From Discover the Networks:
One Nation Working Together (ONWT), a huge coalition of the American Left’s leading organizations, prepares to stage its own March on Washington on October 2. At its root, ONWT advocates a massive expansion of government, and an ever-greater infusion of taxpayer dollars into the public sector.
Which is the road to serfdom, as Hayek explained.
A look at the city that works, from City Journal‘s Heather Mac Donald:
The Daley dynasty in Chicago may be giving way to the Obama-Emanuel political machine, but one thing remains constant in the Windy City: youth violence and a collective refusal to acknowledge its root cause. On the one-year anniversary of the beating death of a Chicago teen by his fellow students, Chicago remains in denial about the driving factor behind such mayhem: the disappearance of the black two-parent family.
Yes. Daley fulminates. It’s not his nature to be suave or smooth. But it’s all about nagging crime victims and their neighbors to speak out while in danger to life and limb.
Or he bashes guns and by implication gun-owners — but couldn’t quite bash the 68–year-old woman who finally had enough and was scared to death and plugged a 12–year-old neighbor who broke her windows and cussed her out and threw bricks at her. (Asked about her, he mocked “the media” and complained that it was not “on topic” of that day’s good-news press conference. Go to 14:55 of this at WLS-AM.)
Sound and fury, your honor, signifying avoidance.
And who came out in defense of what one neighbor called “that bad little boy”? His grandmother. Who else, for probably a fatherless kid?
In every American city, the disproportionate black-illegitimacy rate is matched only by the disproportionate black crime rate. In Chicago, blacks, at least 35 percent of the population, commit 76 percent of all homicides; whites, about 28 percent of the population, commit 4 percent.
You can’t say that in a public forum, however, especially if you’re mayor. No. Strictly speaking, you can but won’t.
Demosthenes said it, 4th century B.C.
“There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust.”
The man knew politicians.
On the other hand, Dr. Samuel Johnson said this in 18th century A.D.
“There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood, every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave and seek prey only for himself.”
I think they go together. Stay light on your feet, ladies and gentlemen. Satan prowls these precincts.
Blithe Spirit 