Gary Jones nails it

I was raised by academic liberals and counted myself a member of that tribe until the weeks after 9/11 and the answers to my questions simply did. not. compute. Gary Jones over at Muck and Mystery opens a post on the tactics of those trying to perpetuate the veneer of "science" over the discredited theory of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming with this wonderful observation:

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One of the disappointments of my life has been the degeneration of leftist thinking. The basic principle of relieving injustice imposed by force on the majority by a powerful minority - aristocracies, robber barons, etc. - became an equal and opposite larceny, and so lost all moral justification. In truth, after historical investigation, it became clear that the left always had larceny in its heart - greedy and envious rather than just. It was only the rhetoric that was initially, partially, about justice. But it is also true that the left got worse over time.

Indeed. If we had a Democrat like John Fitzgerald Kennedy running for President, he would get my vote in a heartbeat considering that it is likely that the Republicans are going to have to bite their tongue and vote for the Obama-lite -- Willard "Mittens" Romney.

Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country

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... And for me, I am very much opposed to crony capitalism. Capitalism has been hijacked much like Liberalism and Environmentalism. Obama rails against large corporations yet General Electric moves entire divisions overseas (Medical Imaging to China) and pays no income tax while their CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, is Obama's BFF in the White House. The engine of growth has been and will always be the middle class entrepreneur -- these are the people who hire 10-20-50 people and make a business that grows, flourishes, pays its taxes and builds a local economic base (State not Federal). We used to have anti-trust legislation with teeth -- look at the 1974 forced breakup of the Bell Telephone network. The crony capitalists got lobbyists and went back to business as usual with us, the taxpayer, paying for everything. We need to get back to State's Rights, the Tenth Amendment and a significantly smaller Federal government.