Iran: the bait that could hook the world’s biggest shark

The rhetoric coming from Tehran, whether it be anti-American, anti-Israeli, Holocaust-denying, or ambiguously nuclear, is accompanied by a confidence that one would not expect from a nation that the United States could crunch like a cockroach. We may call Ahmedinejad evil, unscrupulous, radical, or unreasonable, but it would be a mistake to think of him [...]

Not even from Charlton Heston’s cold dead hands

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” – Thomas Jefferson Americans, go buy more guns. The Supreme Court ruled that the handgun ban in D.C. is unconstitutional. I agree. The effect of guns on America is as follows: the more, [...]

Does America know where its economy is headed?

As a rule, Congress will not address a difficult problem until it becomes a crisis. Former GAO Head David Walker resigned because Congress would not address what he calls “unfunded liabilities” or the “fiscal gap,” which is the growing difference between the nation’s implicit debt and its expected revenues. The sum seems destined to bring [...]

George Carlin turned unfortunate truths into humor

A couple of nights ago the world lost George Carlin, an “entertainer,” they will say, a man who may be called crazy, but should never be called wrong. George Carlin saw things as they were, which borders on being “criminal-minded” in any society. For every thousand people perpetuating customary lies, there is one telling the [...]

Unjust war: are passive Americans responsible?

“A policy of overthrowing or destabilizing every regime our government dislikes is no strategy at all, unless our goal is international chaos and domestic impoverishment.” – Ron Paul I received a good question about a post in which I asserted, “those who henceforth perpetuate the lie that the surge is working are war criminals, and [...]

Ignorance v. Oklahoma: state sovereignty, and its frightening media blackout

I heard a rumor today that Oklahoma’s state legislature had declared sovereignty from federal mandates it considered beyond the national government’s constitutional powers. On blogs and independent news outlets around the world, the news of Oklahoma’s resolution was making its rounds. The state invoked the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: “The powers not delegated [...]

McCain thinks like a dictator

I believe the Supreme Court made a very good decision last week in the case of Boumediene v. Bush. McCain calls the decision to extend the writ of habeas corpus to detainees at Guantanamo “one of the worst decisions in history.” Perhaps he would rank it along the lines of the Court’s support of slavery [...]

Martin Luther King, Jr. was real; Obama is a fraud

“Whenever the early Christians entered a town, the people in power became disturbed and immediately sought to convict the Christians for being “disturbers of the peace” and “outside agitators.” But the Christians pressed on, in the conviction that they were “a colony of heaven,” called to obey God rather than man.” – Martin Luther King, [...]

Shakespeare, who made America and beat Hitler

In modern democracies, politics and popular culture are inseparable. While a small percentage of Americans know what was discussed on Capitol Hill this week, a significant number know who was booted from American Idol, and observing this tableau, a political mind may be repulsed. For the liberal philosopher, turning the minds of an apathetic or [...]

Iraqis have a voice, “but nobody listened.” Will you?

I have written a book; and if it cannot be refuted, it cannot be condemned. But I do not consider the prosecution as particularly leveled against me, but against the general right, or the right of every man, of investigating systems and principles of government, and showing their several excellencies or defects.” – Thomas Paine [...]