Say Anything Blog

Obama will only come clean about his liberalism when he thinks he is in safe territory, as he did at the San Francisco fundraiser where he trashed small-town Americans, thinking his words wouldn’t reach those he was belittling.

Nor is Obama upfront about the liberal nature of his policy proposals, choosing instead to mask their liberalism and even disguise them as conservative.

Any analysis of Obama’s experience as a Chicago community orrganizer trained in Alinsky’s radical socialist methodologies, should include the warning that “Change," a slogan frst introduced by Saul Alinsky, was nothing more than a code word for the typical income redistribution those on the left have sought since the days of Karl Marx.

Here, in Obama’s proposal for increasing the capital gains tax, we find proof of the point.

On September 18, 2007, Obama laid out his tax fairness plan for the middle class. He proposed changing the long-term capital gains tax rate from 15 percent to 28 percent, nearly doubling it. (more...)

“She’s exciting…don’t underestimate her..she’s got significant intuitive skills…”

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The Rule of Law is the foundation for constitutional government and a flourishing civil society.

The American justice system suffers from a prevailing judicial philosophy that treats judging as politics by another name; a dangerous trend to “over-criminalize”—that is, to criminalize conduct that is socially and economically beneficial or is better regulated by the civil justice system or administrative means; and a civil litigation system run amok by frivolous lawsuits and outrageous damage rewards.

To address these three major issues, we seek to reform the “imperial judiciary,” which usurps power that belongs to the political branches of government and wrongly interferes with Heritage’s vision for America.

To do this, we must restore the courts to their constitutional role, which is to protect individual liberty, property rights, and free enterprise, and to enforce the constitutional limits on government.

We also seek to reverse the dangerous trend to criminalize almost everything. To do this, we must remind legislators of the proper lines between federal and state control, and we must restore the traditional protections afforded the accused by the criminal justice system.

Finally we seek to reform America’s civil justice system by restoring it to its traditional role, which is to fairly enforce contracts and property rights, justly mediate disputes involving claims of injury or damage, and follow the rules involving private disputes established by the legislature.

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