Our Newest Op Ed-By Michael M. Bates

March 30, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

Americans and the right to Social Security
- By Michael M. Bates

American philosopher Yogi Berra once sagely noted, “What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.” Or maybe it was Zsa Zsa Gabor who said that. Either way, it’s unquestionably an insightful observation.

President Bush’s popularity has been dropping faster than you can say, “restructuring Social Security.” Still, I give the man credit. He tackled what’s been called the third rail of American politics and not been electrocuted. Yet……………
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Our Newest Op Ed- By Warner Todd Huston

March 29, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

French Arms to China Must not Divide Europe and U.S.?
- By Warner Todd Huston

So said the French ambassador to the U.S., Jean-David Levitte, in a recent speech at Yale University. Well, then. I am glad that was settled, aren’t you? Heck, why should the we in the U.S.A. get all uptight about Europe wishing to sell China, our greatest enemy (so proclaimed by them), all the arms the Europeans can dump on them? What IS all the fuss about, anyway?

It certainly is difficult to imagine what the French think will happen once the current European ban of selling high tech arms and arms systems components to the Chinese is lifted. One presumes that they imagine that nothing “bad” will happen. But one cannot shake the feeling that they secretly hope that such sales will be their best avenue to their much ballyhooed goal of “counter balancing American hegemony” that they have so dearly wished for these recent decades. Then again, maybe that hope isn’t so secret after all…………..
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Our Newest op Ed- By Chuck Busch

March 29, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

The Final Word for Terri Shiavo
- By Chuck Busch

The facts of the case are simple. The implications of the decision will be unending. There is no document expressing Terri Shiavo’s choice to die or by what manner of death. All we have is the word of Michael Shiavo whose testimony is compromised by an obvious conflict of interest and whose status as a “husband” is dubious at best. Yet the judiciary of the infamous Florida courts system has seen fit to condemn a helpless innocent woman to a slow torturous death by dehydration and starvation even before her constitutional right of due process has been thoroughly played out.

We give better treatment to convicted murderers, terrorists, and dogs. There has been absolutely no sense of justice in this entire situation. Innocent until proven guilty used to be the norm, but Terri has not even been charged with a crime. It’s unbelievable. It’s a human rights nightmare. It’s cruel beyond imagination. It nothing more than state-assisted murder. As Terri brother exclaimed, what is happening here is most “hideous.” Is this America? ………..
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Our Newest Op Ed-By R.A. Hawkins

March 28, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

Arm The Teachers! (Why Not Disarm The Bureaucrats?)
- By R.A. Hawkins

But for one instance that I’m aware of, all of the school shootings have had one thing in common. The kids have been on some type of mood altering drug. The one case where that hasn’t been verified was the shooting in Mississippi. For some strange reason they didn’t want to release the medical records. The refusal to release the records says enough in itself. Who needs the records at this point?

Medical bureaucrats and school counselors prescribed the mood altering drugs in most cases, so it seems to me that it is the bureaucrats and counselors who are the ones we should be focusing on, not the guns. All of the gun laws in the world wouldn’t have prevented the last kid from getting his gun. He used a gun that belonged to his grandfather who is, or was, a policeman. Maybe it would help these bureaucrats understand what kind of fire they are playing with if they had to live with these kids after prescribing this medication.

The problem with most of these medications is that the effects on children aren’t fully understood yet because the drugs aren’t designed for kids. They are designed for adults who don’t have a hormonal rollercoaster ride going on as they experience everything else in life………..
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Have a Wonderful Easter

March 26, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

Happy Easter to all our readers.

May God bless you and yours.

Our Newest Op Ed- By Rudy Takala

March 26, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

The Tyranny of the Children
- By Rudy Takala

The legitimacy of certain performance-enhancing drugs has recently been a popular subject in the news, crusaders of government action as usual asserting the beneficial effects that regulation will have on “the children.”

“Children” have a tendency to idolize baseball players, they say, and because some of the practices baseball players partake in have a bad effect on their health, those practices must be prohibited. The possibility of children idolizing harmful practices is the case most frequently made in favor of steroid regulation.

If that argument prevails, of course, future bans will inevitably come to prohibit sport figures from consuming similar products, such as tobacco. The values of socialism hold the length of life to be more valuable than the quality of life, and the adherents of socialism feel a compelling need to instill those values into children. Because many may not agree, the only means by which they can create a people homogenous in its condemnation of such things is by using government to induce them through force. There is indeed more at stake in this debate than the simple regulation of steroids; the future disposition of government towards all products and practices detrimental to one’s health is at stake ………
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Our Newest Op Ed- By Rudy Takala

March 26, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

The Tyranny of the Children
- By Rudy Takala

The legitimacy of certain performance-enhancing drugs has recently been a popular subject in the news, crusaders of government action as usual asserting the beneficial effects that regulation will have on “the children.”

“Children” have a tendency to idolize baseball players, they say, and because some of the practices baseball players partake in have a bad effect on their health, those practices must be prohibited. The possibility of children idolizing harmful practices is the case most frequently made in favor of steroid regulation.

If that argument prevails, of course, future bans will inevitably come to prohibit sport figures from consuming similar products, such as tobacco. The values of socialism hold the length of life to be more valuable than the quality of life, and the adherents of socialism feel a compelling need to instill those values into children. Because many may not agree, the only means by which they can create a people homogenous in its condemnation of such things is by using government to induce them through force. There is indeed more at stake in this debate than the simple regulation of steroids; the future disposition of government towards all products and practices detrimental to one’s health is at stake ………
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