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Story Behind NSA Monitoring of Verizon Phone Records Shows U.S. MSM Remain Obama’s Lapdogs

June 6, 2013
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Story Behind NSA Monitoring of Verizon Phone Records Shows U.S. MSM Remain Obama’s Lapdogs

The Guardian newspaper of London has reported something vitally important to all U.S. citizens, which U.S. news media somehow failed to observe:  the U.S. National Security Agency has collected phone records “indiscriminately and in bulk—regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing,” from some 100 million Verizon customers in the United States for several weeks. According to documents obtained by the Guardian, a secret court order  requires the phone company to hand the information over to the NSA on an “ongoing, daily basis.” The order covered international…

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Are All Artists Natural-born Socialists?

May 28, 2013
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Are All Artists Natural-born Socialists?

"Art is criticism of life. The nobler the life the finer the criticism. That is why the artists long for the reign of social justice."

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Heavy-Handed IRS Tactics Exemplify Progressive Mindset

May 17, 2013
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Heavy-Handed IRS Tactics Exemplify Progressive Mindset

Here’s a very revealing item for those interested in understanding the progressive worldview: the Internal Revenue Service has been accused, in addition to its many malfeasances already revealed, of asking people what they pray about. When queried about this in testimony before a congressional committee today, acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller could not bring himself to condemn such an outrageous intrusion into innocent people’s innermost thoughts: “It pains me to say I can’t speak to that one either. But that’s an —” Miller said. “You…

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Ralph Peters Raises ‘Cain at Gettysburg’ to Great Heights

May 15, 2013
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Ralph Peters Raises ‘Cain at Gettysburg’ to Great Heights

Lee would have to be mad to send his divisions across that field. And Hunt was sure he would do it. When I finished reading Ralph Peters’ Civil War novel Cain at Gettysburg, I almost checked my clothing for blood spatter. Up until now Michael Shaara’s epic novel The Killer Angels has been considered not only the best Gettysburg novel ever written, but the best possible Gettysburg novel. It’s been a long time since I read Shaara’s book, but I’m fairly certain that, for all…

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McCain Plan Likely to Increase Prices, Reduce Access to TV Programming

May 9, 2013
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McCain Plan Likely to Increase Prices, Reduce Access to TV Programming

Sen. John McCain wants to "let" cable customers buy channels individually, by forcing cable companies to offer them the option. Rest assured that the mandate, if implemented, will have the opposite of its intended effect and end up raising prices and reducing access to TV programming.

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Secular Liberal Sees ‘Consensus’ on Redefining Marriage as Terrifying

May 9, 2013
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Secular Liberal Sees ‘Consensus’ on Redefining Marriage as Terrifying

Most Americans who have an opinion about the current obsession to redefine marriage tend to think the only people standing athwart history yelling “STOP!” are conservative religious folk. They would be wrong. Certainly a large majority of people who embrace traditional morality based on revealed religion do not accept the notion that marriage is a malleable social construct that can be willy-nilly defined any which way we choose. But redefining marriage is such a bad idea, and as importantly is being done in such a…

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Can Conservatives Reclaim the Culture?

April 15, 2013
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Can Conservatives Reclaim the Culture?

If you happen to be in southern or central Michigan tomorrow, please consider heading to Hillsdale College, where the Liberty21 Institute is hosting a panel discussion at addressing the provocative question: Can Conservatives Reclaim the Culture? Since the last election, many on the right have begun to argue that conservatives have lost the culture and that getting back into the cultural mainstream is essential to any long-term success for conservatives and/or the liberty movement. Culture, they now realize, is far too important to leave to the…

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Why Margaret Thatcher Matters

April 8, 2013
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Why Margaret Thatcher Matters

We in the United States should take good note of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's accomplishments. Thatcher's life's work is of immense relevance because today's United States has more in common with the Great Britain that Thatcher took over in 1979 than with the United States of 1981 when Ronald Reagan assumed the presidency after the inept Jimmy Carter administration. . . .

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We’ve Been Here Before: Justifying Government Control of Communications

March 26, 2013
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We’ve Been Here Before: Justifying Government Control of Communications

"... illiterate, excitable, and easily dominated by the spoken and pictured word."

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Shocking Michelle Shocked?

March 21, 2013
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Shocking Michelle Shocked?

On March 17th, singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked took the stage in San Francisco for a counter-cultural performance designed to challenge her audience’s assumptions.  San Francisco crowds love that sort of thing, but last Sunday they got more than they bargained for.  It turns out that while Ms. Shocked is still reliably left-wing on economics (her 2012 tour was titled ‘Roccupy!’, in sympathy with the fizzling ‘occupy’ movement), she has also become a born-again, fundamentalist Christian.   She now strongly supports Proposition 8 in California, which maintains…

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Motown in the Morgue

March 19, 2013
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Motown in the Morgue

My first job after graduating from college was in Detroit. Prior to graduation, my high-school and college classmates and I would discuss our respective future plans — to a person we all declared we’d never take a job in Detroit. Once the mortar boards and graduation gowns were packed away, however, and wedding bells and wet nappies weighed-in on economic reality,At first, I lived in Dearborn, but eventually find an affordable house to rent in the Warrandale section on Detroit’s west side. In 1985, I…

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Book Review: ‘What to Expect When No One’s Expecting’

February 24, 2013
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Book Review: ‘What to Expect When No One’s Expecting’

". . . there is something about modernity itself that tends toward fewer children."

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Group Sues for Free-Speech Rights

February 20, 2013
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Group Sues for Free-Speech Rights

Christian demonstrators who were reportedly attacked and in fact stoned by Muslims last summer were banned from exercising their free-speech rights, by the local police. Nothing was done to prosecute their attackers. This happened not in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan but in the United States. . . .

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If You Think This Will Never Happen . . .

February 8, 2013
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If You Think This Will Never Happen . . .

"It's like a train that never arrives ... you have this sound thumping away all day and there is nothing you can do to try and turn it off." — People who live near a wind farm

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Just a Coincidence?

February 7, 2013
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Just a Coincidence?

"Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys." — Emma Bull

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