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Slaves and Citizens
Here’s a thought: how about we stop worrying about the differences between the rich and the poor and just focus on helping the poor not be poor. This cannot be achieved via redistribution of the...
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Class / Refinement / Sophistication / Style
This is a “passionate” subject for me and I admit I will not do it justice. But I must say something if for no other reason than my having a clear conscience. It won’t help but… I wish to discuss two...
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Our Country?
I never planned to be quoting from the Bible nor have I plans to do so in the future. However, in reading this recently it struck me as applicable to the current day. It is said, “Those that do not...
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Class / Refinement / Sophistication / Style — Continued
We ended off last time with “What has this got to do with us?” Leonardo da Vinci once said, “Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using...
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A few quotes on Education
We are coming of Spring Break and into the final quarter of this school year. I thought, why not a few words of wisdom concerning education to carry us to through the last stretch. Something to think...
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Entitlements
The definition of entitlement from the Encarta Dictionary: English (North America) “to give somebody the right to have or to do something” [emphasis mine]. Merriam-Webster defines it as “a government...
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Parable of the Broken Window
Bastiat’s original parable of the broken window from Ce qu’on voit et ce qu’on ne voit pas [That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen] (1850) – translated by Patrick James Stirling Have you ever...
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***The New Dark Ages Cometh
Watched Robin Hood yesterday. The 2010 film starring Russell Crowe. I was getting ideas for the days that come. At the beginning of the movie the declaration read: “In times of tyranny and injustice...
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The Wonder of Not Knowing and How it Applies to the Acceptance of Not...
I was listening to the comedian Pete Holmes the other day and he was talking about how people have lost the wonder of discovery (my words – but basically the gist). His bit was essentially about how...
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Noise, Noise Everywhere!
It is becoming more and more noticeable to me of late just how noisy society is. Noise is EVERYWHERE! Virtually from the moment we wake (to that ever annoying alarm), or head out into society in the...
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Change
Some words concerning change. Few of which are mine… I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. -Georg C. Lichtenberg On...
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Value of Silence
It is very humbling when my concerns are reinforced by Pope Francis. His Prayer Intention for the month of September 2013 is: “That people today, often overwhelmed by noise, may rediscover the value of...
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A Day Late… Can he sustain it?
Ok… I have decided that it is virtually impossible to do a credible job of copiously detailing the topics of my major posts with a full time (and then some) job and my desire to ensure the expressed...
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Government spending brought to the personal level
Ok … Let me boil this down to the simple and bring it home (literally). The current US Federal government’s annual income in taxes/fees/etc. (i.e., what the IRS takes into the General Fund with which...
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The Tipping Point
I’m back. A lot has happened during my hiatus. In that time I believe we – our country specifically, but the world in general – reached the Tipping Point. We are now on an inevitable march into the New...
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The Tipping Point – a continuation…
Progressivism (read, Liberalism/Socialism) in a nutshell (although not inclusive):: Poverty vs welfare: They go hand in hand. What Socialists don’t see is that while welfare doesn’t create poverty, in...
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Supreme Court Rulings – Always Right?
Is the SCOTUS always right? Several recent cases (not to mention legalization of abortion several decades ago) have led to many suggesting a given argument is “settled law”. Stop arguing. It is over....
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Yesterday (19 July 2015) was updated
For those of you that subscribe, I understand “modifications” to posts are not sent out. This is unfortunate since I, from time-to-time, do make corrections, additions or general modifications to posts...
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The Mass Media lies
In the latest example of today’s topic – In the 7 July 2015 cnn.com/Money article, Gun sales spike in June, by Aaron Smith, it is stated, “Last month the FBI conducted nearly 1.53 million background...
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What of yourself is yours?
I am sorry to say, but you have very little that is intrinsically yours. Your time, your talent and your thoughts are pretty much the extent of it. And it is what you DO with that time as well as those...
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