Don’t miss today’s columns in our PTBC columnist section by Sheila Wray Gregoire and Susan Martinuk.
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Aside from those and all our other columnists, MUST READS today include the brilliant Charles Krauthammer (again), who helps reveal President Obama as the Not George W. Bush on international affairs, and possibly even the Not American. We rarely see the cerebral Krauthammer so openly aggravated:
Hope and Change – But Not for Iran
…Moreover, this incipient revolution is no longer about the election. Obama totally misses the point. The election allowed the political space and provided the spark for the eruption of anti-regime fervor that has been simmering for years and awaiting its moment. But people aren’t dying in the street because they want a recount of hanging chads in suburban Isfahan. They want to bring down the tyrannical, misogynist, corrupt theocracy that has imposed itself with the very baton-wielding goons that today attack the demonstrators…
And this one by the also brilliant Jonah Goldberg, author of the New York Times best seller, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change. Mr. Goldberg helpfully reminds us that there is a big difference between “business” (and “business people”), and “capitalism”. (For other examples of this, look at the companies who advertise on the socialism-reliant CBC).
WARNING: spoiler alert: this is the final paragraph of the column:
…While doctrinaire socialists might feel betrayed by liberalism’s cozy embrace of big business, their betrayal pales in comparison to the bitterness of free-marketers who defend big business’s freedom to operate, only to see these businesses use that freedom to hide behind the skirts of the nanny state. Real freedom means the freedom to fail as well as succeed. Big business wants to be protected from the former and deny competitors the latter. And their betrayal, more than anything, disheartens those who would defend both freedoms.
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