Guest Column: Important Petition on Common Core

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Brian Wright

Please sign this petition to support two repeal bills
by Shane Trejo

Friends,

The fight against Common Core continues. Right now, we are building pressure for the two bills to repeal Common Core that are currently active in Lansing. They are Senate Bill 826 and House Bill 5444.

We have to make sure that our public officials know that they must stop Common Core and replace it with a proven, student-centered alternative. That is exactly what these bills would accomplish!

The team at Stop Common Core in Michigan have started an important petition which can be accessed here: http://citizengo.org/en/signit/34651/view.
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Brian’s Column: Open Letter to the US Political System 2016

Posted on May 22, 2016 by Brian Wright

Embrace the Snowden-Manning 2016 10-Point Political Program…

… as if our lives depended on it… because they do. The SM16 political program consists of 10 steps for fulfilling the Truman Prophecy and bringing truth, justice, and liberty to the country we love.

Special Note to Libertarians at the Orlando 2016 National Convention

Whoever you select for the presidential ticket this year, the party MUST proceed with a radical (government-)crime fighting agenda—if there is to be any hope of our liberty and, actually, our physical survival. The rogue global-junta forces running the United States government are embarked on a program of full-spectrum dominance in a succession of high-crime assaults on the people.

Only the Snowden-Manning 10-Point Political Program will end these high-crime assaults. If you are a delegate to the LP national convention, please insist that every candidate read and commit to implement the SM16 program immediately. And for heaven sakes’ now is the time to spread the word everywhere with an attractive Snowden-Manning 2016 bumper sticker to adorn your wheels… or living room picture window. 🙂

To take the meme viral, simply go to the Snowden-Manning site, buy and post a bumper sticker or other signage, then bear witness further. The simplest and most powerful method is to enter a statement in replying to any of a number of comments in the social media… in the following form:

“It’s not the <candidates, budget, Party, etc.>, it’s the political program: http://snowden-manning.org.”

Here are the 10 points of the program (I’ll expand each in a later update): Continue reading →

Movie Review: That Hamilton Woman (1941)

Posted on May 18, 2016 by Brian Wright

Magic classic with unforgettable performances 8.5/10

They told us your splendid victories, but not of the price you paid. — Emma Hamilton

Whoever came up with the idea of Turner Classic Movies—well, it was Ted Turner with the help of Robert Osborne and Carrie Fisher, of course—should have a statue or a movie studio named after him. Readers may recall a couple of other occasions when my movie-of-the-week review hailed back to a simpler time when cinema was a more straightforward theatrical presentation and a bag of popcorn, even adjusted for inflation, cost somewhere around a nickel (with no refills). Follow the Fleet and Seven Men from Now are two such reviews that came on the heels of my presence at Mom’s while the dial was turned to TCM. In both cases I was pleasantly surprised an old flick could be so good without being Casablanca.

And that same sort of pleasant surprise just happened the other day with That Hamilton Woman, starring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh—though for different reasons. In fact, the main attraction for me about this film is twofold: a) the magic of the actors and b) the unforced romanticism of the cinematic effort. Continue reading →

Guest Column: Gene-Changing Vaccines

Posted on May 16, 2016 by Brian Wright

New vaccines will permanently alter human DNA
Why is the government so maniacal about injecting vaccines?
by Jon Rappoport [full column here]

Consider this article in light of the accelerating push to mandate and enforce vaccination across the planet.

The reference is the New York Times, 3/9/2015, “Protection Without a Vaccine.” It describes the frontier of research. Here are key quotes that illustrate the use of synthetic genes to “protect against disease,” while changing the genetic makeup of humans. This is not science fiction:

“By delivering synthetic genes into the muscles of the [experimental] monkeys, the scientists are essentially re-engineering the animals to resist disease.”

“’The sky’s the limit,’ said Michael Farzan, an immunologist at Scripps and lead author of the new study.” Continue reading →

Brian’s Column: Going on the Offensive with Virtual Grand Juries

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Brian Wright

Some thoughts how ‘we the people’ can eliminate[1] corrupt public officials…
and those complicit in their crimes

My first thoughts—especially having attended on May 11 a judge’s peremptory dismissal of Dr. Georgetta Livingstone’s countersuit vs. the homeowners’ association that is driving Georgetta out of her Clarkston home (for working around DTE’s outrageous shutoff of her electrical power)—were “Aren’t they all?” Corrupt, that is.

No, I can name ~half a dozen current or former state legislators—say, like state rep Tom McMillin from the Rochester area (who was ironically term-limited out)… and reps Gary Glenn, Jim Runestad, Martin Howrylak, Sen. Patrick Colbeck (all maybe 90% proliberty record from what I can tell)… and I’m sure there’s another one or two that just don’t come to mind—and perhaps a couple of dozen honest and mainly libertarian local officials. Can you say drop in the bucket?

As I left the courthouse, chatting with a few of Georgetta’s supporters from the anti ‘Fry & Spy’ meter cause (also here, and here), it dawned on me once more, strikingly, how the system is antihuman. [Just walking into the courthouse, as when I go to the state capitol, I feel I’m walking into some Medieval torture chamber administered by priests high and low, who mainly just go through the motions, follow a domination script set in stone by some unapproachable, ancient deity. Continue reading →

Book Review: Nullification (2010)

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Brian Wright

How to resist federal tyranny in the 21st century
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

One of the main points of view from my dear ol’ mom, before she left us, was: “We need to take power out of the hands of the federal government and put it back to the states and the people.” A lifelong teacher—and sadly a holdout for government action to provide basic education—she nonetheless saw the transfer of wealth and control of the system to the Leviathan of the federal government as the source of all its main problems. So, too, with virtually every public issue: crime, civil liberties, war, economics, urban deterioration, the whole enchilada.

Further, she was talking like this probably a decade before the modern Nullification movement came into prevalence. Mainly via the Tenth Amendment Center, and scholars such as Tom Woods. Woods, a fellow with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, has a number of books to his credit, including a treatise on how the Catholic Church built Western civilization (! sic). But I remember his incisive point and counterpoint in favor of Dr. Ron Paul during the 2012 presidential bid. Good stuff for sure. And I’m glad he’s on our side in this stellar movement to tell the federal government where it can stick its unconstitutional edicts. Continue reading →

Movie Review: Waitress (2007)

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Brian Wright

Lovable, intimate inspirational story (9/10)

“Baby don’t you cry, gonna make a pie,
gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle.
Baby don’t be blue, gonna make for you,
gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle.
Gonna make a pie from heaven above,
gonna be filled with strawberry love.
Baby don’t you cry, gonna make a pie,
and hold you forever in the middle of my heart.”
— Jenna

Jenna (Keri Russell—no relation to Kurt) sings this tender little ditty a couple of times toward the end of the movie. It’s a tune her mother taught her, sang to her, when she was a little girl growing up in a small town in the Deep South. As the credits for Waitress unfurl we see a young woman’s hands making pie after pie full of scrumptious innards with moist, thick golden crusts, then we learn the woman’s name is Jenna and she works for the local diner… which has a far and wide reputation for serving these hand-made pies “from heaven above.” Continue reading →