When the housing bubble burst, home prices dropped in most of
America, but not in Washington. America’s capital feeds off federal
spending, and politicians won’t allow that bubble to burst. One
result, writes John Stossel, is that, today, for the first time,
most of America’s richest counties are in the Washington area.
About 43 percent of “the 1 percent”—the top earners leftists say
they hate—now live in 14 counties that surround the District of
Columbia. And it’s not because Washingtonians are smarter or more
productive than the rest of us. View this article.
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John Stossel on Imperial Washington
Scott Shackford Interviews Gloria Romero of Democrats for Education Reform
More and more, the perception that school choice
advocates are anti-government conservatives or religious
fundamentalists is proving to be wrong. Particularly in urban
environments, more and more progressives and leftists are
discovering that lack of competition and lack of accountability is
harming the education of children, especially among minorities and
the poor. Reason 24/7 Associate Editor Scott Shackford recently
interviewed former California State Sen. Gloria Romero about her
involvement in Democrats for Education Reform and her battle from
(and with) the left to push for better education choices. View this article.
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Covered at Reason 24/7: Pope Francis I May Be Caught Up in Argentine Junta’s Crimes
As it turns out, the new pope,
Francis I, has a bit of baggage from his days as plain ol’ Cardinal
Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina. It seems that he hit his career
stride during the days when a rather unpleasant military junta
ruled the country (as opposed to Argentina’s other unpleasant
governments), and may have worked a bit more closely with that
regime than somebody aspiring to humanitarian status probably
should.
From
Reuters:
Bergoglio’s career success coincided with the bloody 1976-1983
military dictatorship, during which up to 30,000 suspected leftists
were kidnapped and killed — which prompted sharp questions about
his role.
The most well-known episode relates to the abduction of two
Jesuits whom the military government secretly jailed for their work
in poor neighborhoods.
According to “The Silence,” a book written by journalist Horacio
Verbitsky, Bergoglio withdrew his order’s protection of the two men
after they refused to quit visiting the slums, which ultimately
paved the way for their capture.
Verbitsky’s book is based on statements by Orlando Yorio, one of
the kidnapped Jesuits, before he died of natural causes in 2000.
Both of the abducted clergymen suffered five months of
imprisonment.
“History condemns him. It shows him to be opposed to all
innovation in the Church and above all, during the dictatorship, it
shows he was very cozy with the military,” Fortunato Mallimacci,
the former dean of social sciences at the Universidad de Buenos
Aires, once said.
His actions during this period strained his relations with many
brother Jesuits around the world, who tend to be more politically
liberal.
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What Kind of Person Would Show Support To Accused Cop Killer Christopher Doner!
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Steven Greenhut on How Big Government Undermines Freedom and Prosperity
During the early days of the labor
movement, the hard leftists never made much headway because of
that deep-seated idea that, no matter how humble one’s
beginnings, an American can make it big some day. But something has
changed, writes Steven Greenhut, even as our society has become
wealthier. Somewhere we’ve shifted from honoring success
to envying it, from viewing government as a limited tool to
achieve a few necessary things (infrastructure, enforcing the
rule of law) to seeing it as the be-all and end-all of our
society.View this article. … Read More
18 Facts That Prove Piers Morgan Is Flat Out Lying About Gun Control
(Michael Snyder) Piers Morgan is getting on television every night and flat out lying to the American people about gun control. Nearly every statistic that he quotes is inaccurate and he fails to acknowledge a whole host of statistics that would instantly invalidate the arguments that he is trying to make. Yes, the UK has [...]
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Thaddeus Russell on the Last Leftist
There was once a radical left in the United
States. Back then, it was common to hear on college campuses and in
respectable left-wing publications that liberals and the Democratic
Party were the enemies of freedom, justice, and the people. There
was widespread left-wing rejection of the liberal claim that
government was good, and many leftists spoke of and stood for a
thing they called liberty.There was no better exemplar of that thoroughgoing, anti-statist
left than Howard Zinn, the author of A People’s History of the
United States, writes Thaddeus Russell.View this article. … Read More
