America may be galloping toward authoritarian neo-fascism
“Here, President Trump defined ‘fake news’ the way joseph Stalin defined ‘enemies of the people’: if they offer a slightest objection to his rule they must be wrong,” Kruscheva told […]
Trump’s transition team crafting a new blacklist—for anyone who believes in climate change
Newt Gingrich urged Trump to revive joseph McCarthy’s HUAC Committee, but it appears Trump means to do better than that. The Trump transition team is already building a blacklist at the Department […]
Young Earth Creationist Ben Carson Could Be America’s New Secretary Of Education | IFLScience
Ben Carson is clearly a man who isn’t interested in educating himself, or even making it more easily accessible to the public. Not only has he previously spoken out against […]
Ted Cruz (and most Republican politicians) are hypocrites.
The proof? Just listen to what they say; look at the laws they are passing. To deny any individual basic human rights based on your individual beliefs is outrageous, unethical, and […]
Some of my favorite quotes
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Favorite Quotes
“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it” Voltaire “Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below […]
Treason
The actions of the Bundys, in Nevada and Oregon, are not the first time that arms have been taken up against agents of the Federal Government because someone didn’t want […]
Great Quotes
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” John Steinbeck
Thomas Jefferson To Dr. JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, March, 21, 1801
What an effort, my dear Sir, of bigotry in Politics & Religion have we gone through! The barbarians really flattered themselves they should be able to bring back the times of Vandalism, when ignorance put everything into the hands of power & priestcraft. All advances in science were proscribed as innovations. They pretended to praise and encourage education, but it was to be the education of our ancestors.
Thomas Jefferson To Dr. Joseph Priestley, Jan. 27, 1800
“… The Gothic idea that we are to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion & in learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion & government, by whom it has been recommended, & whose purposes it would answer.