Disconnected Independence Day
A noted scholar in early American history, Professor Herbert Sloan of Barnard College, points out that unlike many nations, the United States does not link its origins to a grandiose military victory.
Take a moment to ponder the profundity of his statement.
Our Declaration of Independence was inspirational several years before Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered his beleaguered more »
The price of moderation
Today is B2’s birthday and to celebrate, I’m giving all of you B2J readers a gift rather than the other way round. The gift? A reminder of just what can be accomplished when you elect moderates rather than conservatives.
Thanks to eight moderate Republicans, we have just witnessed the largest tax increase in the history of more »
Cap all growth, tax the poor
Today, House members may be frog-marched into their congressional chamber by Democrat Party perfumed princess Nancy Pelosi to render their unqualified votes on the American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009.
The so-called Cap and Trade Energy Bill (or Waxman-Markey Bill) is 1,201 pages in length and most House members have not even read the more »
Prepackaged entertainment
Once upon a time, the use of planted questioners at a presidential news conference was unbedingt verboten, the logic being that it would send a message to Americans and the world that the American media wasn’t ethical, objective, or free.
Once upon a time, the exclusive use of the nation’s major media outlets to soft-sell the more »
What is happening here?
From the Mid-Eighties until last year, even with an occasional fiscal hiccup, the United States experienced the greatest peacetime economic expansion in the history of the universe. Western nations and other countries also enjoyed the broadest expansion of wealth in history.
According to The Economist, the nation’s gains in income and wealth resulted directly in a more »
A violation of conscience
We are witnessing the systematic plunder of wealth, power, and free will from American citizens by an authoritative statist government. We perceive there is no one to stop this theft, and with reason.
Where is that individual or group with the courage to define and separate itself from the pilferage by what it stands for, and more »
Stimulate this
With this month’s prediction by the Congressional Budget Director that unemployment will continue rising — above 10 percent — into the second half of 2010, Americans are wondering, “Where’s the stimulus?”
Thus far, state-owned media such as MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, The NY Times, and LA Times have been dutifully placating the masses, duping them more »
