Of course it was.
It’s apparently politically unacceptable to point out that truth, but that’s largely because of decades of political indoctrination in state-run lower and higher education. We were taught in school that Roosevelt “saved capitalism,” which always struck me as a similar phrase to the Vietnam-era “we had to destroy the village to save it.” It started us down the wrong road, and we’re rapidly approaching a cliff if we can’t bushwhack our way back to the right path.
…and its enemies (to steal a phrase from Virginia Postrel). Why space settlement is important.
[Via Clark Lindsey and Trent Waddington, who made it]
…over at Open Market.
RIP? And here I thought it was doing so well.
…over at The Corner, to rebut his piece this morning.
Somehow, just walking out on him seems insufficient. He wants death and destruction.
Thoughts from Stanley Kurtz and Charles Krauthammer. The mask has come off for all to see, I think.
More revisionist history, over at National Review. I’ll have to see if I can do a rebuttal.
…and the one it spawned (of which I’m a member).
Why her “argument” isn’t as compelling as the state schtuppers want to imagine it is. Lots of good stuff in comments over there, too.