Having come of age in the era of busing in Boston (yet another dumb idea hatched by liberals), this article by Washington Times reporter Justin A. Rice is particularly salient. Liberals make promises they can’t keep.  They cited the objective of “integration” to justify the busing program. Today (2009), Boston schools are overwhelmingly non-white. Bear this in mind when they extol the virtues of single payer/gubimint run/public option/delay trigger health systems. Here’s an excerpt:

Boston schools still let parents pick schools, but only within three enormous and controversial geographical zones. Buses carting only one student often crisscross the city – contributing to next year’s nearly $80 million transportation budget at a time when the district faces a projected $100 million budget shortfall.

“Buses carting only ONE student….” Stupid, stupid, stupid AND expensive AND wasteful. And it only comes with a 27% dropout rate.

John Steele Gordon does an excellent job of reaching into the heart of the liberal to ascertain why he/she thinks,does and says the things he/she does:

We all use paradigms to make sense of what we see around us and couldn’t get along without them. Unfortunately, the basic liberal paradigm hasn’t shifted in a hundred years, while the world we live in has changed utterly since the late 19th century, when modern liberalism was born.

Charles Kesler’s interview with Peter Robinson does an excellent job of explaining the waves of modern liberalis, the implication of each wave, and the inherent dangers posed by liberalism.

Claremont College scholar and author Charles R. Kesler presents a comprehensive exegesis of liberalism, and why it is inconsistent with our nation’s Constitution, it’s Bill of Rights, and the sovereignty of the individual. I have listened to it numerous times and learn something new everytime. He ends his presentation with an assessment of Barack Obama’s place in this project. The presentation reinforces the march away from America as Constitutional Republic (Coolidge and Taft), toward a quasi-Parliamentary democracy (see minutes 5- 7:30 reinforce this). The political obsession with national health insurance is explained nicely as well. Liberalism’s ultimate cost is the emasculation of the individual, which contravenes the idea that man is endowed by his Creator with certain inalienable rights. I am really interested in your comments on this video. Much food for thought!!!!