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International
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Hunger Games Score a Point for Freedom
24 Mar 2012 by Jessica Hughes / 1 Comment
I don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade, but when I see not only pubescent girls but grown women swooning over a sparkling teenage vampire `a la Twilight I am less than inspired with confidence in the future of critical thought here in the U.S. of A. But when I read the story of a young girl with the courage to defy those who would use her for their own political games – and I see young and old flocking to both bookstores and theatres – a lot of that confidence is restored.
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Supporting the Spirit of the American Revolution
15 Mar 2012 by Nicholas Hughes / 11 Comments
I don’t normally support violent revolution; however, I support the American Revolution because it was not a revolution in the normal sense of the word.
In what most describe as a revolution several groups fight for power over others, whereas the American revolutionaries just wanted cast off England’s power rather than take that power for their own. The American Revolution was more a war of secession due to the fact that the people just wanted to be free from England. -
Spending More to be Less Secure
04 Mar 2012 by Jessica Hughes / 8 Comments
When something goes wrong, we often react emotionally in the immediate aftermath. At some point however, we regain our composure and look at the incident critically, asking, “What could I have done differently to achieve a better outcome?” 9/11 is over a decade behind us so while the tragedy will always carry a heavy emotional burden we should be well prepared to take that critical look…
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Conservative Collectivism: The Indispensable Individual (Ch 2)
05 Feb 2012 by Jessica Hughes / 10 Comments
I have asserted that collectivism is the seed of evil that corrupts all of its outgrowths from fascism to socialism and every philosophy that rests in part on the notion that people should subvert their natural self interest to the ‘higher good’ of society. It is important to understand this is not simply a mistake of ‘causation by correlation.’ In other words, it is not that we observe historically that all collectivist enterprises fail miserably and thus make the leap of logic to say the coincidence of these events necessarily makes collectivism the cause of the failure…
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Agenda 21: Guest Column Warning
21 Jan 2012 by Jessica Hughes / 4 Comments
A friend of mine recently informed me that the Houston Galveston Council of governments was receiving a grant to implement Agenda 21 projects along the Gulf Coast of Texas. I was not familiar with agenda 21, so I googled it to see what it was about. Very quickly I learned that Agenda 21 was a plan brought about by the United Nations back in 1992, and then president George HW Bush along with several other countries agreed to participate in its implementation.
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