The longer wait to stand up for our rights and the more rights we cede, the harder it will be to get them back.
Election 2016
LR Podcast Episode 30: Revisiting Old and New Scandals.
We were told no indictments before the elections, well the elections are over and we're still waiting.
LR Podcast #28: The Post-Election Mess
The presidential race was not the only race this past Tuesday, the Republicans picked up House seats and maintain tenuous control of the Senate, the republics last firewall between the hard left and the end of America as we've known it.
Plausible Conspiracy Scenario: Cabal Organization
Operating as a spy ring, it's likely that no member knows the identity of all the members. Some of the members' main function will be to insulate other members of the cabal from identification and prosecution.
Year in Review: The presidential election in a nutshell
2016 Saw the rise of the populist in politics, both on the right and the left. On the left, you had an aging senator from Vermont attracting a young and enthusiastic crowd of budding socialists. We witnessed the rise and fall of Ted Cruz, who took Tea Party populism to a new level and became its standard bearer.
Year in Review: Early 2016
Early 2016 saw the presidential race go into full swing. It seems like a lifetime ago, but the year started with Presidential debates, the most interesting being those on the Republican side. 16 men and one woman began their campaigns in earnest.
It’s 1787 all over again.
The question before us is no less than that put before the Constitutional convention in May of 1787: What sort of republic will America be?
Democratizing Catholicism? I think not.
How does one democratize a religion? Would the members get to vote on Church doctrine? Cardinals get to vote for the Pope, should they act like delegates as if the conclave of cardinals were some sort of political convention? Here my message for Podesta and friends: Catholic doctrine was created by Christ. It was codified a long time ago by Emperor Constantine I in the fourth century. That is the basis of the Catholic Church, now and forever, unless the Big Man Upstairs orders a change.
Second Debate, Initial Reaction
Hillary on the other hand had little in the way of new material. It was widely speculated that she used up most of her ammo during the first debate. That speculation seems to have been proved correct.
The “What if?” Debate
Physicists suggest that there is not a single reality, but many– where every possible scenario get plaid out. Alternate timelines where the NAZI’s win the war, where the Federation is an evil empire and so on. The alternate reality sub-genera is one of the more intriguing, the where we get an answer to the question: “What if?”
What if?… Donald could actually stay on message and never put his foot in his mouth?
What if?… Hillary were actually likable enough to the non-Democrat that people actually liked to hear her speak?
Liberty Relearned 