In the State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, expect Barack Obama to iterate the themes of his vaunted campaign speech in December in Osawatomie, Kansas.  In Osawatomie the President tried to conjure up progressive Teddy Roosevelt's "New Nationalism" speech of 1910, but sounded like a man speaking scoffingly and carrying a big chip on his shoulder.  The speech was pocked with economic fallacies, hypocrisy, class warfare rhetoric, anti-Americanism, distorted history, and some outright lies.  Leftists lauded it.  On Tuesday --as in Kansas when he uttered the word "fair" 15 times-- the President will focus on fairness, "economic fairness" or "economic justice" in particular.  This is one of the Occupiers' rallying calls, not surprisingly. Economic fairness ought not be confused with economic freedom.  By economic fairness, the President means using the instrumentalities of the federal government -- through coercion-- to redistribute resources and...(Read Full Post)