How would Obama supporters feel if they learned that their beloved President was running far-to-the-authoritarian-right of arch-hawk Charles Krauthammer on one particular civil liberties issue?

Sadly, the answer is that the most Obama supporters probably wouldn’t feel very much at all, because support for Obama has always predominantly been emotion-driven (he promised change “you can believe in”, not “change that I can logically convince you will be beneficial“).

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The lecture "Why Marxism?", is an examination of why so many people are still attracted to Marxism despite the history of totalitarianism and genocide. 

10 or 15 years ago, it seemed like the science was pretty one sided. The Earth was warming, and man was the cause for most of that increase. Dire predictions flooded the airwaves.

Some of the more spectacular alarmists claimed that Manhattan would be underwater within the next ten years due to rising sea levels. John Stokes, over at The Canadian, predicted 4.5 billion deaths...by 2012.

Along with these terrifying predictions made by seemingly respectable scientists came massive calls for the government to avert this catastrophe.

So far, speaker Boehner's performance in the budget battle has been mixed. That's the best that can be said about it really.

Not too long ago, we witnessed the terribly embarrassing budget cut debacle. He pushed for the "huge" cuts of 100 billion, which got lowered to 36 billion, which the CBO finally revealed to be a mere 353 Million. His "massive" budget cut that he "fought so hard to get" was less than .01% of the Federal budget.

Color me unimpressed.

"Free" government provided education is one of the most sacred cows of today's society. The notion of ending it is so radical that few can even analyze the issue rationally.

According to the popular mythos, Public Schools are absolutely essential to modern industrial society. Without them, we would be little more than illiterate peasants. A handful of rich children would receive a good education, and no one else could compete against them.

So, why am I opposed to the whole notion?

There is a continual theme in the Environmentalist movement: shrouding vague guesses in the mantle of scientific certainty.

They talked about a new ice age in the 70s. That plainly didn't happen. Ozone depletion, and the hole in the ozone layer were disproven. Acid rain was shown to be a hoax. The Alar apple scare was a baseless fraud. Environmentalists have been predicted that we will run out of oil for the past century.

We've had the famous "hockey stick" global warming graph that predicted a huge temperature increase. In reality, we saw declining temperatures. How's that for an inconvenient truth?

For the time being, it looks like the Republicans are sticking to their guns. Good for them! They aren't caving in to Obama's pressure to raise the debt ceiling after token deficit cuts. They are insisting on a balanced budget amendment as a condition to any debt limit raises.

I'm very pleasantly surprised by their principled dedication. America is on their side too. Only 22% of Americans want to see the limit raised. The American taxpayer is no longer fooled by Bernanke's Keynesian stimulus plan.