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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (20971)	2/8/2012 12:28:29 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

Did you see what Ginsburg said about our constitution ? and fascism and socialism go hand in hand, look at Mao, Stalin, pol pot, even hitler yes historians will look back and say well at least one of them got it and avoided all the brainwashing going on during that time

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (20971)	2/8/2012 12:53:45 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 69300

CRB: Enough already by Scott Johnson (Scott Johnson) Modern American liberalism is anchored in a deep hostility to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. As R.J. Pestritto has demonstrated, the intellectual roots of modern liberalism lie in an assault on the ideas of natural rights and limited government. They eventuate in an administrative state and rule by supposed experts. Obamacare represents something like the full flowering of modern liberalism. William Voegeli’s Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State will be published in paperback with a new preface later this month. Along with Paul Rahe’s Soft Despotism, it is a key to understanding the Age of Obama. I wrote about the book in “An old argument revisited.” Upon Never Enough‘s original publication in 2010, George Will drew attention to it in his excellent column “The danger of a government with unlimited power.” Michael Lind attacked Will and came to the defense of liberalism. Voegeli struck back in “Why liberalism is dangerous.” Voegeli had reignited an argument that ultimately requires us to recover a basic understanding of limited constitutional government. In the new issue of the Claremont Review of Books (subscribe here) that we are previewing this week, what I believe must be Voegeli’s new preface to the paperback edition appears as the essay “Enough already.” In this essay Voegeli meditates (among other things) on the incredible timing of the book’s original publication. It is a valuable addition to a crucially important book. Thanks to the editors of the CRB for letting us give our readers a look at it. Please check it out.

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (20971)	2/8/2012 12:56:34 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 69300

On MSNBC’s Jansing and Co. author Eric Metaxas compared the Obama's administration's encroachment on religious freedoms to Nazi Germany. “I met the president. I gave him a copy of my book on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, which he said he’s going to read,” Metaxas said during the interview. “In that book, you read about what happened to an amazingly great country called Germany…” “In the beginning, it always starts really, really small. We need to understand as Americans — if we do not see this as a bright line in the sand — if you’re not a Catholic, if you use contraception — doesn’t matter. Because eventually, this kind of government overreach will affect you.” Author: Obama’s Contraception Mandate Like Pre-Holocaust Germany