Now that the Republicans with Tea Party assistance have won the House of Representatives by a landslide, we are hearing a lot of cries from the Democrats and their minions in the media about the need for ending “gridlock” and establishing bipartisan consensus! We are told almost daily by the mass media that the American …
Faria: Political Consensus, Gridlock, and Socialism Read More »
Much of the recent discussion among both Democrat and Republican members of Congress regarding the need to lift the travel ban and end the U.S. embargo of Cuba has revolved around the possibility of selling millions of dollars in agricultural products to Cuba. These politicians conveniently forget that the Castro brothers are dictators of the …
Faria: Opening Trade with Cuba and Letting the US Taxpayers Foot the Bill! Read More »
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom established a Constitutional Republic with a federal system in which each and every state, large and small, has a major stake in the election of the chief executives, the President and Vice President, of the United States of America. This federal system incorporated an enduring system of checks and …
The Electoral College and the U.S. Presidential Elections Revisited Read More »
[What are taxes?] The greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every cornerand crevice of industry[which] watches prosperity as its prey and permitsnone to escape without tribute.Thomas PaineThe Rights of Man (1791) George Orwell once stated there is no such thing as staying out of politics. And taxes are an enduring political issue. The issue …
‘Death and Taxes’ at the Turn of the Millennium by Miguel A. Faria, MD Read More »
When the government fears the people there is liberty.When the people fear the government there is tyranny.Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Federal Law Enforcement In West Virginia, we learn that the house of a physician is entered by federal agents who do not identify themselves or explain their actions. The physician’s wife and children are threatened and …
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