How Did We Get Here?

Remember the 1960’s, the decade of free love with juicy girls ready to wrap their arms around anyone? It came with a huge drawback though, a counter-culture that flipped the bird towards the old fuddy-duddy establishment. It did not matter is that old establishment stood on moral ground. Anyone not within the counter-culture was deemed [...]

The Pledge of Allegiance

For some twenty years, President Obama sat in his chosen church on Sundays listening to a hate monger who took up the cause of any left-wing extremist black power hate crazy government conspiracy truthing idiots. For all that time, both him and his Jacky-O wanna be wife had front row seats, bathing in the manipulating [...]

It’s all about Them, isn’t it?

Why won’t these Extremist Progressive Democrats listen to their own constituency, their voters, their own good people? Why call or accuse folks who stand up to ask questions or present their views at town hall meetings as a hired mob, a disruptor, or worse yet, a storm trooper? What? A Nazi Storm Trooper? Nonetheless, its [...]

Lessons From Iran

Iranians are rejecting the same suffocating controls Americans are accepting.

Someone you might want to ask about Waterboarding

…is the family of the individual circled below.  Never forget the work of the so-called ‘torturees’: So another individual (one of scores) films himself being waterboarded… and yet he can sit up an talk about it immediately with no physical effects.  Unquestionably unpleasant, as the hundreds of American service personnel who voluntarily go through it [...]

Lessons from a 13-year-old

He pegs the basic crux well, but as they say; ‘The Devil is in the details’:

Has our foreign policy over the past 100 years been wrong?

Ron Paul thinks it is possible and after a lot of reading the past 5+ years I agree with him.

The Return of Rightwing Paranoia

Anthony Gregory points out that conservatives now oppose the state despite Obama enacting Bush-like policies. Most importantly, conservatives must learn to oppose aggressive foreign policy during this era that they are out of power, less they make the same mistakes as last time. The conservatives have better instincts when they are out of power, but [...]

Thoughts on George W. Bush

The past eight years have been interesting ones. We have seen an attack on the United States by radicalized Muslims, we have seen one large recession and the beginning of what could be a major depression, we have seen our military send troops to two different countries in large numbers and we have seen China [...]

John Stuart Mill on nationality and representative government

This is a chapter from John Stuart Mill’s Considerations on Representative Government, taken from the University of Adelaide Library Electronic Texts Collection. An interesting read and particularly applicable to today’s America. Chapter 16 Of Nationality, as connected with Representative Government. A PORTION of mankind may be said to constitute a Nationality if they are united [...]

Picking Apart The United States

Igor Pararin has been in the news a lot the past two months for his remarks on the breakup of the United States. The recent report in the Wall Street Journal expands on Igor’s previous comments and sets his prediction for 2010 when the USA will finally collapse. In September 1998, he attended a conference [...]

Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School

I’m assigning some assigned reading on a way of thinking that was put forward by the Frankfurt School called Critical Theory. The Wikipedia articles give some insight into the main goals of the neo-Marxist ideas, but what people need to understand is how these have contributed to reshaping the culture of the West since the [...]

The Round Table

“When the Round Table is broken every man must follow Galahad or Mordred; middle things are gone.” -C.S. Lewis A writer at the journal First Things gives an explanation in this article: “His point was that the time may come when the societal bonds are so ruptured that forceful confrontation will become necessary with those [...]

The Philosophy and Practice of Charity

For the majority of Americans, more thoughts of charity occur this time of year than at any other.  After all, the Christian world is celebrating the ultimate charity of God (don’t worry; this will not be a religious piece).  For those of us actively involved in charity the year round, it is a time to [...]

The Stock Market Rally, The Inevitable Crash, And Why We’re Here

Today’s stock market rally was predicted by blogger Vox Day last week. I have read his blog occasionally for the past few years but only recently did I start seeing posts about Austrian economics and notice that he really does understand how the market works. The truth is the market has a long way to [...]

The Real Meaning of Thanksgiving: The Triumph of Capitalism over Collectivism

A great article on the real meaning of Thanksgiving: The less industrious members of the colony came late to their work in the fields, and were slow and easy in their labors. Knowing that they and their families were to receive an equal share of whatever the group produced, they saw little reason to be [...]

The Philosophy of Personal Responsibility

I came across Bill Whittle’s site in a link to his piece on harrassment training;  for him, it’s a short piece, but like most of his work, speaks eloquently on personal responsibility and family responsibility for moral character of its members.  Abrogating that responsibility to government gets easier every day and modern government is always [...]

Is deflation really bad?

Deflation is not the evil people and economists make it out to be. The same economists who say “inflate, zero percent interest rates now!!” are the ones who said everything was perfect in the economy during the 2003-2005 period. The market is demanding inflation because the money supply has been too large. The supply of [...]

My Presidential Endorsement

I am announcing my endorsement for president. It is mainly based on the “consent of the governed” philosophy. Going back hundreds of years to the founding of the United States we see the first society that was founded explicitly by the consent of the governed. As written in the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson: [...]

Huffington Post against Todd Palin’s connection to secession movement

I wholeheartedly agree with the objective of the Alaskan Independence Party (to free itself from the US government), but apparently the writers at the Huffington Post believe that secession is anti-American. Secession is the most American opinion that one can have–the foundation of our country was based on the belief that the mother government of [...]