Originally posted on The Oil for Your Lamp:
This saying may be better known in military circles, but it is still a principle of logic: when someone threatens you, always take what they say at face value.  Had we done this in the 1930’s, then we could have read “Mein Kampf” and we would have…

Originally posted on The Oil for Your Lamp:
No matter where we stand on the political spectrum, we all have a tendency to look at the policies and actions of our leaders and conclude that they are either incompetent or insane.  Now, logically, this is a possibility, however, it is probably the last conclusion we…