Feb

20

Antitrust Laws and Regulation: A Boon to Monopolies

February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Above is a worthy discussion about the anti-consumer / pro big and connected business fraud that is anti-monopoly legislation with Ron Paul. While the video is some 25 years old, the content is perfectly valid today (if not also a testament to the consistency of Ron Paul since then).
A great myth perpetuated by [...]

Feb

10

Caliguiri Whoop de Doo…

February 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I read with some humor David Caliguiri’s Opinion 250 response to Chad Herman’s comments in the Post Gazette from last week. (For those who don’t know, the PG is running its Opinion 250 to encourage ideas about Pittsburgh’s future at its 250th anniversary…)
Caliguiri’s intends to build on Herman’s comments — which meander around the [...]

Feb

3

Alarming Police State Behavior in Ohio

February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This is downright scary. It all starts at the voting booth. Stop the police state mentality. The war on drugs. The war on this or that.
Of course, if you want to have troops in 100 nations, and you want to dictate to the rest of the world how they should live, you [...]

Jan

3

Who Owns Arlen Specter?

January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment

We were just perusing opensecrets.org to get a better idea of campaign finance reporting. While we think such laws tend to overlook the real problem (far too many collectivized rights and property / taxes are up for sale each election much like an auction, hence politics will remain corrupted), it is interesting to at [...]

Dec

12

Wecht and the Antisemitism Card: Nuts or Just?

December 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment

So, your editor has been buried as of late with a ton of other priorities. There are real jobs, other blogs I’m running, etc.
All said, though, I read today’s PG to find and update on the Wecht case. Not that I’ve been following it all that closely, but — heyy! Whaddaya [...]

Oct

25

Fascism Rising?

October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Naomi Wolf is too easily dismissed as a lefty crank. However, don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater re the video above.
Above is a 45 minute lecture recorded as the University of Washington discussing how quickly political environments can change from freedom to fascism if basic, subtle political changes are allowed to [...]

Oct

9

Government Invented Jobs and Industries Need to Go

October 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Let’s say I had a business that employed people digging ditches, only to fill them right back up? Would you care? Probably not. But if I added that my contracts came directly from the government, you might change your mind. And, you probably wouldn’t mind if politicians decided to [...]

Oct

5

A Return to Liberty and Freedom

October 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Recently we posted on how democracy has washed away the crucial limits once placed on government in order to protect personal freedom and liberty, and that the U.S. was never intended to be a democracy. Here’s Ron Paul talking like a founding father. Note his record of voting at the end of the [...]

Jun

12

Who Keeps Government Authority Honest?

June 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment

An interesting article was forwarded to me from a buddy about an 18-year-old facing upwards of 7 years in jail for video taping the police during a traffic stop in Carlisle, PA. Yes, apparently filming what transpires at such times falls under the Federal (Thanks to Dave P for catching) PA wiretapping laws [...]

May

16

Rendell Tax Shift Fails Round 1

May 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Fast Eddie Rendell would like to win one for his constituency. You know, the ones who’ve voted for bigger and bigger government over the last 50 years and are now retired and facing rising taxes on their property required to cover all those runaway expenses?
And if you think they’re big expenses right now, just [...]

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