It’s becoming harder and harder to watch television. It’s no wonder they called it the “boob tube” in the days of yore. When I was a kid, there was a lot of dumb stuff on television, but it paled in comparison to what passes as acceptable television programming today.
If it was the Boob Tube in the fifties and sixties, it’s the Stupid Tube today. But let’s set aside pro wrestling, reality TV, Mel Gibson, LeBron James, and the Barefoot Bandit for now and focus on what are supposed to be serious news and commentary shows. Read Full Article
As a common-sense small businessman, I have a front-row seat to a slow-motion economic Armageddon that will be written about, discussed, and debated for decades to come.
But big-shot economists don’t listen to guys like me. They scoff as I keep predicting in commentary after commentary that small business is suffering a catastrophe of epic proportions and leading this nation toward levels of unemployment and economic crisis that will rival or surpass the Great Depression. Barack Obama is literally taxing small business to death.
There you go again, Lindsey. The most liberal Republican in the Senate (just a shade more so than his pal Mush McCain) seems intent on being the last best hope for an Obama-directed police state. Fortunately, the odds are that he will fail … at least for now.
As the whole world now knows, RINO Lindsey Graham recently told New York Times Magazine, “The problem with the Tea Party, I think it’s just unsustainable because they can never come up with a coherent vision for governing the country. It will die out.”
The second 5-4 reaffirmation of gun-ownership rights by the Supreme Court over the past two years is yet another reminder that the nation’s highest court is nothing more than a political tool. In the recent McDonald v. Chicago case, the Supreme Court found that individuals have a right to possess a handgun in their home for self-defense.
All well and good, but in both the Chicago and D.C. cases, had there been one more liberal on the court, the Constitutional right and, more important, the natural right to bear arms would have been declared “against the law.” Read Full Article
In Part III of this series, I quoted 19th century individualist and political philosopher Lysander Spooner, who eloquently argued that the United States Constitution was not binding on future generations since they neither agreed to it nor signed it. This position horrifies many people who believe that the Constitution was needed to protect “the people” by placing limits on the government.
Which sounds fine, except that the Constitution has not protected U.S. citizens from government aggression. On the contrary, such aggression has become worse with each passing year – and exploded under the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Regime. Read Full Article
Caution: The following article contains graphic insights into reality that may not be suitable for blind patriots. Reader discretion advised.
In Part II of this article, I pointed out that democracy is a far more effective tool for controlling people than brute force. The chains of democracy are commonly referred to as “entitlements,” a hallucination dreamed up by scoundrels who will do anything in exchange for power. The something-for-nothing urge in most people makes them easy prey when it comes to the entitlement addiction. Read Full Article
Many of the Founding Fathers were slave owners, most notably George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. So when Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence, what in the world was he thinking when he wrote that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness?”
It’s clear from their biographies that Jefferson (with about 200 slaves), Washington (with more than 300 slaves), and other slave-owning Founding Fathers knew that slavery was inherently wrong. But the issue was a hot potato in the colonies – a politically incorrect topic, so to speak. Read Full Article
If you’ve ever wondered why that 555-foot monolith on the National Mall in D.C. is named after the first president of the United States, read a good book on George Washington. Let me tell you, the guy was one tough dude. I believe he honestly thought he was invincible … and he was, at least until the end. Ironically, it took what most historians believe was some sort of throat infection to bring him down in 1799.
They don’t make wars like the American War of Independence anymore. No antiseptic missile strikes that allow you to kill without having to see blood and guts flying in every direction. No way. The colonial patriots fought the English up close – real close … in freezing weather … sweltering hot weather … too little food … too few supplies … and a lack of manpower. Read Full Article
