More Pods In Place
We would like to extend a warm welcome to Michael J. Anderson, proprietor of the newly launched blog Tativille. Another right-of-center blog getting into the game is hardly breaking news, but Michael's bio is anything but run of the mill:
I am a Minnesota native (from Mark Kennedy's home town of Watertown... a few houses away, actually) who currently lives in Lower Manhattan. I have an M.A. in Cinema Studies from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and a B.A. in European Studies from Hillsdale College. So I did my undergrad work at arguably the country's most conservative institution and my grad work at one its most liberal ones. My bent is right-of-center, but I am interested in a number of areas not often associated with the right.
Let's hope that Michael's post on the Democrats and free trade is a portent of what we can expect in the future:
Which leads us back to the quandary that the Democratic party finds itself in today. First, let's be clear about something: many on the Left do not believe that wealth can be created, but rather that it is a zero-sum matter. Hence, the existence of class warfare in political rhetoric and the continued counter-intuitive degradations against Reaganomics. Moreover, this basic belief in what wealth is and how its created informs everything from the advocacy of Free Trade coffee to the current well-intentioned movement to eradicate poverty: wealth needs to be transferred because it can't be created -- never mind any historical evidence to the contrary. This is the basic supposition of the MoveOn left.
Tativille joins reelcobra as right-of-center blogs run by former Minnesotans in areas that you wouldn't necessarily expect to find them: Lower Manhattan and Hollywood.
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