Saturday, July 31, 2010

Lux Americana

Light, Life, Love and Liberty

Site Maintenance

Posted under Announcements

I’m briefly doing some site maintenance around 10pm Pacific time tonight.  Please be patient and check back in about an hour if the site is running slower than usual or if you have any problems accessing the pages.
Thanks for your patience.

A Letter on Socialism

Posted under Politics

Last week, I received the following message from my older brother, who is also quite politically inclined:
One thing I love about Eastern Europeans is that they already lived through all of the BS were are heading toward. The 2nd page is better, I think it was translated from Russian it’s so a little choppy.
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-0/
(I felt [...]

Energy Secretary: Paint the World White

Posted under Science

Even if you haven’t been on board with everything he’s done since his inauguration, there’s one thing you really have to give President Obama credit for – he knows how to pick the right man for the job. Our current Energy Secretary is Professor Steven Chu, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in [...]

They Cling to Guns and Religion

Posted under Arts and Entertainment

I’ve been meaning to showcase the awesome editorial cartoons of Terence Nowicki, Jr. on here for awhile – hunting through his archives today, I found one which truly needs no words:

Won’t you please check out his collection at This is Historic Times, so he doesn’t kill me for reblogging his cartoon?

Don’t Like the Nat’l Budget? You Try.

Posted under Money

Lately in several discussions revolving around government spending and taxation, I’ve noticed a basic problem with Americans when it comes to the issue of government budgets;  America as a political-financial entity is utterly schizophrenic. We will, more often than not, vote for increasing spending and vote against raising taxes – and you simply can’t have [...]

Open Cuba Now

Posted under International

The Caribbean’s largest island, Cuba, has been off limits to Americans since the Kennedy era. It remains the only place in the world which Americans are forbidden to visit by their own government.
President Obama’s recent removal of travel restrictions for Cuban Americans visiting family has given hope to those who assert our freedom to travel [...]

Money

Don’t Like the Nat’l Budget? You Try.

Lately in several discussions revolving around government spending and taxation, I’ve noticed a basic problem with Americans when it comes to the issue of government budgets;  America as a political-financial entity is utterly schizophrenic. We will, more often than not, vote for increasing spending and vote against raising taxes – and you simply can’t have [...]

Announcements

Site Maintenance

I’m briefly doing some site maintenance around 10pm Pacific time tonight.  Please be patient and check back in about an hour if the site is running slower than usual or if you have any problems accessing the pages.
Thanks for your patience.

Arts and Entertainment

They Cling to Guns and Religion

I’ve been meaning to showcase the awesome editorial cartoons of Terence Nowicki, Jr. on here for awhile – hunting through his archives today, I found one which truly needs no words:

Won’t you please check out his collection at This is Historic Times, so he doesn’t kill me for reblogging his cartoon?

Politics

A Letter on Socialism

Last week, I received the following message from my older brother, who is also quite politically inclined:
One thing I love about Eastern Europeans is that they already lived through all of the BS were are heading toward. The 2nd page is better, I think it was translated from Russian it’s so a little choppy.
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-0/
(I felt [...]

Science

Energy Secretary: Paint the World White

Even if you haven’t been on board with everything he’s done since his inauguration, there’s one thing you really have to give President Obama credit for – he knows how to pick the right man for the job. Our current Energy Secretary is Professor Steven Chu, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in [...]

International

Open Cuba Now

The Caribbean’s largest island, Cuba, has been off limits to Americans since the Kennedy era. It remains the only place in the world which Americans are forbidden to visit by their own government.
President Obama’s recent removal of travel restrictions for Cuban Americans visiting family has given hope to those who assert our freedom to travel [...]

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