Idaho Democrat Leader Brain Malfunction: “We Can’t Say Gold Is Going to Protect Us from Inflation When [It has Risen from] $27 an Ounce to $1,218 an Ounce”

The Dunning-Kruger effect is the idea that low-ability people tend to suffer from illusory superiority. The phenomenon, first studied by David Dunning and Justin Kruger, says that people who know the least tend to overvalue their own competence, and tend to believe that they are experiencing some sort of upper-echelon level of thinking. While the original study … Read more »

“If I Wanted America to Fail”

Transcript By Ryan Houck Free Market America April 9, 2012 If I wanted America to fail … To follow, not lead; to suffer, not prosper; to despair, not dream. I would start with energy.  I’d cut off America’s supply of cheap, abundant energy.  I couldn’t take it by force.  So, I’d make Americans feel guilty … Read more »

Former CIA and Bin Laden Chief, Michael Scheuer, Warns Against a Romney or Obama Presidency

For everyone who says Ron Paul’s foreign policy is “dangerous,” here’s an undisputed expert on foreign policy. A 22 year veteran of the CIA, and Former Bin Laden Chief, Michael Scheuer, is warning America and Israel against a Romney or Obama Presidency. He reports Ron Paul is the best choice for security as a nation and … Read more »

Can Volunteers Protect Communities?

It’s the quintessential question: Can a volunteer force protect communities? Some insist that we need a government police force. Others say there is no need, private citizens can do it better and cheaper. Obviously, nothing is as cheap as free. From Reason.tv: The shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watch volunteer George … Read more »

We Are Losing Our Rights So Slowly, We Aren’t Even Noticing It

How do you overturn fundamental American rights without forcing people into the streets with protest signs, or even rifles? By doing it slowly… slowly… Bill [Whittle] Looks at how the Affordable Care Act and the National Defense Authorization Act threaten our First and Fifth Amendment rights and how both parties are slowly taking away the … Read more »

The Story of Your Enslavement

I found this rather interesting video on Youtube: The Story of your Enslavement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbp6umQT58A The video includes the following caption: We can only be kept in the cages we do not see. A brief history of human enslavement – up to and including your own. From Freedomain Radio, the largest and most popular philosophy conversation … Read more »