By John W. Whitehead

July 01, 2014



Imagine living in a country where armed soldiers crash through doors to arrest and imprison citizens merely for criticizing government officials. Imagine that in this very same country, you’re watched all the time, and if you look even a little bit suspicious, the police stop and frisk you or pull you over to search you on the off chance you’re doing something illegal.



If you’re thinking this sounds like America today, you wouldn’t… Continue

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"A bump in the road" .... remember that calloused statement?

I don't know the author of this poem Š received it today.  Very thought provoking and poignant.  I do recall, however, the President referring to the Benghazi incident as "a bump in the road."  Today I heard an ex-Navy Seal being interviewed on Fox News regarding a book he has written about how to handle crisis situations in our lives.  At the end of the interview…

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By Gary North

GaryNorth.com

November 16, 2013





The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is acting in a bipartisan way to cover up the biggest single threat to the bipartisan political alliance that is stripping America of its wealth: the United States Congress.



There is no question that the following policy is bipartisan. Democrats and Republicans in Congress are completely agreed that the following information should not get out to the American people,… Continue

Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Patrick Henry

The New York Times refuses to report on Benghazi.  http://www.libertynews.com/2012/10/30/93-0-the-real-media-malfeasance-score/

I don't know if there could be a more symbolic picture and act ... Brennan takes the oath of office on a constitution which did not include the bill of rights while standing below a picture of the original progressive hero Teddy Roosevelt .. the nightmare has only just begun.  …

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It is snowing in Virginia .. and it may be a sign that hell is freezing over as i find I agree with everything on the Massachusett's ACLU privacy page.  I have evolved.   During the 80s i never would have thought i would advocate the reading of ACLU information .. most assuredly not the Massachusett ACLU.

The ACLU of Massachusetts

The Drone legislation looks like a very good idea.

Brigadier General Butler, two time Medal of Honor winner (http://homeofheroes.com/moh/citations_1900_wars/mx_butler_smedley.html), presents a most heartfelt defense of peace and warns of the horrors of constant wars of intervention.



“If you let this country go into a European war, you will lose this democracy, donʼt forget that. As you stand by your boy in bed, he is safe, but here is another… Continue

We may have been safer if BO had stayed in Hawaii instead of learning elitist and totalitarianism in the Ivy League. #Democide = 262 mil http://ning.it/Xhqf2c …

John Mackey has written an outstanding book in defense of capitalism as opposed to the crony capitalism embraced by progressives.   The books is very good and he is bringing a strong new view to libertarian advocacy of free markets.

http://astore.amazon.com/libertyacorn-20/detail/1422144208

He is also taking a great deal of heat for highlighting the based on his comments on Obamacare.…

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“Do not blame Cae­sar, blame the peo­ple of Rome who have so enthu­si­as­ti­cal­ly acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of free­dom and danced in his path and gave him tri­umphal pro­ces­sions….Blame the peo­ple who hail him when he speaks in the forum of the ‘new, won­der­ful good soci­ety’ which shall now be Rome’s, inter­pret­ed to mean ‘more money, more ease, more secu­ri­ty, more liv­ing fatly at the expense of the indus­tri­ous’”

Roman states­man Mar­cus Tul­lius… Continue

To the House of Representatives of the United States:

Having considered the bill this day presented to me entitled "An act to set apart and pledge certain funds for internal improvements," and which sets apart and pledges funds "for constructing roads and canals, and improving the navigation of water courses, in order to facilitate, promote, and give security to internal commerce among the several States, and to render more easy and less expensive the means and provisions for the…

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By C.Jay Engel | C.Jay Engel lives Northern California with his wife, where he writes on everything from politics to theology and from culture to economic theory. C.Jay also writes on his own blog at www.ReformedLibertarian.com. You can also follow him on…

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This is a reprint of Research "Gun Control Facts." By James D. Agresti and Reid K. Smith. Just Facts, September 13, 2010. Revised 12/10/12. http://justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp (First of several entries to follow)

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