‘Round the internet and sometimes even within the confines of Holistic Survival, one sees a reference to something as being “Orwellian.” Most people with a hazy memory of high school English could peg the word as relating to influential English writer, George Orwell, but others might not give a flying rat’s rear end about the [...]

In the early days of his governorship, Arnold Schwarzenegger directed the construction of two prisons to accommodate the overcrowding. Problem was that since 1980 California has built 20 prisons but the inmate population has increased fivefold. At this rate, using this philosophy, the problem of protecting people by incarcerating others will be cured…uh…never.
Perhaps its not [...]

Alexis de Tocqueville was a French aristocrat who slummed in America for 9 months during 1831. The resulting two volume set of his observations, Democracy in America, is still lauded as a seminal work for it’s insight into Jacksonian America. If you’re needing a good idea or two to stick in your brainpan, ponder the [...]

Not just any soldier but the renowned, General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of the Pacific Fleet during World War II had the following to say about our beloved federal government frequent attempts to pretend that the very survival of our nation is at stake:
“Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous [...]

The Obama regime’s new health care mandate requires all American citizens to purchase health insurance. This should come as a surprise to no one. It’s simply more of the same from a federal government that sees fit to pack its citizens into a smaller and smaller box in order to squeeze more and more money [...]

Word from Reuters today states that increasing cigarette taxes by $1 a pack would raise more than $9 billion a year for states. Furthermore, a poll suggests that 60% of Americans would support such a tax. Yep, we hate to be the bearer of such grim tidings but, if the poll is right, America is [...]

Tommy Cryer doesn’t think that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has ever codified into tax law a legal statute that requires citizens of the United States to pay income taxes.
Is he right?
On July 11, 2007, a jury acquitted him of failure to pay $73,000 the government said he owed in taxes for 2000 and 2001. [...]

Civil unrest is a scary thought. It calls to mind  old Frankenstein movies where the villagers have tired of the good doctor’s marauding creation and head for his castle with pitchforks and torches in hand.
The surprising thing about civil unrest in America today is that there hasn’t been more of it on a widespread basis [...]

What would George Orwell, author of the decidedly pessimistic book, 1984, have to say about the development of GPS technology, especially in light of more recent applications? He’d probably shake his head, roll over in his grave, and go back to sleep.
GPS stands for Global Positioning System, something most of us are familiar with. It’s [...]

Some estimates have it that, under the auspices of various departments, the government publishes 200 new pages of rules, regulations, and proposals every day. This might be the clearest measure of incremental intrusion into your life by elected representatives. Ever wonder exactly which rights you are losing to out-of-control regulation?
We don’t suggest anyone waste valuable [...]

Oh, come now. We all knew it was going on. It can’t help but happen when the government puts itself in charge of health care. A recent article in the UK Telegraph yanked the cover off this disturbing trend – terminally ill patients are having food and water withheld so they’ll die sooner.
Why on earth [...]

Very few casual internet surfers have any idea of the security breach they’re inviting by the simple act of surfing and filling out forms on the web. Your IP Address, which is a unique identifier of the computer you’re using, is logged at almost every website you visit – stores, blogs, forums. Anyone with access [...]