Brit Hopes for Blogger Revolution in UK

Former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith in Britain hopes that the
blogger revolution will soon
ignite conservative politics in Britain the way it does in the US. He retells the Rathergate and Easongate stories
and imagines how bloggers could humble Britain’s own mainstream media.

The Templeton Curve and Social Security

Want to know the difference between President Bush’s vision for Social Security and the Democrat’s
vision? The Templeton Curve
tells the difference. Bush leads to surplus; Democrats lead to deficit.
The big question is: why do Democrats fight the privatization of Social Security. If we removed it from
the Federal budget it might release resources for new programs. Wouldn’t that be fun!

Peggy's Seal of Approval for Blogs

She’s the den mother of America’s conservatives, and she’s just written the definitive word on blogs.
My, oh my, Peggy Noonan observes. Isn’t the invective flowing a little freely over at the MSM?

“Those MSMers have gone wild, I tell you! The tendentious language, the low insults.
It’s the Wild Wild West out there. We may have to consider legislation.” 

Get used to it.

Capitalism Ended Slavery

So you think that capitalism was founded on slavery do you?
Here are some arguments
for you to think about.

Capitalism rejects slavery because it does not pay.

And what if you are wrong? Suppose that lefty ideas about capitalism and oppression are wrong and
promote slavery (viz. Soviet Union, Mao’s China, Castro’s Cuba). What then?

Dems Want Government Control of Nation's Elderly

They don’t put it quite like that, of course. “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good,”
says Hillary Clinton. “Putting people in charge of their own assets breaks down the solidarity that comes from doing something together,”
says Noam Chomsky. So that is why Democrats oppose the privatization of Social Security, is it? The
noble public interest, social solidarity, and all that?
Not exactly, according to
Pete du Pont.
It’s odd that the opponents of Social Security privatization are
all in favor of private solutions for themselves, even public employee unions and AARP. Why don’t
they want the American people to have the same benefits?
Writes du Pont: “The government’s Social Security system is socialism’s last redoubt, and must be preserved at all costs.”

Steyn: Just Shrug, It's a UN Atrocity

Suppose it was the 3rd Infantry Division
abusing little children
in Falluja instead of UN soldiers
raping underage girls in the Congo, writes Mark Steyn. Then we’d see some outrage from the world’s
professional journalists. The trouble with the UN, he muses, is that the world’s democracies
are corrupted by propinquity with the world’s thugocracies, and that can’t be good.

New Labour Sharpens Knife For Sacred Cow

If you are a Brit leftie, you must believe
that “selection” or streaming in the
government school system is evil. Now the Blair government is starting to think of returning
to some sort of streaming and selection in the government schools. Of course, the whole process
will be properly controlled by government experts and elaborate procedures and safeguards. And it must
all be done without raising the hackles of the Labour Party faithful.