Tag: "Roger Kimball"

You Ever Notice that Fans of Socialism Always Want to Be Giving the Orders?

| January 1, 2009 | Comments (0)

Roger Kimball on the return of central planning and the spurious claims about our economy: The next time someone bemoans the evil of “laissez-faire capitalism” to you, utter the number 69,428. That’s the number of pages in the 2006 edition of the Federal Register, the official government compendium of rules and regulations, the handy-dandy list [...]

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Tazergate Investigator Concludes that Palin Might Have Abused Her Powers, Except She Used Them Legally and Properly

| October 11, 2008 | Comments (3)

The MSM is abuzz this morning with the apparent story that Governor Palin sorely, nay grievously, abused her power when she fired Commissioner of Public Safety Walt Monegan. This is the story that the guy who headed up the investigation promised would be an “October Surprise” for his preferred candidate Barack Obama. The national media [...]

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“Punitive Liberalism”

| August 19, 2008 | Comments (0)

Here’s an interesting article by Roger Kimball on a core tenet of progressive thought – “fairness”. I don’t have a lot to add here since he’s covered the ground pretty well. Take a read and tell me what you think.

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