Facebook bans Gandhi quote as part of revisionist history purge

Facebook bans Gandhi quote as part of revisionist history purge: "Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." - Mohandas Gandhi, an Autobiography, page 446.

The Carmel Pine Cone's first story of the week

The Carmel Pine Cone's first story of the week: “President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” Eastwood told The Pine Cone this week. “Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know. I may have irritated a lot of the lefties, but I was aiming for people in the middle.”

Time as an asset, not just fact

"An actor chooses means from his environment, in accordance with his ideas, to arrive at an expected end, completely attainable only at some point in the future. All action aims at rendering conditions at some time in the future more satisfactory for the actor than they would have been without the intervention of the action. Time is a means that man must use to arrive at his ends. It is a means that is omnipresent in all human action."

--Murray N. Rothbard. Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market

Gay Marriage: Killing the Democracy of the Dead | Crisis Magazine

Gay Marriage: Killing the Democracy of the Dead | Crisis Magazine: In his book, Orthodoxy, Chesterton wrote: “Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of their birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition tells us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our father.”  Paul Kengor

France's bonds sell for negative interest rate; Socialist President Hollande exacerbates circumstance by giving organized Labor an institutional role in creation of legislation.

"Hollande said he wants the constitution to require politicians to consult with unions before making any major labor decisions. "No law from the domain of economic and social life will be able to be voted by the Parliament without a phase of dialogue and consultation prior to it," he said.

In Monday's bond sale, the treasury sold three-month bonds at -0.005 percent, and six-month bonds at -0.006 percent. The treasury agency says it's the first time they have registered negative yields."  Assoc. Press Website, today.

This is just the action Sen. Steve Sweeney took when he joined the Senate in New Jersey.  He shepherded through legislation to have unions at the table during the planning phase for all govenment construction projects.

Getting a Grip on Envy | Crisis Magazine

Getting a Grip on Envy | Crisis Magazine

Mother Church and the Nanny State | Crisis Magazine

Mother Church and the Nanny State | Crisis Magazine: "The new style of the federal government, in speech after speech, to replace freedom of religion with freedom of worship is not innocent of calculation, for while permitting ritual acts of devotion within the walls of a building, it would limit the right to express religious beliefs in public discourse. In Orwellian semantics, soon enough even the commandment to love the sinner but hate the sin becomes “hate speech.” There are some religions, like some governments, that are intrinsically hostile to freedom of religion."  Rev. George Rutler.