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Note: Due to technical issues, the puzzle is posted later than usual. Thank you for understanding.Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Robert Ringer. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Robert Ringer is a successful commercial real estate broker who as written several books on life. His iconic masterpiece, Winning Through Intimidation, is easily the most effective and straightforward book on explaining the dynamics of all human interactions, be it business, love, or inspirational. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Robert Ringer. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Robert Ringer is a business consultant and author of several bestsellers, including the iconic Winning Through Intimidation. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the puzzle into the white squares on the bottom half (answer grid)...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Robert Ringer. Click image (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Robert Ringer is an American entrepreneur, motivational and libertarian/conservative political speaker, and author of the most influential book on human interactions, "Winning through Intimidation.". The quote is taken from this book. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidential spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Robert Ringer. Click image (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Robert Ringer is an author and business manager motivator. His flagship book, "Winning through Intimidation," is considered to be the best primer for insights into how the world really works, and IMO should be required reading for all high school students before they become snowflakes. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidential spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments...

...most of those on both the left and the right are in agreement on one thing:  that Barack Obama, no matter how flawed he may be, is a serious, legitimate president with serious, legitimate concerns about how to best “help the middle class,” “get the economy moving again,” “strengthen our national defense” … blah, blah, blah.Then there’s the rest of us — a distinct minority — who believe that Barack Obama is a total fraud.  Meaning that we don’t take him seriously in any way, shape, or form...

At least one well-known conservative has begun speaking out-loud the notion that an Obama re-election might not be the very worst thing that could happen, either to the nation or to Republicans—even to REAL Republicans–that is, conservatives, members of the Party base whose mistrust of Obama is nearly equaled by their mistrust of Mitt Romney and the 2008 ‘Ghost of Romney past’, John McCain. The best-selling author of “Looking out for Number One” and “Restoring the American Dream”, Robert Ringer has been a Libertarian/conservative for decades. And given 5 decades of Libertarian leanings, his support of Ron Paul should surprise...

Americans are easy prey when it comes to political distraction debates. The NLRB’s outrageous attempt to block Boeing from opening a new plant in South Carolina is a distraction. Proposed card-check legislation is a distraction. Our obsessive meddling in Middle Eastern countries is a distraction. All these are important issues, but they are merely subcategories of the foundational issue that Americans should be focused on: loss of freedom. In a truly free society, none of these issues would even arise, because they are outside the scope of human freedom. Unfortunately, instead of freedom, we are being cleverly engineered into social-justice...

In response to my ongoing discussion of a deflationary depression versus an inflationary depression, readers often ask me if a “soft landing” is possible. I guess the answer to that question depends on how you define soft landing. If by soft landing, you mean we will somehow muddle through, things will calm down on their own, and we will not experience a great deal of pain, the answer is no. But if your definition of soft landing is an economy that declines slowly, without violent revolution, I would say such a scenario is possible. There are a number of complex...

The second 5-4 reaffirmation of gun-ownership rights by the Supreme Court over the past two years is yet another reminder that the nation’s highest court is nothing more than a political tool. In the recent McDonald v. Chicago case, the Supreme Court found that individuals have a right to possess a handgun in their home for self-defense. All well and good, but in both the Chicago and D.C. cases, had there been one more liberal on the court, the Constitutional right and, more important, the natural right to bear arms would have been declared “against the law.”

In Part 1 of this article, I expressed my concern that Glenn Beck might not be around for the long term at Fox News. As I watch him strip BHO and other members of Crime Inc. down to their dirty underwear every day at 5 p.m., I ponder what the Obamaviks will do to try to stop him from destroying their efforts to transform the U.S. into a collectivist paradise. In that regard, I can envision four possibilities for Beck's exit:

As cap and trade, universal health care, new bailouts, and more welfare programs are forced through a Congress too arrogant to read its own bills, the question is: Will a majority of Americans continue to sit by apathetically with a “Gee, what if the new ‘stimulus plan’ doesn’t work?” attitude — or will they grow up, get their heads out of the clouds, and take to the streets to peacefully protest? Alert the media: Nothing this collectivist government does will work! Base your actions accordingly. The U.S. has often been accused of being a nation of sheep. Personally, I think...

To the delight of the hard left, the fork-in-the-road debate continues in the Republican Party: “Shall we be inclusive (read, bring people into the party who believe in big government, higher taxes, more government regulation, more government takeover of private industry, and more interference in the lives of American citizens) or shall we remain steadfast to traditional conservative principles?” The great fear, of course, is that if Republicans try to please their core constituents (Gee, why would anyone want to do that?), they will never regain the White House, the Senate, or the House of Representatives. If Republicans want to...

There is a great and elaborate political myth that has been in place since the end of Ronald Reagan’s presidency. Notwithstanding President Reagan’s remarkable accomplishments — especially his economic accomplishments — his successor, George Bush Sr., immediately started blathering about change. No one thought to ask why there was a need for change, given that Ronald Reagan had already put the Republicans — and, more importantly, the country — on sound moral and economic footing. When I say immediately, I’m talking about Bush I’s inauguration address. It was the first time, as commander in chief, that he made an appeal...

As the Obamacrats continue to take over banks, auto manufacturers, and, soon, everything from land-development firms to sports franchises to lemonade stands, more and more people will finally get it. They won’t have a choice: They’ll be living in servitude! Of all the dictators over the past hundred years, I think BHO comes closest to the model used by Adolf Hitler. I know, I know … I can practically hear you chuckling. Enslaved people throughout history have a propensity for chuckling - until they wake up one morning and find themselves in chains. So, by all means, feel free to...

I didn’t watch much news for a couple of weeks, because I found it frustrating that almost no one — not even the staunchest conservatives – seemed to get it. Today, however, I am happy to see that a handful of commentators are edging closer to acknowledging what is really happening to America. Even Bill O’Reilly is now using the term socialism (though he still claims that BHO has “good intentions”). O’Reilly, you will recall, is the guy who, back in the good old days when Rev. Wright was entertaining us nightly, insisted “I don’t believe for a second that...

There are a number of reasons why I don't believe Barack Obama will use the boil-the-frog-slowly approach when it comes to moving his Marxist agenda forward in the midst of this economic meltdown. First, he will have the Pelosi-Reid gang pushing him to take action. Second, he will have millions of welfare addicts — pitchforks in hand — looking to him to deliver on his promises. (Perhaps you've seen the video of the gal who said she's excited now that Obama has been elected, because she will no longer have to worry about paying her mortgage or filling her gas...

As I said in Part I of this article, I can think of at least three ways that the Obama presidency might play out. Let's examine them one at a time. The Clinton Option When the HillBillies made it to the White House — by proving to be the most adept politicians in U.S. history when it came to playing the Lenin card (i.e., lying as a justifiable means to achieving their ends) - everyone thought communism was just around the corner for the U.S. It didn't happen … not while they were in office. Why? Because the Clintons surprised...

Throughout Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency, as I watched him backtrack on the nature of his many questionable relationships, on issues such as gun control, abortion rights, and taxation, and on his feelings about the United States, the words of another famous revolutionary, Vladimir Lenin, kept coming to mind. Said Lenin, “To tell the truth is a petty bourgeois habit, whereas for us to lie is justified by our objectives.” Lenin, along with Leon Trotsky and his other comrades in arms, was a character right out of the book Eric Hoffer published years later (in 1951): The True Believer....

Who determines what your money is worth? There was a time when the American government did not have control over the nation's money supply. Should this be of concern to you? If you want that $20 bill in your pocket to be worth $20 in a few years, you should pay close attention. At the heart of this issue - and something every citizen needs to understand - is that government-controlled paper money does not fit into the natural order of economics. Through the phenomenon of gradualism, the government was able to replace intrinsically valuable commodities such as gold and...