By Deanna M. Murray Idealist: –noun 1. a person who cherishes or pursues high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc. 2. A visionary or impractical person. 3. A person who represents things as they might or should be rather than as they are. Would you be offended if someone called you an idealist? This is something [...]
By Dave Perkins Can America handle the task of caring for its poor without government involvement? Money represents our work. Our lives are time limited. We can only do so much work and only make so much money. Taking our money is the same thing as taking a piece of our lives. It is fractional [...]
By James H. Fitzgerald I was about half way finished with this piece, when I read this great article on AT by Michael Filozof. Please give it a look. Mr Filozof lays out a very clear narrative of the usurpation of our culture by a small group of dedicated Authoritarians and calls for a militant [...]
By Jason Ivey A cloying amount of time was spent on the subject of “civility” early this year following the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and others in Tucson, Arizona. The political class and the media focused on . . . well, the political class and the media. An exhausting amount of ink and breath was [...]
By Benjamin Smith Do we really want to understand what’s going on in Iran? Do we have a desire to truly have insight into what an oppressed people endure? People who have experienced despotic, corrupt, tyrannically-run countries will tell you what they have endured if we only cared enough to ask. If you can get them talking about it they will [...]
By Benjamin Smith When I write the term…. “American Exceptionalism” on any computer or writing program there seems to be a very visible red squiggly line underneath the word Exceptionalism (seriously, try it). In a world of a million ‘isms, why is this not one of them? Why is this term not even recognized ? [...]
By Benjamin Smith “War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling that thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he will fight, nothing that is more important than his own personal safety is [...]
By Benjamin Smith ‘I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.’ Back in my school days, the pledge was something I had to memorize and had to say each day. But as [...]
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I listened to a fund raiser today for Hillary Clinton who’s now raising money for one of the Republican Candidates and made the comment that we need to set aside social issues and focus on just the Money or Economy. This isn’t the first time this statement has been made however it’s time to examine [...]
