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The Raven .the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
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The Road to Serfdom
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people,
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“The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties” (Simon and Schuster, 352 pages, $28) appeared in January, before the George Floyd riots or the coronavirus panic, but a careful reader of this penetrating study of postwar America might have foreseen the reckless lunacy occasioned by both events. Mr. Caldwell contends that, with the passage and signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the nation’s leaders established a new de facto constitution under which the purpose of politics was to remake civil society according to enlightened theories of racial justice. American leaders set about erecting enormously powerful and cripplingly expensive government agencies and programs to guarantee a state of racial equality. When their efforts failed, their successors created more such agencies and programs, and cultivated the destructive social convention known as political correctness to punish dissenters.
but repeal and replace has been in the lexicon for seven years, then they go to the republican in the white house they don t get it done. barton, are you able to hear me? it appears we lost our audio connection to barton, are you able to hear me? maybe not. let me throw the question back at you, jeff. i can take that one. the president s frustration is very sincere and real, he s concerned with repealing and replacing obamacare and he expected that the senate would be ready for that when he got into office. on the other hand, senator mcconnell s frustrations that he articulated in that speech that then upset the president were very genuine as well. this is somebody who came into office without any background in politics, he made promises such as saying will repeal and replace on day one. that was unrealistic.
it and yet they can give him anything? jon: there is that and now you ve got this circular firing squad among republicans in washington as a result. barton swaim, from the weekly standard, jeff mason from reuters, formerly white house correspondent association president, thank you both. melissa: knew details emerging about the death of a 19-year-old penn state student after a frat party, what a detective is now saying about surveillance video from the scene. the u.s. and its western allies are urging to help with north korea, but the president seems to be holding out, what will it take to get china on board to help prevent a nuclear attack? china has unique leverage of north korea and we encourage china to use that to bring this regime to its senses.