The truly silly season in politics is upon us now in full force. You see it arise when Republicans start arguing over contraception (because they don’t want to talk about reforming/reducing 55%+ of the budget that is in Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid). You also see it arise when Democrats start waving the bloody shirt of ‘increasing taxes only […]
Last month, Sandra Fluke told a committee of Congressional Democrats that she and other Georgetown law school women are being treated unfairly because they have to pay up to $3,000 out of their own pockets for birth control during law school. Her testimony was being offered in support of Obama’s healthcare mandate requiring “free” birth control […]
For a capitalist country, we sure don’t know very much about money. It takes more dollars these days to buy the same amounts of oil, corn, wheat, copper, gold, silver, vacations, grapes, health care, timber, other currencies, ethanol and gasoline. And yet we forget about all that other stuff and blame the high gas prices […]
On a recent episode of the Glenn Beck Show, Beck had an exchange, summarized here, with presidential candidate Rick Santorum. “I think you’ve got to put the Fed back in the business of just managing the money supply for the purposes of holding inflation in check,” Santorum said. “If the Fed’s only mission was dollar […]
King Solomon wrote in his Proverbs: “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Solomon intended for parents to base their children’s future on the Creator’s morals and integrity. A child’s mind is a sponge. Filling those sponges with worthwhile attributes — […]
The 8th Congressional District Candidate Debate was held Tuesday night February 21 in Concord, N.C. featuring the five Republican candidates running for the U.S. House seat currently held by Rep. Larry Kissell (D). The Candidates are Richard Hudson, former Republican staffer and activist and owner of Cabarrus Marketing Group; Dr. Scott Keadle, former Iredell County […]
It is common knowledge that different types of economic systems have different results. The reason for these varied results has to do with how decisions are made to distribute the material gains of our work. Capitalism has, historically, accumulated wealth as commodities. Commodities translate as those material things that have exchange value; they can be […]
The Michigan Republican primary is tomorrow and the race continues to evolve. For the past month, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum has been leading former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. In fact, at times, Santorum’s lead has been well in to the double digits. But for the past week or so, the Romney attack machine, which […]
It starts and ends with one question: “Who owns you?” If you believe that you are owned by your society, that others are entitled to your person, your property, and your compliance with their beliefs, then your demand of the law is that it limits freedom in order to maximize equality. Conversely, if you believe […]
The Libertarian Party can make a difference in the 2012 presidential campaign. But the only way we can make a difference is by being different. We can only make a difference if the Libertarian candidate for president is not ashamed to present a clear, principled, unwavering and unequivocal libertarian message that offers Americans true choices […]
