Thomas Sowell: Seductive Beliefs

Thomas Sowell

Townhall  "False theories are not just an intellectual problem to be discussed around a seminar table in some ivy-covered building. When millions of people believe those theories, including people in high places, with the fate of nations in their hands, that is a serious and potentially disastrous fact of life.

"Despite a carefully choreographed image of affability and cool, Barack Obama's decisions and appointments as President betray an alienation from the values and the people of this country that are too disturbing to be answered by showing his birth certificate.

"Too many of his appointees exhibit a similar alienation, including Attorney General Eric Holder, under whom the Dept. of Justice could more accurately be described as the Dept. of Payback."

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and author of The Housing Boom and Bust.

Obama’s Commerce nominee comes with green past

Daily Caller  "President Obama’s nominee for Commerce secretary, John Bryson, is good news for the environmental community and his nomination could foreshadow a renewed White House push for cap and trade.

"Bryson has a long history in the environmental community. He was one of the original co-founders of the Natural Resources Defense Council."...

Obama introduces Bryson (video)  "Notice the first-person references, including one Mr. Obama almost left out at the last, but corrected himself in time."

The Palin Bus tour

Chasing Sarah: The Boys Behind the Bus

"Palin is rubbing the media mob’s sense of entitlement right back in its face." Michelle Malkin

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Exploring the Hollywood Propaganda Machine

This is a follow-up piece to the article the TW ran yesterday: Primetime Propaganda’: Help Us Expose Hollywood’s Conservative Blacklist  (Below)

Exploring the Hollywood Propaganda Machine..."We think it has no impact on us.
"But it does. Television made Barack Obama. Television it supported bigger and bigger government, from Welfare to health care; pushed abortion-on-demand and the radical gay agenda into the mainstream; it stumped against war and for meaningless buzzwords like diversity and dangerous buzzwords like multiculturalism. Television has done more to change the politics of our nation than simple politics has.

"Television has manipulated us. And those who create television have done it purposefully, and elegantly. They have weeded out conservatives in the industry wholesale. They have worked hand-in-glove with liberals in government to forward the leftist agenda. They have turned pure entertainment into a vehicle for propaganda."  Emphasis added.

"The number one tool in the left’s arsenal is the television industry. Let’s take that weapon out of their hands."

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From Newsbusters:  New Book 'Primetime Propaganda' Documents How Left Controls Hollywood
"...not only will they readily admit that Hollywood has a strict anti-conservative agenda, but further, that many of their TV shows have underlying political messages meant to influence the way their audiences think."

Pajamas Media: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Subtext  "This is where conservatives go wrong. Conservatives want to think politically instead of thinking entertainment wise. Liberals always understood that the key here is to make something really entertaining that happens to also be incredibly liberal — whereas conservatives, they take precisely the opposite approach."

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A Politically Incorrect Look at President Obama’s Approach to Border Security

Big Government "Around the world, Western nations that wish to remain culturally in tact or, in some cases, simply to survive, are currently bolstering their borders and revamping their immigration policies."

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"So it should come as no surprise that far from pursuing more border control, in the spirit of Italy and France, Obama is pitching a new amnesty plan to the House and Senate just in time for the 2012 elections. No wonder Israel is held up as an example: a nation whose policies are light years ahead of us when it comes to preserving a border in such a way as to be certain it remains what it ought to be in the first place: a divider between “us” and “them, between “ours” and “theirs.”

"Note to Obama: a nation without borders isn’t a nation at all – it’s just a bigger sidewalk."Emphasis added, with relish.

From Heritage: The Debt Is Not a Game, Mr. President

The Foundry  "Well, President Obama asked for it. And last night he got it in grand fashion—a “clean vote” on raising the nation’s debt limit, free of any of the desperately needed spending cuts that Americans are demanding, conservatives support, but liberals abhor. And by a 318–97 margin, the House of Representatives shot down the President’s effort to authorize $2.4 trillion in additional borrowing by the federal government without condition.
"The vote was introduced by the House Republican majority to send a message to the President in advance of their meeting today at the White House: There cannot be more borrowing and spending without significant spending cuts and reforms."   More on this topic here.  And here.