This month’s top ten discussion topics
The Top Ten change on the first of every month!
Entitlements
Entitlements Social Programs versus Socialism “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” Thomas Jefferson “Can 95 percent of Americans support the...
Off-Budget Spending
Off-Budget Spending How the government ignores Gramm-Rudman If you wisely decide to create a budget for you and your family, you would first make a list of all income and all expenditures. If you neglect to put your car payment or your house payment on the spending...
National Debt
National Debt Our national finances are apparently being handled by crackheads Take a look at the chart of National Debt since 1940. You will immediately see that National debt has been out of control for several decades now. Annually, the national government...
Egalitarianism… Our North Star
Egalitarianism America’s North Star The Declaration of Independence states, “…. all men are created equal”. This egalitarian ideal is at the heart of who we are as a people, and it must remain so. Those words represent the North Star by which we must guide ourselves....
Yellow Journalism and Motivated Reasoning
Motivated Reasoning “The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.”-- H. L. Mencken President Trump’s attacks on media and “fake news” is somewhat justified. There is a grain of truthiness in...
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius The Stoic Emperor Role models can be found in the modern world or the ancient. Marcus Aurelius, for instance, ruled ancient Rome from 161 to 180 Common Era (C.E.), and has become known as the last of the five “good” emperors. He came closest to...
Hastings Florida
Hastings Florida The National crisis in Microcosm If you have read the New American Constitution, then you know about the dissolution of the city charter in the former town of Seneca Nebraska. If not, please read that post. The small town of Hastings Florida in St....
Parliament of Whores
Parliament of Whores P.J. O’Rourke 1992 “God is a Republican and Santa Claus is a Democrat.” “Democrats are the party of government activism, the party that says government can make you richer, smarter, taller and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are...
The New American Constitution
The New American Constitution There was a segment on National Public Radio (NPR) (4/15/2017) about a place in Nebraska that used to be named Seneca. It used to be a town until the people of Seneca voted on a resolution to dissolve the city charter. The measure passed...
180 since 1880
We’ve come 180 since 1880 Democrats becoming Republicans and vice versa The case for rejecting both the Democrat and Republican parties has never been stronger, and historically speaking identifying with either of the two main parties has never made a whole lot of...