THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Conservative & Free Market Analysis of Government. Politics & Public Policy, Covering Political, Legal, Constitutional, Economic,
Cultural, Military, International, Strategic, & Geopolitical Issues
PUBLIC ISSUES & POLITICAL CONTROVERSIES
SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS:
THE MODERN WELFARE STATE
PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S 2008 PROMISE TO REFORM & TRANSFORM AMERICAN SOCIETY, ESPECIALLY ITS ECONOMIC SYSTEM: OBAMA'S
ILL-DEFINED MESSAGE OF CHANGE -- WHAT THE CHANGE INVOLVED: A CHANGE TO THE LEFT, A CHANGE FROM FREE MARKET CAPITALISM TO STATISM
OR SOCIALISM -- THE AMERICAN VOTERS' REJECTION OF THE RADICAL CHANGES PROPOSED BY OBAMA -- FAILURE OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO
ADDRESS THE FINANCIAL CRISIS IN TIME-TESTED & PROVEN WAYS -- THE WAR THAT OBAMA HAS WAGED AGAINST EXTRACTION & USE OF THE ENERGY
ESSENTIAL TO THE OPERATION OF A MODERN SOCIETY SUCH AS THE U.S.A.: ENERGY FROM OIL, COAL, NATURAL GAS, & NUCLEAR FISSIONABLE
MATERIALS
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Volume XIV, Issue # 117, June 6, 2012
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
OBAMA FORCED A CHANGE NOT WANTED
By Alan Caruba
PRESIDENT OBAMA, OBAMACARE, & DARWINIAN "SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST": PEACEFUL COMPETITION IN FREE MARKETS AS THE ALTERNATIVE TO
DARWINISM -- DARWIN'S "SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST" CANNOT CRUSH THE WEAKEST WHEN PEACEFUL PRODUCTIVITY & FREEDOM CHOICE BECOME THE
DOMINANT FORCES IN HUMAN SOCIETY.
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Volume XIV, Issue # 72, April 9, 2012
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
DARWIN VERSUS FREE MARKETS
By Dennis T. Avery
BLACK AMERICAN FAMILIES, THE SOCIAL WELFARE SYSTEM, & RISING UP FROM POVERTY: THE ADVERSE IMPACT
OF U.S. SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY ON THE STRONG BLACK FAMILIES THAT EXISTED AT THE END OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
-- THE LURE OF FREE MONEY & THE DEGRADATION THAT ACCOMPANIED IT -- HOW MUCH SOONER WOULD A HERMAN
CAIN HAVE COME ONTO AMERICA'S BIGGEST STAGE, THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST, IF THE BLACK FAMILIES HAD NOT BEEN
SHATTERED BY THE WELFARE CHECKS? HOW MANY PROMISING BLACK KIDS WOULD HAVE EMERGED HOW MANY YEARS
SOONER, IF THEY HAD BEEN STRIVING TO RISE? HOW MUCH MORE APPROVING SUPPORT WOULD THE BLACK COMMUNITY
HAVE OFFERED TO THE KIDS WHO WERE SUCCEEDING IN AMERICAN SOCIETY?
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Volume XIII, Issue # 253, October 25, 2011
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
IT TOOK TOO LONG TO GET A HERMAN CAIN
By Dennis T. Avery
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S CLUELESS APPROACH TO DEALING WITH AMERICA'S CURRENT ECONOMIC PROBLEMS:
USING THE FOOD STAMP PROGRAM AS AN "ECONOMIC STIMULUS" TO END THE RECESSION & PROMOTE ECONOMIC
RECOVERY -- LIBERAL PERCEPTIONS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOVERNMENT SPENDING ON FOOD STAMPS & THE
LEVEL OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY -- THE ACTUAL CONSEQUENCES OF KEEPING PEOPLE ON THE UNEMPLOYMENT & WELFARE
ROLLS -- THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF FUNDING FOR THE FOOD STAMP PROGRAM
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Volume XIII, Issue # 207, August 21, 2011
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
FOOD STAMPS TO SAVE THE ECONOMY
By Dennis T. Avery
THE ELITISM, DISINGENUOUSNESS, & HYPOCRISY OF THE POLITICAL LEFT IN THE U.S.A.: LIBERAL DEMOCRATS STILL
INDIFFERENT TO THE INTEGRITY OF THE NATION & THE CONCERNS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE -- THE VERY SLIM
DEMOCRATIC PARTY MAJORITY IN THE U.S. SENATE DETERMINED TO KEEP OBAMACARE IN EFFECT AS FEDERAL LAW &
NATIONAL PUBLIC POLICY, DESPITE MAINSTREAM AMERICA'S FERVENT OPPOSITION TO SOCIALIZED MEDICINE --
SANCTIMONIOUS LIBERAL DEMOCRATS EXPLOITING ISSUES & CIRCUMSTANCES TO ENHANCE THEIR OWN POLITICAL
FORTUNES
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Volume XIII, Issue # 5, January 5, 2011
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
LIBERAL POSTURING REVEALS FLAGRANT HYPOCRISY
By Christopher G. Adamo
THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM & THE AMERICAN ECONOMY: THE FED AS A CENTRAL BANK CREATED BY
CONGRESS TO CONTROL THE MONEY SYSTEM BY REGULATING INTEREST RATES & LENDING MONEY TO THE COMMERCIAL
BANKS -- THE CENTRAL BANK'S POOR RECORD IN REGULATING THE NATION'S SUPPLY OF MONEY & AVAILABLE CREDIT IN
ORDER TO MAINTAIN A STABLE CURRENCY & CORRECT ANY SLIDE INTO AN ECONOMIC RECESSION OR DEPRESSION -- THE
GREAT DEPRESSION OF THE 1930S & THE POOR PERFORMANCE OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE -- CURRENT ECONOMIC
CONDITIONS & THE FED'S EFFORTS AT "QUANTITATIVE EASING" -- THE ERODING VALUE OF THE U.S. DOLLAR
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Volume XII, Issue # 249, November 13, 2010
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
THE FEDERAL RESERVE'S MAGIC MONEY
By Alan Caruba
WHY JOHN MCCAIN & OTHER SOCALLED "MODERATE REPUBLICANS" ARE PRETENDING TO HAVE DOUBTS ABOUT
OBAMACARE: PUBLIC OUTRAGE AT HOW THOROUGHLY AMERICA'S FOUNDING PRINCIPLES & CHARACTER HAVE
BEEN COMPROMISED -- THE AMERICAN CITIZENRY AROUSED BY THE LOOMING PROSPECT OF A THOROUGHLY STATIST &
SOCIALIST U.S.A. -- GRASSROOTS AMERICA ROUSED, ANGRY, & MOTIVATED AS IT HAS RARELY BEEN THROUGHOUT U.S.
HISTORY, PROMISING A DECISIVE VOTER BACKLASH AGAINST THE POLITICAL LEFT IN THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS OF 2010 &
2012 -- LIBERAL REPUBLICANS, AS WELL AS LIBERAL DEMOCRATS, POSTURING & MANEUVERING TO REMOVE THEMSELVES
AS VOTER BACKLASH TARGETS
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Volume XII, Issue # 53, March 24, 2010
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
ARE MCCAIN REPUBLICANS FINALLY "SEEING THE LIGHT"?
By Christopher G. Adamo
IN PUSHING THE HEALTHCARE BILL, PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS SOUGHT TO IMPOSE STATISM & SOCIALISM ON THE
AMERICAN NATION, REDISTRIBUTE WEALTH, UNDERMINE CONSTITUTIONALISM, & DEPRIVE THE FIFTY STATES OF THEIR
AUTONOMY UNDER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. IN DOING SO, OBAMA HAS UNITED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AGAINST
HIM & HIS ADMINISTRATION.
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Volume XII, Issue # 48, March 17, 2010
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
OBAMACARE: DEAD MAN WALKING
By Alan Caruba
THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY & THE HEAVY HAND OF SOCIALIST GOALS: OBAMA'S DRIVE TOWARD CENTRAL CONTROL
& DIRECTION OF THE ECONOMY BY AN ALL-POWERFUL LEFTWING GOVERNING ELITE -- OBAMA AS A TRUE BELIEVER IN
TOTALITARIAN SOCIALISM, AN IDEOLOGUE COMMITTED TO THE PROPOSITION THAT GOVERNMENT MUST CONTROL ALL
ASPECTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN'S LIFE & OWN THE FRUITS OF HIS LABORS & EARNINGS
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Volume XII, Issue # 44, March 14, 2010
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
OBAMA'S IDEOLOGY THREATENS AMERICA
By Alan Caruba
EMPLOYING THE RADICAL POLITICAL STRATEGY OF SAUL ALINSKY TO DESTROY THE AMERICAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC &
THE CONSTITUTION UPON WHICH IT IS BASED: THE VERY DEFINITION & ESSENCE OF THE CURRENT ACTIVITIES OF
THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY & THE LIBERAL LEFTIST LEADERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY MAJORITIES IN THE TWO HOUSES
OF CONGRESS -- PRIME EXAMPLE: THE TACTICS BEING UTILIZED TO PUSH OBAMACARE -- THE ULTIMATE
CONSEQUENCES OF ENACTMENT & IMPLEMENTATION OF OBAMACARE & OTHER ITEMS IN THE LEFTWING LIBERAL PUBLIC
POLICY AGENDA OF BARACK OBAMA, NANCY PELOSI, HARRY REID, & THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
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Volume XII, Issue # 36, February 27, 2010
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
APPLYING ALINSKY: WHY OBAMACARE MAKES NO SENSE
By Alan Caruba
THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY, HEALTHCARE "REFORM," & THE EXPANDING SOCIAL WELFARE STATE: THE PURPOSE OF
GOVERNMENT IN PRESENT-DAY AMERICA -- THE SHIFTING BALANCE OF POWER BETWEEN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE & THE
GOVERNING ELITE -- ELITIST PERCEPTIONS OF THE ROLE OF ORDINARY CITIZENS IN MODERN AMERICAN SOCIETY -- THE
CITIZENRY AS A "RESOURCE" TO BE UTILIZED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RULING ELITE THAT CONTROLS THE STATE -- THE
GOVERNMENT AS NO LONGER THE SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE
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Volume XI, Issue # 185, September 2, 2009
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
OBAMACARE: WHEN GROWING OLD BECOMES A "CRIME"
By Christopher G. Adamo
THE DRIVE FOR NATIONALIZED HEALTHCARE IN THE U.S.A.: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S AGRESSIVE STRATEGY
FOR OBTAINING CONGRESSIONAL PASSAGE OF SOME FORM OF SOCIALIZED MEDICINE DURING HIS FIRST PRESIDENTIAL
TERM -- THE WEAK & INEPT RESPONSE OF CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION, LEFTWING LIBERAL HEALTHCARE JUGGERNAUT IN CONGRESS -- THE NEED FOR CONSERVATIVE
LEADERS TO COORDINATE THE GROWING GRASSROOTS OPPOSITION TO THE ARROGANT ATTEMPT OF THE POLITICAL
LEFT TO ESTABLISH MEDICAL SOCIALISM IN THE U.S.A. -- THE MODEL OF CONSERVATIVE, ANTI-SOCIALIST LEADERSHIP
EXHIBITED BY RONALD WILSON REAGAN & SARAH LOUISE PALIN -- NEED FOR USE OF THIS LEADERSHIP MODEL IN
BLOCKING ENACTMENT OF OBAMACARE & OTHER POLICY PROPOSALS COMPRISING THE LIBERAL LEFTIST POLITICAL
AGENDA
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Volume XI, Issue # 176, August 19, 2009
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
THE REAGAN-PALIN MODEL OF LEADERSHIP
By Christopher G. Adamo
THE POLITICALLY BIASED MAINSTREAM MEDIA'S SUPPRESSION OF THE TRUTH: GLARING DUPLICITY &
DISTORTION IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE CURRENT CHAOTIC "HEALTHCARE" DEBATE -- NIGHTLY "NEWS"
STORIES NO REFLECTION OF REALITY -- EVENTS SELECTIVELY CITED & DEPICTED SO AS TO PROMOTE THE RADICAL
IDEOLOGY & PUBLIC POLICY AGENDA OF THE LIBERAL LEFTIST POLITICAL CABAL & ITS NETWORK OF PROPAGANDISTS IN
THE "NEWS" MEDIA -- ENDEAVORING TO COVER UP THE ENORMOUS GROWNDSWELL OF OPPOSITION TO THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION ERUPTING THROUGHOUT THE U.S.A. -- BUDDING SIGNS OF DANGEROUS ABUSES OF POWER BY THE
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, IN RESPONSE TO THE GENUINE GRASSROOTS OPPOSITION TO OBAMA'S COLLECTIVIST
POLITICAL AGENDA
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Volume XI, Issue # 170, August 12, 2009
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
OBAMA CONSIDERS REAL AMERICA "THE ENEMY"
By Christopher G. Adamo
NATIONALIZED HEALTHCARE (AKA, SOCIALIZED MEDICINE): THE PINNACLE OF BARACK OBAMA'S SOCIALIST
AGENDA FOR AMERICA -- THE LONGTERM PERILS THAT AWAIT AMERICANS, IF OBAMA SUCCEEDS IN RAMRODDING HIS
HEALTHCARE PLAN THROUGH THE CONGRESS & ONTO AMERICA -- DISTURBING SIGNS OF A DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN
BEING WAGED BY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, THE LIBERAL LEFTIST CABAL, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, & THE
MAINSTREAM MEDIA TO IMPOSE OBAMACARE ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE -- OMINOUS PATTERNS OF GOVERNMENTAL
SUPPRESSION OF OPPOSITION TO SOCIALIZED MEDICINE ALREADY BEGINNING TO UNFOLD IN THE U.S.A. -- THE SPECTER OF
OF A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM & THE SINISTER MANNER IN WHICH IT IS BEING ADVANCED: A
DANGEROUS DEPARTURE FROM THE FOUNDING PRINCIPLES OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC
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Volume XI, Issue # 151, June 25, 2009
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
OBAMACARE: DO OR DIE FOR AMERICA
By Christopher G. Adamo
BIG GOVERNMENT LIBERALISM, SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY, & THE SERVILE STATE: THE CURRENT CONDITION OF THE
WELFARE STATE IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD -- THE SOCIAL WELFARE STATE & GOVERNMENTAL ANNEXATION OF THE
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES OF ADULT CITIZENS, INCLUDING HEALTH CARE, CHILD CARE, & CARE OF THE ELDERLY -- THE
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION & EUROPEANIZATION OF AMERICA, ENTAILING EUROPEANIZED HEALTH CARE, EUROPEANIZED
DAYCARE, EUROPEANIZED EDUCATION, & EUROPEANIZED TAX RATES -- FIVE STAGES IN THE POLITICAL TRANSITION OF A
SOCIETY FROM CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM TO COLLECTIVISM, AUTHORITANIANISM, &
TYRANNY
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Volume XI, Issue # 119, May 8, 2009
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
"LIVE FREE OR DIE"
By Mark Steyn
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, DEMOCRATIC DEMAGOGUERY, POVERTY, & THE AMERICAN ECONOMY: WHAT
REALLY NEEDS TO BE DONE TO ALLEVIATE THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY IN THE U.S.A. -- ADOPTION & IMPLEMENTATION
OF MEASURES TO ENCOURAGE THE CREATION OF NEW JOBS -- REDUCTION OF GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS THAT
STRANGLE ECONOMIC GROWTH -- REFORM OF OUR POORLY PERFORMING EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM -- WHY THE DEMOCRATS
WILL LOSE THEIR SOCALLED "WAR ON POVERTY"
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Volume X, Issue # 51, February 24, 2008
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
DEMOCRATS DEMAGOGUE POVERTY AGAIN
By Alan Caruba
EXPANDING GOVERNMENT CONTROL & SHRINKING CIVIL LIBERTY: INCREASING INTRUSIVENESS OF THE U.S.
CENTRAL GOVERNMENT INTO THE PERSONAL & PRIVATE LIVES OF INDIVIDUAL AMERICANS -- USE BY CONGRESS OF ITS
TAXING & REGULATORY POWERS TO ENACT LAWS THAT SUPPRESS PERSONAL PLEASURES, DESTROY U.S. INDUSTRIES, KILL
AMERICAN JOBS, ERODE THE PRIVATE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM, & RESTRICT THE BASIC RIGHTS & FREEDOMS OF THE
INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN
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Volume IX, Issue # 134, July 17, 2007
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
TAXING & REGULATING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE
By Alan Caruba
THE "POVERTY IN AMERICA" MYTH -- A MYTH CREATED & PERPETUATED BY LEFTWING LIBERAL POLITICAL ACTIVISTS &
PROPAGANDISTS IN THEIR QUEST FOR POWER & DOMINANCE IN THE U.S.A.
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Volume VI, Issue # 40, February 25, 2004
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
THE MYTH OF POVERTY IN THE U.S.A.
By
Ray Thomas
THE MODERN SOCIAL WELFARE STATE -- UNDERMINING AMERICA'S MORAL FABRIC & CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM
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Volume IV, Issue # 62, June 5, 2002
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
AMERICA'S SOCIAL WELFARE STATE:
H.R. 4737 WOULD FURTHER FEDERAL CONTROL
By Ron Paul
AMERICAN SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY -- FEDERAL CONTROL & DIRECTION, OR ALLOWING THE STATES TO CREATE &
CONTROL THEIR OWN INSIVIDUALIZED WELFARE SYSTEMS?
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Volume IV, Issue # 61, June 3, 2002
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
SOCIAL WELFARE IS NOT THE JOB
OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
By Jesse Ventura
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