THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE SUPREME COURT

Supreme Court Historical Society:

Professor Arkes discussed the Four Horsemen, four conservative justices on the Court during the 1930s who tried to block many of President Roosevelt's New Deal programs. He examined many of the Supreme Court cases from the Roosevelt era.

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Financial Panic Sweeps Europe As The Head Of The IMF Warns Of A “1930s Depression”

Are we on the verge of another Great Depression?

666: will you stay?

Go to the bathroom, get some water, and pay attention: This will scare the living daylights out of you: Stansberry Research

UPDATE: Why The SEC Sued Me – And Why You Should Care

Mr. Obama might want to stick to a moderate approach. FDR's war against business played to the crowd, but it hurt the economy. While monetary policies impeded recovery in the late 1930s, it was the administration's assault on companies and capital that ensured the Depression's duration.

FDR's war against business showed that a president must choose between retribution and recovery...

Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson brought the Progressive movement to Washington, sowing the seeds for the paramount political problem of our time: centralized administration

Progressivism came in on two great waves: the 1930s New Deal and the Great Society of the 1960s. President Obama often invokes Progressivism and plans to generate its third, and greatest, wave. American businesses large and small must be brought under centralized direction. Contracts, the very core of personal and social freedom, are scrapped or rewritten by the administration as decades old bankruptcy laws are cast aside in the reorganization of the auto makers. The compensation which employers pay to secure the services of executive employees is now reviewed and second-guessed by a presidential "pay czar." Marriage and family life, church and voluntary organizations are all being weakened mostly by nonrepresentative government agencies. First wave Progressives demanded the popular referendum. Third wave Progressives do everything possible to stop local and state referenda which citizens would use to end this assault on the pillars of free society.

Health Care reform is a prime example of Progressivism in action.

The delivery of health care services has grown costly, leaving many without coverage. But survey after survey shows that 75 or 80 percent of Americans or more are personally satisfied with the quality of their own health care.

The Democratic leaderships' brazen attempts to rush through a health care reform with little public debate and deliberation have disgraced the annals of government by consent. They frantically scribble thousand-page laws behind closed doors and demand midnight votes from members who are given no opportunity to read the legislation they are voting about. This farcical process flunks the Constitution's "due process of law" test.

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Paul Ryan represents Wisconsin's First Congressional District. He serves as ranking member of the House Budget Committee and senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee.

The Big Lie

NY Times Favorably Compares Obama Stimulus Spending to Nazi Stimulus Spending

By Gary Starr for The Neville Awards
April 4, 2009

It had to happen. The NY Times and the rest of the dying mainstream media have been the mouthpiece of the Democratic Party and in the tank for the Fraudinator-in-Chief for so long they will say anything to prop up their guy and hope you will buy it. Every excuse in the book has been used to cover up for this pathetic, cheap Chicago pol that occupies the White House.

Fifty-sixty percent of you, according to the Zogby and Rasmussen polls, are still buying The Big Lie.

So confident still is the mainstream media that you will believe anything they say about Obama, that they can get away with ignoring all of the negative goings-on about this presidential incompetent, that they can and will print anything.

The NY Times finally went over the cliff with its Obama propaganda...they compared Hitler and his stimulus spending in the 1930's to Obama and the Dems stimulus spending over the last 3 months.

Nazi spending included infrastructure, stadium and monument construction, and, most importantly, military spending. "He made the trains run on time" was the sarcastic popular refrain that excused the death camps. Apparently, the NY Times takes that remark seriously. What the Times conveniently left out was that Hitler had supreme power, a secret police force, and had designs on all of Europe. They don't tell you it all ended rather badly in 1945.

In addition, The Times doesn't say anything about Obama's planned ten percent across the board cut in military spending either. The usual liberal sin of omission...leave out the stuff that doesn't advance the agenda.

The NY Times got it partially right though. There are certain parallels between Obama, Mussolini, Hitler and facist progressivism, none of them good. And they are just now starting to become clear:

• The creepy cult of personality that surrounds Obama.
• Insane over-spending.
• Class warfare and the war on Wall Street, corporations and the "rich"...in the 1930's it was the Jews that were keeping you down.
• The nationalization of the car, banking and healthcare industries.
• Obama reaching into GM and firing CEO Rick Wagoner and packing the GM board with his own cronies.
• The cap and trade climate change hoax...a scheme to sieze wealth by raising energy prices...more sophisticated than the Nazis...they simply seized everyone's bank accounts, jewlery and expensive artwork.

Recall that in the 1920's and 30's progressivism was all the rage in the U.S. Woodrow Wilson was a huge proponent as was FDR. The NY Times shouted Mussolini's praises. Well, what's old is new again. The media has been in the tank for the Dems forever but this article achieves a new low.

Herewith, the ulimate coverup and big lie Obama article to date: Read more

EU to US: You are on "The Road to Hell"

“The US Treasury secretary talks about permanent action and we, at our spring council, were quite alarmed at that . . . The US is repeating mistakes from the 1930s, such as wide-ranging stimuluses, protectionist tendencies and appeals, the Buy American campaign, and so on,” he told a European parliament session in Strasbourg. “All these steps, their combination and their permanency, are the road to hell.”

...Other leaders of EU member states, including Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, disagree with US calls for big fiscal stimuli to battle the recession. But they have couched their opposition in more diplomatic language than Mr Topolanek’s.

The Czech leader was speaking eight days before Mr Obama was due to arrive in London for a G20 summit of the world’s developed and emerging economies.

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