April 2010
1 post
What to expect coming out of the financial crisis. →
A nice article on some trends of past financial problems and what we can expect coming out of our current situation. It is a long article so for your sake I will include my favorite part here. I found it funny.
This reminds me of an old joke: Keynes was once giving a lecture and noticed that one of his students had fallen asleep. So Keynes asked him a direct question, which woke him up. The...
March 2010
4 posts
Healthcare →
Nice little article from the Mises Institute that doesn’t take the same approach that much of the media is currently taking since the House passage of the health-care bill.
No Child Left Behind-It's not working →
Lovin Livin in Papillion →
Living in the number 2 most affordable and number 3 overall.
Tax your fat away →
This is a perfect example of how government intrusion creeps and creeps until the next thing you know, they control everything. Sure lets put a tax on soda to make people healthier. Next thing we know, they will be attempting to control the food market and what can be sold in grocery stores. This is laughable to see because they have no scientific evidence to support whether or not increasing...
February 2010
14 posts
Great Dane →
I normally only post on politics, but this was too good to pass up. If I had this dog I would wrestle with it everyday for a workout.
Harry Reid will soon be an abusive man. →
Harry Reid is continuing to show the American people that he fully incapable of being the majority leader let alone a United States Senator. While on the Senate floor promoting his new $15 billion jobs bill, Senator Reid argued that the Senate needed to pass this bill because unemployed men were beating their wives. His claim is one that suggests there is a correlation between unemployment rates...
“Happily for America, happily we trust for the whole human race, they pursued a...”
– James Madison, Federalist Papers, No. 14, pp.104-5; emphasis added.
Glenn Beck Keynote CPAC 2010 Speech →
Ron Paul CPAC 2010 speech →
A nice speech given by Ron Paul this year at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Scroll down to view video.
Happy Birthday!
Today is a day to say happy birthday. Today is the first birthday of President Obama’s $862 billion bailout package. Wait a minute you say, the bailout package was only $787 billion. Yes, one year ago today it was, but because and additional $75 billion was so wisely tacked on recently, the estimated new total is roughly around $862 billion.
On this first anniversary, President Obama has come...
“Tyranny always goes hand in hand with government’s wrecking of the money...”
– End the Fed. p. 117
“The flowering of human society depends on two factors; the intellectual power of...”
Revolutionary War Shmevolutionary War →
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Recently, the state of North Carolina has begun contemplating a revamping of their state educational structure. In these proposed changes, the idea of starting U.S. History classes at 1877 has been proposed. If this change were to happen, it would be a gigantic mistake and bring into question the intelligence levels of the individuals making the decision.
Officials are...
The Fed
NOTE: This post is a response to an e-mail I received from my cousin.
First and foremost, I do not support the bailout packages under both Bush and Obama. Secondly, since when do we consider the continued increase in unemployment rates of 5% over the last year stopping the hemorrhaging of job loss. The bailout packages haven’t slowed job loss at all. In fact, the unemployment rate may...
“In a capitalist economy, the prospect of failure imposes discipline and consumer...”
– End The Fed, Ron Paul, page 27.
No, No, No, Dig up Stupid. →
What do you do when you have a problem that needs to be fixed? You search for the best possible solution and fix the problem. This is what common sense dictates. You identify the problem and fix it. This is not what our government does. Instead of trying to fix the problem over the last 9 years, they have just thrown more money at it, literally. (literally, literally, literally for any HIMYM...
The only thing certain in life are death and... →
You have to love a guy who says he fights for the little guy and the working middle class Americans, and then turns around and stabs them in the back. This is just another example of how presidential campaign’s have become a farce. They say things that they think we want to hear, but once elected, they expose themselves as the two-faced liars they really are. There is little to no...
January 2010
10 posts
Who really has the agenda here? →
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This article just goes to show that some people will say anything, even if it is not true, to push their agenda. News outlets reported today that there will be a Super Bowl ad this year featuring Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mother Pam Tebow. The ad has been paid for by a conservative Christian group called Focus on the Family. It is rumored that the ad will be...
Will CNN and MSNBC get the clue? →
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The numbers from last week are out and Fox News was the number one basic cable network during prime-time. The reason this is a little bit of a big deal is that number one typically goes to a network like usa or TNT. News networks typically only move into the top two near presidential elections. CNN came in at 22nd and MSNBC was 25th out of 30. You would think that these...
Just Gotta Love a Good Double Standard →
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I found this video interesting because of the double standard that is represented. If this video was of a man suggesting that health care reform would get done if all the women went home, he would have to resign by the end of the week. The outcry from woman’s rights organizations would be never-ending. I imagine that she will come out some time next week and...
Public View on New Campaign Finance Laws. →
The Supreme Court ruled this week that former campaign finance laws were unconstitutional citing the First Amendment for its reasoning. The link on the title is to a Gallup survey on the public opinion of this ruling. This ruling has caused very differing and passionate opinions to be expressed by politicians in Washington, but this survey would suggest that most Americans would agree with the...
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If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying. →
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Saw this on the Drudge Report yesterday. I am sad to post this because of the fact that Mr. Schultz comes from my home state of North Dakota. You have to love his honesty, but his stupidity greatly outweighs any positive aspect of honesty. This comment exemplifies a larger problem that is growing within the Democratic Party, and that is the complete disregard for...
Yet Another Example of Union Political Clout.
Unions are doing everything they can to prove my opinion from my previous blog to be true. Not more than an hour after my last post on the unethical practices of unions, I came to find out that they had struck a nice little deal with the White House concerning health care.
Major leading union officials, such as SEIU president Andy Stern, met at the White House to discuss health care on January...
Unions. Increasing Influence with Decreasing...
Over the last two weeks there has been a lot of activity surrounding the nomination of Erroll Southers to be the next Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Chief. The main concern of the opposition to Southers, mainly Senator Jim DeMint (S.C.), is the fear that he will attempt to unionize the TSA. Recently, six additional Republican Senators have joined DeMint in opposition to this...
Equality for All is Freedom for None
Not so long ago I had a friend of mine ask me what I thought the major difference was between Republicans and Democrats. I first said that there is not much difference between those two groups and that people need to stop identifying themselves by a party and start identifying themselves by an ideology. I went on to say that the two main conflicting ideologies in our country today would...
Why we call ourselves a Democracy and why we need...
It is not uncommon today for people to believe that we are a democracy. I have often asked my students what form of government we have in America and they respond by saying a democracy nearly all of the time even though our Pledge of Allegiance states “and to the Republic”. Many people think that it is not a big deal that we call ourselves a democracy but the differences between a...
Welcome
Welcome to Conservative Indoctrination. This blog will be my way of voicing my opinion on current political events and tying them in with history. Having said that this will be a blog of opinion more so than just news, know that my opinions will always be formed from verified facts and not conjecture. If I come out and form an opinion on something that turns out to be false I will be the first...