Posted in Featured, Sweet on Oct 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
One of my favorite think tanks, Evergreen Freedom Foundation, has made a huge home run for liberty, they have won Best Documentary at the San Fernando Valley International Film Festival in Los Angeles.
Wooot, woot!
From their press release:
Flunked takes a realistic view of our failing education system, offering a disturbing look at America’s shameful decline in [...]
Posted in Featured, Sweet, Why Timmy can't read on Oct 20th, 2008 No Comments »
If you’re a fan of 20/20 on ABC then you will love John Stossel’s Politically Incorrect Guide to Politics. It features David Boaz from Cato, economists from George Mason University, and some statists not worth mentioning.
Stossel discusses the bailout, Katrina, the farm bill, and my personal favorite, campaign finance reform.
Please watch the videos prior to [...]
Posted in Featured on Oct 1st, 2008 11 Comments »
That’s the gist of Tom Friedman’s column from yesterday. Here’s the heart of his argument, which is indeed worth considering:
Well, you say, “I don’t own any stocks — let those greedy monsters on Wall Street suffer.” You may not own any stocks, but your pension fund owned some Lehman Brothers commercial paper and your [...]
Posted in Factoid, Featured, Sweet on Sep 23rd, 2008 2 Comments »
On this day in 1957, three years after the US Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” was unconstitutional - something earlier found to be kosher in Plessy v. Ferguson - nine African-American students were escorted by the National Guard inside an all-white high school, Little Rock Central.
However, on this day, the Nine faced grave [...]
Posted in Fair Enough, Featured on Sep 17th, 2008 1 Comment »
On this day, the U.S. Constitution was signed by thirty-nine white guys.
In some sense, today we celebrate the birth of our government!
Yikes, this could be scary.
Celebrating FISA? The war on Iraq? Unions influential powers with politicians? The creation of Homeland Security?
If you tell me, I do love that the signers defined the powers and role [...]
Posted in Factoid, Featured on Sep 4th, 2008 4 Comments »
Quick Facts:
(Things you won’t find on her wikipedia page.)
Registered Republican in 1982, at the age of 18.
She likes driving Ford cars, in the past she has driven 1992 F250 and 1987 F350. (Maybe she could become the next spokesperson for Ford?)
Her current house is valued at $552,000 and she has put over $400,000 in improvements [...]
Posted in Featured, Sweet on Aug 13th, 2008 2 Comments »
Sean Tevis is an architect running for House Rep as a Democrat against a Republican incumbent in Kansas. Beating an incumbent is very difficult and early on he learned how hard it was, he only had $25 to his campaign.
But young Sean came up with an idea:
So he put his skill running corporate Web sites [...]
Posted in En español, Featured on Aug 6th, 2008 No Comments »
My friend Juan Carlos Hildalgo from the glorious Cato Institute smoked in a debate the spokesperson from the Brady Campaign.
Univision’s debate analyzed the Supreme Court’s decision in the DC v. Heller case. The Heller case was won by one favorite libertarian organization Institute for Justice.
The part that I love is when the spokesperson from the [...]
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