“We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. … We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we…
Understand that they are ALL connected – just like an ever increasing chorus of voices are trying to tell us they are: Eric Holder Ducks Congress’s Questions About Massive Terrorism Financing Trial Members of the House Judiciary Committee on oversight on Thursday called on U.S. Attorney General to provide documents and evidence relating to the…
This has got to be the best commencement speech given in this country in a long, long time: Dr. Wong, Dr. Keough, Mrs. Novogroski, Ms. Curran, members of the board of education, family and friends of the graduates, ladies and gentlemen of the Wellesley High School class of 2012, for the privilege of speaking…
Have you seen/heard this yet? ‘I Have Superior Knowledge’: Holder Pressed on DOJ’s Involvement in Fast & Furious, Dismisses Evidence “You claim with passion that nobody at the senior levels at the Department of Justice prior to the death of Brian Terry knew that guns were walking, and I‘ve got an email from Jason…
Pointed to by Hot Air, Daniel E. Lieberman writes in the New York Times in support of Nanny Bloomberg’s Big Gulp Ban. Lieberman is a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard and the author of “The Evolution of the Human Head”, so one would assume that he has a working knowledge of the human…
Three different quotes from three different time periods from three different people. Read them and match the quote to the person. “The theory of Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.” “We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak,…
Have you seen any of the media stories designed to ‘prove’ Obama is not a socialist and to stigmatize anyone who persists in trying to make the case against him? Stories like this one: Obama a socialist? Many scoff, but claim persists But to many historians and political scientists – and to actual socialists…
I recently had a commenter on another blog tell me that the past – history – doesn’t matter. I told this commenter that everything that happens today is driven by the past, and if we forget the past, or we accept a distorted understanding of the past, then we cannot understand what happens today or…
I had not considered this before and thought I’d share it with the RNL – in case any of you had missed it: Wisconsin and California Show that Local Taxes are a Political Death Trap State and local property tax collections (blue line in the graph below) have risen by 10%, from $400 billion to…
I think that there are a few questions that all Americans have to ask themselves because the answers will clarify our right vs. left debate: Do you think you deserve from society more than you contribute via payments to your government? After having a working life of roughly 45 years (retire at 67, start at…
The Rio Norte Line 