From the category archives:

Tyranny

Obama Care and the Schechter Poultry Corporation

March 20, 2010

Here we are again — the most recent moment of the Obama Care endgame.  The Landmark Legal Foundation and Mark Levin are finding ways to challenge (pdf) the “Deem and Pass” maneuver which may materialize as a reality later today.  Also, many states are now in position to pass laws refusing new Obama Care mandates.  [...]

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“The Coming Insurrection” in Greece

March 4, 2010

Last week I posted on the violence in Greece due to the first signs of the collapsing of the Bismarckian welfare state, which has been the norm in Europe for a hundred years.  The significance of this and the rest of the PIIGS in Europe is that the trends facing Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and [...]

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Obama: Reconcile THIS!

March 3, 2010

Where’s the modern day Paul Revere galloping through the towns this night shouting “The White Coats are coming!  The White Coats are coming!“?  Maybe Paul’s waiting to see how things shake out over the next few weeks.
As it turns out in a speech earlier today, President Obama decided that health care reform simply must be [...]

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New ObamaCare Plan: Lipstick on a Pig

March 2, 2010

The Democrats have lost the health care reform debate:   that much is clear in the polling and by their actions.  However, the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Team are not ready to throw in the towel.  One just has to refer to last Thursday’s “bipartisan” Health Care summit to see that Obama and crew are still trying to [...]

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Tea Time for the UK!

February 26, 2010

British patriot Daniel Hannan, the hands-down best member of the EU Parliament, is speaking at a UK-style Tea Party in his home town of Brighton tomorrow!  Hannan rejects that the “Taxed Enough Already” concept over here in the States is unique to the Red White and Blue — he notes a sparse history of the [...]

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The Problem with the “PIIGS”

February 15, 2010

If you haven’t heard about the acronym “PIIGS” yet, I’ll let you in on it:  PIIGS stands for Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain — countries in the European Union on the verge of economic collapse.  Of the five nations in trouble, Greece is the closest to collapse and the youth in the streets have [...]

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Iran: We’re Nuclear! … Almost

February 11, 2010

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s “big” proclamation which was supposed to scare the pants off the West happened to be a pretty predictable one.  Iran is now in possession of some highly-enriched uranium with the capability of enriching higher.  You need 90% enrichment for weapons, but Mahmoud admitted their capabilities range from 20-80%.  Meaning, not much has changed [...]

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Something Brewing in Iran

February 1, 2010

A couple of stories that have surfaced today make me wonder if something is brewing in Iran.  First, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced yesterday that Iran would “deliver a harsh blow to the ‘global arrogance’ on this year’s anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.” The anniversary, which takes place on February 11, marks the beginning of [...]

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Ryan’s Take on the State of the Union Address

January 28, 2010

I didn’t like it.
Pretty succinct, huh?!
Aside from the obvious liberal crap and fake platitudes, here’s what I really didn’t like:  Obama’s Chavez-like qualities shown through a few times last night.  The way he immaturely called out the Supreme Court with a poor, populist, and inaccurate argument, knowing they couldn’t respond lest Joe Wilson-like “You Lie” [...]

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Beck on the Progressives Post-Brown

January 20, 2010

Yesterday, I was watching Beck when he made an interesting point about moving forward from Scott Brown’s glorious election in Massachusetts yesterday.  Run-of-the-mill Democrats would know how to react to Brown’s victory; they’d run to the middle and try to depict themselves as reasonable moderates who went astray and now got the message.  However, we [...]

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Hillary Clinton: Talking to Iran Didn’t Work

December 16, 2009

Iran is on the verge of developing a nuclear bomb, and all we’ve been doing for the past 11 months of the Obama Administration is trying to talk without preconditions.  Well, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton now admits that talking has basically yielded jack:

Now, to be fair, the Bush administration wasn’t doing much more than [...]

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Obama Urges Burma to Release Aung San Suu Kyi

November 15, 2009

During his recent trip to Singapore, President Obama urged the Prime Minister of Burma to release pro-democracy dissident Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest.  Given Obama’s warped sense of good and evil and his tendency throw his support behind some pretty shady characters, the request must have been a bit surprising for the Burmese.  [...]

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Commemorating a Historic Day, and Obama’s Lack of Respect For It

November 10, 2009

When President Reagan issued the challenge “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” on June 10, 1987, no one thought the Berlin Wall would fall anytime in the near future.  Yet just a day short of two years and five months later, the wall was torn down.  Yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of [...]

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New Treaty Could Threaten US Sovereignty

October 23, 2009

There’s been a buzz out there on the ”Internets” about a 95-minute speech given in St. Paul by former Thatcher policy advisor Lord Christopher Monckton last week which ripped apart Algore’s numerous global warming theses, while warning America about what President Obama might set into motion by signing the Copenhagen Treaty this December — giving up part of our national [...]

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Ayn Rand on Socialized Health Care

October 8, 2009

Upon discussing Atlas Shrugged with my father a few weeks ago, he spotted an editorial in the Providence Journal (the local Rhode Island paper slowly dying like the rest of the MSM) which spotlighted Rand’s book We the Living from 1936.  Well, the article said that a 1942 movie on the book exists and only recently on DVD format.  [...]

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“Atlas” Has an Itch

October 6, 2009

Wealthy people are leaving the tax-hell of New York, while 45% of doctors would consider quitting if Obama Care were enacted.  Scary prospects for New York’s looter class and the nation as a whole, respectfully, when those who produce, create, innovate and do the hard work at the top are abused to the point of [...]

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Netanyahu Calls Out the UN

September 25, 2009

Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a speech to the United Nations stating plainly that Iran is insidiously destabilizing the region through proxy wars, openly threatening Israel while denying the Holocaust, and thumbing its nose at the IAEA (not big deal there, but an honorable mention seemed obligatory).  Hence, a stronger hand is needed by [...]

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Attack on the Pledge? It Must Be September!

September 14, 2009

Like clockwork, it’s September and the ACLU is at it again attacking the Pledge of Allegiance in schools!  Extending the idea that the students don’t have to say the Pledge in some states, they want those children to be informed by their teachers and administrators that they don’t have to say the Pledge – what some [...]

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The Van Jones Affair

September 4, 2009

Radical communist activist Van Jones is President Obama’s Green Jobs “Advisor” and has such dangerous views it would cause most to question what he’s doing there.  While crickets sound from the MSM, Glenn Beck has been all over this.  Here’s a clip from yesterday’s show where he goes through Van Jones’s issues and others who surround [...]

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Our Kids Begin Their School Year with “Obama-ganda”

September 3, 2009

By now you’ve heard about the President’s upcoming speech to the kiddies on September 8, equipped with lesson plans, suggested activities, and other elements of state-sanctioned propaganda to “stimulate discussion.”  We all knew the public school system has been a dumping ground for failed social engineering projects since John Dewey, but never before has a President [...]

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Alone on Obamacare

August 19, 2009

Word has it from various sources that the Democrats, reading the cards (the lightning-struck Tower probably), are ready to forget bipartisan support for Obamacare and may jam it through anyway.  All this blaming of Republicans for obstructionism is laughable since with a clear majority in the House and a filibuster-proof Senate, the Dems can do anything they [...]

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Human Rights Problems in Iraq and Afghanistan

August 17, 2009

No one really expected that when the Taliban collapsed and Saddam ran into his spider hole that Afghanistan and Iraq would instantly turn into Jeffersonian Democracies with full citizenship rights and beer pong being played at a co-ed colleges.  It would take some time, some prodding, some leading by example (that is, unless you’re a [...]

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North Korea Releases American Journalists

August 4, 2009

Bill Clinton goes to North Korea, talks to Kim Jung Mentally-Il, and suddenly the two journalists are free!  Sounds like a miracle!  While a very nice development for the families of the journalists, one has to wonder why BJ could get this done, but his wife and power and mere presence of Big Barry O [...]

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Legalizing Euthanasia with Obamacare

July 29, 2009

There are philosophical problems I have with the House’s Obamacare bill, and a national health service to begin with:  it nationalizes our bodies, essentially turning us into slaves (they didn’t own their bodies either) by telling us what to eat, how to live, denying care based on choices we make that the government deems “bad,” [...]

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Paul Ryan on Health Care

July 23, 2009

Congressman Paul Ryan wrote this article for the American Spectator today.  It’s awesome and definitely worth a read!  Page one, two, and three. 
It’s thoughtful, harkening back to our Founders, history, and American character in context of today’s debate.  We, as a nation, have failed miserably in educating ourselves on the concept of freedom and the [...]

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A “Right” to Health Care

July 22, 2009

That seems to be the mantra from the Left as we go through this first of the many Obamacare battles:  health care is a “right.”  Let’s be real about this:  until at least January 2011, Obama and the Left will not stop until something crosses his desk.  Our challenge is to slow them down or shrink [...]

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Mark Steyn on Obamacare

July 8, 2009

I was listening to a bit of Mark Steyn filling-in for Rush today, when he mentioned an interesting concept on socialized health care:  the nationalization of your body.  Put simply, if you do not belong to yourself anymore (i.e., no longer have control over health decisions of your body), isn’t that a form of slavery?
In a Washington [...]

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China’s Uighur Problem Only a Symptom

July 8, 2009

As Chinese President Hu Jintao joins the G-8 Summit in Italy, problems linger across China.  Seriously, what the heck was a “uighur” just a few months ago?  Now they’re rioting in the streets and around have 156 died while over a thousand have been “rounded-up” Chinese-style as a result:

It’s this very internal domestic tumult (first the Tibetans, then the [...]

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Have an Active Fourth of July!

July 3, 2009

Usually the 4th is a chance to have some barbecue with friends and family, catch some fireworks, and cheer about how awesome we are.  And I hope that is the case with everyone this year – even if you’re not American, please feel free to use tomorrow as at least another excuse to drink!
However, these aren’t normal times.  [...]

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What’s Going on in Honduras?

June 29, 2009

Apparently, the model for successful government in Latin America in recent years has been Hugo Chavez.  Even President Obama is trying to emulate Chavez’s slow buy steady nationalization/consolidation approach!  Confidence and success tend to embolden up-and-coming tin-pot dictators. Such was the situation in Honduras.
The President of Honduras and the people, Supreme Court and military of Honduras [...]

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