The Western Media’s Iranian Perspective [PIC]

Iran’s Moral Grounds [PIC]

First a little house keeping about the event:
I was really disappointed in the turnout in Raleigh, but nevertheless our voices were heard. I don’t expect any of the hearings to have an effect on the implementation of NAIS, but it was important to be there. I do wish I had made a comment to a [...]

“We have to declare war on everything. We have the war on crime, the war on poverty, the war on litter, the war on cancer, the war on drugs…” - George Carlin
I apologize in advance to the late, great George Carlin for my following statement: we need a war on faith.
Friday, the Texas state supreme [...]

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen:
Most people who oppose socialized medicine do so on the grounds that it is moral and well-intentioned, but impractical; i.e., it is a noble idea — which just somehow does not work (see my other two notes on health care for an explanation of this-one covers the problems with socialized medicine, the [...]

My college career was littered with environmentalism in the wrong way. The major I chose was Environmental Technology, so much of my coursework consisted of environmental classes. Some of these classes taught the Tragedy of the Commons and none of them offered a solution to the problem other than immediate, stiff government regulations. One professor [...]

Watching and reading his speech reminds me of the old Clinton trick of triangulation. In short, he says a little something for everyone in the effort to win over as many people as possible. He knows Arab views well enough to know where he can win points — platitudes on Islamic contributions to the world, [...]

It is widely assumed that Israel is faithful ally of the US. This notion could not be further from the truth.
After WWII, The U.S. government assisted in the establishment of Israel, but it had not been fully ardent in physically defending the established state. Up until 1967, the state of Israel was small, however it [...]

I listened to a speech online from the president of Bennington College last week.  She used the following quote from Thomas Jefferson as part of her support for overhauling education:
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
I have thought about it multiple times a day [...]

Millionaires Leaving

I read an interesting article on Wall Street Journal Online.  Maryland, like CA, NY, and other states, had a budget deficit at the end of 2008.  How would they fix it?  Just like other states, they would tax the wealthiest because, after all according to Maryland’s Governor O’Malley, they were “willing and able to pay their [...]

Ben Bernanke is starting to grow a backbone. After practically endorsing Obama during the campaign, Bernanke is finally starting to tell it like it is, but he needs to be more blunt. You may recall the head of the treasury in the UK telling Prime Minister Gordon Brown, “stop spending, we are running [...]

Of course a gun still serves its purpose as personal protection, but we can’t always “bring our guns to town” as it were. So we must rely on other equipment to protect our rights and liberty. Those of you familiar with Freedom Watch have likely heard Judge Napolitano state that the video camera is the [...]

New Department of Homeland Security (DHS) documents are shinning light on the direction the ‘War on Terror’ is taking in America. The document entitled Domestic Extremism Lexicon (1) uses broad terms such as ‘alternative media’ and ‘direct action’ to describe would-be terrorist. The document groups together almost anyone who opposes the current government’s policies. From [...]

Happy Birthday Revolution!

For 50 years, the pearl of the Caribbean has been in jail. The once reigning country has been locked out of the world and its endless possibilities for half a century. Half a century of oppression, poverty, and tyranny have been the domestic policy under one single bearded man. Occasions celebrate these monumental [...]

46 years ago, to this day, President JFK signed Executive Order 11110 , in an attempt to abolish the central bank [aka Federal Reserve], and place the U.S. dollar on the silver standard. He was subsequently terminated from office in November of that year. (There’s no way that one 7.62 mm round would take off [...]

With the world’s economic situation declining so far in 2009, the price of oil should naturally be a bright spot. Supply is way up, demand is down so of course prices are…up? Throw out the high school econ books, the infamous oligopoly of oil isn’t allowing for common sense economics any longer.
Obviously this isn’t OPEC’s [...]

Iran’s Most Powerful Missile Is Its Smallest? [PIC]

In these economically troubled times the emergence of economic theory debates has again commenced. I’m certain many Americans have found themselves bombarded with terms such as “Keynesianism” and “Austrian economics” – among other things. In this article I am hopeful that I will effectively be able to shed a bit of light on what may [...]