President Obama criticized Congressional Republicans on Saturday for refusing to support yet another debt being loaded onto future generations of Americans. The President whined “If this obstruction continues, unemployed Americans will see their benefits stop. Teachers and firefighters will lose their jobs.” Yes, Mr. President. That’s what happens when overwhelming bureaucracy and debt strangle...

Chavez Critics Silenced in Venezuela

Only days after a victory for free speech in the United States comes a major defeat for free speech in Venezuela. Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez forced cable television providers to stop transmitting Radio Caracas Television because the station was not broadcasting his official propaganda messages. Chavez...

January 24th, 2010 | Featured, Freedom of Speech | Read More

U.S. Supreme Court Affirms First Amendment Rights

The U.S. Supreme Court recently create a surprising and welcome roadblock in the path of those who seek to destroy free speech in the United States. In a narrow victory for freedom, the judges ruled 5-4 that groups of Americans who organize as corporations and labor unions do not lose their rights...

January 23rd, 2010 | Featured, Freedom of Speech | Read More

Church Burnings in Malaysia

The Indonesian web site World’s Prophecy recently published the news of churches being bombed in Malaysia for using the word “Allah”. When they originally published the story, three churches had been attacked — the count is now up at least eight. “Allah” is the only word...

January 23rd, 2010 | Religion | Read More

Singaporean Health Care

John Stossel recently authored The Singapore Alternative, a pretty good write-up of the health care system in Singapore and a comparison between it and the deformed monstrosity that the U.S. congress is preparing to foist upon unsuspecting Americans. I’ve recently been a beneficiary of some pretty...

January 11th, 2010 | Economics, Health Care | Read More

An Ayn Rand Moment for Venezuela

In Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, the productive members of society are crowded out by bureaucrats and politicians until finally the national rail system becomes unsafe to travel upon due to a lack of skilled maintenance personnel. The politicos whine and scream for the system to be fixed, but they...

January 10th, 2010 | Featured, Politics | Read More

Our Light Skinned President With No Negro Dialect

Game Change, a book about the 2008 Presidential election, is finally being published. The authors, John Heilemann of New York Magazine and Mark Halperin of Time, have published some amusing stories from their time on the campaign trail. The authors cover the usual Washington sex scandals, of course. ...

January 10th, 2010 | Featured, Politics | Read More

Newt Endorses the Tea Parties

Newt Gingrich has never been afraid to speak his mind, a fact which has cause him countless difficulties with both Democrats and Republicans. At various times he has fallen out of favor with both conservative and liberal Republicans. He now runs American Solutions, a “grassroots movement to...

January 9th, 2010 | Politics | Read More