Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Kids for the Apocalypse?
http://youtube.com/v/VTbYUd1jUc4
This video is from The Onion, and implicit in it is something that is very true.
The Senate, Congress and
President of the United States have recently passed a partisan spending bill,
AKA “The Stimulus Package,” for the total amount of $787 BILLION dollars.
To put that into perspective, if one dollar bills were lined up end to end, 787
billion dollar bills would go to the moon 312 times, with enough change left
over to buy a yacht or two. Or, if you please, a five lane highway all the way
to the moon covered completely with dollar bills. I use an astronomical
analogy as to gain the astronomical perspective of the situation. That is
a gob of money. Money we don’t have. Each State is to claim its
portion of the loot; in the case of Idaho a rough calculation based upon
population would be 2.6 BILLION, or one trip to the moon (if it were doled out
based upon population).
Milton Friedman Schools Phil Donahue
http://youtube.com/v/RWsx1X8PV_A
This is one of the best two-minute videos I've ever watched. In it, famed economist Milton Friedman lays waste to Phil Donahue's naive socialist prattle and skepticism about the free market.
Putting these men side-by-side is the greatest of contrasts: It's the giant and the court jester. The saddest part of it all is that today, decades later, Donahue is older and grayer but just as ignorant. And that's a liberal for you. They can bask in the glow of greatness and still avoid the tan of Truth. Talk about casting pearls before swine.
Ron Paul: "You Can't Reinflate the Bubble!"
http://youtube.com/v/xsQ7BByIBxM
Although Alan Keyes was my candidate of choice in this past election, I give Ron Paul a lot of credit for his honesty and his respect for constitutional dictates. In this video he's talking about how we cannot re-inflate the bubble that was our economy with faux currency, and he's absolutely right.
It is deceptive to say that the government is trying to spend its way out of the current economic morass. Uncle Sam is trying to print its way out of it.
The sad fact of the matter is that our Federal Reserve is a legalized counterfeiting operation. To illustrate the problem, consider that about 100 years ago the dollar was worth 100 cents when valued against gold or silver. What is it worth at this point?
About four cents.
For many decades now our government has been printing money that has nothing behind it, and this has diluted the value of our greenbacks. This is called "expanding the money supply," and it is a form of hidden taxation since it leads to inflation and devalues the dollars in our pockets.
The way I see it is that our whole monetary system is a sham. We need a currency backed up by more than just the good faith and credit of the U.S. government — part of which is Barney Frank.
By Selwyn Duke
While many believe that
prejudice has diminished over time, it’s not really true. Prejudice is much like the wind: Its
direction changes, and the sheltered and well-situated may not sense it, but
it’s always blowing on some people somewhere.
Put literally, every age has its fashionable biases – and unfashionable
people.
By Selwyn Duke
Proposition 8 is still under legal assault in California. But
whether or not traditionalists lose this battle, their loose tongues
help guarantee they will lose the war.
According
to the left, we traditionalists just aren’t as smart as they are. We’re
not college professors, 95 percent of whom are registered Democrats.
We’re not national mainstream-media journalists, only 8 percent of whom
don the conservative label. We’re not Hollywood types, 83 percent of . . . wait, what was I talking about? Oh, yeah, intelligence.
Read the rest here.
By Selwyn Duke
If you know anything about Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, you may understand that he is one of the truly odious characters on the American political scene. He is the quintessence of a leftist: Ever ready to wax sanctimonious, act paternalistically, and micromanage people lives while being thoroughly corrupt in his own.
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