President Obama announced earlier this week that he wants to give all Americans access to "free" community college. I wonder how he plans to do this. Does he have a bag of education that he will tote out and pull some community college out and hand it out? Did Michelle plant some community college bushes..
Read moreThe Might Makes Right “Ethic”
The release of the “torture report” today got me thinking about ethics. Moral and ethical thought, along with broader philosophical concepts, form the foundation of political ideology. I find it interesting to read between the lines in political comments people make and try to figure out what kind of ethical framework they think within. Sadly,..
Read moreSubmit to the Law…Always?
In the decades prior to the Civil War, hundreds of men and women risked their own lives and freedom to help blacks escape slavery in the South. I used to consider the people who organized and ran the Underground Railroad heroic, but apparently I was wrong. They were merely lawbreakers who deserved nothing more than..
Read moreWe Don’t Know What We Don’t Know
Three weeks ago today I underwent open heart surgery to replace a leaky artificial valve. Having gone through this same surgery a little more than 11 years ago, I had a pretty good idea what to expect. Based on my previous experience, I set what I thought were reasonable goals for returning to various activities...
Read morePower v. Authority
Frequently, federal supremacists tell me that the Civil War “settled” the issue of state sovereignty. Essentially, apologists for absolute federal power advancing this argument hold a “might makes right” point of view. From their perspective, the intent of the Constitution means nothing. The fact that Lincoln ultimately fielded superior military force makes his view, and..
Read more133 Words or Less: Standing in Sewage
When I write about the evolving surveillance-state, the overreaching federal government or the quickly diminishing individual liberties here in the United States, somebody inevitably dismisses my concerns with the, “It’s so much worse in other places; millions of people would die to live here,” argument. I will grant you that America remains freer than many..
Read more133 Words or Less: Andy, I Don’t Think You Know what this Word Means
Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) represents the US Congressional Sixth District in Kentucky. Barr voted to allow the federal government to indefinitely detain people on American soil without due process. In other words, Barr supports state-sanctioned kidnapping. In a campaign ad airing on many Lexington-area radio stations, Barr talks about America being a “beacon of Liberty.”..
Read more133 Words or Less: Midterm Congressional Elections – They Just Don’t Matter
The next “most important election of my lifetime” lies just around the corner. It seems most Americans have fixated their attention on whether the Republicans will wrest control of the Senate away from the Democrats. What do I think? Who cares. My prediction: whether the GOP takes over the Senate or not, one year later..
Read moreCDC Ebola Response a Lesson in Big Government
Thus far, one can only deem the CDC response to the Ebola an unmitigated disaster. Most Americans seem to view the CDC Three Stooges Show as typical big-government incompetence, with a few conspiracy theorists proposing more sinister scenarios. I’m not aware of anybody heaping praise on the CDC for its outstanding work. Public response to..
Read moreMy Confession
Some people call me an extremist. Confession time. It's true! My vision for a decentralized system and non-interventionist foreign policy certainly fall outside of the acceptable political views spanning the vast gulf between the ideals of Mitt Romney and Nancy Pelosi. Of course, when people call me extreme, I’m sure they don’t mean it as..
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