When you actually sit down and realize the upside-down world in which we now live, we can only hope and pray the end is painless. But as history well teaches us, the end of freedom is always brutal. The Fort Hood shootings was a terrorist attack. Major Nidal Hasan self-identified as a ‘Soldier of Allah’;…
In 1690 an Englishman was basically the freest individual on the face of planet Earth. They came up with the blasphemous notion that a mere mortal monarch could actually have their sovereign powers limited and controlled. They decided that free and fair elections for parliament be enshrined such that the will of the people…
It begins (for the sake of brevity) with the English Bill of Rights in 1689 [see here]. This bill limited the power of the monarch, instituted elections and allowed people to arm themselves. Fast forward 100 years to 1789 and the philosophy of John Locke continues its lineage through to the US Bill of Rights, the…
The BBC is often caught out using words in a very narrow and limited way. The left often accuses conservatives of using ‘code’ words; this is the enlargement of the meaning of words to make them mean something they don’t denote. The left on the other hand in this article use the words migrant and undocumented to…
Bill Whittle is not happy in this Trifecta episode. But can you really blame him? His pseudo-sarcastic analysis of Barack Obama’s upbringing is telling, unnerving and sends chills up the spine.
Rather than a prescient warning, this ABC Radio April 3rd, 1965, broadcast by presenter Paul Harvey might give us some reassurance that we’ve resisted before a culture that is hell-bent on its own demise.
It’s like pulling teeth in many countries and the ‘sky-high-energy-prices’ UK is still pursuing its energy strategy even though the horse’s head is very much dead. With creeping trepidation, the ominous-sounding Climate Change Committee makes its usual noises, shouting “Environmental blasphemy!” at every turn. It is indeed something akin to a morality play when the government…
In this “extra ranty” video, PJ Media’s ‘Trifecta’ pundit Steve Green takes on the fiscal cliff guff in this ‘Hair of the Dog’ clip. [guff: trivial, worthless or insolent talk or ideas – pretty apt!]
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has what it describes as a: …bottom-up, consensus-driven, multi-stakeholder model… This is from its site [see here]: Bottom up. At ICANN, rather than the Board of Directors solely declaring what topics ICANN will address, members of sub-groups in ICANN can raise issues at the grassroots level.…
The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), in that beacon of freedom, Dubai, is looking at the future of the internet. And naturally the future of the internet should include opinions from dictatorships as well as freedom-loving countries as anything else would be unfair and unrepresentative. There appears to be three angles through which governments…
Life, liberty & the non-pursuit of socialism 