American Dream, Marxist Nightmare

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  October 24th at 12:15 PM  | 

The Tea Parties and Occupy movements demonstrate two competing world views. In one, America is a shining city on a hill, a market-powered engine built on great ideas, the first of which enshrines for us the freedom to do with our lives what we will and to do as we wish with the property we accumulate as a result of doing it. In another view, | Read More »

Sacrifice Unshared

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  July 21st at 02:19 PM  | 

Early in his term, President Obama stressed shared sacrifice as a means to correct the various problems with which he said we were beset. He has shied away lately from that terminology. Why is that? Perhaps it is because having called for it incorrectly, and then been stung with his own blatant hypocrisy, he now also incorrectly reckons it politically damaging to call for sacrifice | Read More »