“a redistribution of wealth through the federal tax system. That, by definition, is socialism!”

The chief weapon used by the federal government to achieve this “equality” is the system of transfer payments. This means that the federal governments collects from one income group and transfer payments to another by the tax system.
- Ezra Taft Benson 1977

Here’s the Youtube video of his talk along with the transcript. Enjoy

Sound familiar at [...]

Obama Administration: liberal with a capital L

On the heels of my last post where I was as optimistic about Obama as I could muster, today I’m already starting to worry about his judgment.
Obama said he would govern from the center. My response: Yeah right.

It was announced that Rahm Israel Emanuel will be Obama’s Chief of Staff. This isn’t good for [...]

Why I will support President Obama

I go off on the economics for a long time, even if you don’t read that, I hope you read the section titled Historic Victory as I feel it’s the main emotion I’m feeling now and I’d love for you to  add your own thoughts or tell me where I’m wrong. I wrote this all [...]

President Barack Obama

Congratulations to Obama. The people have spoken. I believe in the rule of law and support our president-elect. Barack, if you’re reading this, congratulations, don’t impliment your tax plan and you’ll be ok in my book. I’m still waiting to see 1) how Prop 8 turns out and 2) if Stevens can be reelected as [...]

Yes to California Proposition 8

Watch the Video
The LDS Church NewsRoom support of Prop 8

Now, being from Texas, I haven’t bothered looking into what’s been going on over there in California very much. Within our church proposition 8 is a huge deal as it deals with redefining marriage. Now homosexuality is something I’ve tried to study in depth both in [...]

Biden: village idiot

So how about them debates? Dumb huh? All they do is point fingers at the other podium and call names. No one gives straight answers. Drives me nuts. The rest of the post is straight off the Ann Coulter website:
If Sarah Palin had made just one of the wildly inaccurate statements smugly uttered by Sen. [...]

Nancy Pelosi is the Devil

Nancy has been giving money to her husband.

Emergency Economic Stabilization Act: Draft

The purposes of this Act are— to immediately provide authority and facilities that the Secretary of the Treasury can use to restore liquidity and stability to the financial system of the United States; and to ensure that such authority and such facilities are used in a manner that— protects home values, college funds, retirement accounts, [...]

US Economy Collapses

I don’t even know what to say… My mind has been absolutely racing all week. For the past 2 weeks. The Economy is collapsing following the largest bank failure in US history:
The financial system could face a meltdown of 1929 proportions unless US politicians succeed in their efforts for a $700bn rescue [...]

Last Semester Kick-off

 
I know I haven’t blogged in forever. And I’m not going to tonight. I’m too tired to write a decent comprehensive update on what’s been going on. For now I’ll just catch you up a bit.
 
I went to Jamaica, the Caymen Islands, and Mexico on a cruise and liked it a lot. If you’re a [...]

John Edwards admits to Affair. What a democrat.

I always thought John Edwards was a loser, and now I have one more big reason (not like I needed one, it just helps).
For once I think the National Inquirer did something good. In case your not a news junkie like I am, they caught Johnny late one night last month in a Beverly Hills [...]

First U.S. war crimes trial starts at Guantanamo

(I borrow my title from a reuters.com article)

The Supreme Court ruled that Terrorists can take their cases before an American military court and that’s just what they’re doing. This is the first time this has happened since the Nuremberg trials of WWII.

I read this book in December and I highly recommend it. It outlines the [...]

Indymac- Socialist Banking

Holy Cow! Now Indy Mac went under a few days ago. I thought this was ridiculous:

On June 26, 2008, several letters by Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, chairman of Congress’ Joint Economic Committee and the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, were released. These opined that “The possible collapse of [...]

FOX v CNN: Night and Day

So I watch CNN religiously for reasons previously mentioned. For a change of pace I am going to switch to FOX for a while to see what’s up. I’ve only been watching it for 2 days or so but my oh my is it a huge difference. Huge difference. CNN focuses on how real and [...]

“This is not a Drill”

This is why I read Ann Coulter. This is her latest article and it cracks me up
(I don’t block quote it cuz that would be annoying to read):
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, or as she is called on the Big Dogs blog, “the worst speaker in the history of Congress,” explained the cause of [...]

Jesse Jackson is a Racemonger, not a hero.

Hahaha. I reiterate what I said before: Jesse Jackson is a through and through racist.

Read this article from the NY Post and try to follow Jackson’s logic.

JESSE JACKSON SAYS HE WANTS TO CUT OBAMA’S ‘NUTS OFF’

By CHARLES HURT, D.C. Bureau Chief

In a vulgar tirade caught on tape by Fox News, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said [...]

Glenn Beck: Patriot

Last night I went to a patriotic meeting to kick off the city’s Freedom Days leading up to the 4th of July. This meeting was great . I happened upon a family that I am friends with and sat with them and chatted about the speaker- Glenn Beck . I remember hearing him on the [...]

The News is very Biased

Tell me, what do you think about the news? How much do you trust the newscaster? I’d bet you trust him/her a lot. I mean, they’re not going to lie to you; “Baby trapped in building!” when it never happened. But what if it’s not a matter of out and out lying as it is [...]

Religion: 1 Utilitarianism: 0

One subject that I enjoy is philosophy. I enjoy it because it’s the secular/rational version of religion. I think the same thing about psychology. It’s the secular form of religion. Anyways, so I’m reading Convictions by John Kroger and in the opening chapter he talks about his days as a philosophy major at Yale. He [...]

Relfections on Clinton’s Sex Scandal (and brief update on me).

(Clinton Scandal stuff below update)

Long time no see right? Sorry. I’ll give you a quick update. Well, today was my last day of Women Studies. It was a cool class, I liked it a lot. Gender classes are very fascinating to me- it’s all about analyzing the social structure we see around us everyday. That’s [...]