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“Obama is the worst thing to ever happen to this country,” declares the wealthy, rakish, silver-haired Newport Beach white guy to his small group of perfectly tanned 50-something females sitting just a few feet away from us at a stunning restaurant patio overlooking the sun-kissed California coastline, just off of Highway 1, as he sipped his pinot and adjusted his wraparound Ray Bans, flush from the economy’s spectacular recovery that has benefitted his exact demographic most of all, stroking his purebred dog and taking various selfies with their $500 phones, oblivious to the furious swirls of irony and hypocrisy fluttering...

(Excerpt) Glendening, who has long been a smart growth advocate, said the tension has resulted from the traditional reliance on local decision making and concepts of private property."That worked fine for several hundred years," Glendening, who was governor from 1995 to 2003, said.

Topic: FOUNDATIONS OF FREEDOM The Usurping of our Unalienable Rights The Foothills of Appalachia 98 Doug Fiedor The Usurping of our Unalienable Rights For the last sixty-five years, our federal government has continually exhibited two very important predispositions: These are a strong propensity towards steady growth, and the accumulation and centralization of political power. Of course, all of this growth and accumulation of power in Washington comes from one source: We the People. This is because, to put it simply, here in the United States all power legally originates with the people. Put another way; government cannot take a right...

Something Wicked This Way Comes April, 1999 Lurker Great events are rarely perceived by those living through them. Often, it takes fifty or a hundred years for people to realize that a watershed event in history has occurred. We are living in such times now. Anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear with has had the evidence layed out plainly before them. We are witnessing the death of the most important experiment in human freedom in the history of the race. Oh, most everyone thinks things are fine. All of us get out of bed every morning, most...