Just about every election, the candidates come out of the woodwork to tell us that if we don’t reform Social Security, it will go bankrupt and our children and grandchildren will suffer because of it. Of all the articles I’ve read about this crisis, the following article, written by The Washington Times columnist, Charles Hurt, nails the issue on its head best of all, with his clear and concise explanation of how the government has been getting away with defrauding …

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We have gone from the sublime to the ridiculous.  Wasn’t it your understanding that rainwater is free?  It certainly has always been my understanding that if rain falls on my personal property, I can do anything I want with it. Apparently, the state of Oregon disagrees with that concept given that they have just sentenced a man to 30 days in jail and fined him $1,500 for building three reservoirs on his own property. Unbelievably, they said that it violates …

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Every time the government tells us they are passing a law to protect us, I shudder because I know that another one of our civil liberties will be taken away from us. They wave the American flag in our faces and tell us that wiretapping is to protect us from terrorists and drug cartels.  The Department of Homeland Security is to protect us from terrorists.  The TSA (Transportation Security Administration), an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is …

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I’m sure that the suffix, “gate” has been around for the last couple of centuries to describe a scandal and cover-up but I don’t recall it being attached to every news story until after the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972. Like most people in America, I, too, was glued to my television set to watch the Watergate hearings that led to the resignation of President Nixon.  The original “gate” scandal got its name from the Watergate …

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In July, 1947 a UFO crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, and the government tried to cover it up by saying that it was not a flying saucer but an experimental high-altitude surveillance balloon belonging to a classified program named, “Mogul.” However, many proponents of the UFO theory claim that a crashed alien aircraft and bodies were recovered and that the military staged an elaborate cover-up because it was a threat to national security.  Now, 64 years later, the debate is …

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