Archive for the ‘Orwell’ Category
One Nation? Under God? Indivisible?
From DumpDC
If you grew up in America, you learned the Pledge of Allegiance pretty early in your life. And if you emigrated here, you learned it, either to fit in or before you tried to become an American citizen.
But have you ever learned about the Pledge of Allegiance itself, and stopped repeating it by rote ...Read more.
Texas County Restricts Well Water
From The Waco Tribune
A few county water suppliers are concerned that water-pumping restrictions being set by the county’s groundwater management district will prevent them from being able to serve future water consumers.
Well owners will have to apply for permanent historic-use-production permits through the Southern Trinity Groundwater Conservation District.
The permits will grant each well owner a ...Read more.
The Pentagon and the Suckers
From AntiWar
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
-Dwight Eisenhower, January 17, 1961 Farewell Address.
During pre game Super Bowl ceremonies Queen Latifah sang America the Beautiful. Following her, ...Read more.
Panic Time for Liberals
From The FFF
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Liberals seem to be getting bent out of shape over the fact that increasing numbers of people are challenging their statist paradigm. They’re suggesting that anyone who questions their beloved welfare-state socialism must be crazy, insane, irrational, greedy, selfish, and evil.
What’s starting to frustrate them is that they’re realizing that ...Read more.
The Road to Dictatorship
From AntiWar.com
That 56 percent of all Americans “think the federal government’s become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens” isn’t really all that surprising. After all, ever since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the government’s “right” ...Read more.
The Village Raising Your Children
From Liberty For All
I won’t be writing on drama ripped from the headlines this week. I will be writing on the drama silenced under terrifying government bureaucracy and elaborate funding schemes. It’s not in the news. It should be.
Being Libertarian, I feel especially sorry for children raised by the government I try to avoid. They ...Read more.
Pentagon Discloses Hundreds of Reports of Possibly Illegal Intelligence Activities
From The EFF
The Department of Defense has released more than 800 heavily-redacted pages of intelligence oversight reports, detailing activities that its Inspector General has “reason to believe are unlawful.” The reports are the latest in an ongoing document release by more than a half-dozen intelligence agencies in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) ...Read more.
Video: Who Owns Your Body?
Why I Hate Bureaucrats
By John Stossel
For 15 years, the B & B Do it Center, a local hardware store in the small California town of Camarillo, has been putting out coffee and doughnuts for its morning customers. Actually longer, says owner Randy Collins; the previous owner did it too. Customers liked the courtesy, but… well, you know where ...Read more.
EPA Lays Out Timetable for Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions
From The Washington Post
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson laid out the timetable for regulating greenhouse gas emissions Monday, writing in a letter to lawmakers that she plans to start targeting large facilities such as power plants next year but won’t target small emitters before 2016.
The letter makes it clear the Obama administration will ...Read more.
