Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
March 6th, 2010 | 
Author: “No authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute standard by which to judge its activities”
Dr. Francis Schaeffer, in “How Should We Then Live?”
Just when you think the economy is bad enough, forcing people out of work, a new danger emerges forcing people not only from their jobs but in some cases from their houses as well.
It has become an accepted belief around the world that the government–local, state and federal–can do whatever it likes. Unfortunately, it is not just a belief, but it happens in practice as well.
As a result people have been served condemnation notices on their properties in order that the properties might become available to other businesses in the community. Under the guise of better planning, people have had to give up the right to their land and home, and often their livelihood, as the law has been used to evict them off their property in order to make way for someone else.
Under the mistaken notion of eminent domain, authorities around the world treat property as if it were their own, thus making the idea of property ownership an impossible goal for many.
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“Lying is to democracy what manure is to rhubarb.”
Can you believe someone actually said that?
Sometimes you wonder what depths highly paid academics will go to in offering the public the latest in academic research.
In 2003, a Reader in Politics at a British University claimed to have discovered something the ordinary citizen has known all along.
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