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by J. Matt Barber
The president has more "czars" running around than Mother Russia. It's mondo bizarro. Kind of fitting, though; must be a communist thing. Still, as the debate over Obama's multi-trillion dollar pet experiment in socialized healthcare reaches terminal... read more
• August 12, 2009 |
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| » Is There a Co-Pay with Forced Abortion?
by J. Matt Barber
The president has more "czars" running around than Mother Russia. It's mondo bizarro. Kind of fitting, though; must be a communist thing. Still, as the debate over Obama's multi-trillion dollar pet experiment in socialized health care reaches termina... read more
• August 3, 2009 |
 | » Headline Potpourri #3: Jackson Clones, Radical Profs, & Eldercide
by Frederick Meekins
Barack Obama has taken on the role of chief booze peddler. Hoping to smooth over the controversy that has erupted over the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, the President has invited the professor and the arresting office to the White House for a beer. Gi... read more
• August 3, 2009 |
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| » Minding The Times: An Exposition On Postmodernism, Part 2
by Frederick Meekins
The human mind and spirit cannot endure for very long the chaotic vacillation of such lawlessness before the individual eventually cries out for answers to the extremes of licentiousness and total control. Throughout much of the Modern Era, the Chris... read more
• July 6, 2009 |
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| » Minding The Times: An Exposition On Postmodernism, Part 1
by Frederick Meekins
One might say the future is here --- and we might want to send it back for a refund. Having waited years and wondering at times whether mankind would even survive to see the day, the world now finds itself on the other side of a new millennium. In so... read more
• May 28, 2009 |
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| » Microdictatorships Line The Road To The Future
by Frederick Meekins
In my column "Capital Implements Measures Violating Rights & Property", I warned that a number of steps taken in the name of curtailing crime in a particular Washington, DC neighborhood forbidding entrance to anyone but those whose business and reaso... read more
• February 16, 2009 |
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| » Technological Parking Meters Manifest Statist Mindset
by Frederick Meekins
One of the simple delights in the age of vehicular travel is coming across an empty parking space that still has time on the meter. Since the beast --- namely the municipalities obtaining revenue from the meter --- is still getting the amount of mone... read more
• December 29, 2008 |
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| » Nation's Capital Implements Measures Violating Rights & Property
by Frederick Meekins
As the nation's capital, Washington DC is often looked to for various approaches on how to handle a number of growing issues around the country. Usually government eggheads like to formulate their grandiose schemes from their comfortable halls of pow... read more
• November 24, 2008 |
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| » Character, Knowledge & Independent Thought Denounced As Bourgeoisie
by Frederick Meekins
Abraham Lincoln is credited with saying that the philosophy of the classroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. If the proposals of one pedagogical theorist are implemented, students will in all likelihood never know ... read more
• November 3, 2008 |
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| » Price Of Olympic Gold Growing Too High
by Frederick Meekins
With the breakup of the Soviet Union and the alleged demise of Communism, it was assumed that the Olympic games would no longer be as much of an arena for showcasing the competing ideologies of individual liberty and nearly total social control. And ... read more
• October 29, 2008 |
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| » World's Gutter Governments To Sit In Judgment Over U.S. Human Rights Record
by Frederick Meekins
No one is perfect. As such, at times correction and admonition may need to be promulgated to set the ethically concerned back on the right path. When issued by those adhering to the high standards to which they profess, such criticism can be looked u... read more
• September 9, 2008 |
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| » Phelps' Cult Veers Into Further Irrationality
by Frederick Meekins
To those of us whose vocations consist largely of commenting on the momentous trends and events going on all around us, it can be easy to fall for the delusion that ultimately the world itself orbits those of us observing it. Fred Phelps of the Westb... read more
• August 25, 2008 |
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