Bailout chaos roils markets and the economy
11/19/2008 - 5:58am
It's not really Hank Paulson's fault that he's had to switch gears so many times in the few weeks since the bailout bill was passed. The mandate of the "TARP" has changed at least weekly since then, as Paulson reacts to what he's learning about how it's functioning -- or not functioning.
Still, this sort of chaos was predictable with government getting into areas that it shouldn't, taking on problems that are even bigger than our Federal Treasury.
For a much more thorough discussion, please see my headline article at Human Events:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29546
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Leftists show their true colors
I'd like to point out how the paid and unpaid liars for the left seem to think that criticizing a web site somehow relates to the content of my article.
These guys never address an actual issue.
It's always one personal attack after another, which is fine with me. I trust readers of most sites are intelligent enough to recognize the weakness of the leftists' positions and their incapability of honest debate.
Kaminsky shows his true colors
Really...it's "a personal attack" merely to illustrate Human Events' public activities and social agenda -- and by extension, the apparent agenda of those who write for and support the organization, is it? Given that Americans repeatedly have repudiated this agenda in recent years -- and by extension, Kaminsky's belief in and support of that agenda -- it seems as if his bigger worry should be that with each passing day he commands an even greater degree of irrelevance than he did the day before.
The actual issue is clear: What does one stand for? Kaminsky by virtue of his support of and association with Human Events (as well as his financial support of politicans who would ban a woman's right to choose and a gay couple's right to choose marriage) clearly stands for ideals that would consider "Silent Spring" and "The Origin of Species" to be among the most harmful books of the past 200 years. (By the way, looks like both Human Events and the Nazis had the same point of view on Freud's work; the latter publicly burned his and other works on psychoanalysis in 1933.)
I trust readers of most sites are intelligent enough to recognize how history has repudiated the positions Kaminsky espouses, and that his agenda has virtually on relevance to their own wellbeing.
The paid liar pops his head up again
First of all, Human Events is, in my opinion, a very high quality publication. That said, I'm certainly one of the least conservative writers for Human Events and regularly annoy it's more right-wing readers, such as by getting involved in the comments (as I do here) to explain why I didn't vote Republican.
Obviously I disagree with the idea that "The Origin of Species" is a dangerous book, and I would point out that it didn't make the top 10 on that list. I would also point out that the list was simply the results of a survey of "conservative scholars" and didn't represent the position of Human Events editors. That said, I agree that the books on the top 10 of that list were harmful, with the possible exception of the Kinsey Report.
There is no doubt that "Silent Spring" was a harmful book, in my view.
As for politicians I supported, I did give money to anti-choice candidates even though I'm pro-choice because I think there are much bigger issues and because there's no chance of anti-abortion people getting anything done on that issue.
I oppose gay marriage, as I've said before, because I oppose government involvement in marriage at all. I think two gays or two straight people (of opposite genders) should be able to contract as they wish and should be able to try to find a religious institution which will marry them if that's what they want.
I believe that the Republican Party lost badly because they deserved to...because they abandoned principles of fiscal restraint, primarily. I don't think the election was a repudiation of those principles. If you're so certain that the election was a repudiation of free-market principles and that the country has suddenly gone from center-right to left, then take me up on a friendly wager about the GOP picking up seats in 2010.
Readers of most sites are intelligent enough to realize that you, Mr. Menezes are paid by George Soros and/or his friends to say absolutely anything to further their leftist agenda. You're a fine liar but you have no standing when it comes to discussion of actual principles because you have none, as demonstrated by your pathetic attempt to compare Human Events to Nazis.
As far as people's well-being, we'll see how they like the leftist economic ideas of your masters when they can't get jobs.
Now please crawl back under your nice little Soros-supplied rock.
Wannabe book burners at Human Events?
A little clarity on Ryecatcher's behalf: He's citing titles noted on Human Events' list (http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=7591&keywords=books) of "The Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries" as well as books that received votes from the website's judging panel.
Other titles include "The Kinsey Report"; "The Feminine Mystique"; John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty"; Margaret Mead's "Coming of Age in Samoa"; Nader's "Unsafe at Any Speed"; and Freud's "Introduction to Psychoanalysis."
That should give everyone who reads Kaminsky's screeds a pretty clear idea of the audience he's kowtowing to at HumanEvents.com.
Humanevents.com. Kaminsky makes the big time.
Humanevents.com a bastion of prideful hacks, profligates,and profiteers. Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, Mark Levin, Oliver North, David Limbaugh are a few of the prideful hacks and profiteers who add to the neo-con extremism of this diseased toxic waste dump better known as Humanevents.com.
Jed Babbin a neocon pimp on the make is editor of HE.com. Babbin is a frequent co-host with radio yakkers Hugh Hewitt and Laura Ingraham. All three personify the neocon spirit driven by fantasy and conspiracy.
HE.com gets over a million hits a month mostly from white males, 50+, caucasian, and pissed off. Does "Stupid White Men" come to mind.
Their list of harmful books includes: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin. Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud. Democracy and Education by John Dewey. Charles Darwin? How did he make their list. Go figure.
Add to this brew of right wing lunacy Russ Kaminsky and his mostly clueless rants on anything alluding to unions, liberals, and Obama. Humanevents.com. "Verbosity leads to unclear inarticulate things". George W. Bush.