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Twenty-five years ago, French Model Laetitia Casta became a household name. Pretty thing, modeled women’s clothes and underwear. She could look sophisticated in a sweater or sexy in a teddy. And she helped start a dynasty that took women’s lingerie from the back of the store to the storefront.
On June 2, 1787, Benjamin Franklin delivered a speech at the Philadelphia Convention opposing a provision in the proposed Constitution to pay the president a salary. The speech reveals some important aspects of human nature that we should keep in mind today. Franklin submitted a change to the proposed Constitution stipulating that instead of paying …
Benjamin Franklin Speech Exposes the Inherent Danger of Power and Money Read More »
Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven were Ivy League political activists with an ironic concern for the poor. Both professors at Columbia University School of Social Strategy authored an article in 1966 titled “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty” featured that year in The Nation magazine.
This is, apparently, everywhere but here. That’s what I was told. So you may have seen it, but that’s no reason not to share it here. It’s from a Rapper named Zuby, not unfamiliar to the Grok.
Is it true that to have a pathway into politics one needs to be rich or to know rich people? Or is it possible to have the acuity to identify a unique window of opportunity and capitalize on it? Is this new or has this always been the American system?
Over the past hundred years, there have been more than two dozen attempts to build a socialist society. It has been tried in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Albania, Poland, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, North Korea, Hungary, China, East Germany, Cuba, Tanzania, Benin, Laos, Algeria, South Yemen, Somalia, the Congo, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Mozambique, Angola, Nicaragua and …
Yet while socialists distance themselves from contemporary and historical examples of socialism, they usually struggle to explain what exactly they would do differently. Socialists tend to escape into abstraction, and talk of lofty aspirations rather than tangible institutional characteristics. -Kristian Niemietz ( Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies) That’s all we keep hearing – …
Notable Quote – It’s always the “well, the right people haven’t implemented it” excuse Read More »
Conservatism comes from our belief about human nature. Conservatism has been and continues to be extremely vilified by the media and academia. The participants in those occupations, media and academia, are generally speaking leftists. How much more leftist are they than conservative?
The socialist vision of politicized control-regulation of economic interaction has by no means been exorcised from the modern mind-set despite the evidence from reason or from history.
by Joseph Mendola | As I drive to work each day, I sometimes see bumper stickers that say “Feel the Bern” – and then I wonder what people think about the consequences of socialism. Socialism is a system of economic policy that says that government is a better allocator of a nation’s resources than the …
