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The Raven ...the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. - Milton Friedman on the Phil Donahue show "...What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven" -F.A. Hayek - The Road to Serfdom The powers delegated by the proposed Constit...

COMMENTARY: Be kind. It doesn’t cost a thing! National Random Acts of Kindness Day takes place each February. Can you practice kindness every day of the year? - Leo Buscaglia (Source: Gray TV) By Jason Old | February 7, 2020 at 2:46 PM CST - Updated February 16 at 11:01 PM (Commentary) - Kindness. It’s a relatively simple word, but can have deep meaning if you embrace it. National Random Acts of Kindness day lands in February every year. Simply put, it is a day to remind people...

" The Great American Family is based on the true life story of a brother and sisters life being turned upside down via a gross abuse of power by the U.S. government," commented Johnson. "The unfortunate tale of Dawn and Darrin Hanna is rooted in greed, spies and lies that shine yet another light on the corruption and double standards in the American justice system. Its a story thats hard to believe, but one that proves fact is stranger than fiction." The documentary that is based on the book, ...

" The Great American Family is based on the true life story of a brother and sisters life being turned upside down via a gross abuse of power by the U.S. government," commented Johnson. "The unfortunate tale of Dawn and Darrin Hanna is rooted in greed, spies and lies that shine yet another light on the corruption and double standards in the American justice system. Its a story thats hard to believe, but one that proves fact is stranger than fiction." The documentary that is based on the book, ...

1 . 22 . 21 Sometime between my arrival at college over half a century ago and my departure four years later, the world shifted. It was impossible to miss and hard, as we would say today, to “process” how visions of a Great Society and a Second Reconstruction yielded riots and cultural revolution. America at the start of the Sixties looked the successful going concern. By the end it looked a shambles. The public markers of the Sixties included omnibus civil rights legislation, invention of ...

What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience … – From The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) by Hannah Arendt ‘Please write regularly, or otherwise I am going to die out here.’ Hannah Arendt didn’t usually begin letters to her husband this way, but in the spring of 1955 she found herself alone in...

photo credit: Bigstock This week the ruling class will install Mumbly Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States and symbolic ruler of the empire. This will take place in a scene out of a Hollywood movie. The Imperial Capital looks like a war zone, with 25,000 troops patrolling the streets and the core of the city closed off entirely. Biden will take the oath of office behind layers of razor wire fencing and heavily armed soldiers. The grandees of official Washington, o...

What breeds fanaticism, as opposed to some reasoned, measured adherence to an otherwise practical organization or political philosophy?

Carvings at the San Francisco de la Montaña Church in Veraguas, said to be the work of the first generation of indigenous artists to become Christians. Was the church built atop a pre-Columbian religious site? What did the process of the sculptors’ conversion entail? Obscure questions here, but they might be answered in recently opened Vatican archives. Photo by Editorpana. History projects to bring two nations together In Panama we just celebrated The Day of the Martyrs, versions of which a...

“What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation,” the longshoreman and philosopher Eric Hoffer wrote about America in 1967.