by altha-admin | Sep 24, 2011 | Articles
"I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University." — William F. Buckley, Jr.Why...
by altha-admin | Sep 24, 2011 | Articles
Of those who survived Auschwitz, one man made a committed effort not just to survive, but to have a reason for himself and the world why he survived.Viktor Frankl, an Austrian state attorney turned psychiatrist, nearly died in the camps. He witnessed that many of his...
by altha-admin | Sep 24, 2011 | Articles
ATR founder Grover Norquist proferred the following conflicted assertion:"The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spedning, not to focus on the deficit."Yet the deficit is part and parcel of Big Government, which demands relief for the huge...
by altha-admin | Sep 24, 2011 | Articles
The Republicans, since taking power in the House of Representatives, have become the poster-party for internecine faction-fighting (also in the growing Republican minority in the Senate). To close widening expenditure gaps in the federal budget, either the government...
by altha-admin | Sep 24, 2011 | Articles
Politesse, grace, the refined qualities of political discourse, such elements which describe Maine politics according the "The Economist", are the very niceties which are plunging this nation into the black hole of never-ending deficit spending.The two...
by altha-admin | Sep 24, 2011 | Articles
In spite of the warm feelings one may feel looking over the glossy photo-ops of Republican and Democratic leaders holding hands, the bipartisanship that takes hold once in a while is more in the interests of the politicians advancing their careers than safeguarding...
