Common Sense about religion

I am always troubled by the willingness of Americans to revise history so that it fits into their own worldviews.  To know history, one must first study history.  To comment about a historic figure’s philosophy and intentions, one must first read that figure’s own journals and publications.   To assert truth, one must first make sure [...]

So many reasons to love Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine was, by some accounts, the most well-read Englishman ever to live. If you are reading this, regardless of who you are, or how many Nobel prizes you have won, you can rest assured that Paine’s education was more complete than your own. When you read his commentaries on money and the [...]

Jesse “the Body” Ventura mind-slams the Republicrats

“I’m pleased to report my success in repealing one law.  It had to do with the game of bingo.” – Jesse Ventura
How could I resist?  The ex-wrestler turned politician named his book Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me!  How am I supposed to resist reading that?
Of all the insane people in the world, Jesse Ventura [...]

Patriotism and Partisanship in America

“I do not believe that any two men, on what are called doctrinal points, think alike who think at all.  It is only those who have not thought that appear to agree.” – Thomas Paine
“I am a Democrat.”  What does this mean?  “I am a Republican.”  What does this mean?  Does anyone even know anymore?
I [...]

“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 [...]

Republican Nationalism + Democrat Socialism = U.S. Nazism

National Socialism, better known as Nazism, is Clintobamonomics  combined with Bush-McCain Diplomacy and Secrecy.  When the Democrats and the Republicans do agree to terms, they usually both get what they want.  Democrats get more social planning boards and funds, and Republicans get more spy-on-the-citizens powers and nifty 007 gadgets (which will be sold to overseas dictators as well).  [...]

To HELL with the REPUBLICRATS. Have faith in the Free Revolution Party!

 Republicans put faith in the George W. Bush security system, to which we are told we owe our livelihoods, and which has brought with it a knack for creating terrorists much faster than Osama Bin Laden ever could.  Democrats put faith in the welfare state, believing that ever-increasing transfer payments will end poverty in the United States, when [...]

Declaration of Independence (revised)

If you read the Declaration of Independence, and study the grievances against the crown in 1776, you will realize that much of the oppression expelled by the Revolutionary War has returned to this continent as a democratically elected tyranny, which thrives only because of a distorted sense of reality that has sadly become common among [...]

Common Sense

I just finished reading Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, the pamphlet that inspired American independence.  There is so much in it still relevant today.  The last paragraph of the work:
“And here without anger or resentment I bid you farewell, sincerely wishing, that as men and christians, ye may always fully and uninterruptedly enjoy every civil and [...]