Self-righteousness and force

Don't tell Michael Moore...

While Mr. Moore has been busy lobbying for an auto bailout, Moore's favorite example of socialized medicine--the nation of Cuba--has just celebrated 50 years of communist rule. Those lucky Cubans and their socialized medicine: It must be nice, eh? Or maybe not.

Herbert Hoover and the New Deal

Thomas DiLorenzo, Phd. in Economics at Loyola, lectures on Herbert Hoover and the myth that free-market capitalism was the cause of the Great Depression.

HT: Liberty Pen

Hank Paulson wants oversight.

It would have been nice if all the regulatory agencies (The Federal Reserve, SEC, the Comptroller of the Currency, FDIC) and the government approved rating agencies would have done their job before the current financial crisis. Of course, I think it’s ridiculous that the very people that helped drive Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and all of the investment banks to ruin are sitting around grilling Paulson--for example, Chris Dodd.

Hayek's warning...

This post by Peter Cresswell of Not PC sums up a slow yet prevailing national movement towards a more statist and big government political ideology. This move to the Left is by no means a recent phenomenon, as it does have some foundation in the current atmosphere in Washington, D.C.

F.A. Hayek warned in "The Road to Serfdom," that a slow and incremental movement towards a welfare state, and then even more collectivism, may jeopardize all citizens' freedoms.

HT: Jeff Perren @ Shaving Leviathan

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David Mamet, famous playwright, writes in the Village Voice: "Why I Am No Longer a Brian Dead Liberal."