Joe Biden Huh?

All I can say is wow!  The democratic party has picked a vice presidential candidate that essentially erases the few good points about Obama.  I'm glad to see that the major political parties are still able to put a ticket together that is completely and totally horrible for every person living in America, and the rest of the world for that matter.  Why not just have Obama and McCain be co presidents, when one doesn't want to do a terrible thing for the American people the other one can act as president and vice-versa.  What a world.

To learn from the Catholic Kings of Spain

It seems to me that there is much to be learned from the ideas of the 15th and 16th century kings of Spain in they what they saw was their job in ruling.  Although many people seem to think that this was an era of repression and something that we as enlightened democrats of the English tradition fought against; mostly I think this is English anti-Spain anti-Catholic propaganda we should re-examine these ideas.

The mode of rule that I was talking about, is that the duty of the kind is to emulate Christ in his rule, in the sense that he must sacrifice everything, even his life for the good of his people.  This seems to me to be

At least they used to be honest

It's nice to see that at least during the Wilson administration they were honest about being socialist. I think that our great war with the Soviet Union has so corrupted the language; in that no party in United States will admit to being any sort of collectivist, that we have forever lost the language to argue about political positions as they really are. We seem to exist in an age of new speak, and as Orwell made so clear, the corruption of language is a method to corrupt thought and empower those who wish to rule us.

clipped from www.lewrockwell.com Bernard Baruch, chairman of Wilson's War Industries Board (and the son of a German who fled that country to avoid conscription) unflinchingly espoused the concept of state ownership of its subjects in an August 7, 1918 newspaper editorial: "Every man's life is at the call of the nation and so must be every man's property. We are living today in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is his only as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and possessions at the call of the state."