Archive for May, 2012

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” —Benjamin Franklin A common misconception, even for Americans, is that the United States is a democracy. Even though it has drifted closer to democracy since its founding, the [...]

In 1975, the US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, secretly brokered a deal in which the United States of America guaranteed Israel’s oil supply in the event of a crisis. The 1975 Israel-United States Memorandum of Understanding (see the full text below) required the United States to maintain an oil reserve for [...]

The People’s Mujahedin of Iran, commonly known as the MEK, was founded in 1965 by radical Muslims devoted to fighting against Western imperialism, capitalism, liberalism, and the Shah of Iran. From 1971-1979, the MEK mercilessly targeted what it saw as the quintessential example of these ideologies, the United States of [...]

The Fourth Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and [...]

Israel, the world’s loudest proponent of holocaust awareness, is actually a holocaust denier. The Jewish state not only refuses to acknowledge the Armenian holocaust, but also actively campaigns against its recognition. Most Middle East experts attribute this hypocritical position to Israel’s trading relationship with Turkey (the equivalent to the Nazis [...]

Even before the 2012 Republican Primary began, the mainstream media was already attempting to marginalize Ron Paul by misrepresenting statistics, purposefully neglecting to mention his name in the polls, and calling him un-electable (even though his polling numbers were among the best of all of the candidates). While these efforts [...]

The United States of America was built on free immigration. There is even a poem by Emma Lazarus printed on the Statue of Liberty that reads in part: “Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…” However, lately, immigration has become a very contentious issue in the [...]

Every year the United States Government spends trillions of dollars on programs that most Americans know about and approve of. Hidden in those hundreds of pages of approved budget documents however are the programs that are so outrageous and wasteful that every American would be in an uproar if they [...]