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The intent of the committee is to neuter the United States of America. They’ve done it by rewarding a pacifist.”~ Rush Limbaugh

In addition to being a Nobel laureate, Barack Obama is many things. After his election, I wrote in Liberty of his radical associations, his life spent in the service of racial preference, his aberrant Christianity, and his plan to further redistribute the wealth of taxpayers to taxeaters. I haven’t changed my mind. The black conservative Alan Keyes simply calls him “a radical communist.” Obama may personify the extreme left wing of the Democratic Party, but a pacifist he is not. Continue reading →

by Byron York, Washington Examiner

Remember the controversy over the Pentagon policy of not allowing the press to take pictures of the flag-draped caskets of American war dead as they arrived in the United States? Critics accused President Bush of trying to hide the terrible human cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“These young men and women are heroes,” Vice President Biden said in 2004, when he was senator from Delaware. “The idea that they are essentially snuck back into the country under the cover of night so no one can see that their casket has arrived, I just think is wrong.” Continue reading →

Imagine that one day in the not to distant future you answer a knock on your door and find that the Police are there to arrest you for a crime that you haven’t committed, but someone has identified you as having the potential to commit that crime some time in the future. Sounds like 1984 Science fiction doesn’t it. But what if it was actually happening right then and there? What would you do? More appropriately, would there be anything you could do? Or are you one of those who loudly state “That could never happen here?” Continue reading →

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“It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it”

I recalled this statement while I was reading a very powerful look at the My Lai massacre that took place during the Vietnam War. The depravity of humanity gone mad is revealed in this account and one would think that we would never again commit such atrocities. But the powers that be convinced us that we should put it behind us and move on. And now it seems we have repeated the depravity again in Iraq.

Is it true that our future is shaped by what and how we react to events and realities of the present? Have we gone even deeper into depravity since My Lai? And if that is true, what did we not do that would have kept us from drifting into an open acceptance of torture and unjustified bloodletting today? If the future we get IS up to us, what failures of our past determine what we leave for our children today? Continue reading →

Recent News reports that Obama says those who actually did the physical torture of detainees cannot be tried for their crimes because they were “just following orders.” On the other hand, “those who ordered the torture cannot be tried as they only ordered it – They did not physically participate in the torture.” Therefore no one can be tried for torture. This is a perfect case of Circular Logic.

And a Carbon Copy of the Nuremberg Defense used by Nazi Torturers. Which didn’t save them. Bush, Obama, Congress, Cheney, Political Parties, people, are you listening? Continue reading →

It’s bad enough when so-called economists serve up the same Keynesian nonsense that has led us down the current cul-de-sac in the first place. At least those people have some incidental knowledge, however deeply flawed, of basic economic concepts. It’s far worse when political pundits, whose understanding of economics typically comes from Treasury Department talking points, hold forth as if they really know what is going on. FULL ARTICLE

Back in the 1920s, Mencken was influencing a generation of educated people. He was a journalist, satirist and social critic, a cynic and free thinker, known as either the “Sage of Baltimore” or the “Bad Boy of Baltimore.” As well known and influential as he was in the 1920s, Mencken is sadly unfamiliar to many educated people today. And even though he passed in 1956, Mencken knew where America was headed long before today. Writing in the Baltimore Sun back in 1937, Mencken believed that, by now, “the incurable idiots may conceivably constitute an absolute majority of the population.” FULL ARTICLE

Do you recall who said, “Well, all I know is what I read in the newspapers”?

Well, Bunkie, it was Will Rogers, as quoted in The New York Times, September 30, 1923 (according to sources).

What became Rogers’ trademark quip has become famous, probably because of its simplicity and because millions of Americans could say the same, particularly in the 20th century before television news — as a poor journalistic cousin — became a main source of news and information. Continue reading →

Marc Gallagher of www.LibertyMaven.com recently posted this trial news show.  It’s called “Freedom Watch” and is a 60 minute injection of raw liberty hosted by Judge Andrew Napolitano.  You can try watching the second hour-long trial show from this link.   Peter Schiff, Stephen Moore from the Wall Street Journal, Cody Willard, Ron Paul, Tracey Burns and Lew Rockwell from the Mises Institute and lewrockwell.com all took turns as the Judge moderated. The hour of audio from the first show is available here.

Prior to the watching the show, I had only come across the Judge’s name once or twice before as by personal choice I’ve been boycotting FOX since they blackballed Ron Paul from the New Hampshire presidential debate a year ago.  I’ve decided to remove my boycott if FOX airs this show – although it will probably only apply to NFL games and Freedom Watch. Continue reading →

Is there anyone left out there who hasn’t been sucked into TV Land – British (or American) style – who can still attest to life devoid of the culturally (politically) requisite 3.75 hours of daily TV watching, or 26.25 hours per week? It’s worth noting that Deborah Orr tells us within her below article, published in today’s Independent newspaper, that these figures only include broadcast television, not watching DVDs, films in cinemas, YouTube or other internet-broadcast content. FULL ARTICLE