Browsing the archives for the influence tag

Latenight laughs?

compiled & edited by Daniel Hagadorn Since politicians are such easy targets for our derision, it almost makes you feel bad pointing out their numerous shortcomings…almost. After all, if you can’t laugh at yourself, make fun of other people. From Jay Leno… “Energy Secretary Stephen Chu testified before Congress yesterday that he thought it was [...]

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Mental slavery?, Part 4

compiled & edited by Daniel Hagadorn The Framers planted and nurtured these early abolitionist seeds from which the recognition of black equality and the eventual end of slavery would later blossom. This fact was further clarified by Bishop Richard Allen, a former slave from Pennsylvania who was later freed after converting his master to Christianity. [...]

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Mental slavery?, Part 1

compiled & edited by Daniel Hagadorn “But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than to [...]

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Worth considering?, Part 1

compiled & edited by Daniel Hagadorn Although going “green” has been extremely lucrative for Al Gore as he is poised to become the world’s first “carbon billionaire”, [1] he is better known for his Nobel prize-winning documentary (An Inconvenient Truth, 2007) [2] advancing the theory of global warming. The Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory embraced [...]

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Buying influence?

compiled & edited by Daniel Hagadorn “The legislature, like the executive, has ceased, save indirectly, to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature, in the main, of pressure groups, and most of them, it must be manifest, are of dubious wisdom and even more dubious honesty. Laws are no longer made [...]

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“Big labor”?

compiled & edited by Daniel Hagadorn In reviewing the “Top 100 All-Time Donors, 1989-2010″, it is interesting to note that several of the top donors are unions. [1] Just follow the money… [2] [3]

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One nation under God?

compiled & edited by Daniel Hagadorn Regardless of your personal religious–or non-religious–views, it is a historical fact that the United States of America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles. The true controversy is simply that apologists argue Judeo-Christian principles are the source of our national strength, while critics argue that these same principles–if they are even [...]

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If the shoe fits?

compiled & edited by Daniel Hagadorn Judge for yourself how successfully the planks of the Communist Party platform have been grafted into the tree of American liberty. On 10 January 1963, the following was entered into the Congressional record [1] by U.S. Representative Albert Sydney Herlong, Jr. (1909-1995) [D-FL] who served in Congress from 1949 to [...]

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Mainstream media bias?

compiled and edited by Daniel Hagadorn “If you have a long enough lever, you can move the world.” –Archimedes (c.287 BC – c.212 BC) One of the most powerful “levers” of our modern era is the influence currently wielded by the mainstream media, whose political bias will be examined below…[1]

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