What every world leader should know
by Dennis D. Hayes
Please…before you send our sons and daughters to die for causes and becauses…you should know something.
It cannot be about hatred. It cannot be about lies, apprehension, greed, or deceit. It matters not the envy, the craftiness, the treachery, or the despair. Of no consequence or purpose are cruelty, superstition, guilt, or revenge. Useless is anger, arrogance, and contempt. Let go of embarrassment, indifference, laziness, and doubt.
But cling to love.
Hold fast that one precious moment that first opened your heart to joy, affection, respect, and wonder. Have the courage and resolve, the hope and the pleasure, the nobleness and the dignity to choose…peace. Look into the eyes of a child to find trust and reverence. Then gather this knowledge and give it not only to yourself, but also to all for whom you care.
How you ask? Place yourself in either of the roles of the following poem. Know that what you are about to feel is not only what you can give, but what you must endeavor to never take away. Pay attention…for you are about to have….
President Obama is either misinformed or lying about health care. He said the “free market has not worked perfectly.” There’s a market, but it’s not free. It’s infested with harmful political meddling. One example is government’s favoring employer-provided insurance, a poison to affordable medical care and insurance.

On Friday evening, the House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), a well-intentioned but misbegotten Frankenstein monster of a bill intended to combat climate change. Republicans Mary Bono Mack, Mike Castle, Mark Kirk, Frank LoBiondo, John McHugh, Dave Reichert, and Chris Smith joined 211 Democrats to put the bill over the top 219-212. Showing the profiles in courage typical to elected politicians, about three dozen Democrats hung back during the roll call until passage was certain, waiting until they could safely vote no without riling their party’s leaders.
Many people clamor for “social justice,” they want a turn of the tide against the evils that have haunted humanity through the ages. This is a term I have never understood, mostly because it’s an impossibility. Justice is only applicable to individuals, since it can only be just to punish someone for their own actions. Social justice is a dragnet, in reality it punishes everyone for being part of society, whether they have committed a crime or not. How can a person be held responsible for crimes committed before they were born? They can’t, and what’s more there is no way to repay people for certain wrongs committed against their ancestors, such as slavery. How do you ever make that right?
On a couple of occasions, while driving back and forth to Michigan, I made myself listen to NPR (which I think stands for “New Pravda Radio”). One of the topics discussed by the collectivist brigade was “extremism” in America, and how sometimes extremists, “right” and “left,” resort to violence to push their agenda.
As most Libertarians can agree, the best way to win the so-called “War on Drugs” is to end it once and for all. Not partially, but completely. As long as there are any drugs that are illegal in The United States, there will be people willing to risk prison in order to profit from them just as there will be people willing to risk prison in order to use and possess them. It’s a classic no-win situation.
All cranked up over global warming? Why? It’s happened before and humans just like you survived it, so why not this time around? It’s nothing new. The last recorded temperature uptick was known as the Medieval Warm Period, a time of unusually balmy weather, which lasted (depending on who’s doing the figgerin’) from around 800 to 1300 AD. The warm period was presumably preceded by a cold period, else how did anyone know it was a warm period? It was, in fact, followed by a cold period, known today as the Little Ice Age, which ran on Broadway and all over the Northern Hemisphere from (again, approximations) 1250 to 1850 AD.