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Does the "Swedish economic model" even work in Sweden?

An interview with Swedish author Johan Norberg explores the reality behind the Left's fantasies about Nordic socialism. Read the whole thing, but notice below the historical context that preceded the Swedish welfare state and the effect it had on the Swedish work ethic. To borrow Ronald Reagan's phrase, the safety...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 18, 2018 2:32 PM

Happy Obamaween: Spread the candy around

Comedian Steven Crowder is at the church trunk-or-treat, and he's only trying to be fair. The kids don't think its fair. "I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." -- candidate Barack Obama to Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbach, 2008....

Posted by Michael Bates on October 31, 2012 5:07 PM

Useful idiots and congressional socialists

The BBC World Service has aired a two-part series, Useful Idiots, about Western intellectuals and journalists who were and are apologists for evil regimes. (The title is a phrase of Lenin's.) Part one focuses on the Soviet Union, Stalin, and his defenders, like George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 14, 2010 2:03 AM

Links elsewhere 2010/06/22

Man of the West looks at the Leftist track record and wonders why America's leftists "champion the same policies that have brought whole nations to their knees and criticize their opponents for their alleged insensitivity to the poor--the poor that leftist policies indisputably create in massive numbers!" He also offers...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 22, 2010 8:59 PM

Health care takeover: "You have turned this place into the DMV"

A humorous illustration of the one-size-slow-go-rationed health care plan being proposed by Barack Obama and the Democrats: (Via Chris Medlock.)...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 23, 2009 5:56 PM

Obama's radical pals (and other presidential links)

A selection of links and excerpts: CBS News gives Obama-TV a reality check: Without question, the Barack Obama infomercial served as a very slick and powerful recitation of the biggest promises he's made as a presidential candidate. But the very bigness of his ideas is the problem: he seems blind...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 30, 2008 11:57 PM

Mark the Student proposes redistribution of grades

Former State Rep. Mark Liotta, currently studying for a graduate degree, is inspired by the redistributive agenda of The One, and he takes it one step beyond: As is usually the case, I think of a good argument after class as I am driving home. In tonight's discussion of the...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 29, 2008 6:39 PM

Obama on WBEZ Odyssey

Chicago public radio station WBEZ has posted MP3s of then State Sen. Barack Obama's appearance on four editions of their public affairs program Odyssey. This includes several controversial remarks by Obama, frequently heard over the past few days, about flaws in the U. S. Constitution and how to bring about...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 29, 2008 12:05 PM

2001: An Obama Odyssey to the redistribution of wealth

Obama's answer to Joe Wurzelbacher was no fluke. He's been talking about "spread[ing] the wealth around" for a long time. On January 18, 2001, then Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama participated in a panel discussion on civil rights and constitutional law on Odyssey, a public affairs program on Chicago public...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 26, 2008 11:46 PM