“Smash Capitalism!” Say the Wall Street Protesters
“Smash Capitalism” is one of the signs we saw being held by one of the Wall Street mobsters. The overriding theme of the mob is the overwhelming wish to...
About: Sam Blumenfeld
Posts by Sam Blumenfeld
Who Wrote Shakespeare?
With the release on October 10, 2011, of Roland Emmerich’s controversial film on the Shakespeare authorship mystery, Anonymous, I thought it might be a very appropriate time for me...
What Will They Think of Us 1000 Years from Now?
A thousand years from now, when scholars and archeologists in some future civilization want to know what America was like, they could do no better than dig up a...
Eugenics, or Scientific Racism, in American Education
One of the evil fruits of the tree of evolution is the idea of eugenics, the notion that human beings can be bred to perfection by the same methods...
What Socialism Has Done to the World’s Economy
Nobody in the Western world has been willing to admit that it is the socialist policies of their governments that have led to the dire economic problems the world...
How to Pay Off Social Security Debts
Finally, a well-known economist has said something about the Social Security system that no one else has said: sell federal land to pay those who have been taxed for...
“People Not Profits” Means People for Poverty
One of the signs prominently held up by one of the idiots at the Occupy Wall Street mob scene read “People Not Profits.” Obviously, this numbskull doesn’t understand that...
How Much Worse Can the Economy Get?
According to Harvey Rosenblum, a top economist at the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, the American economy is at the “knife edge” between growth and contraction. He spoke at a...
The War Against Christianity in America
The origin of the war against Christianity in the United States can be traced back to the early days of the public school movement when Unitarians, Owenite socialists and...
Whatever Happened to Penmanship?
These days, with the rise of email, text messaging, and word processing, it seems to be more important to learn how to use a keyboard than a pen. As...
The Key to America’s Future Greatness is Not a New Light Bulb
It took one man, working tirelessly in his private laboratory, to light up the world. The invention of the electric light bulb by Thomas A. Edison was the work...
545 Politicians & Judges Control Everything
Tim Hawkins is a very funny guy. He sings a great song, “The Government Can,” with body movements that tell the story in a truly hilarious way. I watched...
The Republican Debate: A Learning Seminar or Indoor Sport
The Republican debate, that took place in Orlando’s packed convention center on September 22nd, came across to this viewer as the newest form of indoor sports rather than a...
Mitt Romney’s Achilles’ Heel
Although Mitt Romney has defended RomneyCare as a fitting solution to the medical insurance problem in Massachusetts, he has yet to face another issue which may very well be...
Can Ron Paul Be Our Next President?
Ron Paul’s remarkable showing in the California Republican straw poll is beginning to make many conservatives think the unthinkable: that Ron Paul could win the Republican nomination for President...
How to Survive in Obama’s Economy
Like many of my fellow Americans, I have been forced to economize and become more of a bargain hunter than I was in the happy days of go-go prosperity....
Palestinians Want a State but Don’t Want Peace
If the Palestinians really wanted peace, they would have to stop shooting rockets from Gaza into Israeli towns. The rocket attacks have been going on for years. But the...
Intelligent Design vs. Evolution
On the night of September 14th,  I was watching Piers Morgan interview the great British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Airlines. Branson’s house had burned down, but...
SAT Scores Hit Rock Bottom
For many years, I kept track of the SAT scores for my publication, The Blumenfeld Education Letter, as an indicator of the decline of literacy in America and the...
The Electorate Is Waking Up
The victory of conservative Republican Bob Turner in New York’s Ninth Congressional District to replace the disgraced Democrat Anthony Weiner in the House of Representatives is an indication of...