Americans Believe That Government Is a Threat to Individual Rights

Featured, Politics — March 14, 2010 at 3:02 pm

In a recent CNN poll, 56% of Americans stated that they believe the U.S. government poses an immediate threat to individual rights and freedoms. 56% is a slim majority, but it is a majority. A majority of Americans expressing that sort of distrust in our day and age is almost unbelievable, but in the days when wiser men ruled our nation it was commonplace. Our very first President, George Washington, said...

Superfreakonomics

Award winning economist Steven Levitt and bestselling author Stephen Dubner have teamed up again to create a followup to their phenomenal hit Freakonomics. In these two tomes, the authors show how seemingly irrational decisions are actually the result of misunderstood but entirely rational economic...

February 16th, 2010 | Economics | Read More

The End of Pax Americana

Pax Americana is a Latin term meaning “American Peace”. The phrase is used to describe the period of relative peace which the world has enjoyed since 1946, as a direct result of American power. In the more than sixty years since the allies won WWII, the world has experienced a time of unprecedented...

February 16th, 2010 | Featured, Military, Politics | Read More

Grant Prisoner of War Status to Terrorists

John Brennan, Barack Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor, planted his foot squarely in his mouth recently when he stated that “Twenty percent isn’t that bad”, in reference to the percentage of individuals released from Guantanamo Bay who are later found on the battlefield. ...

February 16th, 2010 | Featured, Military, Politics | Read More

Flaying the NRA

Brian Doherty does a pretty decent job of flaying the National Rifle Association in a Reason article titled The NRA Muscles into McDonald v. Chicago. I’m an NRA Life Member and I tend to think of the NRA as a strong ally in the cause of liberty, but they have become a very unreliable ally. I am...

February 12th, 2010 | Gun Rights | Read More

Kooky Iranian Government Outlaws the Color Green

Iranian police and quazi-official government thugs have been wandering the streets of Tehran, harassing people found to be wearing the color green. Apparently, green is a fashion statement which supports the Iranian opposition party. Why anyone would not be in the opposition party is a mystery to me. The...

February 12th, 2010 | Politics, Uncategorized | Read More

Don’t Tread on Me

Don’t Tread On Me is a phrase that appeared on several flags used in the early United States, including the First Navy Jack, the Flag of the Culpeper Minutemen, and the Gadsden flag (pictured). The Gadsden flagwas designed by Colonel Christopher Gadsden and presented to the Second Continental Congress...

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

Mohammad Reza Ali-Zamani

Take a good look at the man in the photo. He could be your neighbor, your kids school teacher, or the barber who cuts your hair. Instead, he’s dead. He was murdered by the Iranian government. They don’t call it murder, of course. Mohammad was given a show trial where he and a hundred...

February 6th, 2010 | Politics | Read More