Survival Values – And a cheer for Joe Wilson!

Yesterday in the grocery store the checker commented on having sold her cell phone. She had to. She could not afford the monthly expense and the phone itself had cost her $250.00. She sold it for $210.00 to a friend with a better paying job, at least for now. The checker, Emily, had had it for 3 weeks. Tightening the belt is the theme of a rising consciousness around our nation. It is not all bad. The clerk, and many others, are beginning to focus in on what really matters. Yesterday my email box was filled with comments... Read article

What Role Did the U.S.-Israeli Relationship Play in 9/11?

On the day of the 9/11 attacks, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked what the attack would mean for US-Israeli relations. His quick reply was: “It’s very good….Well, it’s not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel).” Intelligence wars rely on mathematical models to anticipate the response of “the mark” to staged provocations. Reactions thereby become foreseeable—within an acceptable range of probabilities. When Israeli mathematician Robert J. Aumann received the 2005... Read article

The ADL’s Hate Crimes Legislation

The Anti-Defamation League boasts that its model hate crimes statute inspired changes to law in 45 states and the District of Columbia. The ADL claimed another victory in July when the U.S. Senate approved a hate crime statute similar to one approved in April by the House of Representatives. The slight differences will be resolved in the fall when President Barack Obama promised he will sign the ADL-crafted legislation into law. In Congressional testimony on the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, Attorney General Eric Holder conceded... Read article

Multiculturalism: Europeans Guillotined From Their Cultures

Part 3: Personal stories… If you look at the horrendous social consequences growing in France, United Kingdom, Holland, Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Spain, Canada and elsewhere—you cannot wonder who dreamed up the concept of ‘multiculturalism’. Did they take into account human nature? Anthropological realities? Different tribes? Antagonistic cultures? Immigrant citizens now bomb subways in England, trains in Spain, riots in Sweden and create growing slums in Amsterdam. Given enough time, every human tribe attempts... Read article

Hate America? Count Me Out!

On this 8th anniversary of the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, it behooves me to comment on the spirit of hatred that seems to motivate many people in and out of our great land. That the supporters and disciples of Vladimir Lenin, Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Mao Tse-tung, and Adolf Hitler would hate America is understandable. Communism, socialism, and fascism are diametrically opposed to everything the United States was founded upon. Therefore, it is not surprising that people who espouse the tenets... Read article

The Faculty Fightback

Teachers in public education throughout the country have been struggling for decades, trying to educate children with insufficient funds and resources. But the present economic crisis has gutted even these inadequate budgets so that many teachers can now only pretend to educate, given the impossible conditions. Nor has higher education been exempt from budget cuts. The good news is that faculty members at Oakland University, a public university in Michigan, have decided to fight back, as reported in The New York Times, September... Read article

Talk Show Host Michael Savage’s Website Attacked by Hackers

A little while back, talk show host Michael Savage had to endure an attack on his character when the British government associated him with terrorists and other criminals and banned him from traveling to the U.K.  But on Saturday, August 22 the attack — or at least an attack — was brought to his own shores when a computer hacker damaged his website by sneaking into its server through a feedback portal, forcing technicians to shut it down for nearly an hour. The attack came on the heels of sharp criticism leveled... Read article

Want to Fight Deflation? Give a Worker a Raise

The slight rebound in housing looks a lot different when one considers how much the Fed is meddling in the market. Fed chair Ben Bernanke has purchased $240 billion in US Treasuries to keep long-term interest rates artificially low while–at the same time–buying $740 billion in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage-backed securities (MBS) to provide the financing for new home buyers. It’s the double-whammy; and that’s not all. Bernanke plans to continue buying agency MBS (monetization) until he reaches... Read article

Lord of the Manor

US foreign policy in Iraq & Afghanistan… I’m not really sure if my latest theory about Iraq and Afghanistan is correct — but if it quacks like a duck, then I say let it fly. Here’s my theory: That the folks in Washington seem to want to milk both Iraq and Afghanistan for all they are worth financially — but from a safe distance. It’s like that old lord-of-the-manor, castle-and-peasant trick. Build a huge castle on your fiefdom, squeeze the peasants dry until they scream and... Read article

The Biggest U.S. Business is…?

Straight-faced, with neither a blink or a wink, Pres. Obama presented his rendition of Health Care ‘insurance’ reform to Congress and the American people. It would have been easy to sit back and enjoy the speaker without evaluating or critiquing his words and just accepting all that he said. After all, he is The President and we want to believe what he says as honest and straightforward. But, Who can we trust? Having read some of the provisions in the much-touted congressional House Health Care Bill, there’s plenty... Read article

Multiculturalism: Crime Against Humanity

Part 2: Becoming a nation of strangers In the American media, you will not hear a peep about the failures of multiculturalism. It’s an untouchable ‘sacred cow’. While the elites support and defend it, they step away from living with it. Gated communities, private schools and country clubs across America represent the flight from multiculturalism. In Boulder, Colorado, where I formerly taught school—rich, white, liberal mothers, driving $50,000 SUVs, sported bumper stickers that read, “Celebrate Diversity”.... Read article

Snake Bitten America: Multiculturalism’s Ultimate Ending

Part 1: Biologically unworkable… Former Vice President Dan Quayle once said, “Diversity is our strength.” After an angry black/white confrontation last July in Cambridge, Massachusetts—Professor Henry Louis Gates and Police Officer James Crowley sipped beers at the White House to iron out their differences. They did not succeed. John Kenneth Galbraith said, “Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; never before in history had so many people of such varied languages,... Read article

The Gardner Went Blind

Weeds Took Over The Garden… “Rescue me and deliver me out of the hand of aliens whose mouths speak deceit and whose right hand is the hand of falsehood.” Psalm 144:11 Warning: This article contains language that may cause strong reactions! When lies are accepted as fact and national policies aligned with falsehood; when tragic homicidal events are planned as instruments of enslavement and attributed to phantom enemies; when morality is debauched and conflicting cultures thrown together like pit bulls in a dog-fighting... Read article

Obama’s Empty Labor Day Speech

President Obama is a friend of the working people…one day a year. The rest of the year he is rewarding banks with bailouts and war contractors with more war. On Labor Day, workers were offered nothing of substance, just kind words. Obama began his speech by spending an excessive amount of time exaggerating the leadership abilities of both AFL-CIO officials and Ohio’s Democratic representatives. The motive was simple: the “partnership” between organized labor and the Democratic Party is central to the languishing... Read article

Ninth Circuit Rules: “Ashcroft Is Not Above The Law”

In a critical case which could determine the future of “preventive detention” in the U.S., the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that ex-Attorney General John Ashcroft can be sued for arresting Muslims as material witnesses as a pretext for investigating their possible links to terrorism. The 2 to 1 ruling (all three judges were Reagan or Bush appointees) is a setback for hardliners in the Bush administration who maintain that the state has the right to circumvent the 4th amendment and imprison “suspects”... Read article

How to be a successful activist (in 5 simple steps)

1. How to be a good organizer a) Spend some time thinking about trees b) Imagine what clear cutting looks like, sounds like, and feels like c) Recognize that 80% of the world’s forests are gone d) Be a good organizer 2. How to find like-minded comrades a) Go to the beach b) Smell the salty air and listen to the waves c) Recognize that 90% of the large fish in the ocean are gone d) Find like-minded comrades 3. How to plan a protest a) 200,000 acres of rain forest are destroyed each day. Picture a planet devoid... Read article

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