Month: March 2012

Fed in control from beginning?

Enough to give one pause:

“When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up here. A super-state controlled by international bankers and industrialists…acting together to enslave the world…Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers but the truth is–the Fed has usurped the government.”

by:
Louis McFadden
(1876-1936) US Congressman (R-PA) (1915-1935), Chairman of House Banking and Currency Committee. Poisoned in 1936.

Resisting Catholicism

This fellow, a writer living in Italy, tells here a funny, irreverent, sad story in which he bemoans Italians and the pressure he is put under to become Catholic. 

But I have to, at least would like to, think he’s in a process of discovery and, frankly, would welcome more from him in this vein.  He asks good questions, for one thing.

There’s a lot of this going on, this Catholic awareness expressed by writers.  Aren’t things Catholic being discussed a lot?

Trayvon attacked Zimmerman?

Sanford FL police have witness to that effect, with corroboration based on sound of Zimmerman’s yelling “Help, help” on the 911 call made by the witness.

Zimmerman says the shooting was self defense. According to information released on the Sanford city website, Zimmerman said he was going back to his SUV when he was attacked by the teen.

Sanford police say Zimmerman was bloody in his face and head, and the back of his shirt was wet and had grass stains, indicating a struggle took place before the shooting.

Bad enough, bias by Revs. Jackson and Sharpton, but the president is supposed not to buy into initial maybe-false accounts. 

He did it before, remember, in the case of the Cambridge cop and the black professor.  Bad habit.  One would think he’s no better than those two hustlers.

Calling it for freedom

The (religious) freedom argument can hardly be put better than this:

Regardless of whether you believe life begins at conception or upon birth; whether contraception and abortion are women’s health issues or go against the will of God; or whether health care is a right every person should have, you must recognize that forcing some to pay for something they find repugnant is unethical and creates unnecessary social conflict. [bingo]

From a self-proclaimed pro-choicer saying choice is a two-edged sword that cuts both ways.

Larry Kudlow bullish on Romney

And persuasively so.

On economic policy, he would limit the government budget to 20% of GDP, slash $500 billion in his first term, and restrain Medicaid, food stamps, and other entitlement transfers before block-granting them to the states. His Medicare reform is near identical to the Wyden-Ryan approach. He’s for a true, all-of-the-above energy policy that would take the regulatory handcuffs off drilling on federal lands. He would repeal Obamacare. He has come up with a supply-side tax cut that lowers marginal rates by 20% across-the-board and drops the corporate tax to 25%.

These are very conservative positions. One can seriously ask whether Romney isn’t the most conservative presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan.

None of this penalizing success:

Romney made it clear that economic freedom is the key to the American economy. He said, “The history of the world has shown that economic freedom is the only force that has consistently lifted people out of poverty.” He added, “The genius of America is that we nurture these dreams and the dreamers. We honor them, and, yes, we reward them.”

Pause a moment on the idea of rewarding the dreamers. This is a crucial difference with Obama, who wants to penalize the dreamers. Make a bunch of money and you’re gonna pay higher tax rates. It’s the class-warfare 1% versus the 99%. Tax the rich. Redistribute.

Nope.  In conclusion:

This is Reagan-like. This is Jack Kemp-like. This is Paul Ryan’s American idea.

This is, in short, profoundly conservative. An election winner.