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Thanks to American capitalism, ordinary workers and families are better off today than they were a decade or a generation ago. In the midst of scary economic times, that's a heartening fact to keep in mind. Even if certain Democrats would rather you didn't. – Steve Chapman

An American Thanksgiving Ceremony          By Theresa Camoriano

It has become very clear that we have failed to teach our children the lessons of America’s history.  Below is a ceremony to help us pass the lessons of our early history on to our children and grandchildren, and, I hope, to future generations as well.  This ceremony is intended to take place before the traditional family Thanksgiving feast but may be used in schools or other settings.  I hope you will make this a part of your family’s tradition and will spread the word and encourage others to adopt it too.  You have my permission to reproduce this script and to modify it to suit your needs.  I would appreciate your letting me know what changes you have made or otherwise sending me comments to improve the script for the future.  Please send your comments to Editor@JeffersonReview.com.       (click to read more)

Like Sarah Connor in "The Terminator," Sarah Palin is destined to give birth to a new movement. That's why the Democrats are trying to kill her. – Ann Coulter

Marxist tsunami won't douse liberty          by Henry Lamb

It is not just a victory for the Democrats; it is a Marxist tsunami. The principles that have guided President-elect Obama to this point are deeply rooted in Marxist philosophy. He is now in the position to infuse government with this philosophy through his appointments and legislative agenda. Democrats Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Frank and others with recognizable names are only the face of what's in store. Behind this face is a force teaming with the power to obliterate the U.S. Constitution and the machinery of self-governance it created.       (click to read more)

It [capitalism] is the system of economic interaction that rewards human creativity and enterprise -- that produces social organization without coercion or oppression. And what are the alternatives? The comfortable decline delivered by democratic socialism? Feudalism? Anarcho-syndicalism? – Michael Gerson

The ‘depressing’ truth about economic myths         By Jim Waters

A myth usually contains a kernel of truth. But that compares with putting a drop of poison in a glass of water – it may be mostly water, but drinking it will kill you.

The “kernel of truth” this week: Greed contributed to the recent financial crash. But to call it the primary cause equates to myth. And to use such claims as an excuse for the most intrusive level of government intervention this country has seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s is worse.        (click to read more)

Frustration, Poetry, and Promise          By Jeff “Mario” Smith

Frustration comes out of us in various ways. Some of us take it out on others. Some take it out on themselves. Still others find creative outlets in which to vent. Here is a little Patriot Poetry in response to the “obamanation” which occurred on November 4^th, 2008. The first was written back in 1995 by a Patriot who has seen for a very long time the slow gradual destruction of our Republic.        (click to read more)

Richard Viguerie: America Rejects Big Government Republicanism

(Manassas, Virginia) In the 2008 elections, "Voters did not reject conservatism," Richard A. Viguerie, the Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, said. "They rejected Big Government Republicanism in all its forms, including the Bush administration and the Republican leadership in Congress."

The McCain campaign, Viguerie said, "represented many things Americans do not like about politics. Senator McCain spent more than a quarter-century in Washington as a 'moderate' and 'insider,' and his campaign was run by longtime Washington insiders and lobbyists for Big Government."       (click to read more)

Viguerie: Democrats ran as moderates, forfeited any claim to a liberal mandate

Manassas, Virginia - By running as moderates, "Democrats forfeited any claim to a liberal mandate," Richard A. Viguerie said today.

"In the 2008 election, the American people voted to punish the Big Government Republicans who made a mess of things, from the conduct of the Iraq War to Katrina to the Wall Street bailout," Viguerie said. "But, at the same time people were voting to throw the Republicans out, they were giving the Democratic Congress some of the lowest approval ratings ever recorded. This was a vote against Big Government Republicanism, not a lurch to the Left.       (click to read more)

The transition to socialism, in the sense of an almost subconscious, sleep-walking sort of "maximax" strategy by the state, both to augment its potential discretionary power and actually to realize the greatest possible part of the potential thus created, is likely to be peaceful, dull, and unobtrusive. This is its low-risk high-reward approach. Far from being any noisy “battle of democracy … to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the state”; far from involving some heroic revolutionary break with continuity; far from calling for the violent putting down of the propertied minority, the transition to socialism would probably be the more certain the more it relied on the slow atrophy of initially independent, self-regulating subsystems of society. As their free functioning was constrained, the declining vitality of successive chunks of the “mixed economy” would eventually lead to a passive acceptance of a step-by-step extension of public ownership, if not to a clamour for it.

— Anthony de Jasay, The State [1985]

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