Comments on: 2009 and Beyond http://www.newclarion.com/2010/01/2009-and-beyond/ Our mission is to combat the unreason and selflessness that are sweeping our culture from the nihilist left to the religious right, and to sound a new ideal of capitalism and individual rights in American politics. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:04:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Little Things · Objectivist Round Up #130 http://www.newclarion.com/2010/01/2009-and-beyond/#comment-7123 The Little Things · Objectivist Round Up #130 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:35:00 +0000 http://www.newclarion.com/2010/01/2009-and-beyond/#comment-7123 [...] presents 2009 and Beyond posted at The New [...] [...] presents 2009 and Beyond posted at The New [...]

]]> By: Myrhaf http://www.newclarion.com/2010/01/2009-and-beyond/#comment-7111 Myrhaf Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:00:13 +0000 http://www.newclarion.com/2010/01/2009-and-beyond/#comment-7111 Thanks for the comments. I think there is a small chance the health care bill will not pass because it is so bad that even some on the left don't like it. The bill makes no one happy except the Democrats in power who want to be able to claim they passed a bill and "reformed" health care. It will probably pass, though. Thanks for the comments. I think there is a small chance the health care bill will not pass because it is so bad that even some on the left don’t like it. The bill makes no one happy except the Democrats in power who want to be able to claim they passed a bill and “reformed” health care. It will probably pass, though.

]]> By: Brendan http://www.newclarion.com/2010/01/2009-and-beyond/#comment-7109 Brendan Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:16:53 +0000 http://www.newclarion.com/2010/01/2009-and-beyond/#comment-7109 Great post. I particularly enjoyed the smackdown on Bill Buckley :-) I shudder to think that Obamacare is actually going to be passed. I think it will be. It seems that the marching orders from Obama to Reid/Pelosi are something like: "Get this thing passed. If abortion funding is a problem, strike it. If some runt from Louisiana wants $800 million to build a library, give it to him. Give them anything they ask for; just get those votes. Get it passed, and quick. Then we'll have our foot in the door." Once the bill is passed, the Dems will play the same card they have been using with Social Security for more than 40 years. "If you vote for my opponent, he will take away your health care." That alone will ensure many votes. The Tea Party protests cannot stop this, because the Democrats simply do not care about public opinion. They are not in this for popularity, but for power. They would not care even if 90% of the public were against them. Obamacare will ensure power for them. Hopefully the same people going to the Tea Party protests will also understand the principles of this issue well enough to vote against the Democrats *even if* it means "losing their health care". Keep it up -- if people are ever to understand the right principles, it will be posts like this that will help to do it! Great post. I particularly enjoyed the smackdown on Bill Buckley :-)

I shudder to think that Obamacare is actually going to be passed. I think it will be. It seems that the marching orders from Obama to Reid/Pelosi are something like:

“Get this thing passed. If abortion funding is a problem, strike it. If some runt from Louisiana wants $800 million to build a library, give it to him. Give them anything they ask for; just get those votes. Get it passed, and quick. Then we’ll have our foot in the door.”

Once the bill is passed, the Dems will play the same card they have been using with Social Security for more than 40 years. “If you vote for my opponent, he will take away your health care.” That alone will ensure many votes.

The Tea Party protests cannot stop this, because the Democrats simply do not care about public opinion. They are not in this for popularity, but for power. They would not care even if 90% of the public were against them. Obamacare will ensure power for them.

Hopefully the same people going to the Tea Party protests will also understand the principles of this issue well enough to vote against the Democrats *even if* it means “losing their health care”.

Keep it up — if people are ever to understand the right principles, it will be posts like this that will help to do it!

]]> By: Michael Labeit http://www.newclarion.com/2010/01/2009-and-beyond/#comment-7102 Michael Labeit Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:59:04 +0000 http://www.newclarion.com/2010/01/2009-and-beyond/#comment-7102 Peikoff justifies the hacking involved in exposing Climategate in his latest podcast. Peikoff justifies the hacking involved in exposing Climategate in his latest podcast.

]]> By: Benpercent http://www.newclarion.com/2010/01/2009-and-beyond/#comment-7101 Benpercent Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:33:28 +0000 http://www.newclarion.com/2010/01/2009-and-beyond/#comment-7101 Excellent analysis as always. I hope one of your New Year's resolutions is to write more. "One last bit of good news from 2009: Obama is reported to be tired. 'Fundamentally transforming the United States of America' is hard work." I have been thinking about this somewhat lately. Obama seems to take a lot of vacations, doesn't he? Well, that's alright by me: we'll try to take the moral sanction of the culture from under him while he naps. Excellent analysis as always. I hope one of your New Year’s resolutions is to write more.

“One last bit of good news from 2009: Obama is reported to be tired. ‘Fundamentally transforming the United States of America’ is hard work.”

I have been thinking about this somewhat lately. Obama seems to take a lot of vacations, doesn’t he? Well, that’s alright by me: we’ll try to take the moral sanction of the culture from under him while he naps.

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