In response to:
1: Greatly expanded government spending for every conceivable means of getting rid of ever larger sums of American money as wastefully as possible.
2: Higher and then much higher taxes.
3: An increasingly unbalanced budget, despite the higher taxes.
4: Wild inflation of our currency.
5: Government controls of prices, wages and materials, supposedly to combat inflation.
6: Greatly increased socialistic controls over every operation of our economy, and every activity of our lives. This is to be accompanied naturally and automatically by a correspondingly huge increase in the size of our bureaucracy and in both the cost and reach of our domestic government.
7: Far more centralization of power in Washington and the...
One significant development in the recent election was votes in four states approving same sex marriage initiatives. Until now, all previous state referenda to approve same sex marriage – 32 of them - failed.
The Wall Street Journal editorial page – a place where conservatives usually turn for intellectual capital – saw this as cause for celebration.
According to the Journal, marriage definition should come from voters, not from court orders. Americans, they argue, have “shown themselves more than capable of changing their views on gay marriage the democratic way.”
In other words, our definition of marriage should follow process, not...
8: The steady advance of federal aid to gain control over our school system leading to complete federalization of our public education.
9: A constant hammering into the American consciousness of the horror of modern warfare.
10: Consequent willingness of the American people to allow the steps of appeasement by the government.