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doms and property rights after the optimistic Orange Still there’s an underlying embedded hysteria among
spill over into the streets. are common. Having at- Revolution, it appears that nervousness in East Eu- many. Yet recall the dire
Is another Iranian revolu- tended Chavez press con- Ukraine may reenter the rope concerning American predictions of the feared
tion on the horizon? ferences, I concede that traditional Russian sphere intentions. Y2K global computer crisis
Venezuela- Strongman as with many dictators he of influence. Ukraine, has Green Blackmail - The a decade ago. Could global
Hugo Chavez pursues the has an uncanny if slippery been bullied by Moscow’s Global Warming lobby has warning be the new Y2K?
path towards total dic- “charm.” Venezuela’s drift “energy policies” and the morphed into a secular
tatorship. Chavez has towards dictatorship pres- elections would be a step “religion” where seemingly Despite these challenges,
used, and indeed squan- ents a clear hemispheric towards validating political sober scientific predictions let me wish my readers a
dered, his country’s petro- danger. reintegration. Hungary, on are taken as unquestioned happy, healthy and pros-
leum wealth envisioning Europe-Ukraine will the other hand, is slated theological fact. Even after perous 2010!
a grandiose vision of a hold a vital election in to oust an unpopular and the crisis of the Copenha-
socialist Bolivarian Re- mid-January. The pro- corrupt Socialist govern- gen Climate Conference, John J. Metzler is a Unit-
public in Latin America. Russian stalking horse will ment in parliamentary the Global Warming man- ed Nations correspondent
Assaults on political free- likely win. Thus five years elections slated for April. tra has become a near covering diplomatic and
defense issues.
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known people who get
around the Constitution’s
requirement of Senate
confirmation for Cabi-
net members-- is yet an-
other sign of the mindset
that sees the fundamental
laws and values of this
country as just something
to get around, in order to
impose the will of an ar-
rogant elite.
That some of these
“czars” have already re-
vealed their own contempt
for the values of American
society in the things they
have said and done only
reinforces the point.
In a sense, this admin-
istration is only the end
result of a long social pro-
cess that includes raising
successive generations
with dumbed-down edu-
cation in schools and col-
leges that have become
indoctrination centers
for the visions of the left.
Our education system has
turned out many people
who have never heard any
other vision and who can
only learn what is wrong
with the prevailing vision
from bitter experience.
That bitter experience
now awaits them, at home
and abroad.
To find out more about
Thomas Sowell and read
features by other Creators
Syndicate columnists and
cartoonists, visit the Cre-
ators Syndicate web page
at www.creators.com.
Thomas Sowell is a senior
fellow at the Hoover Insti-
tution, Stanford University,
Stanford, CA 94305. His
Web site is www.tsowell.
com.
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