reason.com - 11/25/2008
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Something about Barack Obama has a way of driving some conservatives completely batty. John McCain detected something "a lot like socialism" in his tax plan. Veteran conservative media critic L. Brent Bozell has no doubt the new president will "deliver socialism." But the prize goes to Rep. ...
online.wsj.com - 11/19/2008
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"Socialism" is Not the Problem
The New Editor —
Steve Chapman, in Reason magazine:
Accusing Obama of socialism is unwise for three reasons: 1) It's not true, and 2) it makes the accuser sound like an idiot, and 3) it distracts from Obama's true inclinations, which are worrisome enough.
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[Obama's] biggest shortcoming is a common one in his party: the assumption that every problem can be solved by government intervention, and that if a little intervention is good, more is better.
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Obama exhibits blithe confidence in the government's power to take economic problems and ...
Barack Obama and Constitutional Property Rights:
The Volokh Conspiracy —
Columnist Steve Chapman quotes an interesting passage from Barack Obama's book The Audacity of Hope, where Obama praises constitutional property rights : Our Constitution places the ownership of private property at the very heart of our system of liberty.... The result of this business culture has been a prosperity that's unmatched in human history.... Our greatest asset has been our system of social organization, a system that for generations has encouraged constant innovation, individual initiative and the efficient allocation of resources. I. Judicial Protection for Property Rights and Obama's Legal Philsophy. This is a ...
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aren't being allowed to fail in America today, and the bigger
they are, the more help they get from the government. So it's not
much of a surprise that the fine points of yet ...
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