Monday, April 27, 2015
AS PRESIDENT WILL HILLARY ‘AMEND’ THE BIBLE? WHAT’S LEFT AFTER OBAMA MADE ‘CONSTITUTION’ IRRELEVANT?
RELIGIOUS BELIEFS MUST CONFORM TO POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.
So saith Hillary:
She told attendees at the sixth annual Women in The
World Summit that “deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and
structural biases have to be changed” for the sake of giving women access to
“reproductive health care and safe childbirth.” “Far too many women are
denied access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth, and
laws don’t count for much if they’re not enforced. Rights have to exist in
practice — not just on paper,” Clinton
said. “Laws have to be backed up with
resources and political will,” she explained.
Saturday, April 25, 2015
“Courts will decide who we are as a people,”
“Courts will decide who we are as a people,”
REALLY, I THOUGHT THE AMERICAN ‘PEOPLE’ DECIDED WHO WE ARE.
“Courts will decide who we are as a people,” says the
outgoing Attorney General, Eric Holder, and gay marriage is the “civil rights
issue of our time.” What, pray tell, is the job of the Attorney General? Uphold the Constitution? Chief law enforcement
officer of the U.S. ?
NO! Eric and the new appointee Loretta, obviously,
as liberal Democrats, just dictate our
moral code. Conscience? Are we allowed a
conscience? NO!
Thursday, April 23, 2015
What Earth Day Means to Me
What Earth Day Means to Me
by DON BOUDREAUX on APRIL 22, 2009 [EDIT]
in ENVIRONMENT
My son, Thomas (a sixth grader), has a homework assignment
today: write an essay entitled “What Earth Day Means to Me.” I will help
him out with my own essay.
Earth Day, to me, means an opportunity to express thanks for
all the ways that capitalism makes our lives and environment cleaner and
healthier.
I’m thankful for the automobile, which has cleaned our
streets and highways of animal feces, which is both foul and filthy itself, and
that attracts flies that spread it into our homes and workplaces.
I’m thankful for the automobile also because it allows us to
travel in a cleaner environment than we had when we traveled on horseback or in
buggies. Modern automobiles cool or heat the air immediately surrounding
their passengers, making these passengers comfortable and, in summer, less
sweaty and stinky.
I’m thankful for air-conditioning that keeps our interior
environments not only comfortable but more healthy, as it allows us to better
keep insects out of our homes, shops, factories, and offices — and also, in
humid places, to dramatically reduce the growth of mold and mildew in our
homes.
I’m thankful for indoor plumbing. (The anti-polluting
properties here are too obvious to spell out. Ditto for disposable
diapers — yet another product for which I’m most grateful.)
I’m thankful for the inexpensive soaps, shampoos,
toothpastes, dental floss, toilet tissue, and plastic bandages and other
first-aid items that make it possible for us to de-pollute our persons
regularly.
I’m thankful for electronic appliances, such as those that
(along with modern detergents – for which I’m also thankful) allow us to clean
our used clothing and dirty dishes — clean these more deeply and more
thoroughly than was possible in the past without spending multiples of the time
on such tasks that we spend on these tasks today. These appliances enable
us to recycle our clothing and our dishes for many reuses.
I’m thankful for electricity for making these appliances
possible – and for enabling us to light our home without dirty candles, and for
enabling us to heat our homes without coal, wood, peat, or other filthy
substances.
I’m thankful for plastics, which very effectively and at
very low costs allow us to keep bacteria confined. A plastic storage bag,
for example, keeps food bacteria confined to the interior of the bag.
I’m thankful for refrigeration for retarding the growth of
bacteria and, hence, keeping our foods cleaner and healthier.
I’m thankful for chemical fertilizers that increase the
productivity of the earth’s soil, and thereby helps to prevent malnutrition —
which, in turn, better enables each of our bodies to succeed at fighting off
diseases that are more likely to sicken, or even kill, malnourished persons.
I’m thankful for factories (and the fuels that power them)
that make possible things such as modern textiles — modern textiles that enable
even poor people in market societies to own many changes of clean clothing.
I’m thankful for modern insecticides and cleansers that help
to protect us from bugs and bacteria that would otherwise pollute our
environments.
I am, in short, thankful for private-property markets that
are the main driving force behind these (and many other) anti-pollutants — a
force so powerful that we today enjoy the incredible luxury of being able to
worry, should we so choose, about very distant and very speculative forms of
environmental problems such as species loss and global warming.
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
SOCIAL-JUSTICE-WARRIOR HAZING
SOCIAL-JUSTICE-WARRIOR
HAZING: Army Cadets on
Campus Forced to Wear Red High Heels and Raise Awareness of Debunked ‘Rape
Culture.’
Those
who did their homework in 2008 knew that when Barack Obama was elected, all
aspects of American society would suffer unprecedented levels of left-wing
lunacy, but did anyone think it would come to this?
Patriotic
young cadets — America ’s future warrior —
pressured to walk around in bright red high heels on campus — against their
will – or face retribution.
I
don’t even know what to say.
I
do, but since this is a family blog I’ll leave it at this: Punch back twice as
hard.
Posted
at 7:30 am by Glenn
Reynolds
Sunday, April 19, 2015
THE ‘CIRCLE’ OF GOVERNMENT
THE ‘CIRCLE’ OF GOVERNMENT
Therefore, “what works” in any government program is usually
some provision that would have been unnecessary but for prior actions by
government “experts” who created a problem to begin with. Obamacare is a
perfect example: essentially all of the aspects of American health insurance
that consumers objected to prior to Obamacare resulted from government
restricting competition within that market so that, for example, a resident of
California is (still) not allowed to buy a much cheaper plan from Idaho.
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Meaning?
Meaning?
“From what I know of them, I would not trust an ordinary
politician with my grandmother’s toothbrush,” said Major-General Lord Baden-Powell. Help me understand this assessment of Hellary
or any politician.
Monday, April 13, 2015
CLINTONS REPRESENT THE 'ORDINARY PEOPLE'
CLINTONS REPRESENT THE 'ORDINARY PEOPLE'
"All of which made another part of the Clinton rollout — a new photo spread in the trendy fashion magazine ELLE featuring Chelsea Clinton modeling high-priced clothing, jewelry and shoes while discussing equal opportunity — all of that made for a discordant note in ClintonWorld's big week.
One photo in the ELLE article featured this caption:
Chelsea Clinton in a Gucci dress, Mateo New York bracelet, Cartier bracelet, Garland Collection ring, Halleh ring.
Another photo featured this caption:
Derek Lam blouse, Stella McCartney trousers, Bulgari necklace, Tiffany & Co. bracelets, Trollbeads bangle, Garland Collection ring, Halleh ring, Brian Atwood pumps."
SARAH HOYT: The Architecture Of Fear.
SARAH HOYT: The Architecture Of Fear.
I can’t push you and I won’t. If you want to keep your opinions — left, right, moderate, libertarian, anarchist — hidden, it’s your job. I am not the keeper of your soul.
However, I want you to think of the dark and dank place that fear and that suspicion and the constant spying lead.
And then I want you to think of how good it would feel to get off your knees, stand on two, look your tormentors in the face and say “No more. I’m free. My thoughts and my opinions, my beliefs, my tastes, my friends are my own. You have no power over me. Not now, and not ever again.”
That’s all. I just want you to think.
Sunday, April 12, 2015
PATHETIC STUDENTS ARE TOO DELICATE TO SEE TERRORISTS KILLED
PATHETIC STUDENTS ARE TOO DELICATE TO SEE TERRORISTS KILLED
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC’S PRESIDENT MAKES A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR
SALARY, but it’s not for academic rigor orbackbone: “Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York postponed its screening of
American Sniper, scheduled to show April 10, after receiving a request from the
school’s Muslim Students Association (MSA) to cancel the screening.”
Pathetic.
Thursday, April 09, 2015
PARTICIPATORY FASCISM - Government Defines Rights – Not God or Nature
PARTICIPATORY FASCISM - Government Defines Rights – Not God
or Nature
“The mixed economy that has prevailed in the United
States since World War II, a uniquely
American form of participatory fascism, has lent itself to a substantial
expansion of the scope of government authority over economic decision-making.
Given capitalist color by the form of private property rights, the system
has denied the substance of any such rights whenever governmental authorities
have found it expedient to do so.”
From Robert Higgs’s indispensable 1987 book, Crisis and Leviathan
“Let us hope that Mr. Obama does not become the Neville Chamberlain of our time.”
IT’S LOOKING INCREASINGLY AS IF NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN MIGHT
REPRESENT A BEST-CASE SCENARIO.
Wednesday, April 08, 2015
Obama ‘worst president’ on foreign policy
Dick Cheney
calls Obama ‘worst president’ on foreign policy. But we’ve had the
chance to observe most of the fallout from Wilson ’s
debacles. Obama’s is still unfolding. But Cheney goes on: “I vacillate between
the various theories I’ve heard, but you know, if you had somebody as president
who wanted to take America down, who wanted to fundamentally weaken our
position in the world and reduce our capacity to influence events, turn our
back on our allies and encourage our adversaries, it would look exactly like
what Barack Obama’s doing.”
Tuesday, April 07, 2015
Why War, Rand?
Why War, Rand ?
The sad fact of life is that, if evil is not resisted, it
will prevail. That is the justification
for the use of force to deter, and if necessary, defeat those who turn to it to
further their own ends, the justification for maintaining in the service of the
community and the state, forces who are trained, skilled and well-equipped to
meet the challenge when and wherever it arises.
Their profession is an honorable one.
Sunday, April 05, 2015
Three words
Three words
Either a mad-man, a fool or the Son of God, “It is finished,” Crucifixion, Death, Resurrection,
Father, Son, Holy Spirit, Power, Wisdom and Love, Faith, Hope and Love – you keep
the chain of command going on this another commemoration of that 1st
Easter.
Saturday, April 04, 2015
2/3 OF AMERICANS BELIEVE THAT “CHRIST IS THE SON OF GOD AND WAS RESURRECTED ON EASTER DAY”
2/3 OF AMERICANS BELIEVE THAT “CHRIST
IS THE SON OF GOD AND WAS RESURRECTED ON EASTER DAY” Rasmussen Poll
Somebody should tell our Government
and Intellectual Elites.
National Survey of
800 Adults
Conducted March 31-April 1, 2015
By Rasmussen Reports
By Rasmussen Reports
1* Do you consider Easter to be one of our nation’s most
important holidays, least important holidays or somewhere in between?
2* Will you attend a Church service to celebrate Easter this
year?
3* Will you have a family meal to celebrate Easter?
4* Will you or your family have an Easter egg hunt for Easter
this year?
5* Do you believe the person known to history as Jesus Christ
actually walked the earth about 2000 years ago?
6* Do you believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God who came
to earth to die for our sins?
7* Do you believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead?
NOTE: Margin of Sampling
Error, +/- 3.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence
Friday, April 03, 2015
The Discovery of Freedom
The Discovery of Freedom(original emphasis):
Stupid men believe that force can improve other men’s
morals; they want force to stop men’s drinking, or smoking, or gambling.
Superstition clouds their minds; they imagine that force can produce
economic results; they demand that police clubs control the
growth of crops, and the making of goods, and wages and prices and trade.
They dream that because a law can make any action a crime, it can stop
that action….
To these ardent reformers who want to do good (as they see
good) by using force upon the greatest number of their inferiors, add the
groups of those who want to rob others by force without risking going to jail.
Since Government has the only legal use of force, all these groups try to
persuade and compel the men in Government to use force as these reformers and
these thieves want it used.
FROM: 1993 Fox & Wilkes re-issue of Rose Wilder Lane’s inspiring 1943 volume
Wednesday, April 01, 2015
Easter message
Easter
message
“Some things in life are too beautiful to be forgotten, but there
can also be something in death that is too beautiful to be forgotten.” Fulton
J. Sheen, Life of Christ.
IMPUTING UNWARRANTED ‘NOBILITY’ TO GOVERNMENT WORK
IMPUTING UNWARRANTED ‘NOBILITY’ TO GOVERNMENT WORK
“There is no rational basis for this
overestimation of the activities carried on in the offices of the
administrative authorities. It is a form of atavism, a vestige from the
days..” past. ….”In itself it is no finer, nobler, or more honorable to
spend one’s days in a government office filling out documents than, for
example, to work in the blueprint room of a machine factory.”
Ludwig
von Mises‘s superb 1927 book, Liberalism