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What you are about to read is virtually unknown. Yet it is an old story. I first read a version of this story in Douglas Hyde’s little book, Dedication and Leadership (1956). Hyde had been a Communist Party leader in Great Britain in the 1930s and 1940s. In the late 1940s he defected and joined [...]
Continue reading →There are activists in the Tea Party movement who are unaware of when the movement began, and why. This video explains both. The issue is about more than taxes — just as the original tea party was. It’s about cutting spending. Because it is about cutting spending, there are fissures within the movement. As with [...]
Continue reading →The town council of a small Kentucky town of 1850 residents passed a law requiring everyone who lives in town to buy a $10 car sticker. Local teachers decided to ignore the law. The town then set up roadblocks. The police checked each car for a sticker. Meanwhile, a wave of burglaries swept the town, [...]
Continue reading →I recently filled my gasoline tank. It came to $75. I drive a Toyota minivan. It gets about 20 miles to the gallon on average. I don’t drive it on the road for long trips often. My 1993 Dodge minivan gets better mileage. A wife in the United States drives about 1,000 miles a month. [...]
Continue reading →Ron Paul is getting a hearing from young voters and old ones. Both age groups think the two major parties are corrupt. This is not limited to the United States. Across Europe, the established parties are facing revolts. This is a prelude to real political change. The voters did not care until it hit their [...]
Continue reading →Tomorrow, Occupy Wall Street plans an international general strike. The general strike has long been the far Left’s key threat: a shut-down of the economy. Fortunately, this never works. They don’t have enough people to slow down anything. But by trying, the organizers of Occupy Wall Street will symbolically fly the red flag. Occupy-related events [...]
Continue reading →It is nice to see that the pro-Democrat MoveOn organization feels on the defensive regarding the words “illegal aliens.” This phrase, which refers to aliens who are illegally inside the United States, is widely used correctly by millions of voters. The Democrats prefer the phrase “undocumented workers.” The illegal alien is breaking the law. To [...]
Continue reading →Congress has been prohibiting Americans from buying low-cost sugar ever since 1789, the first year of the United States under the Constitution. This subsidizes the sugar growers, who have not operated in a free market in the nation’s history. But it’s not just the sugar growers who are the beneficiaries. Corn producers, whose product is [...]
Continue reading →Americans pay 18.5 cents extra per gallon at the pump. This money goes to the U.S. government. Then the money is looted by a handful of cities that subsidize public transit for low-income people who vote. That’s right: the money that is supposed to repair U.S. roads is used to subsidize people with no cars. [...]
Continue reading →Every day, smart phone technology spreads to new users. This is happening all over the world. Every second, one hour of YouTube videos get uploaded. This is just getting started. Smartphones have cameras. These cameras keep getting clearer. Flashback: the Rodney King video. Clear enough. Rodney King Beating – More bloopers are a click away [...]
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