The Rise, Fall, and Ghastly Lingering of John Maynard Keynes

It’s 1929, and the stock market has just crashed. You’re a classical economist, and you’re trying to reassure everyone that these things happen from time to time, and the economy will soon make a turnaround and in no time we’ll be following the roaring twenties with the roaring thirties. You’ll soon eat those words. Unemployment [...]

The Anatomy of a Liberal Part I – the Weapon of Compassion

Fawning Obama Supporters

In Conservative circles, the term ‘liberal’ gets lofted around more than funnel cakes at a county fair. Often, it’s applied to so many folks and ideas – with varying degrees of accuracy – that we lose touch with what a good old fashioned liberal really is. Therefore, we set out on the task of re-discovering these remarkable beings – a quest to provide you further information, entertainment, and a general sense of well being. Here is Part I of our series – The Anatomy of a Liberal.

“If you’re not a liberal when you’re young, you don’t have a heart…” – W. S. Churchill If you found yourself at a campaign rally for any Democratic politician in the most recent election cycle (and ‘found yourself’ meaning you were geographically there as opposed to your discovering some deep and mystical truth about your personage) – the one thing you almost certainly experienced was a flutter in your chest as someone attempted to pull your heart strings.