No man's life, liberty or property is safe while this legislature is in session.

As you know, health care reform bill H.R. 3962 passed in the House of Representatives squeaked by with 220 to 215. Among Republicans, only Anh "Joseph" Cao votes for the bill.

I have very little doubt that the health care will be passed in the Senate, the democrat leaders are ruthless. The media will sugar coat this and they'll use this as a cover to pass this unconstitutional bill.

But I still can't believe that Kucinich actually voted against the bill. However, I suspect because the bill didn't take enough FREEDOM from the people by dropping the public option. But hey, he still voted against it.

I wonder how far they'll take this, can I still eat and drink whatever I want? Or will I be fined for that too?


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Reason T.V.: Remembering the Victims of Communism

Sunday Links

Greed Is Not Good, and It’s Not Capitalism

Media Hacks owe Rush Limbaugh an apology for spreading misinformation.

News to Rachel Maddow, John Stossel won't be a news anchor. He'll be an opinion journalist.

Die already, die!

Myths about America and opportunity

Simon Cowell saves little girl life by flying her to America for medical treatment

Unconditional love is fallacy

Planned Parenthood and abortion quotas

Conferences, Events, and Actions

The Family Economics Conference
Castle Rock, CO
March 5-6 2010
Kevin Swanson

"Little is said here today about the unraveling of the Soviet empire"

Native Hungarian Paul Hollander, who escaped from his in 1956, wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post today on the curiosity of American indifference to this month's 20th anniversaries:

While greatly concerned with communism in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Americans -- hostile or sympathetic -- actually knew little about communism, and little is said here today about the unraveling of the Soviet empire. The media's fleeting attention to the momentous events of the late 1980s and early 1990s matched their earlier indifference to communist systems. There is little public awareness of the large-scale atrocities, killings and human rights violations that occurred in communist states, especially compared with awareness of the Holocaust and Nazism (which led to to far fewer deaths). The number of documentaries, feature films or television programs about communist societies is minuscule compared with those on Nazi Germany and/or the Holocaust, and few universities offer courses on the remaining or former communist states. For most Americans, communism and its various incarnations remained an abstraction.

The different moral responses to Nazism and communism in the West can be interpreted as a result of the perception of communist atrocities as byproducts of noble intentions that were hard to realize without resorting to harsh measures. The Nazi outrages, by contrast, are perceived as unmitigated evil lacking in any lofty justification and unsupported by an attractive ideology. There is far more physical evidence and information about the Nazi mass murders, and Nazi methods of extermination were highly premeditated and repugnant, whereas many victims of communist systems died because of lethal living conditions in their places of detention. Most of the victims of communism were not killed by advanced industrial techniques.

Just for the record, The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 is what propelled Paul Hollander's immigration. The events that occured 53 years is what helped defeat domestic Communism by shifting the attitudes in Western Europe and America in the political arena.

The sad thing is Communism has more sympathy than ever before, that why we never see anything bad about them in the news. You hear Nazism, and the holocaust but never Commies. (Or the Obamas.)

How the Japanese find love

Long work hours have many Japanese turning to "marriage hunting" agencies. CNN's Morgan Neill reports.

Visionary Daughters how to become a better daughter-at-home

From the Visionary Daughter's blog:

Without that understanding, the role of the daughter doesn’t make sense. What is she? A deputy/rival helpmeet? A second-rate son? A pampered pet? An unpaid maid? A child? A sponge? An autonomous individual just rooming in her parents’ house (or not)? If we don’t have the right biblical presuppositions, we might look at the blueprint and interpret the daughter’s role any of these ways. And believe me, we’ve heard them all. But if we can see the whole picture, it becomes clear that a daughter is none of these things.

This is important to understand. A family of helpmeet hopefuls jockeying for the position of Daddy’s “primary helpmeet” is not a healthy family. And a daughter causing friction in the household is not helping her father or anyone else. The antidote is very simple. Many thanks to Jasmine for this very helpful article.

A (Lengthy) Reply to Kelsey’s Inquiry
by Jasmine Baucham

When my daddy comes home from an out-of-town trip, though the boys squeal and clamor next to the front door as soon as they hear the garage, all of us kids know that Daddy’s first priority when he enters the house isn’t going to be to scoop one of us up in a bear hug or tousle our hair. Daddy will walk into the house, his eyes searching, looking right past his children. He’ll part the clamoring crowd and make a beeline for Mama. And only after he’s said his hellos to her (sometimes making us gag playfully in the process) will he turn around and enthusiastically greet us.

It’s something we kids are used to, and something that, as we grow up, we learn to love. From a very young age, my parents have made it apparent that their relationship supersedes everything else in our family life. And that’s the first point of my reply to Kelsey’s question from yesterday:

Read the rest here

Quickhit: Black Conservatism, a long tradition

Steven Hahn a historian, recently published a lengthy but interesting article in the New Republic on the long tradition of Black Conservatism here in the United States. From Reason's Hit and Run:

In the latest New Republic, historian Steven Hahn has a long and very interesting review of the recent Booker T. Washington biography Up from History. As Hahn discusses, Washington famously championed economic advancement and education over political activism as the key to black equality, an approach Washington perhaps best articulated in his “Atlanta Compromise” speech of 1895.

After reading Hahn’s review, liberal blogger Matthew Yglesias was apparently struck by the need for “the concept of a ‘black conservative’ political tradition” in order to best understand Washington’s life and accomplishments. Thankfully, a little Googling revealed that a black conservative tradition does exist, though Yglesias might have searched a little further before typing this:

It’s only extremely recently that the idea of an African-American aligning himself, à la Clarence Thomas, with the mainstream conservative movement in America could be remotely possible. But even so, that didn’t mean there was no ideological conflict in black politics or that general rightist sentiments somehow didn’t exist.

Actually, the great Harlem Renaissance author and journalist George Schuyler—who was known as the “black H.L. Mencken”—published “general rightist sentiments” long before Clarence Thomas came on the scene, including Schuyler’s unambiguously titled 1966 autobiography Black and Conservative.

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Why Black Americans have a problem digesting milk

How to make Spelt Milk Part one and Part two

Sunday Links

No Sunday links this week but you can leave the links of the interesting stories/events you've encountered.