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“Was Reagan a good leader?”

My Hebrew teacher asked me this today, in Hebrew, of course. I said, לא. No. It is true that Reagan was a great spokesman for liberty. Man, could he talk freedom, economic and otherwise! The problem is that the actions of the government under his leadership was in spectacular opposition to the things he stood [...]
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Republican debate, 3: Ron Paul’s use of reasoning vs. Rick Perry’s attempt at physical intimidation

(All quotes from here.) Because Ron Paul has been almost painfully consistent in his support of the Constitution and liberty, one of the things that he is best at is showing his fellow Republicans for what they are: inconsistent people who flit back and forth between promoting liberty and promoting big government, shamelessly, and with [...]
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watching fireworks with mennonites and others

Yesterday night I watched a fireworks display with my church on a roof. The fireworks event is a major annual display here in Columbus, and it is accompanied by a patriotic / musical presentation on the radio machine. Immediately before the fireworks began, the radio told us to stand for the singing of our national [...]
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Does this make me alarmist? Maybe . . .

The nation of Greece is currently at the center of a debt meltdown due to its ridiculously high spending habits in the past.  Thanks to out-of-control spending, the Greek national debt has climbed to about 113% of GDP.  A result of that is that investors consider Greek debt more risky, and are only willing to [...]
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