Brain Fertilizer

There's a very nice article here on the Opinion Journal.

Some of the quotable coolness:

Liberals see themselves as self appointed Robin Hoods [taking from the rich and giving to the poor], but they are seen by red-county Americans as taking from the productive and giving to the indolent.

I know you know who Robin Hood was, but I like the parallel construction, so I added in the emphasis of "taking from...and giving to..."

[Liberals] were wrong about communism (it was an economic failure), wrong about socialism (it didn't work either), wrong about the welfare state, wrong about high taxes and government regulation of economic matters.

Exactly.

Or in the words of former teachers union president Keith Geiger, why should some children be allowed to "escape" from bad public schools?

Unions. Natch.

"Not happiness stamps; not a department of happiness; not therapy for happiness. Pursuit."

Nice. Read the whole thing to get it all in context.