Memorial Day

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words is this worth?

From Afghanistan, happy Memorial Day.

Rolling Back the Socialist Tide

The root of the matter is this: we have been ruled by men who live by illusions: the illusion that you can spend money you haven't earned without eventually going bankrupt or falling into the hands of your creditors; the illusion that real jobs can be conjured into existence by Government decree, like rabbits out of a hat; the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth than hard work and satisfying your customers; the illusion that you can have freedom and enterprise without believing in free enterprise; the illusion that you can have an effective foreign policy without a strong defense force, and a peaceful and orderly society without absolute respect for the law. -- Margaret Thatcher

From a stunning good, though very long, article ("Rolling Back the Socialist Tide") documenting Britain's near fatal attempt at full socialism from 1945 to 1979. Obama is following almost the exact same recipe, using the same ingredients, that Britain attempted. Nor surprisingly, Obama seems to feel that the power of his charisma can suceed, despite attempting all of the same policies that pushed Britain into 3rd world status financially and required a bailout loan from the IMF.

I'm generally too busy out here to put much effort into following political developments back home, let alone write about them. Fortunately, for you, there are people that write much better than I do. From The Machine Crumbles, by borepatch:

I don't think that the problem is the Democrats, and I don't think the solution is the Republicans. The problem is that there's a permanent political class that has increasing contempt for the voters, and who is aided and abetted by their lackeys in the traditional media. If the Republicans are not as bad as the Democrats in this, it's not for lack of trying.

No quote can truly sum up a full article, it can only provide incentive for you to read the whole. At the end you can also find a nice little bonus graphic:

I'm not sure I can agree that every single one of the congresscritters in DC needs to go, but the more I thought about it, the harder it was to name a single one of the bums that was truly worth keeping, that the republic would survive without.