Politicians Talking Gibberish About Health Care

Life, Liberty, and Property Are Inseparable

Liberty Is An Absolute

The Democrats Privatize Wealth Redistribution
George W. Bush redistributed more wealth during his presidency than any president had since Lyndon Johnson. Republicans really have never had any problem with redistributing wealth as long as the proceeds go to the right people. Since Medicare benefits senior citizens, a constituency that no election can be won without in the baby boomer retirement era, Republicans had no problem using the force of government to forcibly take money from one individual and using it to buy “healthcare” for another – as they did with their Medicare prescription drug benefit. Neither do they hesitate to redistribute to bankers, under the cover of “saving the financial system.” God help us if there is

A Familiar Strategy?
Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty. [1]- John Basil Barnhill (1914)Americans should be experiencing “déjà vu all over again” as Congress prepares for another weekend incursion into their rights via another two-thousand page bill that must be voted on before anyone has had a chance to read it. This time, it is H.R. 3962 “To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.” The next law that should be passed is that legislators and bureaucrats shall not be allowed to work on weekends.Th

Michael Moore Wants to End the Fed (He Just Doesn't Realize It)
“You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”- Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride (1987)It is ironic that Michael Moore’s latest movie, Capitalism: A Love Story features two appearances by writer and comedic actor Wallace Shawn. There is even a clip of Shawn exclaiming “Inconceivable!” in his hilarious turn as Vezzini in The Princess Bride. However, the most appropriate clip from that movie would have been Inigo Montoya uttering the words quoted in the prologue of this article. Using one of Moore’s staple filmmaking techniques, he could have cut to the clip immediat

Letter to Congressman Adam Putnam Regarding Iran
I just sent this letter to my congressman after receiving an e-mail from him indicating that he would be supporting sanctions against Iran.  Please feel free to use this text for your own letters to representatives and senators.  I will be sending a similar letter to Senators Bill Nelson and George LeMieux, respectively.Mr. Putnam,I received your e-mail regarding your intention to support sanctions against Iran for its supposed "secret" nuclear weapons facility. I am writing to express my extreme dissatisfaction with your position on this issue, as well as that of the US government in general.I have read the news accounts, your report, and sever

The Myth of the "Christian Nation" Divides Us
While our politicians get on with the work of plundering our wealth, planning our lives, and preparing their next war of aggression, they remain comfortably insulated from criticism of any of these substantive actions because they have successfully distracted average Americans with issues that should not involve government at all. There is none more divisive than religion.The left reads into the First Amendment of the Constitution an active role for government in prohibiting the acknowledgment of religion or God in any public setting. The right reads into our Declaration of Independence a requirement of belief not only in God, but in the Christian God, in order for one to claim