Hayek on Utopia

This is a good synopsis by F. A. Hayek on Utopia, Socialism and Communism.

And add this from Allen West.

This from Rick Santelli. It is the New Math.

And this from Mark Steyn, Now you should be all relaxed, ready for bed.

Poor Redux

With all the talk of fairness and social justice I think it is smart to at least consider this post on Poverty in America.

Where Are We?

Oh, thus be it ever, when free men shall stand

Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!

Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n rescued land

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!

Then conquer me must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto: "In God is Our Trust!"

I was thinking of these words this morning along with E Pluribus Unum, Liberty, and In God We Trust. I wonder how many others consider these three thoughts important or if the Great American Experiment is important enough to not let it die off into a world of darkness and despair?

This Is What Happens With A One Year Old

Today my daughter and her family dropped by for dinner. As Grandparents we do our best to spoil the kids. This is our granddaughter Addie and she wants to have the same thing everybody else is having. Here is the result of putting a Fat Boy Ice Cream Sandwich in her hand.

Disparity by Sowell

I have tended to enjoy the writings of the incomparable Thomas Sowell. This post explains in few words what nobody wants to talk about but is an inviolable fact of life.

Are the Candidates Really Crummy?

Selwyn Duke in his post at The American Thinker posits that the field is really way above average. Read it here.

My 2011 Reading List

I often am asked what I have been reading lately. I offer here a list of most of the books I was able to read this past year. If anything looks palatable, well, enjoy.

Righteous Indignation by Andrew Breitbart ♥♥♥♥

Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind Americanʼs Obesity♥♥♥♥

The Greatest Game Ever Pitched by Jim Kaplan ♥♥♥

Charlie Wilsonʼs War by George Crile ♥♥♥

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis ♥♥1/2

Epidemic by J. Eric Oliver ♥♥♥♥

56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number In Sports by Kostya Kennedy ♥♥♥

NeverEnough by WilliamVoegel ♥♥

The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. ♥♥♥

Affirmative Action Around the World by Thomas Sowell ♥♥♥

Are the Rich Necessary by Hunter Lewis ♥♥♥

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism by Kevin Williamson ♥♥♥

The Global Warming Deception by Grant R. Jeffery ♥♥

Manning Up: How the Rise of Women has Turned Men into Boys by Kay S. Hymowitz ♥♥♥♥

The Sex Industrial Complex by John Harmer and James Smith ♥♥♥

Why We Get Fat And What to Do About It by Gary Taubes ♥♥♥♥

Where Keynes Went Wrong by Hunter Lewis ♥♥1/2

MacArthurʼs Undercover War by William B. Breuer♥♥♥

Menace in Europe by Claire Berlinski ♥♥♥

Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan by Del Quentin Wilber ♥♥♥♥

Charlie Finley by G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius ♥♥1/2

Please Enroll Responsibly by Lee Doren ♥♥♥

Sgt. Rock: Last Warrior Standing by Rocky Olson ♥♥♥

After America by Mark Steyn ♥♥♥♥

The Secret Knowledge by David Mamet ♥♥♥♥

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell ♥♥♥1/2

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows by J. K. Rowling ♥♥♥

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer ♥♥1/2

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science by Tom Bethell ♥♥♥

Saved by Her Enemy by Don Teague and Rafraf Barrak ♥♥1/2

Your Teacher Said What?! by Joe Kernen and Blake Kernen ♥♥♥

Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell ♥♥♥♥

Left Turn by Tim Groseclose ♥♥♥♥

Demonic by Ann Coulter ♥♥1/2

Of Thee I Zing by Laura Ingraham ♥♥1/2

Perelandra by C.S. Lewis ♥♥

Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis ♥♥

The Politically Incorrect Guide to The Sixties by Jonathan Leaf ♥♥♥

The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge by Calvin Coolidge ♥♥♥♥

Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans ♥♥

Stealing You Blind: How Government Fat Cats Are Getting Rich Off Of You by Ian Murray ♥♥♥

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell ♥♥♥

In My Time by Dick Cheney ♥♥1/2

Scorpions For Breakfast by Jan Brewer ♥♥

The Delinquent Teenager by Donna Laframboise ♥♥♥

Throw Them All Out by Peter Schweizer ♥♥♥♥

Lost In Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood by Christian Smith, et al ♥♥♥

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Middle East by Martin Sieff ♥♥♥1/2

The Affair by Lee Child ♥♥♥♥

American History in Black & White by David Barton ♥♥♥♥

A Steynian Buffet

This guy is smarter than Al Gore and I think what he says should be considered.

Here you can feast on the highlights of Mark Steyn, 2011 edition.