RUTHFULLY YOURS

Adam Andrzejewski is the Chairman of American Transparency, founder of OpenTheBooks.com and the author of the Federal Transfer Report – Export – Import Bank.

How is bankrolling of dictators, subsidizing authoritarian regimes,propping up green energy and destabilizing entire industries good for growth?

By the end of June Congress will have to resolve whether the Export – Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im) should be re-authorized. If Congress does nothing the authorization will expire but a vote could save the bank. The fate of the bank is important test that will show whether Congress is on the side of taxpayers, and basic market principles, or special interests that are capable of bending markets in their direction.

Presidential candidate Hilary Clinton is advocating re-authorization while most Republican presidential candidates are opposed. The Ex-Im Bank claims that it “fills the lending gaps for small businesses in international trade” and therefore “grows American jobs.” But critics hammer Ex-Im for cronyism, waste and outright corruption.

Today’s Left lies, and does so on an industrial scale. Is diversity really our strength? Is race just a social construct? Sadly, at least for those who appreciate the truth, the Right is often just as guilty. Perhaps ideologues just cannot help it.
I seldom get overwrought about rampant falsehoods but the stench of dishonesty can be so over-powering that silence is not an option, and this urge is all the more compelling when the odor emanates from “our side.”
Consider the frequent conservative allegation linking liberalism and Democratic governance to the rioting in places like Ferguson, MO., or Baltimore, MD. According to these pundits, the root of these calamities are public schools run by teachers’ unions, an over-regulated, over-taxed marketplace, excessive bureaucratically directed work-ethic killing social welfare spending, and a moral relativism that undermines strong families among sundry other Great Society-style pathologies.

Today I will focus on the newest of the announced Democratic candidates for the Presidency, Maryland’s former governor, Martin O’Malley who announced his candidacy for the Presidency on Saturday, May 30th and began his speech by taking on big banks and the de facto oligarchs of the United States – those whose wealth is so off the charts that they wield incredible political power.

Because immigration was an integral component of his speech, I will divide my analysis of his position into two parts. Because Mr. O’Malley began by focusing on the American Dream and economics – indeed his podium was festooned with a poster that in addition to his name bore the phrase “Rebuild the American Dream,” we will begin by considering the national security implications of Mr. O’Malley’s stance on immigration.

In denying the average college student the opportunity to hear, think, question and learn, these minority organizations violated the basic principles of a liberal arts education and what higher learning should presumably be about: challenging assumptions and talking openly about issues that might cause discomfort.

Both micro-sensitivity and political correctness require at best, obfuscating information, and at worst, silencing it.

On college campuses, teachers, students and sometimes even administrators seem to have become ever more eager to block any idea with which they disagree.