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Dan Sherrier

Conservatives and libertarians often complain about the current form of our federal government, and with good reason. I’ve certainly added my own criticism in recent months. But no one I know is anti-government.

So, as a nice change of pace, I shall speak favorably of a federal agency: the U.S. Copyright Office. Protecting intellectual property is precisely the sort of activity the federal government should undertake.

"C" isn't just for cookie.

The Constitution spells it out in Article I, Section 8: “The Congress shall have Power … To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; …”

Being included in the Constitution makes it a legal activity of the federal government, but that alone is not an explanation for why it’s a good idea. After all, the Post Office is listed right above it, demonstrating that even the most ingenuous documents have at least one glaring mistake. Read the rest of this entry »

Dan Sherrier

Our first president had some excellent advice in his farewell address to the nation, which he delivered via newspaper publication in September 1796.

The entire speech remains worth reading today. Some of his points were specific to a time when the United States was young and fragile–the Constitution was less than a decade old, after all–but much of his wisdom continues to hold value.

Pay attention.

It doesn’t hold value simply because he’s George Washington, Super-President of Historical Myth and Noble Chopper of the Cherry Tree and Crosser of the Delaware. (Even Washington was not a perfect human being. A great one, yes, but great does not equal perfect.)

No, it holds value because we can look around today and see that he was right. His concerns have been validated by our collective mistakes over the years. Read the rest of this entry »

Dan Sherrier

Do you believe that mankind is wrecking the planet’s climate? If so, I have some questions for you.

Let’s put the comments section to good use. Below are numerous questions relating to anthropogenic global warming (AGW). Please pick whichever one(s) you care to address, and have at it. Remember, if you’re asserting we need to make drastic changes to our lifestyles, the burden of proof is on you.

Make your case, please.

The questions:

1.) If skeptics point to a colder winter or mild summer as evidence against AGW, then believers usually say they’re confusing climate with weather. And yes, climate and weather–while related–are not synonyms. But why is it okay for believers to point to certain weather events (such as the recent snowstorms across America) as evidence to support the AGW theory? Or to say that 2009 was the fifth warmest year on record, as if a single year can represent a climate trend? Read the rest of this entry »

Dan Sherrier

A spending bill was passed by the House of Representatives Dec. 16, and soon, it will go before the Senate. The bill is dubbed the Jobs for Main Street Act, and it’s here to tell you not to worry–the federal government will make it all better!

To learn about this bill, let’s journey to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s propaganda page.

Trust us. For your own sake.

Someone from her staff writes, “On December 16th, the House passed the Jobs for Main Street Act to create or save jobs here at home with targeted investments ($75 billion) for highways and transit, school renovation, hiring teachers, police, and firefighters, small business, job training and affordable housing – key drivers of economic growth that have the most bang for the buck. These investments are fully paid for by redirecting TARP funds from Wall Street to Main Street.” Read the rest of this entry »

Dan Sherrier

The typical conservative feels that marriage must remain between a man and a woman, and the typical liberal feels that it would be the end of civil rights as we know it if gays were never allowed to marry.

But the question that bugs me is…Why does anyone need legal permission to marry?

Do it your way.

To find out precisely what sort of person can and cannot marry in each state, go to USMarriageLaws.com. There, see how government is clearly overstepping its bounds into a personal matter.

The marriage issue is one that should fall under “freedom of religion,” something that should be decided by individual church denominations or secular people.

For many, marriage does have a religious component, as the commitment is made before God in a church. To a Roman Catholic, for example, marriage is one the Seven Sacraments, sharing a list with baptism and confirmation, among other life events. Read the rest of this entry »

Dan Sherrier

“When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist or a biologist when asked if he is a ‘Newtonian,’ or if he is a ‘Pasteurian.’”

So said Che Guevara in 1960.

Captain Collectivist

“There are truths so evident, so much a part of people’s knowledge, that it is now useless to discuss them. One ought to be ‘Marxist’ with the same naturalness with which one is ‘Newtonian’ in physics, or ‘Pasteurian’ in biology, considering that if facts determine new concepts, these new concepts will never divest themselves of that portion of truth possessed by the older concepts they have outdated,” he continued.

Now that’s a devout Marxist there.

Today, Che Guevara is a pop icon who adorns many a T-shirt and is the subject of numerous glowing Facebook pages. Celebrities love him. Read the rest of this entry »

Dan Sherrier

According to the feminists, playing an ad about a woman’s decision to defy doctors’ recommendations and not have an abortion is “extraordinarily offensive and demeaning.”

Let’s replay that in slow-motion:

Pregnant woman. Doctors say have an abortion. Woman thinks for herself and decides to have her baby. Tell this story in a commercial, and it’s “extraordinarily offensive and demeaning.”

Demeaning? Offensive? Huh?

Doesn’t make sense to me either.

Yet this is what has incited feminists’ self-righteous fury–a potential Super Bowl commercial that CBS is allowing to air.

The ad features college football player Tim Tebow and his mother Pam, and it’s about Pam Tebow’s decision to have her baby (specifically, Tim). Read the rest of this entry »

Dan Sherrier

Massachusetts’s famous Senate race is over, and as you’ve probably heard by now, Republican Scott Brown defeated Democrat Martha Coakley – not by a landslide, but by a comfortable margin of 53-46.

If you’re an advocate of smaller government and reducing the federal debt, Brown was the clear choice–even just on the health care issue alone. And that’s a rather enormous issue.

Joe Kennedy: No hope

Nevertheless, the Libertarian Party (LP) was willing to risk spoiling the election in Coakley’s favor. The party applauded its senatorial candidate, Joe Kennedy (no relation to the late Ted Kennedy), for refusing to drop out of the race.

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Dan Sherrier

By now, you’ve probably heard about tele-evangelist Pat Robertson’s inane comment:

“Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, ‘We will serve you if you will get us free from the French.’ True story. And so, the devil said, ‘OK, it’s a deal.’ And they kicked the French out. You know, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free. But ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other,” he said on The 700 Club.

Was that really necessary?

And here’s the official clarification, in full, from Robertson’s own Web site:

“On today’s The 700 Club, during a segment about the devastation, suffering and humanitarian effort that is needed in Haiti, Dr. Robertson also spoke about Haiti’s history. His comments were based on the widely-discussed 1791 slave rebellion led by Boukman Dutty at Bois Caiman, where the slaves allegedly made a famous pact with the devil in exchange for victory over the French. This history, combined with the horrible state of the country, has led countless scholars and religious figures over the centuries to believe the country is cursed. Read the rest of this entry »

Dan Sherrier

You can learn a lot about a person based on how they choose to insult you. Let’s delve into the minds of the far left and attempt to decipher what they’re thinking when they unleash this portion of their vocabulary:

If you're a rightwinger, you'll be called one of these! Horrors!

Teabaggers: Because obviously a homosexual pejorative suits a group of individuals advocating for smaller government. What, you mean when you hear “gay,” your mind doesn’t automatically go to visions of lower taxes? The important thing to understand here is that the term “Tea Party” begins with “tea” and the term “teabag” begins with tea. Therefore, it’s clever, rather than juvenile (at least in the Bizarro World. In the real world, it sounds like something you’d hear on a playground: “I don’t like you. So…Ha, ha! You’re GAY!”) Read the rest of this entry »