Blogito ergo sum.

…in America, that is.

When I was in high school (1971), only 32% of all Americans had air conditioning in our homes; 30 years later (2001), 76% of the poor have AC!

When I was in high school, only 43% of all Americans owned a color TV (my family was not one of them); now 97% of the poor have at least one!

In 1971, only 1% of all Americans had a microwave oven; now 73% of the poor have one!

Nearly half of poor American families own their own home.  The average poor American has more living space than the average non-poor individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and many other European cities.

Nearly 3/4 of American poor households own a car (nearly 1/3 own two or more cars).  78% have a VCR or DVD player; 62% have cable or satellite TV reception; 1/3 have an automatic dishwasher.

Poverty, in the historic sense, has virtually disappeared in America.  This is primarily due to the influence of the gospel, the much-maligned Puritan work ethic, at work for many centuries.

No wonder the rest of the world envies us.

If you can read this, thank a teacher.  If you can read it in English, thank a soldier.

It’s silly to accuse Barack Obama of Muslim leanings because of his parentage (he didn’t choose his parents).  It’s even sillier to make an issue of his middle name (he didn’t choose that, either).

It’s more important to speak to his political, economic, and social policy views.

He has voted with the Senate’s only self-proclaimed socialist, Bernie Sanders, 96% of the time, and has co-sponsored several bills with him, most notably one to create a nationalized health care system and another to give the EPA more authority to regulate American businesses under the guise of preventing global warming.  (Other Democrats with similar voting records include Joe Biden, John Kerry, Edward Kennedy, Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, and Barbara Boxer.

Italian communist Antonia Gramsci taught, contra Marx, that the final ascendancy of communism over capitalism in the West would come, not by violent revolution, but by a long march through the institutions of a culture.

If Obama obtains the White House and his comrades control both houses of Congress, the long march of the socialists through American institutions will be nearly complete.