and incomes should be subsidized. Isn’t that what the present administration declares they want?
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By Arnold Ahlert
Yesterday Democrat political operative James Carville wrote a piece for CNN offering the president advice on how to get his administration back on track. That part of Carville’s column is between him and the president. It was the penultimate paragraph of Carville’s post I found fascinating:

“As I watch the Republican debates, I realize that we are on the brink of a crazy person running our nation. I sit in front of the television and shudder at the thought of one of these creationism-loving, global-warming-denying, immigration-bashing, Social-Security-cutting, clean-air-hating, mortality-fascinated, Wall-Street-protecting Republicans running my country.”
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By Greg Crosby
It amazes me that so many actually believe that it is the nasty, evil conservatives that want to make laws which will restrict personal freedoms. Of course this is nonsense and it always was. It is the so-called liberal, progressive faction of our society that is passing new laws, initiating new programs, and in general trying to “change” things, which really means increasing the size and scope of government which by definition, limits personal liberties.
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