Month: November 2010

People We Should Know #5 – Nigel Farage

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     The western world is seeing a developing crisis that shows no identifiable end in sight.  Presumptively a crisis of economic stability, it is fundamentally a crisis of leaders and leadership. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dramatic end of direct Soviet threat to western institutions, the nations victoriously transcendent were […]... Read More

Roger Wilco

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     The theater that is a modern rock band is always soap operatic, full of artistic idealism, ego, special collective inspiration, and messy divorces.  The rock band Wilco is a prime example of this, itself borne of a messy divorce and full of line-up changes that would make a purist dizzy.  Through it all, however, […]... Read More

People We Should Know #4 – Paul Ryan

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     The 111th Congress recently elected and positioned to take office in January 2011 will seat potentially the most influential and powerful Wisconsin politician on the national stage ever and the most recognizable the since Senator  Joe McCarthy in the 1950’s and Fighting Bob LaFolette in the 1920’s.  He is a relatively unassuming six term congressman […]... Read More
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A Divine Providence

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     We are loathe in today’s society to attach any kind of religious connotation to our holidays for fear of derision from a societal modernist post religious view of celebration. Thanksgiving is about the food, Christmas about the gifts, and Easter about the rabbit. It was not always the case; the very real hand of […]... Read More
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Lincoln’s Masterpiece of Brevity

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     November 19th was the 147th anniversary of the Gettysburg address, Abraham Lincoln’s masterpiece of perfectly structured  prose defining for all time the standard of speech writing and public rhetoric.  In a mere 272 words, Lincoln memorialized the heroes of the specific Gettysburg battle, the larger principles that would be worth such horrid sacrifice, and […]... Read More
FOOL ON THE HILL

A Year Later, the World Is Slowly Warming to the “Truth”

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     It was a year ago that one of the great farces and premeditated frauds  perpetrated on civilized culture began to unravel, to the benefit of all that care in the least about human progress and individual freedom.   World leadership was preparing to gather in Copenhagen for a world wide conference about “climate change and humanity driven […]... Read More
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Armistice Day

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     November 11, 2010 was celebrated as the Veteran’s Day holiday paying homage to all American soldiers who have served their country over the years, but is borne of a very specific event day referred to as Armistice Day.  On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, combat operations […]... Read More

A Tea Party Rant from Arizona

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    The Libertarian Party has never really achieved legislative force in the United States, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t a lot of adherents in the country to the principles of self determination and reduced governmental oversight.  The intensity of expression of libertarian anger in the form of tea party advocacy in the recent […]... Read More