Obama Backs Port Strike

Notorious roughnecks ordered to enforce punishment v. WH enemies

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Hard Progs v. The People

Does Big Brother have a legitimate purpose in a free society?

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Progs Cite Marx, Keynes

Ugly language of The Left controls our hearts, minds

A rhetorical dog whistle is a coded message for select listeners, usually the politically correct. Euphemism is the breath that blows rhetorical dog whistles. A few examples suffice to make the point.

International economic dog whistles are perennials. Karl Marx and Maynard Keynes are still blowing from the grave. The socialist dog whistle calls for justice, but really signals an attack on success and wealth -- as if economic equality were not an affront to history and common sense anyway. And the Keynesian whistle would have government provide what the market will not; subsidies, bailouts, stimuli, and deficit spending. Where Marx and Keynes merge, the whistles might even hurt a dog's ears.

Another ugly signal lies under all that noise about justice, fairness, and equality. A majority of voters in Europe and America have come to believe that a shrinking class of employed or entrepreneurial can support a growing class of dependents, fiscal barnacles. Neither government nor voters believe that they need to separate wants from needs anymore. Yet the free lunch crowd has the vote; and may now have a quorum; enough votes to repeal common sense -- or mandate suicide.

(full story at americanthinker.com)

Woodrow Wilson, ESA Passed, And-Jëf

On this day: December 28

John C. Calhoun becomes the first U.S. Vice President to resign (1832)

Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the U.S. Army (1835)

The Endangered Species Act is passed in the U.S. (1973)

Senegalese Marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jëf at a clandestine congress (1974)

President Barack Obama breaks 3-day silence to make his first public remarks on the Christmas Day attempted bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 (2009)

b: Woodrow Wilson (1856), Erich Mielke (1907); d: Victor Emmanuel III (1947)

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