This post may be of interest particularly to my friends in the dramatic arts, but who’s not interested in drama? Observe that people rarely cry or weep in the heat of battle. It just would not have been practical for the mind and body to have been designed that way. If a warrior sees his […]
In his Weekly Address yesterday, Obama said, “I didn’t come here to do the same things we’ve been doing … .” After all, Obama is for “change.” Before Obama took over the country, and even before Bush’s 2008 financial bailouts, federal, state, and local governments were spending the astronomical sum of roughly $5 trillion dollars […]
October 01, 2009 The Lowest Building in America Empire State Building Goes Red for Communist China, Sparking Protest September 26, 2009 The rules murdering our troops by Ralph Peters September 24, 2009 A speech that an American leader should have made: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the UN. Part 1 Part 2 September 23, […]
Obama, in his address before a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, said this: A [federal budget] surplus became an excuse to transfer wealth to the wealthy instead of an opportunity to invest in our future. Who’s wealth did the government transfer to the wealthy? Brit Hume, in a FoxNews Commentary (Whose Money Is It […]
… by Stamping Out Freedom. In his address before a joint session of Congress last night, Obama dictated his plan for America, to be financed and “serviced” by productive Americans. Obama will take from individuals the wealth that they created and needed for their own plans. The dictator’s plan comes first. Obama: “[T]he budget I […]
When you listen tonight to Obama’s “plan,” recall these words by the great economist Ludwig von Mises, one of the “best minds” beyond the understanding of Obama, Summers, and Geithner: Whatever people do in the market economy, is the execution of their own plans. In this sense every human action means planning. What those [in […]
This is near the start of the speech: Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged […]
In his “Remarks by the President on the mortgage crisis” on February 18, Obama stated: Our housing crisis was born of eroding home values, but it was also an erosion of our common values, and in some case, common sense. It was brought about by big banks that traded in risky mortgages in return for […]
George Washington to Patrick Henry October 9, 1795: “I can most religiously aver that I have no wish that is incompatible with the dignity, happiness, and true interest of the people of this country. My ardent desire is, and my aim has been (as far as depended upon the Executive Department) to comply strictly with […]
I would like to recommend a Web site that has given me many hours of pleasure and inspiration: the Art Renewal Center, at http://www.artrenewal.org/. The site contains “one of the largest on-line museums on the internet … that features tens of thousands of high quality images of the greatest painters and sculptors in human history.” […]