Politics
Test your knowledge of America’s financial health
By Tom Quiner 1. President Obama’s solution to our deficits and national debt is to increase taxes on productive Americans who earn over $250,000. If he gets his way, how long would these new taxes fund our federal government? a. 200 years b. 200 weeks c. 200 hours d. 200 seconds 2. How much money…
Read MoreSex, violence, and self-esteem
“These studies show not only that self-esteem fails to accomplish what we had hoped, but also that it can backfire and contribute to some of the very problems it was thought to thwart.”
Read MoreQuote of the day
By Tom Quiner This quote comes from my friend, Tiffinay: “I personally don’t care for guns, but I don’t think I can impose my views on all people.”
Read MoreIn the name of sanity, Washington, stop spending our money so irresponsibly
If numbers make your head swim, look at this chart. I have simplified government spending in a way that is comprehensible in a glance …
Read MoreMLK’s words still resonate
A society devoid of immutable Truth
Mike Huckabee is getting hammered. The former Arkansas Governor blamed the shootings in Connecticut on the removal of God from the public square. Detractors responded angrily, stating that the shooter was mentally ill, that God had nothing to do with it …
Read MoreWhat political party said this?
“We we demand: … an end to the power of the financial interests.”
Read MoreC. S. Lewis advises President Obama
By C.S. Lewis Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our…
Read MorePresident Kennedy advises President Obama
By John F. Kennedy “Our true choice is not between tax reduction, on the one hand, and the avoidance of large federal deficits on the other. It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our [needs] keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce…
Read MoreDo we really need more government employees?
How can we justify siphoning off more money from job creators and giving it to a man who is using if for what appears to be political patronage?
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