Category: Current Affairs

  • Based on the overwhelming outcry of all THREE of you readers out there, this blog will become more and more of a Video Blog. Don't worry, the colorful and entertaining written articles will continue, but the videos on this site have garnered so much popularity that I've decided to listen to the voice of the…

  • The following link will take you to a phenomenal movie short entitled "IOUSA." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_TjBNjc9Bo This film presents America's fiscal crisis in the clearest terms I've found yet. The progression is easy to follow. The implications, scary. The most intelligent observation made during the film is that we suffer from a "leadership deficit." No phrase could…

  • Peter Schiff has a clear understanding of America's current economic condition. He has repeatedly held strong to his predictions in the face of withering opposition – and has repeatedly been proven correct! Additionally, Schiff is a very clear articulator of topics which have been confused and obscured by mainstream pundits and government officials. Just listen…

  • A little late, I was traveling today, but wanted to get this up. God bless all the veterans and their families. May we never take you for granted, nor stop working to make our government worthy of those who serve her. (Thanks to Tim Marks for passing this along).

  • Click on the link below for a very well written, easy to understand article explaining where we are economically in the United States right now. You will notice immediately that our government is not currently, nor has it been for over twenty years, ANYWHERE NEAR these principles. http://dailyreckoning.com/the-magic-formula/ The author, Nathan Lewis, calls the combination…

  • "In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet, and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'" Grand Inquisitor, Brothers Karamazov

  • The ramrod of government-controlled healthcare is beating hard upon the doors of free enterprise. For some reason, a sufficient number of people have somehow become convinced that the US government can actually run something, anything, efficiently, for this crazy idea of nationalized health care to be gaining traction. But the facts of what such a…

  • Hopefully readers of this blog (all 3 of you!) have noticed that I never bash individual policy-makers or politicians. Rather, I attempt to focus on the principles involved.  This has been intentional, because our problems are bigger than personalities, and our malaise is beyond the reach of political messiahs (whether of the Bush or Obama…

  • Change can be overwhelming and scary sometimes. But the one thing that doesn't change is change. The world we live in is changing at an accelerating pace; and we'd better get used to it. Instead of fearing change we should embrace it. We should dig deeper into advancements in the areas in which we're interested,…

  • I have contributed many posts on this blog detailing the perplexing operation of the fiat money system propagated by the Federal Reserve System in the United States. Incredibly, president Obama is now proposing even more power to the Fed! I don't agree or endorse everything Congressman Ron Paul says, but his comments in this video…