Today's Politicos vs The Words and Deeds of The Founders

This Friday's puzzle is taken from the US military code of conduct.

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Not having the constitutional chops of the rest of the writers on WWTFT, I’ve been reticent to contribute, despite Martin’s blandishments. So I limit my offerings to that which I know well and what can one know better than to …

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When I was an economics major in college, I was taught that Franklin Roosevelt saved capitalism using Keynesian principles. The unchallenged assertion was that the sole reason the Great Depression lasted a decade was because New Dealers were too timid in spending borrowed money. In many economists minds, skyrocket spending to win World War II proved conclusively that huge deficits were the cure for slow growth. To a large extent, this is a rewriting of history. It didn’t happen this way.

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Berlin 1961 tells the back-story of the Bay of Pigs, the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The author did a masterful job of weaving together recently declassified documents in the U.S., Germany and Russia and first person narratives for a previously untold account of these seminal events. Readers who remember these occurrences will be appalled at how the American public was deluded by government secrecy and a media smitten with a handsome, eloquent, but dangerously incompetent president.

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Spongy conduits is a term conjured up by a Congressional Budget Office staffer to describe the government subsidy benefits retained by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That he came up with this term in a CBO report in 1996 is even more remarkable, given what we now know following the collapse of the housing market in 2008. The CBO report at that time concluded “Congress may want to revisit the special relationship that exists between the government and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.” That is bureaucrat speak for “Holy S*#t!”

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Please enjoy this week's roundup!

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There is nothing better that the Left likes to do than to smear the Right. Conservatives are labelled: bigots, racists, haters, homophobes, violent gun-toting fools who cling to their religion. The list is endless. Here are some recent stories of things happening in Tampa in preparation for the RNC. You be the judge as to which side is more civilized.

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True The Vote and Verify the Vote Arizona began the process of verifying the validity of all petitions circulated in the effort to get the Arizona Open Elections/Open Government Act on the ballot this November. Early research reports offer shocking, flagrant violations of election law.

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This is the fifth of seven federalist essays by Hamilton on the issue of taxation. His arguments in this article pertain to how the power of taxation should be apportioned between the States and the federal government, why the convention chose to make this a shared power, and why the needs of the federal government dictate that it should, by rights, receive the lion's share of revenue sources.

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More evidence that the MSM is in the tank.

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