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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 02:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Amusing handle - you wouldn&#039;t know a fact if it bit you in the @ss&quot; 
 
Facts with teeth. Oh, THOSE facts. OK., whatever. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;Amusing handle &#8211; you wouldn&#039;t know a fact if it bit you in the @ss&quot; </p>
<p>Facts with teeth. Oh, THOSE facts. OK., whatever. </p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 02:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;You lie about liberal motives.&quot; 
 
I&#039;d be more worried if you actually had an example. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;You lie about liberal motives.&quot; </p>
<p>I&#039;d be more worried if you actually had an example. </p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 02:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Incidentally, I couldn&#039;t agree more about the tendency for government agencies to become self-perpetuating and self-justifying. They are not sacred cows to me. They may be to some but not to me.&quot; 
 
The question then becomes, which do we need and why. Knowing that conservatives are of exactly the same mindset would then help you realize that we just need to calmly discuss the most relevant facts to see which agencies and laws deserve our support. 
 
I think if you studied Marx and other philosophers of his era you might recognize a lot of the false ideas that people seem to blindly accept, and why these ideas lead to big government. 
 
It all springs originally from the ideas about evolution. People want to manage what they consider evolution. Evolution in technology happens mostly in a free market where people have the most incentives to create valuable things and ideas. Central planning simply reduces the number of people with incentives to create those solutions, and those in power have to spend a lot of their resources remaining in power rather than coming up with solutions superior to what a free market would develop organically. 
 
That is not a call for throwing out regulations. That&#039;s a call for throwing out tyrants. Tyrants use fear to gain power. They often half-believe the nonsense they come up with. Look at Al Gore. He finds a few facts that scare him, invents the rest and calls it &quot;An Inconvenient Truth.&quot;  
 
Anyway, my suggestion to you is that you slow down and ask questions first before determining that conservative positions are irrational. It seems like some times you are judging conservative positions based on leftist delusional simplifications of those positions rather than the fully articulated justifications.  
 
And as you said before, some times people use shorthand summaries to emphasize distinctions, and that combined with biases leads to an argument that is not persuasive. But that doesn&#039;t mean there isn&#039;t a valid point that could or even should be made. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;Incidentally, I couldn&#039;t agree more about the tendency for government agencies to become self-perpetuating and self-justifying. They are not sacred cows to me. They may be to some but not to me.&quot; </p>
<p>The question then becomes, which do we need and why. Knowing that conservatives are of exactly the same mindset would then help you realize that we just need to calmly discuss the most relevant facts to see which agencies and laws deserve our support. </p>
<p>I think if you studied Marx and other philosophers of his era you might recognize a lot of the false ideas that people seem to blindly accept, and why these ideas lead to big government. </p>
<p>It all springs originally from the ideas about evolution. People want to manage what they consider evolution. Evolution in technology happens mostly in a free market where people have the most incentives to create valuable things and ideas. Central planning simply reduces the number of people with incentives to create those solutions, and those in power have to spend a lot of their resources remaining in power rather than coming up with solutions superior to what a free market would develop organically. </p>
<p>That is not a call for throwing out regulations. That&#039;s a call for throwing out tyrants. Tyrants use fear to gain power. They often half-believe the nonsense they come up with. Look at Al Gore. He finds a few facts that scare him, invents the rest and calls it &quot;An Inconvenient Truth.&quot;  </p>
<p>Anyway, my suggestion to you is that you slow down and ask questions first before determining that conservative positions are irrational. It seems like some times you are judging conservative positions based on leftist delusional simplifications of those positions rather than the fully articulated justifications.  </p>
<p>And as you said before, some times people use shorthand summaries to emphasize distinctions, and that combined with biases leads to an argument that is not persuasive. But that doesn&#039;t mean there isn&#039;t a valid point that could or even should be made. </p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 01:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;In that you have shown me there is a person behind the rhetoric and you have in parts discussed something concrete, it is helpful. Being someone who wants policy to reflect reality is not a characteristic unique to conservatives.&quot; 
 
Of course everyone thinks their views are realistic. That&#039;s why OBJECTIVE FACTS matter most. That&#039;s why I often include &quot;and their dupes&quot; in my statements to show that I realize most people are just going along with what they sincerely believe to be correct. I know that. It only takes a few tyrants to lead people in the direction that threatens freedoms of many people. 
 
&quot;Situational ethics are in play, and obvious to anyone who looks, when the objections raised against an opponent in power are not the same raised when their own party is in power. It is a game we could play all day--like charges of hypocrisy.&quot; 
 
OK, it can seem that way if the conversation is not complete and the fact is that it is that way some times. But that&#039;s why we need to remember that objective facts matter more than opinions. Have the patience to finish conversations. Challenge people on questions before you assume you have the answer, especially when this person takes time to write comprehensive statements. Maybe not everyone can justify their positions but that doesn&#039;t mean someone else can&#039;t. 
 
It&#039;s often complex and if anyone is too impatient to hear the fully articulated views of their opposition then their default position is going to be the one they already formed on their own accord. 
 
&quot;You have gone to the trouble to respond to my posts in detail, and I should note that I appreciate that.&quot; 
 
I&#039;ll respond to anyone I see that might be listening. 
 
&quot;I would say that if I had the idea that you &quot;might want the same things idealists want,&quot; it would be refreshing to understand just that, and to hear your solutions for achieving those results, rather than the endless critique of modern liberalism.&quot; 
 
It only feels that way based on how you interact. If you take the time to respectfully challenge what you hear, you might get a more comprehensive response that makes more sense. 
 
I&#039;m some times sarcastic, that&#039;s true. The thing is that I&#039;ve spent a lot of time discussing leftist views, hearing their very best and brightest explain these views to me. That is not to say I know everything, but there are plenty of arguments I can make a lot more effectively than those who try to sell them here. I have to choose when I can spend my time listening to something I&#039;ve already heard in greater detail, many times over. 
 
When I hear something I&#039;m unfamiliar with, I&#039;m all ears. But hearing tired old arguments when I&#039;m 99% certain I know exactly where they are going...one has to pick his battles given the reality that time is limited. 
 
So I&#039;m not critical of anyone that uses sarcasm per se, but using sarcasm when there&#039;s a chance you&#039;re wrong...it wastes everyone&#039;s time. 
 
Those are judgment calls and suggestions. 
 
You questioned what to do about some of these issues. A lot of these issues are addressed better by volunteers. The problem that leftists have with volunteerism is that it destroys their central planning. They can&#039;t ensure that everyone gets their fair share of help if volunteers get to decide what to do. Leftists hate the free market because of various reasons, but all of those reasons deny the realities of human life and what motivates us to do anything.  Humans are not fungible. That&#039;s what Marx screwed up worst of all. And the fallacies that flow from that critical error still pollute leftist ideals to this day. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;In that you have shown me there is a person behind the rhetoric and you have in parts discussed something concrete, it is helpful. Being someone who wants policy to reflect reality is not a characteristic unique to conservatives.&quot; </p>
<p>Of course everyone thinks their views are realistic. That&#039;s why OBJECTIVE FACTS matter most. That&#039;s why I often include &quot;and their dupes&quot; in my statements to show that I realize most people are just going along with what they sincerely believe to be correct. I know that. It only takes a few tyrants to lead people in the direction that threatens freedoms of many people. </p>
<p>&quot;Situational ethics are in play, and obvious to anyone who looks, when the objections raised against an opponent in power are not the same raised when their own party is in power. It is a game we could play all day&#8211;like charges of hypocrisy.&quot; </p>
<p>OK, it can seem that way if the conversation is not complete and the fact is that it is that way some times. But that&#039;s why we need to remember that objective facts matter more than opinions. Have the patience to finish conversations. Challenge people on questions before you assume you have the answer, especially when this person takes time to write comprehensive statements. Maybe not everyone can justify their positions but that doesn&#039;t mean someone else can&#039;t. </p>
<p>It&#039;s often complex and if anyone is too impatient to hear the fully articulated views of their opposition then their default position is going to be the one they already formed on their own accord. </p>
<p>&quot;You have gone to the trouble to respond to my posts in detail, and I should note that I appreciate that.&quot; </p>
<p>I&#039;ll respond to anyone I see that might be listening. </p>
<p>&quot;I would say that if I had the idea that you &quot;might want the same things idealists want,&quot; it would be refreshing to understand just that, and to hear your solutions for achieving those results, rather than the endless critique of modern liberalism.&quot; </p>
<p>It only feels that way based on how you interact. If you take the time to respectfully challenge what you hear, you might get a more comprehensive response that makes more sense. </p>
<p>I&#039;m some times sarcastic, that&#039;s true. The thing is that I&#039;ve spent a lot of time discussing leftist views, hearing their very best and brightest explain these views to me. That is not to say I know everything, but there are plenty of arguments I can make a lot more effectively than those who try to sell them here. I have to choose when I can spend my time listening to something I&#039;ve already heard in greater detail, many times over. </p>
<p>When I hear something I&#039;m unfamiliar with, I&#039;m all ears. But hearing tired old arguments when I&#039;m 99% certain I know exactly where they are going&#8230;one has to pick his battles given the reality that time is limited. </p>
<p>So I&#039;m not critical of anyone that uses sarcasm per se, but using sarcasm when there&#039;s a chance you&#039;re wrong&#8230;it wastes everyone&#039;s time. </p>
<p>Those are judgment calls and suggestions. </p>
<p>You questioned what to do about some of these issues. A lot of these issues are addressed better by volunteers. The problem that leftists have with volunteerism is that it destroys their central planning. They can&#039;t ensure that everyone gets their fair share of help if volunteers get to decide what to do. Leftists hate the free market because of various reasons, but all of those reasons deny the realities of human life and what motivates us to do anything.  Humans are not fungible. That&#039;s what Marx screwed up worst of all. And the fallacies that flow from that critical error still pollute leftist ideals to this day. </p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 01:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;We have a few paragraphs to make our points. It is a shorthand that tends to emphasize our differences.&quot; 
 
That&#039;s a good point. That&#039;s why it&#039;s crucial to focus on saliency.  
 
&quot;It takes two to tango; I think I have made plain on many occasions my points of agreement with conservatives.&quot; 
 
Yes, but equally clear is when you are confused about topics you disagree on. 
 
&quot;I have drawn you out to almost admit there may be policies beneficial to public safety, but your default position, if I am to judge you by what you write here, is government = bad.&quot; 
 
That&#039;s tyranny through denial of complexity. I never said that. If you want a succinct summary, it&#039;s government for the sake of more government is always bad. I made it clear I am not an anarchist. Didn&#039;t that tell you something? Who enforces constitutional law? How can a conservative be anti-government? It makes no sense. It&#039;s clear you&#039;re not actually comprehending what we say but you&#039;ve been lead to believe some silly ideas from your own partisan echo chamber. 
 
Don&#039;t you even know what it means to be conservative or &quot;on the right?&quot; Those are the ones who generally want to preserve the status quo or slow down revolutionaries. That&#039;s not anti-government at all. That&#039;s anti-radicalism. 
 
Today, the Democratic Party is so full of radicals that it makes them seem mainstream. Being radical practically is mainstream but that doesn&#039;t make me anti-government. 
 
That&#039;s such a gross oversimplification that I wonder if you understand a single point I&#039;ve ever made. I think not. 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;We have a few paragraphs to make our points. It is a shorthand that tends to emphasize our differences.&quot; </p>
<p>That&#039;s a good point. That&#039;s why it&#039;s crucial to focus on saliency.  </p>
<p>&quot;It takes two to tango; I think I have made plain on many occasions my points of agreement with conservatives.&quot; </p>
<p>Yes, but equally clear is when you are confused about topics you disagree on. </p>
<p>&quot;I have drawn you out to almost admit there may be policies beneficial to public safety, but your default position, if I am to judge you by what you write here, is government = bad.&quot; </p>
<p>That&#039;s tyranny through denial of complexity. I never said that. If you want a succinct summary, it&#039;s government for the sake of more government is always bad. I made it clear I am not an anarchist. Didn&#039;t that tell you something? Who enforces constitutional law? How can a conservative be anti-government? It makes no sense. It&#039;s clear you&#039;re not actually comprehending what we say but you&#039;ve been lead to believe some silly ideas from your own partisan echo chamber. </p>
<p>Don&#039;t you even know what it means to be conservative or &quot;on the right?&quot; Those are the ones who generally want to preserve the status quo or slow down revolutionaries. That&#039;s not anti-government at all. That&#039;s anti-radicalism. </p>
<p>Today, the Democratic Party is so full of radicals that it makes them seem mainstream. Being radical practically is mainstream but that doesn&#039;t make me anti-government. </p>
<p>That&#039;s such a gross oversimplification that I wonder if you understand a single point I&#039;ve ever made. I think not. </p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 01:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Anarchists? These were fought by the industries affected. &quot; 
 
We are not anarchists. We don&#039;t mindlessly oppose everything supported by those on the left. 
 
&quot;The objections to removing lead from gasoline were full of lines about job loss and economic collapse. Yet those industries remain healthy, as does the populace--which was the point. Indoctrination? No--objective facts.&quot; 
 
You&#039;re simplifying to show your point that some times regulations are a positive thing. I already stipulated to that. It&#039;s therefore yet another straw man argument. Those in opposition had valid points to make but on balance we can say that it is acceptable to have laws against lead in gasoline. It doesn&#039;t mean that every leftist delusion must be acted upon. 
 
And the price of gas isn&#039;t exactly something people point to today that is a positive thing for the economy. Is it worth removing lead, probably, but it&#039;s not the slam dunk case you think it is just because of how it played out. 
 
And I repeat that I am not against ALL regulations. There must be objective standards for decisions. Notice that when laws fail the first reaction is to create new laws without repealing the failed laws that are cited as justifications. Why is that? 
 
Because the objectives are all about growing the government to create more centralized control. There are people who believe that we need elites to run the government. You might be able to trace it back to Nietzsche or Marx but it&#039;s definitely post-Darwin fallacies and philosophers that make people believe in the &quot;common sense&quot; of things that are entirely subjective. 
 
The logic you present is distorted by such thinking. It&#039;s a common disease today. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;Anarchists? These were fought by the industries affected. &quot; </p>
<p>We are not anarchists. We don&#039;t mindlessly oppose everything supported by those on the left. </p>
<p>&quot;The objections to removing lead from gasoline were full of lines about job loss and economic collapse. Yet those industries remain healthy, as does the populace&#8211;which was the point. Indoctrination? No&#8211;objective facts.&quot; </p>
<p>You&#039;re simplifying to show your point that some times regulations are a positive thing. I already stipulated to that. It&#039;s therefore yet another straw man argument. Those in opposition had valid points to make but on balance we can say that it is acceptable to have laws against lead in gasoline. It doesn&#039;t mean that every leftist delusion must be acted upon. </p>
<p>And the price of gas isn&#039;t exactly something people point to today that is a positive thing for the economy. Is it worth removing lead, probably, but it&#039;s not the slam dunk case you think it is just because of how it played out. </p>
<p>And I repeat that I am not against ALL regulations. There must be objective standards for decisions. Notice that when laws fail the first reaction is to create new laws without repealing the failed laws that are cited as justifications. Why is that? </p>
<p>Because the objectives are all about growing the government to create more centralized control. There are people who believe that we need elites to run the government. You might be able to trace it back to Nietzsche or Marx but it&#039;s definitely post-Darwin fallacies and philosophers that make people believe in the &quot;common sense&quot; of things that are entirely subjective. </p>
<p>The logic you present is distorted by such thinking. It&#039;s a common disease today. </p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 13:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amusing handle - you wouldn&#039;t know a fact if it bit you in the @ss ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amusing handle &#8211; you wouldn&#039;t know a fact if it bit you in the @ss </p>
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		<title>By: Vervie</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When?  The morning bell in most urban schools rings around 7:30. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When?  The morning bell in most urban schools rings around 7:30. </p>
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		<title>By: @quillerm</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the Democrats say my children are property of the State, when can I drop them off for Indoctrination, food, shelter, clothing, education, and their future Government Job? ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since the Democrats say my children are property of the State, when can I drop them off for Indoctrination, food, shelter, clothing, education, and their future Government Job? </p>
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		<title>By: JacksonPearson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;i&gt;&quot;Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out&quot;&lt;/i&gt;  
  
Obama goes on a State visit to Israel. While he is on a tour of Jerusalem, he has a fatal heart attack.   
  
The undertakers tells the US diplomats:   
&quot;You can have him shipped home for $1 million or you can bury him here in the Holy Land for $100.&quot; The US diplomats go into a huddle and come back to the undertaker and tell him they still want Obama flown home.   
  
The undertaker is puzzled and asks:   
&quot;Why would you spend $1 million to get him home when it would be wonderful to be buried here in this religious country and you would only spend $100?&quot;   
  
One diplomat replied: &quot;More than 2000 years ago a man died here, was buried here, and just 3 days later he rose from the dead. &quot;we simply can&#039;t take that Risk.&quot; ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>&quot;Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out&quot;</i>  </p>
<p>Obama goes on a State visit to Israel. While he is on a tour of Jerusalem, he has a fatal heart attack.   </p>
<p>The undertakers tells the US diplomats:<br />
&quot;You can have him shipped home for $1 million or you can bury him here in the Holy Land for $100.&quot; The US diplomats go into a huddle and come back to the undertaker and tell him they still want Obama flown home.   </p>
<p>The undertaker is puzzled and asks:<br />
&quot;Why would you spend $1 million to get him home when it would be wonderful to be buried here in this religious country and you would only spend $100?&quot;   </p>
<p>One diplomat replied: &quot;More than 2000 years ago a man died here, was buried here, and just 3 days later he rose from the dead. &quot;we simply can&#039;t take that Risk.&quot; </p>
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		<title>By: Jim_C</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Incidentally, I couldn&#039;t agree more about the tendency for government agencies to become self-perpetuating and self-justifying. They are not sacred cows to me. They may be to some but not to me.  
 
Remember I&#039;m the guy here saying &quot;Let&#039;s figure out the best way to make sure the kids of this country receive an education that makes them informed and productive citizens, even if it means abolishing the Dept. of Ed. and breaking teacher&#039;s unions.&quot; I think it&#039;s an issue conservatives could really get out in front of. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Incidentally, I couldn&#039;t agree more about the tendency for government agencies to become self-perpetuating and self-justifying. They are not sacred cows to me. They may be to some but not to me.  </p>
<p>Remember I&#039;m the guy here saying &quot;Let&#039;s figure out the best way to make sure the kids of this country receive an education that makes them informed and productive citizens, even if it means abolishing the Dept. of Ed. and breaking teacher&#039;s unions.&quot; I think it&#039;s an issue conservatives could really get out in front of. </p>
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		<title>By: Jim_C</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In that you have shown me there is a person behind the rhetoric and you have in parts discussed something concrete, it is helpful. Being someone who wants policy to reflect reality is not a characteristic unique to conservatives. The rhetorical tricks you attribute to liberals work just as well the other way around.  
  
Situational ethics are in play, and obvious to anyone who looks, when the objections raised against an opponent in power are not the same raised when their own party is in power. It is a game we could play all day--like charges of hypocrisy.  
  
You have gone to the trouble to respond to my posts in detail, and I should note that I appreciate that. I would say that if I had the idea that you &quot;might want the same things idealists want,&quot; it would be refreshing to understand just that, and to hear your solutions for achieving those results, rather than the endless critique of modern liberalism. That was the point of my original post (somewhere above or below) in the first place.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In that you have shown me there is a person behind the rhetoric and you have in parts discussed something concrete, it is helpful. Being someone who wants policy to reflect reality is not a characteristic unique to conservatives. The rhetorical tricks you attribute to liberals work just as well the other way around.  </p>
<p>Situational ethics are in play, and obvious to anyone who looks, when the objections raised against an opponent in power are not the same raised when their own party is in power. It is a game we could play all day&#8211;like charges of hypocrisy.  </p>
<p>You have gone to the trouble to respond to my posts in detail, and I should note that I appreciate that. I would say that if I had the idea that you &quot;might want the same things idealists want,&quot; it would be refreshing to understand just that, and to hear your solutions for achieving those results, rather than the endless critique of modern liberalism. That was the point of my original post (somewhere above or below) in the first place.  </p>
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		<title>By: Jim_C</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You lie about liberal motives. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You lie about liberal motives. </p>
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		<title>By: Jim_C</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim_C]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a few paragraphs to make our points. It is a shorthand that tends to emphasize our differences. It takes two to tango; I think I have made plain on many occasions my points of agreement with conservatives. I have drawn you out to almost admit there may be policies beneficial to public safety, but your default position, if I am to judge you by what you write here, is government = bad. And since you mentioned it, that&#039;s not too far from an anarchist&#039;s stance--but then neither is conservative rhetoric--whatever your actual views. You see, it works both ways. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have a few paragraphs to make our points. It is a shorthand that tends to emphasize our differences. It takes two to tango; I think I have made plain on many occasions my points of agreement with conservatives. I have drawn you out to almost admit there may be policies beneficial to public safety, but your default position, if I am to judge you by what you write here, is government = bad. And since you mentioned it, that&#039;s not too far from an anarchist&#039;s stance&#8211;but then neither is conservative rhetoric&#8211;whatever your actual views. You see, it works both ways. </p>
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		<title>By: Jim_C</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim_C]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anarchists? These were fought by the industries affected. The objections to removing lead from gasoline were full of lines about job loss and economic collapse. Yet those industries remain healthy, as does the populace--which was the point. Indoctrination? No--objective facts. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anarchists? These were fought by the industries affected. The objections to removing lead from gasoline were full of lines about job loss and economic collapse. Yet those industries remain healthy, as does the populace&#8211;which was the point. Indoctrination? No&#8211;objective facts. </p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Like what? I guess all I&#039;ve been asking for are some concrete examples, not just &quot;he&#039;s a Marxist because people on hate sites call him so.&quot;&quot;  
  
My earlier reply was deleted I guess.   
  
OK then. His implementation of national health care, his rhetoric about who needs to pay higher taxes, his &quot;stimulus spending,&quot; and &quot;you didn&#039;t build that&quot; along with his anti-colonial rhetoric that borders on outright lies and in fact when it comes to &quot;Muslim self-esteem&quot; I just realized he lies all the time about the history of &quot;Islam&quot; and &quot;Muslim contributions.&quot;  
  
He doesn&#039;t understand the dynamics of the national much less global economy but what he does understand could have been taught by Marx or followers of Marx. He&#039;s either re-tar-ded or maliciously ruining the economy...Quotas for bank loans to unqualified borrowers, gun control based on purely emotional arguments that are inspired by class warfare (he&#039;s not at all interested in taking guns away from gangs or organized criminals, people already violating the law, but that&#039;s OK to radical Marxists because it will held bring forth the revolutions)...all from the Soviet playbook as handed to people like Frank Marshall Davis aka &quot;Pops.&quot; ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;Like what? I guess all I&#039;ve been asking for are some concrete examples, not just &quot;he&#039;s a Marxist because people on hate sites call him so.&quot;&quot;  </p>
<p>My earlier reply was deleted I guess.   </p>
<p>OK then. His implementation of national health care, his rhetoric about who needs to pay higher taxes, his &quot;stimulus spending,&quot; and &quot;you didn&#039;t build that&quot; along with his anti-colonial rhetoric that borders on outright lies and in fact when it comes to &quot;Muslim self-esteem&quot; I just realized he lies all the time about the history of &quot;Islam&quot; and &quot;Muslim contributions.&quot;  </p>
<p>He doesn&#039;t understand the dynamics of the national much less global economy but what he does understand could have been taught by Marx or followers of Marx. He&#039;s either re-tar-ded or maliciously ruining the economy&#8230;Quotas for bank loans to unqualified borrowers, gun control based on purely emotional arguments that are inspired by class warfare (he&#039;s not at all interested in taking guns away from gangs or organized criminals, people already violating the law, but that&#039;s OK to radical Marxists because it will held bring forth the revolutions)&#8230;all from the Soviet playbook as handed to people like Frank Marshall Davis aka &quot;Pops.&quot; </p>
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		<title>By: reader</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 03:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim, you keep hanging on to mindless statist talking points. &quot;Deregulation&quot; is in and of itself an oxymoron. Bad debt is something actuaries can deal with without any regulations. It&#039;s pure math. It&#039;s the regulations - particularly the Housing and Community Development and Affordable Housing acts (all Orwellian terms, as usual) - that caused the housing bubble and bust. It&#039;s REGULATION, or government interference with markets that perpetuates rampant lobbying and crony capitalism. That&#039;s exactly why the Founding Fathers designed the system of Negative Rights curbing the reach of the government. That&#039;s how you protect small business moms and paps from the GEs of the world, not the other way around, Jim. Wake up and smell the coffee, if you really mean it.   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jim, you keep hanging on to mindless statist talking points. &quot;Deregulation&quot; is in and of itself an oxymoron. Bad debt is something actuaries can deal with without any regulations. It&#039;s pure math. It&#039;s the regulations &#8211; particularly the Housing and Community Development and Affordable Housing acts (all Orwellian terms, as usual) &#8211; that caused the housing bubble and bust. It&#039;s REGULATION, or government interference with markets that perpetuates rampant lobbying and crony capitalism. That&#039;s exactly why the Founding Fathers designed the system of Negative Rights curbing the reach of the government. That&#039;s how you protect small business moms and paps from the GEs of the world, not the other way around, Jim. Wake up and smell the coffee, if you really mean it.   </p>
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		<title>By: Jim_C</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim_C]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 02:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friedman also says that capitalism is necessary for freedom, but not sufficient for it, right? 
 
My concern, and one I wish more conservatives joined with, is that Washington&#039;s power seems to go hand in hand with large and powerful private interests. And it has turned our election process into a dog and pony show no less pathetic than any other country&#039;s. Mind you, I am not imputing &quot;evil&quot; to these interests--merely natural self-interest. And this power tends to make some people more equal than others in the marketplace. Whether we are talking about the housing market collapse, in which government &quot;good intentions&quot; led to exploitative private lending, or the bailout of Wall Street, where deregulation led to the creation of essentially phantasmic instruments that precipitated a meltdown which taxpayers bailed out, or even certain aspects of the defense and energy industries colluding to plan the Iraq War before Sept. 11 even happened. Basically you have government being used to push agendas that have been harmful to the everyday citizen. 
 
Friedman is a wonderful intellectual, but as the popularizer of free markets, he tended to look past the sins of bad actors in the private sector in order to indict government statist meddling. But the two go hand in hand. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Friedman also says that capitalism is necessary for freedom, but not sufficient for it, right? </p>
<p>My concern, and one I wish more conservatives joined with, is that Washington&#039;s power seems to go hand in hand with large and powerful private interests. And it has turned our election process into a dog and pony show no less pathetic than any other country&#039;s. Mind you, I am not imputing &quot;evil&quot; to these interests&#8211;merely natural self-interest. And this power tends to make some people more equal than others in the marketplace. Whether we are talking about the housing market collapse, in which government &quot;good intentions&quot; led to exploitative private lending, or the bailout of Wall Street, where deregulation led to the creation of essentially phantasmic instruments that precipitated a meltdown which taxpayers bailed out, or even certain aspects of the defense and energy industries colluding to plan the Iraq War before Sept. 11 even happened. Basically you have government being used to push agendas that have been harmful to the everyday citizen. </p>
<p>Friedman is a wonderful intellectual, but as the popularizer of free markets, he tended to look past the sins of bad actors in the private sector in order to indict government statist meddling. But the two go hand in hand. </p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 01:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Jim, you may have missed Friedman&#039;s video, where he says that, in order to prevent &quot;kids from being poisoned,&quot; all that the government needs to do is provide for the court system, thank you very much.&quot; 
 
They used to teach this in high school. Communists hate that because it works within the system successfully and perpetuates justice AND capitalism and they want revolution for the sake of Utopia.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;Jim, you may have missed Friedman&#039;s video, where he says that, in order to prevent &quot;kids from being poisoned,&quot; all that the government needs to do is provide for the court system, thank you very much.&quot; </p>
<p>They used to teach this in high school. Communists hate that because it works within the system successfully and perpetuates justice AND capitalism and they want revolution for the sake of Utopia.  </p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 01:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;I don&#039;t know that anyone thinks there aren&#039;t too many regulations already, but do you want to be the one whose kid dies from some poison product before we decide to make a regulation about it?&quot; 
 
 
That&#039;s why objective facts matter Jim. We want them to make their case objectively before sending out the tax bill and seizing more power. That&#039;s not how they operate. That is the point. 
 
 
They&#039;re liars and you still have to prove that I am a liar. Don&#039;t forget your baseless statement on that little matter. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;I don&#039;t know that anyone thinks there aren&#039;t too many regulations already, but do you want to be the one whose kid dies from some poison product before we decide to make a regulation about it?&quot; </p>
<p>That&#039;s why objective facts matter Jim. We want them to make their case objectively before sending out the tax bill and seizing more power. That&#039;s not how they operate. That is the point. </p>
<p>They&#039;re liars and you still have to prove that I am a liar. Don&#039;t forget your baseless statement on that little matter. </p>
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