FROM YID WITH LID

HEAD: A Look Back To the Future of Liberal Change

As we go into the new year, America is standing at the precipice of a new
era, the era of CHANGE. Change is a very vague term, and the president elect
seems to be backing off some off some of those promises of change that he
made during the campaign. So the question we all want to know is what the
heck does he mean by change?

Sometimes the best way to look ahead is to look at the past. Thirty-two
years ago America Was in a similar place, we were about to inaugurate a very
liberal President who promised change. Below is a look at that president's
policies after one year:

Warning: What Liberal Change Looks Like After One Year By Ben-Peter Terpstra

"Candidate Jimmy Carter said he stood for change." - Associated Press,
11/3/1976

Goodness. What a difference a year makes. In fact, a year after Carter's
inauguration night, even some Democrats were rolling their eyes. Come, now:
Let's revisit history, shall we?

Before President Jimmy Carter's January, 1977 inauguration:

FROM THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR

HEAD: Utopia

By Peter Ferrara, director of budget and entitlement policy at the Institute
for Policy Innovation and general counsel for the American Civil Rights
Union.

The most intelligent person I have ever met was the late Robert Nozick,
formerly the Chairman of the Harvard Philosophy Department. When he
lectured, his mind seemed to race with the energy of a champion
thoroughbred.

Following the wisdom of Churchill, Nozick was committed to Marxist
revolution at the age of 20. But continuing his study with the intense
pursuit of truth, he became a capitalist libertarian long before the age of
40.

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FROM REUTERS

HEAD: Palestinian rocket kills 2 Gaza girls: medics

GAZA (Reuters) - A rocket apparently fired by Palestinians on Friday struck
a house in the Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinian sisters aged five and 13,
Palestinian medics said.

Hamas police said they were investigating the cause of the blast in Beit
Lahiya village in northern Gaza, which medics said seemed to be due to a
rocket aimed at Israel that had misfired.

Gaza militants frequently fire rockets at Israel from the same area.

The incident came amid rising tensions with Israel, with officials
threatening stepped-up military action against Gaza militants to stop rocket
shootings from the coastal territory.
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Think they'll blame this on Israel, too?

Happy New Year

Dionysus

FROM NEWSBUSTERS

HEAD: Christmas Dinner Causes Global Warming

First it's Christmas lights, now it's Christmas dinner...causing global
warming.

Yep. People who cook more than their guests will eat and throw the food away
are destroying the planet.

I'm not kidding.

ABCNews.com in Australia reported the following absurdity on Christmas Eve:

Wasted food at Christmas time is now being highlighted as an environmental
problem.

Jon Dee, the chairman of Do Something, says gases from leftover food rotting
in landfill are 20 times more potent than the carbon pollution from car
exhausts.

Mr Dee says there are simple ways to avoid over-catering at Christmas and
damaging the environment.

"Australians waste more than 3 million tonnes of food every year and of
course a lot of that food is wasted at Christmas," he said.

FROM PAJAMAS MEDIA

HEAD: A tale of two pundits: Sowell v. Huffington

RealClearPolitics, one of my favorite sites, offers an instructive lesson in
economics, the power of myth, and the sadness evils of a mind gone rancid
with ideology. To complete the course, you need simply read and digest two
short and contrasting articles.

The strophe is by Thomas Sowell and is called "Another Great Depression?"
One of Sowell's great gifts as a writer is the ability to articulate and
then explode a piece of conventional wisdom that is all consensus and no
wisdom. In this column, he takes the contention, to which "everybody"
subscribes, that "the stock market crash of 1929 was a failure of the free
market that led to massive unemployment in the 1930s-and that it was
intervention of Roosevelt's New Deal policies that rescued the economy."

In the space of a few hundred words, Sowell shows that every piece of that
nugget of conventional non-wisdom is wrong. The market crash of '29 did not
lead to higher unemployment, as a look at the employment figures of the time
demonstrates. After an initial spike to 9 percent, unemployment settled back
down to 6.3 percent by June 1930.

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On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:04:23 -0700, Winston_Smith
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During the Bush presidency, affirmative action mortgage
loans increased three fold relative to loans to whites
and unprotecte minorities - a gigantic increase in
affirmative action payola relative to the Clinton
presidency.

During the Bush presidency, affirmative action
credentialing to women and protected minorities
increased substantially from its already high levels,
though there are no numbers available to measure to what
extent it has increased.

During the Bush presidency, Title IX enforcement - which
requires all recipients of federal money to cut male
sport down, to make the environment less testosterone
charged, to bring male sport down to accord with female
preferences, increased substantially.

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