How Government Regulations Threaten America

We are increasingly following a system of governance that is systematically destroying the very principle that made America the greatest nation in the history of the world.

Our view of reality and the role of government in our lives greatly influence how we view property rights. Americans no longer have the opportunity to learn the foundations of freedom and to understand what it really means to have the God-given right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” as penned by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence . Since the 1970s, we are increasingly following another system of governance that is systematically destroying the very principle that has made America the greatest nation in the history of the world.

There has been a growing controversy — in Rhode Island and across the nation — about the firing of the teachers at Central Falls High School.

Teachers are in an uproar, the union is “outraged”, the parents are “outraged”, the students are surely “going to be traumatized” (But then, that seems easy to accomplish these days.  To listen to the talking heads, one definitely comes to the conclusion that children are just not as resilient as they used to be when adults had common sense.)

To understand why these teachers were fired, one needs to understand the system…

Back in 1994, Goals 2000, the educate America Act was passed by Congress.  This was under the Clinton Administration but Goals 2000 was the end product of America 2000 which went back to the George Herbert Walker Bush Administration. 

It seems that the more educated we get, the dumber we become. At our own peril, we cloud, obfuscate and confuse what our common sense, instinct and intellect tell us, with unproven, esoteric education theories. Then we experiment on our kids’ brains with what boils down to psychiatric unproven and untested hogwash. Such is the case of Social Emotional Learning, or SEL.

As Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid unquestionably is one of the nation’s most powerful political figures.  So, as Majority Leader, how could he be so wrong on Domestic Violence?

Arguing in favor of a jobs bill and speaking before the Senate, he uttered – even by Washington standards – some of the more unusual comments to come from a politician.

Senator Reid’s comments are quoted in The Hill.  To really capture the full impact of his comments, however, you need to view them on You-Tube for which this blog contains a link.

“In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie…”

Who wrote that? The answer is Adolf Hitler in “Mein Kampf”, published in his 1925 autobiography.

There is a classic story about how no one had been able to capture a herd of wild hogs that was rooting up crops from numerous farms. It got so bad that rewards had been posted for anyone clever enough to corral the critters. But even this resulted in only limited success.

One day a stranger (who was a wily old trapper) came into town and–entering the general store–ordered a truckload of fence posts and fencing, along with some feed. When asked what he was going to use it for, he said, “I’m going to get those wild hogs y’all are having trouble with.” Of course, everyone in the store laughed at the overconfident stranger. A few weeks later, however, the stranger rode into town with the back of his truck tightly packed with the smelly swine.

When American historian Howard Zinn passed away recently, he left behind a legacy that redefined our relationship to history altogether.

Professor Zinn dared to challenge the way history was told and written. In fact he went as far as to defy the conventional construction of historical discourses through the pen of victor or of elites who earned the right of narration though their might, power and affluence.

This kind of history might be considered accurate insofar as it reflects a self-seeking and self-righteous interpretation of the world by a very small number of people. But it is also highly inaccurate when taking into account the vast majority of peoples everywhere.

Arizona Republic – Two years after Arizona began requiring all employers to use a federal online program to ensure a legal workforce, a new study indicates that illegal workers are slipping through the system more than half of the time by using stolen identities.

Fifty-four percent of the illegal workers whose names were run through the program nationwide were wrongly found to be authorized to work, according to the report by Westat, a Maryland research company hired by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to evaluate the system, known as E-Verify.