There are no crimes only criminals ~ Robespierre No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of civil authority. ~ Jefferson Prologue: Are some religions more protected than others? Can the government force Christian business owners to cater to gay customers […]
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it. ~ Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals (Rule 12) Do Christians have religious rights? Last Tuesday a DailyKos blogger whose penname is “Eclectablog” wrote an incendiary rant titled, Anti-trans* woman uses Michigan civil rights act to sue Planet Fitness for cancelling her membership. In this anti-Christian […]
Prologue to the Wicked Witch of the Upper West Side After reading a Breitbart article with the controversial title, “Is Hillary too big to fail”? I made the following comments on my Facebook page: “Is anyone in America too big to fail? This silly worldview got us into the Wall Street Collapse of 2008 by […]
When it comes to Iran and ISIS the enemy of your enemy – is your enemy! ~ Netanyahu Prologue to a Statesman Like many Americans who love the Nation of Israel, I sat with eager anticipation watching the truly historic speech by Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before both Houses of Congress last week. On […]
Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens, who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a simple but cleverly profound method of teaching by asking revelatory, piercing questions. The Greeks called this form “dialectic” – starting from a thesis or question, then discussing ideas and […]
…Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out – Because I was not a Jew / Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak for me. ~ Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984), Holocaust survivor Prologue to a typical uninformed Black Democrat Socialist Byron Allen, a Black […]
We are coming to Rome. We will conquer and establish the justice of Shariah. We will use your Leaning Tower of pizza [sic] Pisa to throw off homosexuals. ~ Abu Abdullah Britani, ISIS jihadist I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction. ~ Barack Obama, The Audacity of […]
*N.B.: I just received the tragic news from his family that Professor Arthur R. Labrew died this morning, Feb. 19, 2015, of a heart attack. Will post his funeral arrangements on my Facebook page as soon as they become available. …[T]he hypocrisy of the American Dream – that if one works hard enough, that in […]
Oligarchy has always has been the chief enemy of markets, enterprise, science, truly competitive capitalism and freedom. ~ Adam Smith Biography of Adam Smith Adam Smith (1723–1790) was a Scottish moral philosopher, innovator of political economy, and primary thinker of the Scottish Enlightenment. Smith is celebrated for two classic works: The Theory of Moral Sentiments […]
“The corruption, crime, and incompetence of the D.C. government has been an embarrassment to our nation’s capital for decades. It is long past time that Congress restored the honor and integrity of George Washington to the beautiful city which bears his name.” ~ Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), speaking on the BOWSER Act “It is […]
Fifth Circuit’s Ruling against “Nasdaq Board Diversity Rule” Safeguards Meritocracy Over Mediocrity
“The evidence presented by Nasdaq in its rule proposal, contrary to its claims, does not show that board diversity provides better returns for shareholders.” ~Excerpt from a Manhattan Institute led amicus curiae brief in the case of Alliance for Fair Board Recruitment vs. SEC. “We will terminate every diversity, equity, and inclusion program across the […]
The Keep Nine Amendment: A Permanent Solution to Threats of Court-Packing
“I think that was a bad idea when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the court. If anything would make the court appear more partisan, it would be that. So, I am not at all in favor of that solution. Nine seems to be a good number. It’s been that way for a […]
On Karl Marx and the First Principles of Evil
The first battlefield is to rewrite history. Anyone who know anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. ~ Karl Marx Biography of Marx Karl Marx (5 May 1818–14 March 1883) was […]
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