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As I compose this, I'm watching Ted Cruz as he filibusters to halt the disaster called Obamacare. I hope you will watch it as well. If he has used it once, he's used the phrase "...we no longer listen to the people, our constituents..." over a hundred times. And he's right...they don't. And the fact is, THEY NO LONGER NEED TO. I've sent my little rant on this topic before but Ted's honest comment compels me to do so again. Dick Bachert ************* WHY THE POLITICAL RULING CLASS NO LONGER LISTENS TO US! Among others, Thomas Jefferson warned that the...

The following is adapted from a speech delivered on February 16, 2011, at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Phoenix, Arizona. TO BEGIN, consider one of the most important measures of property, the kilogram. It’s a measure of mass or, for non-scientific purposes, weight. According to the papers last week, a global scramble is under way to define this most basic unit after it was discovered that the standard kilogram—a cylinder of platinum and iridium that is maintained by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures—has been losing mass. You may think that this is impossible. Of all the...

Dear Glenn, As is our custom here, we watched your program today and, as usual, enjoyed hearing more truth during your commercial breaks than can be found on the so-called major media outfalls. These are what we formerly called “outlets” but, since nearly everything they emit is garbage and sewage, outfalls is more accurate. This is what I KNOW. I’m not all that smart but I do know a few things and THINK I know several others. Among them: 1. When America first established our monetary system via the Coinage Act of 1792, a “dollar” was established as a specific...