David W. Obst's Journal

The paragraph below was in an article in The Washington Post titled 'Christie’s tea-party problem' .  Obviously the Left is having a Cow over this Demi-Leftist speaking the 'unspeakable'   >>Read full article here. Today’s GOP is not racist, as Harry Belafonte alleged about the tea party, but it is deeply troubled — about the expansion of government, about immigration, about secularism, about the mainstreaming of what used to be the avant-garde. People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children. (Should I mention that Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, used to be a lesbian?) This family represents the cultural changes that have enveloped parts — but not all — of America. To cultural conservatives, this doesn’t look like their country at all. Throw in taking away the Constitutional Rights of 'The States' (the People), he has p...

Was any Critical Thinking involved in their mindset?

Unless of course you are exempt from math.

Something like the fight our country is going through right now; or more likely, a fight over a women.

via  wolfhowling.blogspot.com Market distortion occurs when government imposes artificiality on markets through regulation. Such distortions always - always - always - cost the economy and individuals. I am not talking about laws of contract and fraud which set the parameters of the playing field for the operation of the free market, but rather regulations limiting free market decisions. Some are simply corrupt - i.e., the protection of vested interests. Others are more insidious and derive from the penultimate deceit of the left - that they are more intelligent than millions of individuals making their own decisions on how and what to purchase and sell.

Of course, they have to come out with what is but then they have to come out to modify the message of the cover with this: “When I heard that the troubled Obamacare Web site was built by a Canadian company, of course I felt personally responsible,” says the Montreal-born Barry Blitt, who drew next week’s cover, “Reboot.” “I’ll be happy when the glitches are all worked out and everything’s running smoothly, so I can put this all behind me,” he concludes .