The new Leviathan : the state versus the individual in the 21st century

334 Pages·2012·1.92 MB·English

by  Kimball

Table of Contents

Title Page
Foreword
Introduction

HOW BARACK OBAMA IS ENDANGERING OUR NATIONAL
SOVEREIGNTY
KEY ISSUES IN THE SOVEREIGNTY DEBATE DURING
THE OBAMA ERA
IMMINENT THREATS TO U.S. SOVEREIGNTY AND
CONTINUING EROSIONS
PROTECTING AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY IN THE AGE OF
OBAMA

GOVERNMENT UNIONS AND THE BANKRUPTING OF
AMERICA
THE TAKEOFF
THE GOVERNMENT-UNION ADVANTAGE
THE TAXPAYER’S BURDEN
REDUCING GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE
THE WAY OUT

WHY PROGRESSIVE INSTITUTIONS ARE UNSUSTAINABLE
CLASSICAL LIBERAL VS. MODERN PROGRESSIVE
THE DOWNWARD PROGRESSIVE CYCLE
THE STABILITY OF THE CLASSICAL LIBERAL MODEL
CONCLUSION

PRESIDENT OBAMA’S TAX PIRACY
TAX RATES AND INCENTIVES
MULTIPLE TAXATION OF CAPITAL
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S TAX WELFARE
JUST TAXING THE RICH?
KENNEDY AND REAGAN: WHAT WORKED
PEAK OBAMA
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S REVENUE GAP
TAX PIRACY
TAXES AND ECONOMIC FREEDOM

HOW THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION THREATENS TO
UNDERMINE OUR ELECTIONS
JUSTICE LETS THE NEW BLACK PANTHERS WALK
PLAYING WITH THE NUMBERS: THE 2010 CENSUS
NULLIFYING THE LAW
BULLYING A SMALL TOWN FOR PARTISAN PROFIT
BLOCKING VOTER ID BY ALL MEANS AVAILABLE
FOR THEY ARE JOLLY GOOD FELONS
CONCLUSION

HOW THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION THREATENS OUR
NATIONAL SECURITY
FROM WORD TO DEED?
THE MIDDLE EAST
IRAN
“GOOD” AND “BAD” WARS
RADICAL ISLAM
EUROPE
RUSSIA
LATIN AMERICA
AMERICA’S ENEMIES
CZARS AND THE SECRETARY OF STATE
THE BASHING OF GEORGE W. BUSH
CARTER OR CLINTON?
A 2012 POSTSCRIPT

HOW THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAS POLITICIZED
JUSTICE
FOREWORD
REAL POLITICIZATION OF JUSTICE
PAST IS PROLOGUE
WHICH SIDE ARE WE ON?
THE RECKONING

OBAMA HEALTH LAW: WHAT IT SAYS AND HOW TO
OVERTURN IT
THE OBAMA HEALTH LAW: DANGEROUS TO YOUR
HEALTH AND FREEDOM
TREATING SENIORS LIKE CLUNKERS
RIPPING UP YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
DEFICIT REDUCTION IS A SHELL GAME
U.S. HEALTH CARE STILL TOPS
THE DANGEROUS IDEAS OF THE PRESIDENT’S
MEDICAL ADVISER IN CHIEF
MEDICARE’S PROPOSED RATIONER IN CHIEF DONALD
BERWICK
SECOND OPINIONS FROM AMERICA’S LEADING
PHYSICIANS
A 20-PAGE BILL IN PLAIN ENGLISH TO REDUCE
PREMIUMS AND HELP LAID-Off AMERICANS

HOW BARACK OBAMA IS BANKRUPTING THE U.S.
ECONOMY
CASH FOR POLICY CLUNKERS
GOVERNMENT MOTORS
A DEBTFARE STATE
THE SOAK-THE-RICH FALLACY
BARACK OBAMA, MEET CHRISTINA ROMER
MIDDLE-CLASS TAX BOMB
THE ROAD FROM SERFDOM

HOW OBAMA HAS MISHANDLED THE WAR ON TERROR
FOREWORD

THE HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE
I. THE PROBLEM IN A NUTSHELL
II. HOW WE GOT HERE
III. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE BUBBLE BURSTS?
IV. WHAT TO DO
V. POLITICS
CONCLUSION

HOW THE EPA’S GREEN TYRANNY IS STIFLING AMERICA
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN AMERICA: A BRIEF
HISTORY
A RADICAL SHIFT AT THE EPA
AN UNPARALLELED RECORD OF EXTREMISM
ECONOMICALLY DISASTROUS REVISIONS OF THE
OZONE STANDARD
PLAYING HARDBALL OVER GREENHOUSE GASES
THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG

THE DEPENDENCY AGENDA
LBJ AND THE GREAT CONUNDRUM
THE NEW DEAL AND THE POLITICS OF CONTROL
A PROGRAM FOR THE POOR IS A POOR PROGRAM
21ST-CENTURY LEVIATHAN

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
INDEX
Copyright Page
FOREWORD
THIS BOOK is a double-barreled blast – using blast in two
senses. One meaning of that word is a forceful, indeed
explosive, discharge. The second meaning, a colloquialism, is a
party tending to happy raucousness. What you hold in your
hand is a compendium of constructive explosions from men and
women intelligently exasperated by current tendencies in
American politics and culture – but also exuberantly combative
against those tendencies.
Early in the Obama administration, the clearheaded people at
Encounter Books had a splendid idea. They would invite
accomplished writers with expertise in particular fields to
distill their discontents into 5,000 or so words. These
distillations would be called Broadsides. The results, as you will
see, are both efficient and exhilarating.
In the Oxford English Dictionary, one definition of the word
broadside is “a strongly worded critical attack: broadsides
against political correctness.” Each of the chapters in this
volume is such a broadside. Another definition, however, is “a
nearly simultaneous firing of all the guns from one side of a
warship.” The book itself is a broadside in this sense. In these
pages, the right side – in two senses – of the ship of American
politics is heard from, resoundingly.
Blaise Pascal once wrote to a correspondent, “I have made
this [letter] longer than usual, only because I have not had the
time to make it shorter.” A columnist who must compact his
thoughts on any subject into 750 words knows exactly what
Pascal meant: Brevity is a challenge. But not an insuperable
one, as every chapter in this book demonstrates. Each of these
essays is a bright, gemlike bead. All of these beads are
threaded on the sturdy string of a shared understanding of the
importance – and danger – of this moment in American history.
The temperature of American politics just now is unusually
high – unusually but not excessively. The temperature of