In 1963, Jerry Lewis starred in a slapstick comedy by the title of Who’s Minding the Store? The premise was simple—put a dim-witted clerk in a retail store and see what kind of havoc he can create. However, the most memorable scene in that movie was not about the mistakes he made. Instead, it was
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As the dust settles from the stampede of the November 2010 elections, and we go back to expecting phone solicitors trying to sell us on free cruises in the Caribbean rather than making a pitch for their candidate, the time has come to ask a few questions. How we and the people we elected answer
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The Book of Eli, starring Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman, is the kind of movie that can only be fully appreciated by first seeing it as a whole and then peeling back its layers and examining them one at a time. The Story Eli, played by Denzel Washington, is a man who can best be
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During the week or so after Hurricane Katrina slammed into Louisiana and Mississippi, the world watched in shock as over half of New Orleans was covered in water and nearly two thousand people lost their lives. While politicians bickered and the blame game heated up, lost in the shuffled was what transpired in hundreds of
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I am a child of a child of the Great Depression and what I know of it rests in bits and pieces of largely unheeded conversations between my mother and grandmother. With the economic future that very possibly looms ahead, there are times I often wish I had paid more attention. The Great Depression, followed
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A decade ago everyone, from experts to the guy that had just discovered blogs, was predicting a breakdown in society due to what has come to be known as Y2K. The ensuing scare resulted from a very real possibility: because of its shortsightedness in its programming in the 1960s through the 1980s, the Information Technology
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13, 574, 468, 725, 001 ….. 121,932 …………. 43, 724 Take a look at those numbers and ponder them for a minute. If you are brave and not given to seizures, you may want to visit www.usdebtclock.org to see how those numbers have changed since this article was written at 8:20 AM CDT on October
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Over the past few years, a growing number of American citizens have begun to consider the previously unthinkable—perhaps it’s time to leave America. Before images of tie-dyed wearing flower children of the 60s or the “if Obama doesn’t win I’m out of here” crowd come to mind, that isn’t who I’m referring to at all.
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This site is dedicated to offering solutions for survival in the event of a natural catastrophe, a man-made catastrophe, political unrest or a terrorist attack. Yet somewhere in the midst of preparing for such events, we cannot afford to divorce ourselves from the political realities around us. Our Founding Fathers did not shrink back from
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