I have been doing a lot of work strategizing for third party strategies for 2006, as I feel it is a key election, especially in building for the 2008 presidential elections. With the Democrats and Republicans as polarized as they are, a well organized third party effort stands a fair chance of gaining the position of power in the House and Senate. I am not submitting or even suggesting that a third party has any chance of gaining a MAJORITY in either chamber. But with the realistic possibilit...

Before I begin this blog, let me say this is a statement of my personal ideology and is in no way meant to diminish the hard work American soldiers are doing in a war zone to defend this country. That being said, allow me to continue. When the concept of war was first introduced to me, it didn't make sense. It didn't make sense that the Russians could be the faceless evil we were led to believe they were (I was raised during the climax of the Cold War, remember), and it didn't make sense t...

When I was younger, probably the early 1980's, Greyhound's ads revolved around a friendly driver carting grandma home to her rural farmhouse, where her family and friends were waiting and waving with smiles as "nana" came home. While Greyhound was never, to my knowledge, even CLOSE to that ideal, the picture that would be more appropriate for 2005 would be grandma being dropped in an urban bus station with no family and friends, 75 miles from home while a purse snatcher grabs her purse and a pim...

In another blog, one of our more liberal bloggers sources al jazeera, claiming them to be "more objective" of a source than Fox News. EXCUSE ME? Al Jazeera, while a legitimate news organization in its region, has a long standing history of sympathy to terrorist organizations and their objectives (of course, the liberals deem these terrorists "Freedom Fighters", but I digress). While its research should not be utterly dismissed, it should definitely be taken with a huge measure of salt. ...

I have hit on this every way I know how, but it seems to fall on deaf ears among those who staunchly defend the Democratic Party. Interestingly enough, though, it gains a lot of "hear hear"s from Dem defectors who find themselves in the Republican or various third parties. The fact is, Dems, your party is going down the tubes. With so much infighting, negativity and dissension, you virtually GAVE the presidential election to George Bush. By taking your party further and further to the left, y...

The liberals in this country have spent the last 4 plus years deriding president Bush and opposing virtually every policy Bush has brought to the table. This has led to a decmation in their ranks. Yet, in their thickheadedness, they refuse to acknowledge their own role in their downfall. President Bush is submitting a budget of $2.57 trillion dollars to Congress. As I stated in a previous article, that's too much. It is the equivalent of a worker making $20,000 and spending $25,000....while i...

A recent blog referenced a SCOTUS decision where a drug dog sniffed out marijuana in a man's car, initiating a search. SCOTUS determined the search was legal. This article isn't about the rightness or wrongness of the search. I have my own feelings, you likely have yours. It is, however, about the fact that such searches are consistent with application of the law in the US for some time. About two years ago, I gave a friend of mine a ride to pick up his children from the boys and girls clu...

As an aspiring homesteader, I am increasingly disillusioned with the government as I learn more and more. I have long contended that, while it is morally wrong for a man to steal, it is a greater moral offense to remove from a man his means of self sufficiency and demand he indenture himself to you to get it back. And yet, this is precisely what the American government has done over the course of its history. Masses of immigrants arrived on our shore to find a new hope, and a new future for ...

I referenced this in another blog, but it was another subject entirely. When I was 18, I committed a crime, and was taken in by the police. Because they had nothing on me, I was held as a "material witness" as they investigated the crime. I quickly discovered the consequences of this status. As a "material witness", I did not even have the rights of the other prisoners. I was persona non grata, and, as far as I knew, jailed indefinitely until I confessed to the crime. After two weeks of ...

Here are some cuts I propose for Bush and company for the coming year. I'm not in  all cases suggesting we do away with these departments completely, but that we seriously cut back (he said he wants to remove redundant federal agencies among other things). I'm sure most people will agree with some departments, disagree with others: The Department of Homeland Security: Homeland Security should be under an already existing cabinet post, that of the Defense Department. The United States w...

I have had an interesting time reading the articles over the past four months. What has especially amused me has been the statements about "getting the government we deserve" and how "we're all to blame for supporting these cretins" (these aren't EXACT quotes from specific articles, but they do sum up a general feeling of bipartisan malfeasance). WELL, let me take you back a few months to when I was standing on my Libertarian soapbox, and presenting not only OUR party platform, but those...

See, this is what hacks me about the "big two" parties (dem & rep). I remember, when Clinton was president, the "balanced budget" was a HUGE priority. The Democrats were the big, bad guys because they couldn't muster a budget that reduced deficit spending. The Republicans ran in 1994 with fanfare and a "Contract with America" that proposed, among other things, just that. It was a PR coup for the GOP. The government shut down over the differences between the Democrat and the Congressional ...

In the aftermath of the Iraqi elections, the Kurds quite possibly came out the big winners. By obtaining 26% of the seats in Iraq's equivalent of Congress or Parliament, they virtually assured that the two other parties will need to go through them to gain the 2/3 majority necessary to pass Iraqi laws. There's a lesson in this, and one that I have been harping on for some time. For a third party to gain significant power in the US, they don't need to win a majority, but simply to obtain enoug...

The Democrats just don't get it. Despite being told, repeatedly, by their opposition, WHY we cannot and will not endorse the Democrat Party, they bury their heads in the sand. They essentially call us liars and resort to the divisive, infantile tactics that cost them a VERY winnable presidency in 2004. What surprises me about the whole procedure is this: Libertarians, Constitutional Party supporters, Greens, Republicans, and a whole host of other non-Democrats have suggested why their cher...

The following is from Yahoo! News. As one who has had family have to deal with "eminent domain" laws, this only serves to underscore one reason among many why I favor small government.   Conn. residents fight for homes Mon Feb 21, 8:38 AM ET   Top Stories - USATODAY.com By Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY Susette Kelo continues to touch up the paint on her clapboard house that overlooks the Thames River. She still tends to her garden. During a rec...