Commentary

All's Fair with the Left
Media ignore how unfair liberal plans really are.
By Dan Gainor
The Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow
Business & Media Institute

Fair’s fair, right? Not always – especially in the new America that dawns January 20. That’s when the Obama administration takes over and they have bold plans for making America a fairer place to be.

The Democratic platform Obama supports has 30 separate references to fairness in some form or another. Obama wants a “fair economy,” “fair trade,” women to get “fair pay,” to make “sure that workers get their fair share,” and to restore “fairness to our tax code.”

These items have nothing at all to do with being fair. They are Orwellian doublespeak like: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” They are the antithesis of what those terms are supposed to mean. [continue reading]