Angelo Codevilla on America's Ruling Class

This one is a throwback...

But I kept forgetting the name of the author and so I finally decided to publish this on my site (if I haven't done so already), so I wouldn't forget again.

I actually saw the author in person, when he was speaking on a foreign policy panel, at the 2013 CPAC conference at the Gaylord National Convention Center in National Harbor, Md.

Anyway...

This is an important essay.  It's always good to revisit from time to time.

Here's an excerpt:

Although after the election of 2008 most Republican office holders argued against the Troubled Asset Relief Program, against the subsequent bailouts of the auto industry, against the several "stimulus" bills and further summary expansions of government power to benefit clients of government at the expense of ordinary citizens, the American people had every reason to believe that many Republican politicians were doing so simply by the logic of partisan opposition. After all, Republicans had been happy enough to approve of similar things under Republican administrations. Differences between Bushes, Clintons, and Obamas are of degree, not kind.

Read the rest.

America’s Ruling Class — And The Perils Of Revolution

By Angelo Codevilla

Video: Fiorina Claims She's Not Part of the "Professional Political Class"

Editor's Note: I am no longer a libertarian anarchist. 

When I was, I used the Center For Stateless Society's material for my intellectual edification all of the time. This C4SS video on Carly Fiorina is very eye-opening, but it is not an endorsement of libertarian anarchism -- left or right.

The critique in the video can be maintained by any libertarian minarchist -- Christian or secular.

For one, the video shows that Hewlett-Packard was long-time beneficiary of government privileges.

HP is a part of the military-industrial complex.

Intellectual property "rights" gave HP its marketplace advantage.

If Fiorina can't point this out, how can she truly be called a "free-marketeer"?

When it comes to approving or disapproving legislation dealing with intellectual property rights, which create artificial scarcity, how will she vote? Will she veto? Will she uphold intellectual property "rights"?

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So even if she wasn't a lifelong politician, she still has benefited from the legislation of lifelong politicians.

If she doesn't understand that then there is at least one area of the economy which we can't expert her to advocate freedom.

Of course, I keep all of this in context with all of her competitors and what she proposes.

But based on her foreign policy views alone, as she voiced them on the September 16, 2015 CNN debate, I couldn't support her.

She is a war hawk. Pure and simple.

Don't believe me? 

Read her words from the debate here....

...and then read an analysis of them.

David Stockman,  Director of Office and Budget Management under Ronald Reagan, cites Fiorina's own words from the debate and then breaks down her talking points, and then gives the real history of foreign policy that Fiorina, in all likelihood, is clueless about. 

A Funny Study Exploring the Relationship Between Partisanship and Beauty

From a blog I just discovered today.

Senator Lee Questions Obama's Threat to Withhold Social Security Benefits

Why are senior citizens at the top of the list? Could this be a political ploy?

Video: 3 Reasons This Election Didn't Change A Thing

This video is absolutely essential for the Tea-Party movement and indeed all Americans to see and understand.

My Three Reasons for Believing This Election Won't Change Anything

1. No one is talking about the needless and titanic American war-machine in the Middle East.

2. The Republican Party still is the party of war and unnecessary defense spending.

3. Oh, and the economy is still in the toilet and the Republicans don't have a clue as to how to let the market correct it.

(Notice I didn't say the Republicans didn't know how to "fix" it - as if the Republicans were a bunch of Mr. Fix Its with tools in hand, smiles on faces, and a blueprint to lay down the groundwork for the economy. No. If I said that, that would make them central planners.)