Ron Paul — the least likely get the most press
As a nation, we are now entering the most humorous of times — a presidential election year. As Newty and Mitt rise and fall in the polls, and Cain departs the race to shore up his marriage, it seems that the man who the media loves to hate gets far more coverage and analysis than [...]
Eric Holder: Mens Rea for me, but not for thee
The federal government through its thousands of prosecutors and compliant judges has managed to destroy one of the foundations of Anglo-American criminal law, the provision of mens rea, or the role of intent. For centuries, the question of whether or not to charge someone with a crime would require at least some attention to be [...]
Who is responsible for your health care?
By Richard Ralston What do politicians call it when they force you to buy health insurance (or anything else) every day, for the rest of your life? They call it “personal responsibility.” How do they get away with that? Can anyone remember a time when personal responsibility referred to what we each think that we [...]
Liberty on the rocks
While is it way too early to know if retailers are going to make their necessary profits this holiday season, I’m going to stick my neck out and predict they are not going to come close to what they need in order to make up for an otherwise dismal year. Sure, some retailers have done [...]
The government’s VIPR is just that: a viper
Government acronyms and names are created generally to hide what the government is doing. For example, the war in Afghanistan is “Operation Enduring Freedom,” as opposed to its reality, a decade-long war that has decimated that country and leaves ordinary Afghanis no closer to being free than they were under the Taliban. However, at least [...]
The endless legacy of 9/11
Tomorrow morning, I will experience a small portion of the legacy of the 9/11 attacks, and last week I experienced another. This weekend, after we fly home from Riga, Latvia, our society will be inundated with 9/11 reminders, being the 10th anniversary of the attacks, and I only can hope that someday Americans will ask [...]
MANN+HUMMEL chooses Sequatchie County
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bill Hagerty today joined with local Dunlap and Sequatchie County officials to announce plans by MANN+HUMMEL USA to locate a satellite production facility in Dunlap, Tenn. The company is expected to invest nearly $15 million over the next three years and employ approximately 150 production [...]
What are you doing Friday at 1 p.m?
Most of us are quite busy on any given Friday at 1 p.m. We are wrapping up a busy week and preparing for the following week, which we all hope will bring in enough money to pay the rent, the payroll and the rest of the bills in this unstable economy. We certainly do not [...]
How does the USA differ from other countries?
My wife and I have spent the past three-and-one-half weeks in Riga, Latvia, as we pursue the adoption of a girl who will turn 13 soon. Spending nearly a month in a country, and traveling to different parts of it, shopping with the locals, and spending time with friends and acquaintances, gives one at least [...]
Racial Violence
By Colin Flaherty – Author of White Girl Don’t Bleed: The Return of Race Riots to America. When I told my friends I was working on a magazine article, then a book, about a tsunami of racial violence in America over the last two years, they said, “I haven’t heard about that.” When my Tennessee [...]
