We keep hearing that the confiscation of bank deposits in Cypress to bail out the banks couldn’t happen here. Funny thing is, something similar happened here 80 years ago. On April 5, 1933, the progressives’ most beloved former president, Franklin…
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How Can Any Fiscal Cliff Deal Be Balanced Without Spending Cuts?
by Lonely Conservative • • 10 Comments
President Obama has been out campaigning for his tax hikes on the rich. If you took a drink every time he has said “balance” since he’s been talking about this you’d be in the hospital with alcohol poisoning. He never…
Scary Parallels Between 2013 and 1937
by Lonely Conservative • • 9 Comments
Economic historian Amity Shlaes sees some scary parallels between 2013 and 1937. In 1937Franklin D. Roosevelt had just been reelected to another term and Americans soon after experienced the “depression within the Depression.” Will 2013 be 1937? This is the…
New Report Shows FDR Covered Up Soviet Atrocities
by Lonely Conservative • • 3 Comments
This news isn’t surprising to anyone who follows history – not the history written by FDR and his progressive predecessors, but real history. FDR, Hitler and Stalin were all fellow travelers before WWII. It wasn’t until the war that Hitler…
Obama Channels FDR – Will it Work?
by Lonely Conservative • • 2 Comments
President Obama can’ run on his record, so he’s channeling Franklin Delano Roosevelt and bashing the rich and speculators. Daniel Henninger noted some of the similarities between Obama’s recent speeches, and those delivered by FDR in 1936. Henninger believes that…
Obama Goes all Alinsky on SCOTUS: Channels FDR’s Outrage over Court’s Power
by Lonely Conservative • • 9 Comments
The following is a guest post by Joseph Hall. *** Obama Goes all Alinsky on SCOTUS: Channels FDR’s Outrage over Court’s Power Obama has once again displayed his utter contempt for the US Constitution and his penchant for using veiled…
Re-Post: Newt Sure is a Big Fan of FDR
by Lonely Conservative • • 4 Comments
Newt might do well in the debates, but that doesn’t mean he’s a consistent conservative. Here’s a little montage of Newt Gingrich praising Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who he called “the greatest modern day president” over, and over, and over again.…
Boy, Newt Gingrich Sure is a Big Fan of FDR
by Lonely Conservative • • 3 Comments
Here’s a little montage of Newt Gingrich praising Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who he called “the greatest modern day president” over, and over, and over again. I know, there are plenty of Republicans who really like Newt. They like the fire…
The War On Christians Continues
by Lonely Conservative • • 1 Comment
While President Obama was hugging an Islamic supremacist, news was breaking here in the US about the war on Christians by our own government. There are two stories that deserve your attention. From Fox News: Obama Administration Opposes FDR Prayer…
Federal Stimulus Spending the Brainchild of a Soviet Spy
by Lonely Conservative • • 4 Comments
Here’s an interesting little tidbit of history for you. Did you know the first person to ever introduce the concept of federal stimulus spending in the United States was a Soviet spy working in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration? Thanks to…
The Myth of the Nazis and the ‘Right Wing’
by Lonely Conservative • • 10 Comments
I’ve been meaning to get to this all weekend, ever since I noticed the link at Instapundit the other night. Whenever someone shatters the myth that Hitler and the Nazis had anything in common with American conservatives it’s worth taking…
FDR a Fiscal Conservative?
by Lonely Conservative • • 3 Comments
Here’s video of President Obama explaining that “Contrary to myth, FDR was pretty fiscally conservative.” He then went on to talk about the New Deal. I’m not joking.
Herbert Hoover Was A Big Spender Just Like Barack Obama, and Tax Cuts Did Not Cause the Fiscal Crisis!
by Lonely Conservative • • 1 Comment
Dan Mitchell responded to a blog post by Andrew Sullivan in which Sullivan implies that conservatives are pining for the good old days of Herbert Hoover. I don’t recall hearing any conservatives or Republicans say anything about returning to the…
Don’t Rely on Progressive History Books for Economics Lessons, Or Country Songs, for That Matter
by Lonely Conservative • • 1 Comment
Please don’t rely on the history books written by progressives for an education in economics. Those books were written by folks wearing Soviet style rose tinted glasses. Even one of my favorite country songs sadly gives credit where credit isn’t…