statism - Scragged

Thursday September 9, 2010 Last Update: 7 hr ago

All the articles that relate to "statism"

Article	Published	Author	Rating	Comments
Of Civil Wars Past and Future Today we celebrate Memorial Day whose purpose is to remind us of the men who bravely fought and died defending our country. Its origins could hardly be more moving and honorable; as recorded in Wikipedia: ...The first memorial day was observed by for...	May 31, 10	Petrarch	0	5
Beam Me Up, Barack! Much as jazz is the most versatile of music forms, science fiction and its cousin science fantasy offer near-infinite scope for an author's imagination. A good SF writer can create a world that not only does not exist, and has not, but almost certainly ...	May 27, 10	Petrarch	0	1
Obamacare and the Third Party Opportunity After more than a year or more than a century of struggle, depending on how you look at it, it is finally done: Socialized medicine has come to America. With the enactment into law of Obamacare, we will all shortly be at the mercy of government bureaucr...	Mar 23, 10	Petrarch	0	5
Obama Goes Off The Deep End, Bans Fishing? Appalling news from Washington is coming so thick and fast these days that it's impossible to keep track of it all. What's more, some reports are so outlandish that they seem like they must be from the Onion, yet are perfectly true. For instance, who w...	Mar 11, 10	Hobbes	0	4
America the Ungovernable? Over the last few weeks, a new meme has popped up and taken firm root in the mainstream media: the idea that America is currently ungovernable. Here we have a President and Congress from the same party, with overwhelming majorities, and yet somehow they...	Mar 10, 10	Petrarch	0	17
Winning: Not The Same Thing as Not Losing For the last couple weeks, Republican jubilation has been building in force. Scott Brown took over Ted Kennedy's Senate seat! Obamacare went down to crushing and ignominious defeat! Obama didn't seem to notice either of these disasters and, in his Sta...	Feb 4, 10	Petrarch	0	4
Obama and the Death of Keynesianism For as long as we can remember, a battle has raged between two opposing, wildly contradictory economic philosophies and their views regarding the true source of national wealth. These philosophies form the underpinnings for the two different models of g...	Feb 2, 10	Petrarch	0	5
Worse Than Rejecting Obama The echoes from the recent election are still reverberating throughout the political arena. Was the shellacking of Democratic candidates in Virginia and New Jersey a repudiation of the Obama administration? Is this a warning of Democratic devastation c...	Nov 16, 09	Petrarch	0	3
The Equality of True Justice Throughout all of Scragged's writings, there is one common thread that connects the majority of our opinions and views, and that is an aversion to statism. Statism, simply put, is the belief that the government knows better than you do about how to run...	Oct 8, 09	Petrarch	0	0