The Great Distraction

by Crazy Ivan on August 11, 2010

"Look at the silly monkey."

It seems in the wake of Arizona’s passage of SB1070, the law that imbues the state with the authority to enforce Federal immigration laws independently, immigration reform has become the hot topic of political discussions. This issue is becoming a driving force on the Sunday morning chat shows as well as many of the political blogs sprinkled throughout the realm of cyberspace. It’s become the hot button issue of the 2010 mid-term elections for many of the candidates seeking office in an increasingly divisive political environment. The debate on immigration reform may very well be the pivotal issue in the upcoming November elections, which may be the worst of possible outcomes for the future of American politics.

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The Threat of Anarchy

by Crazy Ivan on June 9, 2010

It's not as scary as it looks.

This afternoon I watched a video clip on youtube of an old episode of Crossfire, a Sunday afternoon talk program. This clip was from the year 1986 and the subject was obscene rock music and whether or not the government should step in and impose standards of censorship to ensure that obscene materials do not fall into the hands of impressionable young listeners. Two of the four panelists were political commentator John Lofton and musical iconoclast Frank Zappa. During one point in the heated discussion (it was actually more of an interrupting contest than a discussion), Lofton asked Zappa if he’s some kind of anarchist. This was in response to Zappa’s unwavering viewpoint that the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is completely inviolate in all forms of media. Often when someone is openly advocating freedom over government control, it seems that there will always be someone else who sees exercising that freedom as anarchy. I myself have often been called an anarchist. At first I defended my pro-liberty viewpoint as not being anarchy but rather as a Constitutionally sound rational perspective. After closer examination of this however, I may be forced to describe my defense of individual liberty as anarchy.

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Bawls

May 19, 2010

During his most recent visit to the White House, Mexican President Felipe Calderon described the new Arizona Immigration Law as discriminatory to Mexicans. Upon reading it, it seems that the new state law is almost a verbatim copy of the Unites States Federal Immigration Laws regarding the status of persons who are in the country [...]

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My Big Fat Greek Bailout

May 6, 2010

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once said “The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” No matter how benevolent Socialism may appear, it is ultimately an unsustainable system of economics that relies upon mounting levels of debt that eventually devalue the nation’s currency laying waste to the entire [...]

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Your Papers, Please

April 27, 2010

We’ve all seen old movies which take place within the borders of countries controlled by oppressive regimes. Most of these movies take place during the second world war in Nazi occupied territories or behind the iron curtain during the cold war. In these movies the spy or escaped POW has to make his way out [...]

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Pathetic!(Updated)

April 14, 2010

Tomorrow is Tax day. It has also become the day for the Tea Party gatherings being held all across the United States. These gatherings have left-leaning statists making dookie in their underwear. They have gone as far as forging a party-line narrative that these gatherings are not about a Federal government gone mad with the [...]

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Be Careful What You Wish For…

April 13, 2010

Everyone has heard the old adage that one should be careful what he or she wishes for because they just might get it. A little more than two weeks ago congress went to amazing lengths to pass it’s highly disputed health care bill into law. They used every trick in the book and even made [...]

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What Goes Around…

March 29, 2010

In the aftermath of congress passing it’s highly embattled health care overhaul bill, some representatives have been making allegations that angry mobs of protesters have been spitting on them as well as shouting racist and homophobic invectives. Rep. Andre Carson claimed that a mob to Tea Party protesters shouted the dreaded “N” word at least [...]

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Sound and Fury

March 23, 2010

“Life is but a walking shadow, a poor playerthat struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Macbeth Act 5, Scene 5 In the wake of the unprecedented passage of the hotly disputed health [...]

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Let It Burn

March 5, 2010

I spend a lot of time on the internet. Being a cubicle slave for 40 hours a week at an undisclosed location affords me a lot of time to read other blogs and even their comments sections. At this one blog in particular a right-wing republican blogger was railing against the reconciliation process being employed [...]

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