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It's gotten to the point where you can't believe what people say. Perhaps not all of them; perhaps not all of the time, but more likely than not, if the subject is one that even remotely touches on or is affected by politics or the economy, when you read about it in the newpapaers or on the internet and what you hear about it on television or talk radio is propaganda intended to support a particular position, and any resemblance to the truth is purely coincidental. Much of this can be blamed on the media, but only in the most...

In a 1951 science fiction story called The Marching Morons, Cyril M. Kornbluth describes a future in which centuries of breeding and popular culture have resulted in a society where practically nobody is actually smart enough to tie his own shoes, but pracitcally everybody drives around at three hundred miles an hour in a car that looks and sounds like a rocketship and holds a doctorate or a "post-doc" credential in some important sounding subject. As the story unfolds, the reader learns that, though the cars make......

In a 1951 fiction story caled The Marching Morons, Cyril M. Kornbluth describes a future in which centuries of breeding and poplular culture have resulted in a society where practically nobody is actually smart enough to tie his own shoes, but practically everybody drives around at three gundred miles an hour in a car that looks and sounds like a rocketship and holds a doctorate or a "post-doc" credential in some important-sounding subject. As the story unfolds, the reader learns that, though the cars make tremendous roaring noises and......

It sounds like one of those old Clint Eastwood "spaghetti westerns", doesn't it? You know, like "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" or "For a few dollars more". Particularly, "For a few dollars more", because this government is all about the bucks, and always looking for a few more of them to spend on buying new, better, and more crippling chains to bind us with while it "has its way with the rancher's pretty daughter. Unfortunately, it's not just one fictional "pretty daughter" that's being subjected to a villain's unwanted attentions; it's all of the American people, and the...

When Obama famously said that, under Cap and Trade, the price of energy would "necessarily skyrocket" everybody picked up on his attack on the coal industry, but few noticed the real point of his statement: the one key word; "necessarily" What's so "necessary" about skyrocketing energy prices? Plenty! If existing energy prices don't skrocket, there won't be any need for solar cells; windmills; all of the paraphernalia of "alternative energy"; all of the new federal agencies to regulate them; all of the federal subsidies to make them possible; and all of the new taxes to pay for them. There won't...

In the 1970 movie, Start the Revolutiion Without Me, the blind lookout for a group of French revolutionary conspirators, tapping his cane and feeling his way along the walls, returns to his group's hideout at mealtime, where the leader, Jacques, tears off a piece of bread, hands it to him, and says "Here, eat this; it's chicken." Isn't that exactly what's happening to us now, forty years later? And doesn't the fact that this is real, and not just a movie comedy, make the humor even more poignant? Think of Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, telling us that......

Ever since he first appeared on the national scene as keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention of 2004, anybody saying practically anything about Barack Obama has run the risk of being labeled "anti-black", a racist, or even a likely member of the Ku Klux Klan. Even Obama's now Vice President, Joe Biden came under attack as "racially insensitive" when, in trying to compliment Obama, he said "I mean you got the first mainstream, African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," and followed it with.....

Ever since he appeared on the national scene as a keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention of 2004, anybody saying practically anything about Barack Obama has run the risk of being labeled "anti-black", a racist, or even a likely member of the Ku Klux Klan. Even Obama's now Vice-President, Joe Biden came under attack as "racially insensitive" when, in trying to compliment Obama, he said "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," and followed it with..

In less than a month it wil be our country's 234th birthday. There are any number of parties planned, but have you given any thought to what we should give as a gift? Suggestions abound from any number of sources: BP seems to have opted for some lovely black beaches. Obama - jolly old elf that he is - (Or is that for Christmas? No, it can't be: I don't think Obama believes in Christmas!) In any case, Obama - jolly old whatever he is - seems to have a whole sleigh of goodies: He's already brought Healthcare Reform; and...

An "Apple Pie" issue is one that - at least on the face of it - is so good, so pure, and so obviously innocuous that no one can possibly oppose it without looking foolish, misanthropic, or downright evil. Curing cancer is an apple pie issue. So is conquering AIDS or ending poverty. So is the entire issue of being "for Motherhood and against Sin." How could anyone be on the wrong side of any of those? It would be like not liking apple pie, and to not like apple pie is not only inconceivable but -you remember the old...

Even though he was attacked mercilessly and may have lost his Presidential election bid because of it, when John McCain said, before the TARP bill was passed, that the fundementals of the American economy were sound, he was exactly right. He was also, at the very same time, completely and utterly wrong. The stock market, while perhaps the greatest single indicator of the financial condition of our country is, to a very substantial degree, pure fantasy - a dream of.......

Whether you believe in evolution or not, you really do need to know that for at least the last half century, they've been teaching it backwards. You also need to know that, whether or not it ecplains how human beings came to be, that same backward interpretation of it is dead-on as an explanation for the basic fallacy of the Progressive movement that, even as you read this, is working tirelessly to destroy this greatest of all nations. You've heard the term "survival of the fittest": That's how evolution is taught in today's classrooms, and it's so dumb that.....

What was my share of the money that we just shot down a rat hole to delay - NOT to prevent - the fall of Greece? How much do I personally owe to China? How much do I owe each year as my share of the dues paid to the United Nations? How much have I paid thus far to enable Afghani women to go to school? Or to create a new Sharia law "democracy" in Iraq? Tell me again, why when these people hate me because I'm an American, or an invader, or an infidel, or a capitalist, or...

What was my share of the money that we just shot down a rat hole to delay - NOT to prevent - the fall of Greece? How much do I personally owe to China? How much do I owe each year as my share of the dues paid to the United Nations? How much have I paid thus far to enable Afghani women to go to school? Or to create a new Sharia law "democracy"in Iraq? Tell me again why, when these people hate me because I'm an American, or an invader, or an infidel, or a capitalist, or for...

You may not know that in Hebrew, "Israel" means "wrestler with God," but you can bet money that Obama does. That's probably the reason why he takes it so personally when the Israeli government doesn't follow orders and tries to act as if the Jewish State were some kind of a sovereign nation and not just one of the States of the Union. Granted, he gets huffy when anybody fails to notice the water under his feet - even his adoring and usually sycophantic mainstream press or those daring politicians who try to insist that "bi-partisan" might mean something other...

The real problem that the intellectual "elite" of the Left has regarding wealth is that they don't produce it. That's not to say that there are no leftist intellectuals with money; there are plenty of them, and some are, in fact, very wealthy. Neither is it to say that leftists aren't skilled in using money as a tool or as a weapon to make their points. George Soros is just one among many who could be cited to quickly prove a statement like that utterly false. What it IS to say is that the intellectual left does not typically get...

The real problem that the intellectual "elite" of the Left has regarding wealth is that they don't produce it. That's not to say that there are no leftist intellectuals with money; there are plenty of them, and some are, in fact, very wealthy. Neither is it to say that leftists aren't skilled in using money as a tool or as a weapon to make their points. George Soros is just one among many who could be cited to quickly prove a statement like that utterly false. What it IS to say is that the intellectual left does not get its...

As you read this, America has a problem: Based on Joe Sestak -- a sitting Congressman, now running for senate, or former President Bill Clinton, or Current President Barack Obama, or White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel or some of them or all of them have lied to the American people and may have done so to conceal a federal crime. The crime itself, if there has been one, and depending on which of a number of applicable laws has been violated, and by whom, might only be.....

Liberals don't just attack Conservatives for being stupid because it's good politics; they attack them because they really believe that Conservatives are stupid. In the minds of liberals, all things are obvious: For example, because government is bigger, richer and more powerful than any individual, it's obvious that government must have the same obligation to provide for its citizens as good parents have to provide for their children, and.....

Watching Glenn Beck's program on Fox News, it's easy to get the idea that Progressivism is a party -- a "fifth column" movement, fully and secretly organized, that has managed to place "moles" in both of this country's great political parties and that, even as you read this, is working to consolidate its power for the eventual destruction of America and....