Oil and the four-lettered word
by Mathew Maavak
One nemesis - on another front - is China. Its economic expansion of 10.3 percent for the first quarter this year is only adding fuel to simmering oil prices. Greater demand from China will intensify a fatigue-immune resource competition, and expect some ugly geopolitical maneuvers alongside ballooning prices in the months to come. There is more bad news. China is plunging headlong into energy efficiency, and those who think this will save planet earth of some of its precious, dwindling natural resources should do some real hard thinking again.
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Uncelebrating the Fourth
by Harry Browne
Unfortunately, July 4th has become a day of deceit. On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress formally declared its independence from Great Britain. Thirteen years later, after a difficult war to secure that independence, the new country was open for business. It was truly unique - the first nation in all of history in which the individual was considered more important than the government, and the government was tied down by a written Constitution.
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Direct Democracy Rights
by Stephen Neitzke
When Jefferson wrote our founding principles into the Declaration of Independence (DOI), he held up a mirror to the rights that Americans had really wanted for decades. Those were rights far beyond the traditional rights of Englishmen. They were, in fact, the extraordinary rights of Americans -- and they were, by God, worth fighting for.
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We Are Those We Help Elect
by Ben Tanosborn
In the beginning, Saddam Hussein was put into power by the United States. When Iraq was at war with Iran, our enemy of the moment, we gave him lots of WMD's to use on the Iranians. He did use a lot in that direction, but also used a good deal of it to slaughter Kurds and Shiites in his own country. This did not bother us at the time as he was fighting a foe for us.
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The Coming Storm
by Robert T. Melaccio Sr.
It seems we Americans are oblivious to debt. The Keynesian theory that debt is good is in full bloom. Many are in hock up to their eyeballs and are still going. Credit cards at their limits, second and third mortgages and interest rates that continue to soar. We owe most of the world on loans to support our national endeavors and like our individual debt these debts become due at some time. We, the taxpayers get to pay that back with interest and more.
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