Superficiality

Sat May 14, 2011 1:00 AM EDT

By Thomas E. BrewtonSuperficiality is a necessary part of liberal-progressive-socialism.

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politics, arrogance, technocrats, superficiality, liberal-progressive-socialism, obamas-world-view

Inflation At The Gate, The Fed Talks About Deflation

Sun Apr 24, 2011 6:12 PM EDT

By Thomas E. BrewtonWhile flooding the banking system with excessive amounts of fiat dollars, Fed Chairman Bernanke has talked endlessly about the need to avert deflation.

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fed, savings, politics, inflation, deflation, socialism, new-deal, keynesian-macroeconomics

More About Inflation

Tue Apr 5, 2011 11:15 PM EDT

By Thomas E. Brewton Inflation that affects the entire economy originates with government action. Price increases that arise from temporary imbalances between supply and demand in specific product markets are not examples of general inflation.

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politics, inflation, federal-reserve, gold-standard, money-supply, stagflation, government-action, keynesian-doctrine

Don't Blame Business For Our Inflation

Sun Apr 3, 2011 11:26 PM EDT

By Thomas E. Brewton Politicians will always falsely blame inflation on businessmen's "greed." But only government deficit spending using fiat money can create inflation.

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politics, inflation, federal-reserve, politicians, gold-standard, money-supply, businessmen

Love Thy Neighbor

Sun Mar 27, 2011 6:03 PM EDT

By Thomas E. Brewton It doesn't mean wife-swapping, marital infidelity, or sexual promiscuity. In today's sermon at the Cohocton (NY) Assembly of God church, Pastor Dan Gardner's text was Roman 13:8-10:

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religion, islam, liberal-progressive-socialism, gods-commandments, biblical-love

Human Motivation

Fri Mar 25, 2011 11:43 PM EDT

By Thomas E. Brewton Can human behavior be programed by social engineers and economic planners?

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politics, social-engineering, individualism, macroeconomics, keynesian, austrian-school-economics, conditioned-response, purposeful-action

Greed Before Prudence

Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:06 AM EST

By Thomas E. Brewton Wisconsin syndicalists are prepared to destroy organized government, if necessary, to continue looting the public treasury.

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politics, wisconsin, obama, labor-unions, syndicalism, democrat-socialist-party

Keynesian Philosophical Assumptions

Sat Feb 5, 2011 1:28 AM EST

By Thomas E. Brewton Keynesian macroeconomics is inconceivable without Darwinian evolution and secular socialism.

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politics, darwinism, socialism, keynesianism, collectivism, free-will, political-liberties, economic-determinism

Stop Obsessing About Japan And Deflation

Tue Nov 16, 2010 12:13 AM EST

By Thomas E. Brewton Fed chairman Ben Bernanke apparently is misled by fictionalized versions of two economic models: Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal Keynesianism and Japan's deflation and economic stagnation.

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japan, politics, deflation, ben-bernanke, monetary-policy, new-deal, qe2, keynesian-economics, democrat-socialist-party, liberal-progressive-intelligentsia

A Liberal-Progressive Abstraction: Caring For The Little Guy

Wed Nov 10, 2010 11:21 PM EST

By Thomas E. Brewton Anthony Paletta's book review describes urban renewal's human costs.

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politics, nancy-pelosi, jane-jacobs, individualism, adam-smith, collectivism, urban-renewal, state-planning, liberal-progressive-abstraction

The Deflation Bogeyman

Sat Nov 6, 2010 2:25 PM EDT

By Thomas E. Brewton Declining prices are not necessarily bad.

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politics, inflation, federal-reserve, deflation, purchasing-power, qe2, stable-dollar

The Business Cycle: Krugman vs. Austrian Economic Theory

Thu Nov 4, 2010 11:27 PM EDT

TBy Thomas E. Brewton The Keynesian black-box doesn't work, because the reality of independent actions by millions of individuals is ignored in order to achieve a simplistic representation of the economy in computer models.

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politics, unemployment, inflation, federal-reserve, labor-unions, bubbles, paul-krugman, special-interests, keynes, stimulus

Academic Theorist In The White House

Tue Nov 2, 2010 11:16 PM EDT

By Thomas E. Brewton James T. Kloppenberg is Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard University. His featured article in the November-December 2010 edition of the Harvard alumni magazine explains why academics find President Obama so attractive.

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politics, pragmatism, historicism, evolving-constitution, academic-theory, student-radicalism, anti-traditionalism

Obama Backs Violent Labor Leader

Fri Sep 3, 2010 6:59 PM EDT

By Thomas E. Brewton Obama, the self-styled man of peace, the reconciler, and the hope of mankind, is cozy with violence, from Islam to labor unions.

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politics, labor-unions, labor-violence, liberal-progressive-hypocrisy

July 4, 2010: Rededicate Ourselves To The Declaration

Sat Jul 3, 2010 11:33 PM EDT

By Thomas E. Brewton The events triggered by the Declaration of Independence were not a revolution. They were a struggle to gain independence from arbitrary exercise of government power.

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constitution, politics, bill-of-rights, states-rights, welfare-state, declaration-of-independence, judeo-christian-morality, arbitrary-government-power

The 17th Amendment Revisited

Thu Jul 1, 2010 9:45 PM EDT

By Thomas E. Brewton Original provisions of the Constitution intended to prevent Congress from enacting "dumb" laws were vitiated by ratification of the 17th Amendment.

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senate, politics, supreme-court, political-issues, judicial-issues, 17th-amendment, federal-power-grabs

It's Time To Wake Up To Reality

Sun Jun 27, 2010 11:19 PM EDT

By Thomas E. Brewton Abandoning our western heritage of Judeo-Christian religious morality has pushed us toward social and economic disintegration.

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politics, debt, socialism, welfare-state, deficit-spending, secular-religion, judeo-christian-morality

Why Democrat/Socialist Party Animosity Toward Private Enterprise

Fri Jun 25, 2010 3:00 PM EDT

By Thomas E. Brewton Marxian economic dogma explains why liberal-progressives, the Obama administration in particular, push for restructuring our constitutional government to concentrate more power in the hands of labor unions and the Federal government.

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politics, communist-manifesto, class-struggle, scientific-socialism, socialist-international, democrat-socialist-party, dictatorship-of-the-proletariat, marxian-doctrine, secular-materialism

Housing Slumps Despite Obama's Stimulus Spending

Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:55 PM EDT

By Thomas E. Brewton The housing market is the most recent of many examples of the failure of Obama's stimulus plans to revive the economy by repealing principles of human economic behavior.

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politics, regulation, housing-market, keynes, higher-taxes, stimulus-spending, command-economy

No-Fathers Day

Sun Jun 20, 2010 7:34 PM EDT

By Thomas E. Brewton

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politics, family, fathers, secular-religion, liberal-progressive-socialism, judeo-christian-morality

Pelosi As God's Emissary

Sun Jun 13, 2010 10:42 PM EDT

By Thomas E. Brewton House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent claim to be enacting the Word of God in her socialist legislative steamrolling is a rerun of the Social Gospel heresy that befell American Christianity around 1870.

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politics, nancy-pelosi, tyranny, social-gospel, gods-word, liberal-progressives

The Danger Of A Government With Unlimited Power

Sun Jun 6, 2010 11:04 PM EDT

TBy Thomas E. Brewton The Obama administration continues the nation's travels, since Franklin Roosevelt's socialist New Deal in the 1930s, along what Friedrich von Hayek called The Road To Serfdom.

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politics, property-rights, limited-government, constitutional-government, income-redistribution, liberal-progressive-socialism, collectivized-power

Wrong Again

Thu Jun 3, 2010 12:02 AM EDT

By Thomas E. Brewton Senator Charles Schumer is either an economic ignoramus, or he is just performing the usual Democrat/Socialist Party obeisance to the welfare state and labor union extortion.

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politics, labor-unions, welfare-state, outsourcing-jobs, democrat-socialist-party