No point to this, just a question: Is it possible that these people are killing themselves because they know that the things the ‘conspiracy kooks’ have been warning us about are about to start? Third prominent banker found dead in six days Bloomberg is reporting this morning that former Federal Reserve economist Mike Dueker was…
From an email I received: Islam in a Nutshell Islam, not the Chinese or the Russians, represents the greatest threat to the world and might be the fulfillment of the book of Revelation in the Holy Bible. Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond’s book: “Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat,” Islam is…
THE RULE OF LAW: The Declaration of Independence and American Revolution were not Acts of Lawlessness The American Revolution was not a revolt in the sense that most revolutions are an act of lawlessness or anarchy. The Declaration of Independence was actually a legal document enacted by independent and duly elected governments. The Colonies were all…
I have a friend who is reading The History of Herodotus written 440 B.C. by, unsurprisingly, Herodotus. If you are so inclined, you may also access it for free at MIT’s library of Classics here. Herodotus (484-ca. 425 BCE), the ‘Father of History,’ wrote this account of the ephocal conflict between the Greeks and Persians between…
Just so you guys can feel safe…know this: we got Bigfoot. He was here. In Texas. And he apparently can’t resist ribs bought at Wal-Mart. If Rick Dyer is right, this is the zoological find of the century. “No blurry pictures. No trying to hide anything,” Dyer says while shooting video of his treasure. “This…
Tom Edsall’s NYT editorial about the need for a global wealth tax to save democracy triggered a thought: Capitalism, according to Piketty, confronts both modern and modernizing countries with a dilemma: entrepreneurs become increasingly dominant over those who own only their own labor. In Piketty’s view, while emerging economies can defeat this logic in the…
THE RULE OF LAW: Putting the Declaration back where It belongs Stop talking about the Constitution. The Constitution is nothing more than a piece of legal clay: it can be and has been made into something totally estranged from what it was intended to be. When you were in school, did you bother to learn the…
I was thinking about the inherent contradictions present in “progressivism” like: Progressives believe that while an individual is incapable of managing his own life and knowing what is best, a government made up of individuals do and can. Progressives believe that the problem with life is that it is impossible to plan and then set…
How, indeed… You guys really need to read this – all of it. San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone chairs the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage. Here are his views on the subject in response to questions from USA TODAY: Q: What is the greatest threat posed…
Collectivism, including its progeny – socialism, Marxism and communism, promises to improve the lives of all in the collective – but when you think about that, this rationale is counter-intuitive because the method it uses to accomplish this “improvement” is to restrict, limit or co-opt the true productivity of one person for the benefit of…
Because everyone needs a little diversion from time to time …
I’ve long thought that the reason the “climate science” gained prominence so quickly was less about the science and more about access – it is a place were peer review means that the people who are reading your papers are dumber than you are. “I’ve asked very frequently at universities: ‘Of the brightest people you…
Obama isn’t a narcissist. If you thought so, don’t worry, I made the same diagnostic mistake. Narcissism is far too serious and deep to describe our President, the real issue much more simplistic and far more superficial. As James Oliphant of the left wing National Journal hits close to the mark, I would wager that…
“What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose…
HISTORY: Comparing Kristallnacht to the Occupy Campaign Recently, venture Capitalist, Tom Perkins, made a comparison between the recent ‘Occupy’ campaign and the Kristallnacht during the NAZI rise to power in 1930’s Germany. Pressure was immediately brought to bear on him for making the comparison and he has since issued an apology. But Perkins wasn’t wrong. …
Yes, be very afraid! The grammar Nazis will attack you in your weakest moment. What a blogger must understand and accept is that there are those times when, well, you can’t edit. It hurts…. and the abuse you will receive is quite painful, as well. But please! Remember one thing: Stay strong fellow blogger. (The…
I am piling on top of Utah’s post — only I am doing so with much stronger accusations: TYRANNY IN THE HEADLINES: Obama Daring Congress to Stop His Imperial Designs Using references to 1930’s Germany and the NAZI rise to power is not hate, it is a very accurate comparison of history to modern America. …
I’ve been thinking about writing you for a while. You aren’t very good listeners, so I figured that I would try this route. I just wanted to say thanks – but no thanks. Please give the seat you have saved for me on your high-speed rail line to Utopia to some other poor unsuspecting soul.…
When I saw this, my initial thought was to answer with: “Yes. Next question.” President Obama’s use of executive action to get around congressional gridlock is unparalleled in modern times, some scholars say. But to liberal activists, he’s not going far enough. The Christian Science Monitor is not asking the “Imperial President” question due to…
Here’s a Democrat Party fundraising email I received on Saturday: From: Debbie Wasserman Schultz [mailto:democraticparty@democrats.org] Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 8:33 PM Subject: The extremists at the GOP are at it again Dear Michael — I like sending you emails on Saturdays about as much as you probably like receiving them. But I’m doing it…
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