Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Dec 7, 2009, 6:56 pm
I’ve been reading the Bible in one year, again, and this time doing it chronologically.  I’ve just finished the reign of King Ahab, possibly the worst king of Israel (there was one who was worse ...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Dec 5, 2009, 11:07 am
I remember when I was in the sixth grade and we were all outside for a fire drill.  Some kids were running through a puddle, splashing water all over themselves because everyone else was doing it and...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Dec 3, 2009, 9:29 pm
I generally don’t read up on Andrew Sullivan.  I’ve tried, but I find his writing to be distasteful.  However, because he has many more readers than me, I guess he’s a much better writer.  So...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Dec 1, 2009, 7:45 pm
As with just about everything else that sociopaths come up with, zoning laws are designed for a purpose besides what the dumb masses are told.  Zoning laws are basically enforced locally in the Unite...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Nov 29, 2009, 9:00 pm
There is often a lot of derogatory references to rich people in the United States.  They are often portrayed as heartless, morally depraved, and largely indifferent to the needs of others.  Usually,...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Nov 28, 2009, 8:02 pm
Like just about everyone else in America, I went to college.  I graduated in four years with a degree in Computer Science (No, I will not fix your computer) and ended up working as a computer program...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Nov 21, 2009, 7:43 pm
I was watching an Ayn Rand biographer on Reason.tv discuss how she regarded conservatives and libertarians.  Conservatives alienated her when they said they wanted nothing to do with her atheistic vi...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Nov 20, 2009, 6:59 pm
The general consensus among most mainstream economists is that inflation is the rise in prices.  The only school of economics that disagrees with that definition is those pesky Austrian economists wh...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Nov 17, 2009, 8:58 pm
Today on Rush Limbaugh’s show, he was talking about how President Barack Obama was not much of a man.  This morning, I heard my wife quoting Dave Ramsey (who may have been quoting someone else) whe...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Nov 15, 2009, 6:20 pm
There is a recurring pattern I've seen among my fellow Christians here in the United States that greatly disturbs me.  I see all the time, even within my own church, and I have a hard time tr...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Nov 12, 2009, 7:40 pm
By now, just about every kind of pundit has weighed in on this terrible act perpetrated by a wicked man.  Thirteen soldiers are dead now because of the apparent delusions of a single shooter who mana...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Nov 10, 2009, 8:33 pm
Now that the dust has settled and Obama has been President for almost a year now, I think it is time to look back on former President Bush’s terms and evaluate his claims of being conservative based...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Nov 8, 2009, 9:07 pm
Well, I am a bit depressed.  It is mostly personal crap that I really do not feel like dumping any readers that I have because I am sure they have their personal crap to deal with.  Of course, Nancy...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Nov 7, 2009, 8:28 pm
I always put fiscal conservatism as a priority over social conservatism because right I see fiscal discipline as a much larger problem than social conservatism.  The other reason is because I often s...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Nov 5, 2009, 9:33 pm
I found this wonderful speech from Robert Reich, an advisor to President Obama.  I first heard it on Jerry Doyle’s show, but a simple youtube.com search made it an easy find: It is really funny...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Nov 2, 2009, 8:17 pm
So I read over the synopsis of the King Smurf tale on Wikipedia and could not help but see a great way for parent’s to teach their children about politics and tyrants.  In the story, Papa Smurf lea...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Nov 1, 2009, 8:14 pm
Being a guy who likes to read up on a lot of commentaries and listen around, I have come to find a bunch of conservative pundits who almost never make national news.  Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Gle...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 31, 2009, 10:57 pm
There is nothing more cliche than a vampire in a movie or television series or book.  Most of them are utter crap.  They are the most overplayed monster in media to the point that its really sickeni...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 30, 2009, 10:41 pm
I have been thinking about the kind of person Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is.  There is a word for someone who, after hearing all the complaints levied against the likes of her and her health c...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 29, 2009, 9:52 pm
The Arrogance of She I have marveled in the past about how Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi seems to be on the wrong side of Congress when it comes to the kinds of policies she is pushing.  She i...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 28, 2009, 9:39 pm
Since I am not really up for writing much of anything tonight, I am going to do the next best thing, that is piggyback off of someone’s voice: It is has been 45 years since he gave this speech a...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 27, 2009, 10:14 pm
Here in Virginia, the governor’s race seems to be about over.  Republican candidate Bob McDonnell is ahead of Creigh Deeds by double digits in polls, which means that even if the samples are way of...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 26, 2009, 7:28 pm
Being a libertarian-minded, young upstart, I sometimes find myself finding the government to blame for just about everything.  Usually, if they did not get in the way, then maybe, just maybe, the sit...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 25, 2009, 8:54 pm
And the manner in which they are winning is not what you might think.  You see, before the civil rights marches of the 1960s and the horrors of the Holocaust revealed, the progressives were all about...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 24, 2009, 8:52 pm
Why do I defend property rights so much?  A large part has to do with the fact that I only wish that most people would leave other people alone.  If your neighbors are strange, do not worry about it...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 23, 2009, 7:56 pm
For those of you who do not realize it just yet, politicians at all levels of government has declared outright war on every one of us.  No, it is not war on our lives, but on our property.  They see...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 22, 2009, 9:54 pm
So I was looking through some articles and I came across this gem that made me double angry: Top Senate Democrats intend to try to strip the health insurance industry of its exemption from feder...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 21, 2009, 9:39 pm
You know, I do not care much for culture in general.  I have traveled to Africa and experienced no culture shock, so I am pretty numb to cultural shifts and changes.  Maybe I am borderline autistic,...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 20, 2009, 7:29 pm
It looks like business on Capitol Hill is more and more shady as the days go by: Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) locked Republicans out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee room t...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 19, 2009, 10:56 pm
Well, 630 WMAL, one of the local talk radio shows here on the rim of insanity, brought back Chris Plant in the morning.  It did not take him a long time for me to realize why I had stopped listening ...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 18, 2009, 10:17 pm
The greatest fear that the average man has, I think, is that he leads a life of mediocrity and not excellence.  I know this seems a bit cliché to say, but I believe that everyone wants to matter in ...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 17, 2009, 10:16 pm
This week the Dow Jones Industrial average closed out above 10,000 points.  The average American does not know what that means and I am no exception.  Apparently, that is a good sign for the United ...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 16, 2009, 10:58 pm
I am quite impressed with Nancy Pelosi’s ability to completely neglect popular opinion and simply do what she wants.  But hey, that is to be expected from women who have reached her level of power ...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 15, 2009, 9:48 pm
You become many things when you sign for salvation through Jesus.  Accepting His sacrifice for you sin does so much more than secures your place in Heaven or Heaven on Earth or however else you may i...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 14, 2009, 9:59 pm
One of the problems of being libertarian-minded is that you always end up defending morons and jerks despite what you think of them.  Case in point, check out the following story: At the Oaks A...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 13, 2009, 7:56 pm
So I have been thinking about this health care bill.  As my train of thought developed from there, I realized that the true enemy of limited government was not an overbearing executive or judicial br...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 12, 2009, 9:28 pm
So I have been thinking about this whole healthcare reform that Congress is hell-bent on pushing through in spite of obvious public sentiment against them.  Congress claims that there will not be dea...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 11, 2009, 9:14 pm
I know I may seem pessimistic, but I firmly believe that the natural tendency of mankind is to desire tyranny in exchange for supposed safety and security.  It is actually fascinating to see so many ...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 10, 2009, 10:31 pm
Ayn Rand is probably one of the major influences on the free market movement in the past century.  She solidly defined many ideals that gave many people a second glance at what they normal and gave u...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 9, 2009, 10:59 pm
The latest from Detroit is that people are swapping food stamps for Viagra and booze.  This does not surprise me and it should not surprise any of you.  This is what happens when you allow those kin...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 8, 2009, 9:27 pm
So let me get this straight.  The President has admitted that our government is out of money.  There is no more money to spend on anything.  We have run up a huge deficit this year and our national...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 7, 2009, 9:03 pm
I am a big fan of Dave Ramsey.  I have coordinated two of his Financial Peace University classes in the past and I am currently following his baby steps.  I have stated in the past that I plan on pu...
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Benjamin O. posted an article on On the Rim of Insanity - Oct 6, 2009, 9:54 pm
Looks like Washington, D.C. is hell-bent on catching up with the other left-wing trends by passing a gay-marriage law.  Essentially, the city council is attempting to change their marriage license la...
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