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http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/09/20/the_ponzi_sound_bite/print

Many in the media and in politics have gone ballistic over the fact that Texas Governor Rick Perry called Social Security “a Ponzi scheme.”

Although many act shocked, shocked, as if Rick Perry had said something unthinkable, Governor Perry is not even among the first thousand people to call Social Security a Ponzi scheme. Not only conservatives, but even some liberals, have been calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme for decades.

Moreover, neither the media nor the politicians who are carrying on over the use of the words “Ponzi scheme” show the slightest interest in any hard facts that would tell us whether Social Security is or is not a Ponzi scheme. It is a “gotcha” moment, and that is apparently what some people live for.

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ The Pyramid of Positive Rights The fundamental difference between a free society and a nanny state, is that in a free society, negative rights are maximized between the individual and the government, and the individual and other individuals. In a nanny state, positive rights are maximized between the individual and the government, and both […]

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1912/The-Doors-of-Perception-Are-Closed.aspx My title today conjures up all the wrong imagery because “the doors of perception,” which comes to us from William Blake, was taken by Aldous Huxley as the title of his book of reflections on mescaline, which was taken by Jim Morrison as the name of his band. My concern with “the doors” is […]

The Legal Case Against Palestinian Statehood http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904106704576578423114178378.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop First among the U.N.’s purposes is maintaining international peace and security. Efforts to force recognition of a Palestinian state undercut this goal. Later this week Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to seek recognition of a Palestinian state from the United Nations. The move is opposed by […]

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/148080 Rick Perry Plays the ‘Israel Card’ in New York Likud Rally GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry is joining a New York rally with a leader of the Likud party’s strongly nationalist flank Tuesday. GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry is joining a New York rally with a leader of the Likud party’s strongly nationalist flank […]

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/148085 Israel and US to Lose in UN Showdown, Warns King Abdullah Jordan’s King Abdullah warns that Israel is isolating itself and American influence is waning in the wake of the current UN showdown. Jordan’s King Abdullah II warned on Tuesday that that Israel is isolating itself and American influence is waning in the wake […]

Poll Date Perry Romney Palin Paul Bachmann Gingrich Cain Santorum Huntsman Spread RCP Average 8/28 – 9/15 29.2 19.0 12.3 9.0 7.5 5.8 4.8 2.3 1.3 Perry +10.2 CBS News/NY Times 9/10 – 9/15 23 16 — 5 7 7 5 1 1 Perry +7

Ten Years of Lessons Unlearned Posted By Bruce Thornton URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/19/ten-years-of-lessons-unlearned/   Ten years after 9/11 many politicians and pundits continue to misinterpret Islamic jihadism. Typical is the following comment from Senator Joseph Lieberman’s essay in Foreign Affairs, in which he speaks of “an ideological struggle within Islam, waged between an extremist minority […]

FBI Under Fire For Teaching the TruthPosted By Robert Spencer URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/19/fbi-under-fire-for-teaching-the-truth/   The FBI came under fire again Wednesday from hard-Left journalist Spencer Ackerman in Wired, who has been conducting a campaign for some time to get the bureau to purge its terrorism training seminars of any hint of the truth about […]

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/19/palestinians-bring-their-intifada-to-the-united-nations/ Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas threw down the gauntlet in his September 16 address to the Palestinian people, televised from his Ramallah headquarters. He said he will take the Palestinians’ request for full United Nations member state recognition to the U.N. Security Council on the basis of the 1967 territorial lines, even though he […]