‘News & Opinion’ Archives
The Morpheus Proposal
by Jim Davidson When we first meet her, the character Trinity is in a room numbered 303. Throughout the film, "The Matrix" there is a delightful motif of numbers. A little later, we meet the character "Neo" who, we are told is "the one." Obviously, Neo is an anagram of "one." We meet him for the first time in his room, 101.Numbers play a key role [...]
We The People
In 1776, we declared our independence from Great Britain. We successfully won the war and later adopted a constitution in 1787. Yet, while we were fighting for our freedom, we were enslaving others. We fought the French, the Barbary pirates, and the British again in 1812. We fought Mexico and through war, diplomacy, and money gained half her [...]
The Line In The Sand
In the first week of March 1836, William B. Travis told his troops at the old Misión San Antonio de Valero, known in history as The Alamo, that reinforcements would not be arriving. He then unsheathed his sword and drew a line in the ground, asking those who would remain and fight to cross it. Jim Bowie, bedridden with typhoid, asked that his bed [...]
Alan Greenspan, What Happened To The Man Who Wrote: “Gold And Economic Freedom”?
"The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.” ~Alan Greenspan While searching through some books on gold and the economy several of them mentioned Alan Greespan's essay "Gold and Economic Freedom." Ron Paul also [...]
Emergency Alert to Small Business: How One Clause of “Jobs Bill” Could Wipe Out Small Business in America Tomorrow!
By Wayne Allyn Root I am an economic refugee from California. I escaped to Nevada with my family, my business and my life a decade ago. It was either run for my life, or die trying. I escaped because of the impossible business climate - the highest income and business taxes in the country, the highest workers comp taxes, out of [...]
Prohibiting The Call Of Nature
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." ~Groucho Marx I arrived in Honolulu yesterday. It's good to be back. As much as I love Texas, I feel more at home in Hawai'i. The sad thing, however, is watching the deterioration of Hawai'i's economy and its [...]
Kabul has never ruled Afghanistan
By Carlo Ungaro The inauguration of Afghanistan’s president Karzai, in a capital city turned into a deserted fortress for the occasion, has doubtlessly constituted one of the very lowest points in the painful history of the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and its dreadful follow-up. As I observed over my 16 years in the country, the Afghans [...]
Throwing The Bums Out Is Not Enough
“The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.” ~Harry Browne Woo hoo! Hot Damn! Yee haw! Arlen Specter got kicked out. Rand Paul wins, and that woman from Arkansas with the vile name is forced into a run off. If she had completely lost it would have been an "A+" day. Instead it [...]
On What To Do When The Lecturer-In-Chief Drones On
“A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side” ~George Eliot I'm still on vacation. At home I don't watch TV. I just rent DVDs. It saves on cable bills and time. So my source for news is the dreaded internet our Lecturer-in-Chief warns us about. It might be untrue he says. Really? So when he said he doesn't know how to use all [...]
And Now Machete? This Is Supposed To Be A Coincidence?
“(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth” ~Jacques Ellul After Arizona's immigration law and especially since Cinco de Mayo, thing have gotten worse. [...]
The One Solution To Illegal Immigration Everyone Wants, Especially The Government
"Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants." ~Steve Israel, US Representative from New York Okay, I admit it. I'm cynical and even more paranoid. This whole Arizona immigration law, illegal alien, Cinco de Mayo, American vs. Mexican [...]
On State Idolatry
"The coldest of all cold monsters is known by the name, State. Coldly it lies, and this lie slips from its mouth: ‘I, the State, am the people.’” „Staat heißt das kälteste aller kalten Ungeheuer. Kalt lügt es auch; und diese Lüge kriecht aus seinem Munde: ‘Ich, der Staat, bin das Volk.’” ~Friedrich [...]
What’s Really Important? Liberal vs. Conservative? or Libertarian vs. Statist?
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." ~Thomas Paine Is Libertarianism Liberal or Conservative? Liberals don't like libertarianism because it's "conservative" (whatever that means), and conservatives don't [...]
The Attack on Libertarians, Constitutionalists, Tea Partiers, And Now Confederates
"I saw in State Rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy. . .. Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization; and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond [...]
Is Texas Independence A Good Idea?
"The consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin of all that has proceeded it." - Robert E. Lee The Texas Nationalist Movement The Texas Nationalist Movement is growing in strength as it becomes obvious that the Federal Government is [...]
