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Help Keep The Internet Free

“Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.” – Ronald Reagan Long before there was Google, Twitter, Facebook, Napster, a dot com bubble and even Al Gore claiming to have created the Internet, there were a couple of smart guys [...]

Save Our State = American Idiots

There are Americans There are Idiots Then there are American Idiots Big Thanks to the MUSE for the great film work.

Save Our State / Minutemen Rally Santa Clarita

I am not going to recap much more on this Rally as a whole. I didn’t however want to let all of the Muse‘s effort go to waste.  I have a few other commentaries I will probably add in the next week or so.  SCVtalk has done a marvelous job of covering this story, which [...]

More Empty Words From Gitlin

“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” — Noam Chomsky While observing all the talking, shouting and letters written to the editor in recent days on the topic of free speech, I was reminded of the many chats I had with Dad in [...]

Part 2 // Fighting Illegal Immigration on all levels

“America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.” – James Madison The United States is facing serious challenges that desperately need solving if our nation is to remain a thriving world leader. Few issues [...]