via: thefreemanonline.org “Stop showing up at homeless camps and dropping off mattresses. Stop handing out blankets and candles and tents. Most importantly, stop giving directly to the homeless. It might seem like the right thing to do, the advocates say, but it actually can hamper their efforts to get the chronically homeless off the streets and [...]
Archive for January, 2010
9 Jan
Government Tipped Off After Terror Suspect was Airborne
via: thefreemanonline.org “But an administration official said late Wednesday that the information would not have resulted in further scrutiny before the suspect departed. Abdulmutallab was in a database containing half a million names of people with suspected extremist links but who are not considered threats. Therefore, border security officials would have sought only to question [...]
9 Jan
Airports Implementing Changes to Security
via: thefreemanonline.org “And other seeming contradictions emerged: Susannah Kassmer said she was ordered to take out her musical instrument, a type of bagpipe, from its case and to play it to prove its purpose before being allowed to board a flight from Dusseldorf to Newark. Yet Anthony Aguirre, another traveler, said he was patted down [...]
9 Jan
AMAC vs. AARP – David vs. Goliath
There are two organizations representing citizens 50 plus. AMAC, the Association of Mature American Citizens has 10’s of thousands of members AARP has 26 million Members. The leadership of AARP has proven themselves to be a liberal leaning group that endorsed expensive Obamacare, without the consent of their members. AMAC (pronounced A- Mack) is one [...]
9 Jan
Shocking Reversal: Researcher at National Cancer Institute Admits Abortions DO Raise Breast Cancer Risks
“Although the study was published nine months ago, the NCI, the American Cancer Society, Susan G. Komen for the Cure and other cancer fundraising businesses have made no efforts to reduce breast cancer rates by issuing nationwide warnings to women.” Less than two months since the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued new guidelines recommending [...]
9 Jan
Obama’s ‘safe schools’ chief behind ‘gay’ propaganda play
Uses violent death of college student to condemn biblical view as hateful Kevin Jennings, President Obama’s “safe schools czar,” is president of the board of the Tectonic Theater Project, which created “The Laramie Project,” a play about the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming homosexual Matthew Shepard that condemns traditional biblical views on homosexuality as [...]
6 Jan
Transfer Machine
via: thefreemanonline.org “The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul,” George Bernard Shaw once said. For a socialist Shaw demonstrated good sense with that quotation. Unfortunately, America has become a laboratory in which his hypothesis is being tested. The theory of government I was taught says that [...]
6 Jan
Walmart’s Bottom Line
via: thefreemanonline.org Walmart is one of the world’s largest, most successful, and most vilified corporations. It was ranked number four in the Fortune 500 from 1995 through 1998, reached number one in 2002 and stayed there until 2009, when it fell behind Exxon Mobil. It’s also the only firm in the top four of the [...]
6 Jan
Freedom in America: Is the Glass Half-full or Half-empty?
via: thefreemanonline.org It is an age-old question of perception. Show a person a glass with some liquid in it and ask, “Is it half-full or half-empty?” The importance of the answer depends on the interests of the person asking the question. If you owned a restaurant and wanted to skimp on the wine, you would [...]
6 Jan
How Dense Can They Get?
via: thefreemanonline.org When it comes to power, energy density is the key. Solar power, wind power, and ethanol are so expensive because they are derived from very diffuse energy sources. It takes a lot of energy collectors such as solar cells, wind turbines, or corn stalks covering many square miles to produce the same amount [...]
