Tory Redux

Author: Jon Siemko

  • Thomas Sowell On Big Government vs. Free Markets

    From the overreaching grasp of the government to the invisible hand. What approach  does the most good for the most people? In this article by Thomas Sowell,he puts forward the argument that government did more harm than good by intervening too much during the great oppression. The popular perception that big government solved the Great Depression, is one of the more infamous acts of group thought perpetrated on the American people.

    A Mind-Changing Page
    The idea that the stock-market crash caused the Great Depression is difficult to reconcile with the data.


    While the market produced a peak unemployment rate of 9 percent — briefly — after the stock-market crash of 1929, unemployment shot up after massive federal interventions in the economy. It rose above 20 percent in 1932 and stayed above 20 percent for 23 consecutive months, beginning in the Hoover administration and continuing during the Roosevelt administration.


    What was the difference between these two stock-market crashes? The 1929 stock-market crash was followed by the most catastrophic depression in American history, with as many as one-fourth of all American workers being unemployed. The 1987 stock-market crash was followed by two decades of economic growth with low unemployment.


    But that was only one difference. The other big difference was that the Reagan administration did not intervene in the economy after the 1987 stock-market crash — despite many outcries in the media that the government should “do something.”

  • War Against The Political Machine

    There is a growing mood in the United States for elected officials to go to Washington  to fix government not to be government. This article makes the case that the time is right for anti-incumbency candidates to challenge the status quo of the liberal elitists who believe that Government is just another form of entitlement.

     ABC News Survey, only 29% of Americans said that they were inclined to support their House representative in November. That’s  even lower percentage than in October 1994 (34%), on the eve of the Republican takeover of Congress when voters swept the Democrats out of power in that chamber after 40 years in the majority. Even more striking were the findings of a recent Gallup poll, where by a margin of nearly two-to-one (60%-32%) voters said they would rather vote for a candidate for Congress with no experience whatsoever than for a candidate who has been in Congress.
    This anti-incumbent, anti-Washington mood is pushing voters to support Republicans and widening the enthusiasm gap between the two parties. The disproportionately high turnout of Republican primary voters in New Jersey, California and Iowa—three states with significantly more registered Democrats than Republicans—demonstrates that at the very least Republican voters are more energized and are mobilizing to a greater degree than their Democratic counterparts



  • NDP Plays Reckless Games With Canada’s National Security

    The last 24 hours has shown why most Canadians don’t consider the NDP a  viable mainstream option. First with the anti-Israel comments dropping like a nuclear bomb out of deputy leader Libby Davies mouth. Saying no less than Israel is basically an occupying power and has no right to exist. This morning the public finds out that the NDP has backed out of a deal to responsibly release the Afghan detainee documents. Instead the NDP rather put partisan politics before the people who serve this nation. If the NDP were a serious party they would see that most Canadians want to know the truth but they also want responsible due process when dealing with national security secrets. the NDP are a coalition of Toronto socialists and hard left zealots thrown in with the occasional “truthers”.  The NDP have a real danger of narrowing their base to the point of political irrelevance.