2013 Archives

Last week, the United States Post Office announced it is ending Saturday delivery of mail in an effort to save $2 billion a year. Since then, our news media has completely botched the story, and given cover to a Republican Party and its corporate donors. For years they’ve been trying to destroy the United States Post Office – the largest employer of unionized workers in the nation – and now they’re making it happen. But almost nobody is reporting on that aspect of it.

Thirty years after her death, Ayn Rand’s philosophy of selfishness and billionaire empowerment rules the world.

The real reason the Second Amendment was ratified, and why it says "State" instead of "Country" (the Framers knew the difference – see the 10th Amendment), was to preserve the slave patrol militias in the southern states, which was necessary to get Virginia's vote.

History is littered with the corpses of those who thought they could conquer the world, or at least the “known” or “important” world, through force of arms.