Let the (Tea Party) Counter-Revolution Begin!
The first American Revolution officially began on July 4th, 1776, when the Thirteen Colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. And it didn’t end until 1781, when General Cornwallis...
About: Sam Blumenfeld
Posts by Sam Blumenfeld
Why the Palestinians Don’t Really Want a State
The most obvious indication that the Palestinians do not want a state is their constant demands for Israel to make far-reaching concessions which they know the Jewish state cannot...
The Omnibus Bill: Typical Democrat Abuse of Power
It was typical of the Democrats to dump the mammoth Omnibus spending bill before the lame-duck Congress a week before Christmas. Lame-duck Congresses do not usually take up two-thousand-page...
From Rhodes Scholars to Alinsky Disciples
In the past it seemed that the best way to become President was through several well-established routes: by climbing the power ladder in either of the two political parties,...
America Without Government Schools
As an advocate of full educational freedom, I am occasionally asked what America would be like if compulsory school attendance laws were done away with and the government got...
YouTube: The New Media of Record
YouTube, in just the few short years of its existence, has become the new Media of Record. In other words, if you want to see and hear a particular...
Stupidity at the Top
My dictionary has several definitions for “stupid.” But the one I like best reads: “showing or resulting from a lack of normal intelligence; foolish; irrational; also used colloquially as...
The Banks and How They Come and Go
Back in the days when I was a youngster, my parents put their savings in a bank that went belly up during the Depression. As recent immigrants, they were...
The Difficult Choice: Comfort or Self-Reliance
Are the American people willing to give up the comforts of the Nanny State in exchange for self-reliant individualism? Before the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Americans did...
The Meaning of Christmas 2010
This coming Christmas promises to be a little more joyous than the last, which reminded me of Christmases during the Great Depression. Although the holiday is as commercialized as...
Now that the Tea Party is in Power, What Will it Do?
We are all waiting to see what happens come January 2011 when the Tea Party, a.k.a. the Republican Party, assumes power in the House of Representatives. We all know...
How to Achieve Real Peace in the Middle East
For years now, efforts to create peace between Israel, the Palestinians, and the other Muslim countries in the Middle East, have foundered on the rocks of hatred and intolerance....
How the Progressives Changed the Way Reading Is Taught in Our Schools
Many parents wonder why American primary schools don’t teach children to read in the proper phonetic manner. The answer is that high literacy is not part of the system’s...
Stuxnet Virus: New Age of Cyberwar
The world has been waiting for the Israeli Air Force to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities for several years. Iran has threatened to wipe Israel — a nation of over...
Additional Limits on Evolution
My column on the "Limits of Evolution," in which I wrote of the enormous gap that exists between apes and humans, has brought forth a number of very interesting...
The Limits of Evolution
Although scientists use the theory of evolution to explain many natural phenomena, they cannot explain the gap that exists between the highest jungle primate swinging in the trees and...
Anti-Semitism on American Campuses
Most informed Americans have heard of the town of Sderot in southern Israel that has been the target of Gazan rocket attacks for years. In fact, the reason why...
Rescuing the U.S. from the Brink of Socialism
The midterm elections on November 2 have pulled America back from the brink of socialism. That doesn’t mean that we have gotten rid of all of the socialist federal...
How Americans Engineered the Rescue of the Chilean Miners
In all the excitement created by the rescue of the Chilean miners, which has been called a miracle, very little recognition has been given to the American companies and...
NPR and Juan Williams
In a way, the history of National Public Radio, now known simply as NPR, follows the slow, incremental creep of America toward socialism. Created by the Public Broadcasting Act...