Rational Nation USA

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -v s- Tyranny Labels. A lot of people like political labels and being a part of one collective or another. Belonging to a group of like minded individuals does give a person a safe and comfortable feeling. It legitimatizes their beliefs and principles within a circle of like minded social beings. However, in choosing to become part of a collective a person often {unwittingly}places restrictions on their ability to think critically and "outside the box" of accepted "conventional" wisdom. In other words "group-think" takes over the process of thinking so that "thinking" becomes a automatic response based in part or solely on ideology. The different political parties are nothing more than collectives of people with differing political thought and ideologies with respect to government and its proper size and involvement in society. Whether you are a member of the democratic, republican, libert...

"Nobody can ever convince me that government can spend a dollar that it hasn't got."............As if we really needed another reason to like this guy.

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty - v s- Tyranny Michael Moore, filmmaker and advocate for the "99"%. Wealthy by anyone's definition of well off. Certainly he is living well beyond the means of even the top echelon of the middle class. Not that anyone should begrudge the man for effectively marketing his questionable talents and reaping the benefits thereof. But doesn't his his own lifestyle versus his words speak volumes? What has Mr. Moore done to help make the life of some of the "99"% easier? Hypocrite? You the readership of this humble blog be the judge. Big Hollywood - Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore has been touring Occupy Wall Street demonstrations across the country–including some of the most violent, such as Occupy Oakland–urging activists to continue their fight against the wealthy “one percent” of Americans. Initially, Moore tried to deny that his massive wealth made him a member of that one percent. Even when forced to...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -v s- Tyranny Is this the correct and proper legal course for the President to follow? The Hill (OTM)   President Obama has warned leaders of the supercommittee he will not accept any effort to turn off a mechanism enforcing spending cuts if the panel fails to reach a deal to reduce the deficit. In a Friday phone call to the co-chairmen of the 12-member panel, Obama told Congress it “must not shirk its responsibilities,” according to a White House readout of the conversation. “The sequester was agreed to by both parties to ensure there was a meaningful enforcement mechanism to force a result from the committee,” the readout from the White House said. “The American people deserve to have their leaders come together and make the tough choices necessary to live within our means, just as American families do every day in these tough economic times.” Under last summer’s deal to raise the debt ceiling, Congress approved legislat...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -v s- Tyranny Total tyrannical disregard for life. Barbaric! BBC - A group of armed men have stoned and shot dead a woman and her daughter in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, security officials have told the BBC. The officials blamed the Taliban, who they said had accused the women of "moral deviation and adultery". The police said two men had been arrested in connection with the murder. The attack was only 300m from the governor's office in Ghazni city, which is on a list of places to be transferred to Afghan security control. Taliban grip The incident happened on Thursday in the Khawaja Hakim area of Ghazni city, where the family lived. The BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kabul says it is close to the governor's office, the police chief's office and a Western-backed Provincial Reconstruction Team. Security officials said armed men entered the house where the young widow lived with her daughter and t...

So, just how massive has this "vast right-wing conspiracy" gotten? If you listen to the people on the opposite end of the political spectrum (i.e., those on the hard-core/extremist left), you'd probably come to the conclusion that it's gotten humongous. So, who's the latest to be put into this "esteemed" position? Try (and, yes, please, you really need to be sitting for this one) the 1993 Democratic Congress.................................................................................................Yeah, that's right, people, the Democratic Congress is now a part of this evil cabal in that they (supposedly) tried to protect Ronald Reagan from charges that he somehow brokered a deal with Iran that had them not release the hostages until after the 1980 elections (I believe that there was also something about Reagan being the Loch Ness Monster but that one didn't get nearly as far). Never mind that the evidence was full of holes and...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -v s- Tyranny I'm all for reducing the size of the MIC, been saying it right along. However, allowing the automatic cuts that will be triggered if the supercomitte fails to reach agreement is the wrong way to make it happen. Not according to Democratic Representative Jerold Nadler (D-N.Y.). Who by the way appears in need of some automatic cuts in his food allowance. The Hill OTM - A Democratic legislator said it would be fine with him if the supercommittee failed to reach agreement and steep, automatic cuts to domestic and defense spending happened. "I hope that they cannot reach an agreement," Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said, according to Capital New York. Some Democrats have suggested that they might have the upper hand in the negotiations because of the rare opportunity for deep reductions in defense spending — something some Democrats have wished for before. Nadler said there should be significant cuts to...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -v s- Tyranny Given Gov. Perry's history of lackluster debates his performance Wednesday is likely to hasten his exit. Self implosion of  MAJOR proportion. Visit Legal Insurrection for a full report of the CNBC Republican Debate. Via: Memeorandum