Buildings are designed to withstand earthquakes even though earthquakes severe enough to do damage property and threaten life are statistically rare. Levees and dams (other than those in California apparently) are designed to withstand 100 year storms even though 100 year storms are statistically rare. Bridges are designed with at least a two times safety…
For those out there who don’t know who Rodney Dangerfield was, download or go to Netflix and watch the 1980 movie “Caddyshack”. Dangerfield was a hilarious stand-up comedian, famous for his self-deprecating one liners like this one: “When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my…
Most of my life I couldn’t understand those that advocate policies or actions that obviously endanger the ongoing concern of our American Republic and Liberty for mankind. Now I realize my naïveté. “Concerning Dangers from Foreign Force and Influence” Federalist No. 2, Author John Jay “To the People . . . With equal pleasure I…
The “migrant” situation in Europe is both dismaying and interesting to watch. Germany in particular because of its largely industrialized base, its carefully ordered society (the Germans love precision), its societal non-aggression pact with other cultures due to the shame of the Holocaust and its almost pathological need to avoid external conflicts as a result…
THE RULE OF LAW: Constitutional Scholar Says Obama set to Declare Himself First American Emperor This nation was founded on a belief in the rule of law, not the rule of men. It is under the law that we are all equal. It is under the fair and impartial application of those laws that we all…
“We have arrived at a moment with our elite institutions where it is impossible to distinguish incompetence from willful misdirection.” Jonathan V. Last Read the entire article here. . . . the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, . . . has migrated to both Europe and America, . .…
Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” contains Rule 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The…
QUICK FACTS ABOUT THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER FLAG are hosted here by the Smithsonian. America IS different from every other society. Why? America was founded and is re-constituted with people from all over the world fleeing oppressive regimes; Kings, Dictators, Monarchies, Oligarchies, Socialists, Fascists, and Communists, and yes, even self-styled Presidents. Immigrants seeking liberty and…
OK, just so I get this straight. Anti-gun Democrats are basically saying that if guns weren’t present for criminals and the mentally unstable to access, there would be no murders. If guns were not allowed in private homes, there would be no accidents involving children or opportunities for then to be used in suicides. This…
“In Cuba, Fidel Castro has been strengthened. Elián has been a rallying call for a population tired of the privations of isolation and central planning. An announcer on state television declared that Elian’s teachers would now “undertake the masterful work of making him a model child”. The Guardian’s Julian Borger…
The Isles of Scilly have the highest rate of employment in all of the UK: “There are very few people on St Agnes that are employed by someone else,” he explains. “There’s a culture of wanting to work and wanting to be self-sufficient. Until tourism took off around the 1970s, most people were either a…
Marco Rubio has spent the week traveling about Florida meeting with Floridians and “discussing” the issues that will be taken up by Congress when they reconvene in September this year. Now the “main-stream” press has been out looking far and wide for any kind of controversy while Congressional Representatives and Senators conduct meetings during the…
Assuming you were actually taught real history, how well did you pay attention in history class? Do you understand how tyranny takes over in a Western democracy? It doesn’t happen by revolution. They tried that in the 1960’s and it failed. But the people who want to end America as it was founded have not…
After all, if the Republicans are going to push the Democrat Party agenda every time they turn around, isn’t that what voting Republican is: a vote for the Democrat Party/agenda? Boehner endorses push for citizenship for children of illegal immigrants Dems pin immigration hopes on GOP’s Ryan Cantor: Making Citizens of Young Illegals the Decent…
Would you like to hear a speech from a real American, a speech like we haven’t heard since Reagan was in the White House? Then click on this link and watch this 12 minute video…and remember why you love this nation – and her legal immigrants: Ted Cruz’s Father Delivers Epic Speech Touting Patriotism and…
Stuck On Stupid… That is basically what the Republican Party inside the DC beltway establishment has come to be. STUCK ON STUPID. And that is exactly what they believe the base of the Republican Party will then allow these establishment types to turn the Party on its head and become “Stuck On Stupid” and join…
Via Rasmussen: Just 28% Now Think Feds Likely to Secure Border if Reform Plan Passes Regardless of what a comprehensive immigration reform plan promises, voters are less confident than ever that the federal government really would secure the border to prevent future illegal immigration. Still, voters continue to support the concept of comprehensive reform. Sixty…
M. Stanton Evans said this in a presentation for a group of Washington interns at the Heritage Foundation in 2007: The other thing is … don’t get too bogged down in party politics that [are] very superficial and lead you to directions that I think are really not the right direction. Of course, some of…
Do you have any Earthly idea what the hell that means? That is the “slogan” on my GSA approved calendar for the month of June. I’d feel better if it said something like “Look both ways before you cross the street”. That I can understand and grasp the concept of safety that it is trying…
Great article at The American Thinker: The profound simplicity of Revel’s nuts and bolts account of totalitarianism’s Cold War advance, far from being obsolete, actually sheds light on a defining feature of today’s progressive ascension: the perverting of the free press into a propaganda ministry. Revel’s trenchancy is proven in the fact that the mechanics…
The Rio Norte Line 
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