Friday, 3rd September 2010

Progressives and their Orwellian Newspeak

Posted on 28. Oct, 2009 by James Devere in Political Commentary

Progressives and their Orwellian Newspeak

Reminiscent of the authoritarian regime in George Orwell’s 1984, the Obama Administration introduced some “newspeak” terms into our political debate earlier this year.  The “war on terror” became an “overseas contingency action” and “acts of terrorism” became “man caused disasters.” Seemingly innocuous changes in statements appeared to do no harm at the time.  Now, however, [...]

Dick Morris on the G20

Posted on 05. Oct, 2009 by James Devere in Political News

Dick Morris on the G20

The video below from Dick Morris discusses some of the concessions that were made at the G20 last week.  This process started in the spring, when the banking crisis was at its height, with talks about limiting executive compensation, and has continued to more concrete resolutions.  The Administration seems completely content to hand over a [...]