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Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) was the greatest economist of my time. His greatest works can be accessed here at no charge.

Mises believed that property, freedom and peace are and should be the hallmarks of a satisfying and prosperous society. I agree. Mises proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the prospect for general and individual prosperity is maximized, indeed, is only possible, if the principle of private property reigns supreme. What's yours is yours. What's mine is mine. When the line between yours and mine is smudged, the door to conflict opens. Without freedom (individual liberty of action) the principle of private property is neutered and the free market, which is the child of property and freedom and the mother of prosperity and satisfaction, cannot exist. Peace is the goal of a prosperous and satisfying society of free individuals, not peace which is purchased by submission to the enemies of property and freedom, but peace which results from the unyielding defense of these principles against all who challenge them.

In this blog I measure American society against the metrics of property, freedom and peace.

Friday, July 13, 2012

SELECTED LEFTIST LIES FROM THE LAST 10 DAYS (and "WHY LEFTISTS LIE")

[Thanks to Weasel Zippers]

WaPo Fact Checker Gives “Three Pinocchios” To Obama’s Claim Romney A Possible Felon, Says They Are “Blowing Smoke Here”…

Pelosi Outdoes Herself: Heartless Republicans Voted To “Take Away Protections” From “The Little Baby Born With A Birth Defect”…

Carney: Stimulus “Widely Recognized To Have Broken The Back Of The Recession”…


Obama Official: DOE Energy Loan Program Has Been An “Enormous Success”…


Reid Lies Through His Teeth On Senate Floor, Says Mitt Romney “Has Basically Paid No Taxes In the Prior 12 Years”…

Obama’s Poor-Mouth Routine A Huge Lie: Has Outraised Romney By $125 Million, Outspent Him By $44 Million…


College Professor: “Jesus Was a Muslim”…

Holder Compares Voter ID Laws To Jim Crow: “We Call Those Poll Taxes”…

Holder Tells NAACP Convention Republicans Are Trying To Reverse Civil Rights With Voter ID Laws…

Biden: “Republicans Have Changed the Law So You Get Arrested If You Do Vote”…

WaPo Fact Checker Destroys Obama’s Latest Claim It’s A “Fact” Romney Pays Less Taxes Than Middle-Class Families…

WH Transportation Secretary: Without Obama “No One Would Have Ever Predicted” Lexus Hybrids — Reality: Lexus Hybrid Debuted In 2004…

Professor Says Alabama Immigration Law Like “Anti-Jewish Actions Taken By Adolf Hitler And Nazi Germany”…

Top Obama Adviser Valerie Jarret: Obama Rhetoric Not Responsible For Class Warfare, Fox News Is…

Salon Editor Joan Walsh Taunts Drudge: “Almost Certainly A Fact That Romney Is More Comfortable Around White People”…

Obama Campaign Spokesman Blatantly Lies On CNN, Says Administration Never Argued Individual Mandate Was A “Tax” Before Supreme Court…

Biden: “Nothing Has Been Asked” of Millionaires “In This Horrific Recession”…

Liberal Teachers Group Says July 4th Fireworks Equal “Pretend War”…

AFL-CIO Chief: Word “Freedom” Is A Right-Wing Catch Phrase…


WHY LEFTISTS LIE:
[Quotation from an American Thinker blog post by Selwin Duke]
As for leftist "watchdogs" such as MM, there's a good reason why they lie:

Because the right generally doesn't.

While there are exceptions, the right is more likely to seek Truth and be accurate in its reportage and commentary.  Thus, the left can't demonize the right without using deception.

And the left does this without batting an eye.  As I often point out, leftists are relativists, meaning that they don't believe in Absolute Truth.  Because of this, the Truth means nothing to them, and they lie like they breathe.  And the more relativism has imbued them on a visceral level, the more they'll be able to lie without compunction, without reservation, without guilt.

This mindset is hard for many people to grasp.  After all, the average person isn't a moral philosopher; he may not even be able to define moral relativism.  But the Truth likely occupies a special place in his mind.  Oh, he may sometimes lie, but he nevertheless senses that Truth possesses special value.

To a hard-core relativistic leftist, there is no Truth, only "truths."  And a person's "truth" is just his own perspective.  It thus possesses no special status.  This failure to recognize transcendent Truth - that great author of morality - causes the leftist to become his own source of right and wrong.  His desires then take on the character of Truth in his own mind, and, consequently, whatever contradicts them takes on the character of a lie.  This is what enables a leftist to condemn those who speak the Truth as liars.  They have contradicted the only god the leftist knows - himself.

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