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Another Ground Hog Year Ahead?

Don’t Waste The 9 Most Important Days Of The Year.

That’s right, there are only 9 days are it.

Do you want 2014 to be the best year of your life?  Sure, who doesn’t?

But here’s the trap of the unmotivated:  They think simply turning the page of the calendar magically delivers new riches gift-wrapped to their doorstep, effortless triumphs, and nothing but sunshine and soft landings.

Good luck with that.

Here’s the rude awakening:  On Jan. 1, grocery prices will be right where they were the day before. Education still expensive. Wars still being fought. Businesses still struggling. Unemployment still high. And crime won’t stop.

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Pope wrong to demonize capitalism

By Walter E. Williams professor of economics at George Mason

Pope Francis, in his apostolic exhortation, levied charges against free market capitalism, denying that “economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world” and concluding that “this opinion ... has never been confirmed by the facts.” He went on to label unfettered capitalism as “a new tyranny.” Let’s look at the pope’s tragic vision.

First, I acknowledge that capitalism fails miserably when compared with heaven or a utopia. Any earthly system is going to come up short in such a comparison. However, mankind must make choices among alternative economic systems that actually exist on earth. For the common man, capitalism is superior to any system yet devised to deal with his everyday needs and desires.

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Barack Obama and the Meaning of Socialism

By Richard Ebeling

Barack Obama is finishing his fifth year as president, and continues to try to move America further in the direction of increased government paternalism with the implementation of ObamaCare, a push for a higher minimum wage, more intrusive business regulation, a drive for higher taxes to redistribute wealth and a persistent insistence that individuals must sacrifice their own interests for that of "society."

Nothing that Obama has advocated or had legislated by Congress or commanded through executive order should have come as a surprise. He was very straightforward about his conception of "change" long before he was even thought of as a contender for the White House.

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A Necessary Rebirth of Liberty and Learning

LARRY P. ARNN President, Hillsdale College

The following is adapted from remarks delivered during a gala event held at Hillsdale College on October 9-10, 2013, to launch a six-year campaign to raise $470 million for capital and endowment—the Rebirth of Liberty and Learning Campaign.

There is a proper way to educate and there is a proper way to govern, and they are both known. Today we do these things in a different way, which presents a serious and perhaps fatal problem for our country. But repair is possible. 

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How Do We Know Guns Save Lives?

By Rob Morse

How do we know guns save lives? We know a gun was used when the criminal was shot by the victim. The evidence is pretty obvious. The same situation isn’t clear if the attack stops with no shots fired. That confusion is a major reason the self-defense statistics are inconsistent from report to report. We can’t even define when a gun was used in self-defense. Do guns stop crime or not? Well, Sherlock, what do you think? Here are some recent examples to test you.

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Kerry isn't just another fool masquerading as a wise man. He's dangerous

By Caroline B. Glick

In enforcing deluded agenda, American Secretary of State ignoring decades of blood and deaths

Jewish World Review| Like his supporters, US Secretary of State John Kerry has apparently been asleep for the past 20 years.

Kerry has proffered us security arrangements, which he claims will protect Israel from aggression for the long haul. They will do this, he argues, despite the fact that his plan denies the Jewish state physically defensible borders in the framework of a peace deal with the PLO.

There are several serious problems with Kerry's arrangements. But in the context of Kerry's repeated claims that his commitment to Israel's security is unqualified, their most glaring flaws are rooted in their disregard for all the lessons we have learned over the past two decades.

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Only a dumb politician would oppose entitlements

By Walter Williams
Politicians can be progressives, liberals, conservatives, Democrats or Republicans, and right-wingers. They just can’t be dumb. The American people will never elect them to office. Let’s look at it.

For years, I used to blame politicians for our economic and social mess. That changed during the 1980s as a result of several lunches with Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., which produced an epiphany of sorts.

At the time, I had written several columns highly critical of farm subsidies and handouts. Helms agreed, saying something should be done. Then he asked me whether I could tell him how he could vote against them and remain a senator from North Carolina. He said that if he voted against them, North Carolinians would vote him out of office and replace him with somebody probably worse. My epiphany came when I asked myself whether it was reasonable to expect a politician to commit what he considered to be political suicide – in a word, be dumb.

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Why Are LGBT People So Hacked With Christians?

By Allan Erickson

[From the book, The Cross & the Constitution in the Age of Incoherence, 2012, Tate Publishing]

Perhaps secular ears will hear …

Not long ago a gay couple in West Hollywood hung Sarah Palin in effigy. That image will loom large in the minds of the Palin children for many years, perhaps for a lifetime.

In recent days at demonstrations in Palm Springs we’ve seen gay protestors knock a cross out of the hands of a grandmother, stomp all over it, and scream in her face. She is filing charges. We’ve seen homosexual protestors invade church services Sunday morning and rail against people, shouting threats. We’ve seen what appears to be Anthrax mailed to LDS churches. We have seen protests throughout southern California and threats of more violence and demonstrations. And we have heard LGBT leaders call blacks ignorant bigots for voting in favor of Proposition Eight in California.

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The Real Crisis of the Middle Class and Threat to American Power

By George Friedman

When I wrote about the crisis of unemployment in Europe, I received a great deal of feedback. Europeans agreed that this is the core problem while Americans argued that the United States has the same problem, asserting that U.S. unemployment is twice as high as the government's official unemployment rate. My counterargument is that unemployment in the United States is not a problem in the same sense that it is in Europe because it does not pose a geopolitical threat. The United States does not face political disintegration from unemployment, whatever the number is. Europe might.

At the same time, I would agree that the United States faces a potentially significant but longer-term geopolitical problem deriving from economic trends. The threat to the United States is the persistent decline in the middle class' standard of living, a problem that is reshaping the social order that has been in place since World War II and that, if it continues, poses a threat to American power.

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