American Ideological Society

More capitalism and not less

"The solution for oppressed Palestinians or unemployed American workers is the same: more capitalism and not less; peaceful economic competition and not violent protests. The definition of the word occupy is “to seize possession of and maintain control over.” The definition of the word freedom is “the absence of coercion.”

The Meaning of “Occupy”
By JR Nyquist*

While cleaning out a closet, going through a box full of old magazines, I found the April 2002 Volume 17 edition of Marxist Review. There was a banner across the front cover of the magazine which read, “THE OCCUPATION OF RAMALLAH.” I opened the front cover and read, “Palestinians emerge stronger from three-day occupation of Ramallah On-the-spot report,” by Anna Athow and Paddy O’Regan. The use of the term “occupation” did not seem at all haphazard. Yesterday there was the “occupation of Ramallah,” and today there is an “occupation of Wall Street.” Tomorrow we will see the occupation of “everywhere.” Continued...

Caricature of Dr. King

"I think it's clear that the purpose of this monument was to further imbed into our national psyche a caricature of Dr. King that the left has been creating for the last few decades. By scandalously projecting their own modern liberal interpretations of 'social justice' onto him, they have redesigned King to fit the mold of a secular humanist warrior."

De-Christianizing Dr. King
By Peter Heck*

On the surface, I suppose it does sound incredible: they created a monument to honor an influential Baptist minister and they omitted any reference to God or Jesus in the featured quotations throughout the memorial. The monument in question, of course, is the recently unveiled tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Washington, D.C. That would be "Reverend" Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to be precise. Continued...

If people of faith take a stand...

"...if people of faith take a stand, this result is not inevitable. They must remember the place of religious freedom in America. Religion was not a hobby that people were allowed to pursue in private; it was foundational to the American experiment. Protecting the religious beliefs and religiously informed conduct of our citizens is not optional. Religion must not decrease as government increases. To allow that to happen would be to allow the dismantling of the nation as we know it, and as the Founders envisioned it."

Mandating Our Religious Freedom
People of faith must reclaim their religious freedom,
granted by the Creator and protected by the Constitution.
By Jane Robbins and Emmett McGroarty*

The Founders' protection of religious freedom in the First Amendment was in keeping with their recognition of the supreme importance of the individual, who was created by God and subject to God's natural law. The early twentieth-century Progressives largely rejected this view, as they concluded that man must not be limited by "arbitrary" rules such as those imposed by religion. Modern progressives have seized upon this viewpoint, especially in their attitudes toward sex. The State will teach children about sex, and it will do so by disconnecting it from its most important component--the spiritual. It does not matter that such teachings are, by nature, within the rights of parents. Continued...

I am not against Muslims. I condemn Islam...

"I am not against Muslims. I condemn Islam with all its derivatives and those who support and promote it. Muslims are patients and Islam is a disease. You want to help the patients to rid themselves of the affliction. You want to eradicate a horrifically communicable disease."

Islam Was Not For Me
By Amil Imani*

My breach with Islam started as far back as I could discern things. More to the point, I never embraced Islam in the first place, although I was born and raised in a Muslim family. Continued...

Environmental Solutions Agency to replace the EPA

"We need a true Environmental Solutions Agency to replace the EPA—an agency that will emphasize innovation, collaboration, common sense and economic rationality. It can't be done with the same old bureaucrats. It will require new people in a new institution."

Dust in the Wind: Time for the EPA to Go!
by Newt Gingrich

The key to eliminating our oppressive regulatory regime is simply to replace the existing bureaucracy rather than try to reform it. The current systems are so entrenched that we need to start over with new organizations and new people. Continued...

What our vision is for this nation

"Tea Party members, on the other hand, know what we want, and have remained consistently on point since the beginning of the movement. We can answer clearly, articulately and unambiguously what our vision is for this nation, based on our founding principles: limited government, low taxation, and individual rights that are granted to us by God."

What similaries between the Occupy Movement and the Tea Party?
by Bruce Fleury

Since the advent of the so-called Occupy Movement a couple of months ago, liberal/progressive pundits and their fellow travellers in the Democrat Party have been bending over backwards to find comparisons to the Tea Party in ways that would make an olympic gymnast green with envy. Continued...

Capitalism is dedicated to producing goods and services

"One needs only a little common sense to realize that capitalism is dedicated to producing goods and services. It is capitalism that has raised the world’s overall standard of living, while anti-capitalism has left nothing but a vast trail of destruction in its wake. One has only to study the leading exemplars of anti-capitalism – today’s “voices of destruction” – to grasp this fact."

Voices of Destruction
By JR Nyquist*

Last week I watched a group of anti-Wall Street protestors as they paraded down the street. One of their signs said, “Corporate America is Guilty.” A sweeping generalization if there ever was one. If capitalism is guilty, what can we say about anti-capitalism? Continued...

Blacks who dare to think differently...

"The attack on Cain certainly isn't the first of its kind. The original high-tech lynching of conservative Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas for the same stereotypical allegations, the constant attacks on "Uncle Tom" economists Thomas Sowell and Walter E. Williams, the belligerent nastiness directed at self-proclaimed welfare brat turned conservative champion Star Parker, and the persistent threats faced by tea-party Congressman Allen West all stand as stark depictions of the regard liberals have for blacks who dare to think differently than them."

Herman Cain

Four Lily White Liberals Smear a Black Man
By Peter Heck*

Just as Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain predicted, he has become the most recent victim of the race-baiting left's high-tech lynching of prominent, conservative black men. Continued...

It's a choice between right and wrong

"...is it time to listen to the people who sacrificed their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor for independence, the rule of law, self-governance and one sovereign nation under a Creator-God who endowed us with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Do we want to continue down a path on which we make up the most basic rules as we go along? Or do we want to return to the path set so ingeniously by our founders? That's the choice we face in 2011 and 2012. It's not a choice between Democrat and Republican. It's a choice between right and wrong."

Dumbing down Constitution for Obama's sake?
By Joseph Farah*

"He's clearly a citizen of the United States."
"We've seen his birth certificate."
"Without question, Barack Obama was born in the U.S."
"Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, and that settles it."
"It's nuttiness and counterproductive to question the president's eligibility for office."

These are some of the phrases we hear from Barack Obama's ardent defenders – people like Anderson Cooper and nearly all his colleagues in the news media. Continued...

A dirty hybrid unseen in world history

The historical development of Bolshevik Revolution Nov. 7, 1917 which brought to life the USSR -- the State of Terror and the Empire of Evil -- ended 1991 with another Russan revolution defined by Alexander Solzhenitsyn as "an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi-democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history" - Boris Tiraspolsky

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Nov. 7, 1917
Russian Government Overthrown in Bolshevik Revolution

On Nov. 7, 1917, Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky. Continued...