Government submits to God, who wants to leave us alone

This story is, of course, fictional.  If you see this headline in the newspaper tomorrow morning, you will need to pinch yourself–and if that does not wake you–realize that you have in fact died and gone to heaven.  As I imagine it, there are no tax collectors in heaven.  Upon entry into heaven, I could pick up the [...]

Review: The Miracle (The Miracle Theatre, Pigeon Forge, TN)

The Miracle is the well-known story of Jesus Christ put into the form of a musical with awesome performance effects. I am not a Christian and think organized religion is, to quote the great actor Jesse “the Body” Ventura (of Wrestlemania fame), “a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers, [...]

The skeleton shelf: how the media chooses who loses

We the people are under fire from corporate media. Their intent is uncertain, but whether for indiscriminate profit or intentional distraction, media sources are bombarding us with smoke bombs of emotion, which steadily stupefy the American voter.
Take Jeremiah Wright, for example. We are asked to listen to a prominent preacher shout obscenities about our country, [...]

My first attempt at poetry: “I am a human”

Perhaps the most important thing I have learned from Shakespeare is that the leading edge of social reform is always artistic.  Shakespeare created individualism before it was ever really known.  I write social commentary all the time, but I have never tried to form it in a more attractive, presentable, widespread way.  “I am a human” is [...]

A frightening parallel: European Jews and the FLDS sect

“In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then . . [...]

Red Light Cameras = Proof Evil Exists

“All agree that the legislature cannot bargain away the police power of a State. ‘Irrevocable grants of property and franchises may be made if they do not impair the supreme authority to make laws for the right government of the State; but [101 U.S. 814, 818] no legislature can curtail the power of its successors [...]

“It is their right, it is their duty…”

“…to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their security.” – Thomas Jefferson
When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, and when our framers ventured into the realm of a constitutional republic, they did so at great risk, seeking great reward.
The United States was founded on Jefferson’s philosophy, along with Thomas Paine’s.  [...]

Tough love for America (not hate)

For those who understand the economic structure of the United States, and hold–like myself–a neoclassical economic philosophy, the short term and long term outlooks for the status quo are gloomy for the individual, and in turn, for the nation as a whole. An economic system whose stated goals are maximum employment and minimum wage will [...]

Sean Hannity’s new corruption culprit: bloggers

“It’s absolutely bad for the culture.” – Sean Hannity on blogging, 04.07.08
The  criticism can be understood on a level of mere survival, because as its availability becomes universal, the Internet’s blogosphere will render obsolete Mr. Hannity’s line of work, reducing him and people like him to what they always should have been: ordinary.
The great irony of Mr. [...]

Wealth, Economics and Foreign Policy

A real financial tip: Don’t buy anything you can’t afford, and hold onto whatever property you have through this depression. This is not a sale on financial stocks, nor is it a time to be jumping into shallow pools of capital. This is the beginning of something unprecedented and horrible for this country, and the media [...]