An Important New Book on The Disease of Progressivism

James Ostrowski is out with an important new book, Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America,

Ostrowski is a trial and appellate lawyer and author from Buffalo,. He has served as vice-chairman of the law reform committee of the New York County Lawyers Association (1986-88) and wrote two widely quoted reports critical of the law enforcement approach to the drug problem. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Buffalo News, Cleveland Plain Dealer and Legislative Gazette. His policy studies have been published by the Hoover Institution, the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.

He is a hardcore libertarian and his book is going to have impact.

Progressivism is the disease that is, indeed the idea destroying America, Ostrowski's book explains the  how and why of it and what can be done about it.

From the table of contents:

Introduction
1. What is Progressivism?
21 2. We Are All Progressives Now
3. The Origins of Progressivism
4. The Failure of Progressivism
 5. Progressivism’s Archenemy—True Liberalism
6. Progressivism’s Vanquished Foe—Conservatism
7. War is the Health of the Progressive State
 8. Progressivism as Utopianism
9. A Rogue’s Gallery of Progressives
10. How to Bury Progressivism and Restore American Liberty
Conclusion 

The first review of the book is here.

What The Hell Are Lew Rockwell, Thomas DiLorenzo and James Ostrowski Thinking?

Rockwell, DiLorenzo and Ostrowski are all ga ga, here, here and here, over John McCain's VP pick, Sarah Palin. They write she's a Paulian, she's a Buchanaite, in fact, she probably would jump on any bandwagon that has wheels and is looking to stir up trouble.

As we have already pointed out, Palin signed into law a $6.6 billion operating budget—the largest in Alaska's history.

Palin proposed giving Alaskans $100-a-month energy debit cards. Of course, basic economics teaches the last thing you want to do, when a commodity is rising in price, is to encourage consumption. She also proposed providing grants to electrical utilities so that they would reduce customers' rates, again the last thing you want to do. She subsequently dropped the debit card proposal, and in its place she proposed to send Alaskans $1,200 directly.

In short, economically clueless.

As far as foreign policy is concerned, she has put her son in line for a potential tour of duty in Iraq. He joined the army on 9-11-07. Nuff said.

Frankly, what we have here is Mary Tyler Moore without the Ford mustang--maybe a great candidate to star in a modern day version of the Minnesota-based situation comedy, but not a Minnesota convention-based Republican VP candidate.