Some months back, I thought it would be worth the chuckles to send in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the CIA and FBI. Under the FOIA, every citizen was granted the ability to seek the file which the government held on him or her. Little did most citizens know, myself included, “We…
DetailsI posted a Greenwald column yesterday, but this one is too rich to ignore. Greenwald notes in yesterday’s column that Progressives have mastered hypocrisy and very few have seemed to notice: Indeed: is there even a single liberal pundit, blogger or commentator who would have defended George Bush and Dick Cheney if they (rather than…
DetailsThe debt of the U.S. government rings in at over $15 trillion these days, not including Social Security or Medicare. Unfunded debt obligations (things we have to pay for someday that we promised to people) are around $110-160 trillion, or the equivalent of two world economies (which will need to be paid out within around…
DetailsA common SNV reader posted this link yesterday, one that I have been holding onto for a blog post for a few days. As he noted, disturbing is the very least of descriptors that can apply to the Obama Administration’s defense of justification-free killing of American citizens abroad. When power is such that scruples no…
DetailsIn the past few weeks, some things you might have missed… The unemployment numbers are all falsified and manipulated, and will continue to be until Obama is re-elected, and the public will be none-the-wiser. It is all illusions and lies, magic-wanded to keep public opinion high and the truth low. Did you think politicians stopped…
Details+ We have learned from Ludwig von Mises how to respond to the socialists’ evasion (immunization) strategy as long as the defining characteristic—the essence—of socialism, i.e. the absence of the private ownership of the factors of production, remains in place, no reform will be of any help. The idea of a socialist economy is a…
Detailsis your lecture this week. Peter Kreeft takes the time, in his Lewis-esque fashion, to discuss ten things the Lord of the Rings, the best myth story ever written, tells us about the nature of good and evil. If you have an hour this week, this one isn’t one you should miss…Click through for parts…
DetailsLaurence Vance asks the Christian questions we all should, which hints at blowback, moral and legal hypocrisy, the humanity of those other than U.S. citizens, living the Gospel in government, and the importance of justice and legal equity: My point is, if another country does to us what we do to others, we’re not going…
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A survey of dying individuals found the following 5 regrets to be most prevalent: 1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.4. I wish I…
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