Punch Lines and Ironies

So I used to be a pretty diehard classical music fan, as many people can attest. 🙂 “What…it was written after 1900? It must be no good.” But I’ve grown to appreciate modern music, much to my own surprise. And more surprising than that, one of my favorite artists is a contemporary Christian musician, Chris Rice. I have very little respect for the contemporary Christian music scene…it just seems like in trying to please everyone they have lost the best of both secular and Christian music. My impression is that they write second-class music that’s supposed to sound like secular…

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Favorite Videos

I’m sure I’ve posted some of these before, but just wanted to do it again. Here is Ron Paul’s “What If?” speech from Congress. Absolutely brilliant.     And here is a rather chilling history of Iran. Chilling because there is so much I didn’t know our government did. Chilling because everyone is saying we need to bomb Iran. Really? Don’t you know your history?     And every so often I watch this one, just to cheer myself up and get all excited about liberty again. It is so clear and so beautiful in the defense of self-ownership. Must…

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Did Capitalism Cause the Recession?

After hearing Tom Woods speak last night I was inspired to dig up this youtube video again. It was really cool that Tom Woods talked about much of the same things as I do in this speech. I guess that’s not surprising since I got a lot of my information from “Meltdown.” But in this video I go into more depth and look at more of the causes than Tom Woods did last night. No, it isn’t quite as funny (or near as funny, except maybe the slide about the animal spirits…) but if you need a crash course in…

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“What If?”

This is one of my favorite videos ever. I hope we never forget the truths that Ron Paul points out. It is a matter of life and death. Perhaps not for us, but for other innocent human beings.

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