REPOST: The Welfare State Versus Free Will: A History Lesson

Alexis de Tocqueville - a 19th Century observer of US democracy. Those of us who have lived long enough to see the changes in society over ...

8 Lies of Modern Society

There are many lies that modern society revers as Absolute Truth. Sorting through the myriad paths, I've narrowed the list down into eig...

Three Quotes from Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) was an Irish member of the British parliament during the revolutionary war. He is widely considered the father of...

Blaise Pascal Quote on Moral Depravity

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French Mathematician, Physicist, Writer, and Philosopher "When everything is moving at once, nothing appears...

Thoughts on Paying Taxes

I finished my tax returns this past Saturday. There is nothing like tax season to make me reflect about government and government's role...

Liberalism Causes Mental Illness

Years ago, I first learned that several different groups of people - Marxist sociologists, English professors, psychologists, radical libera...