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Why We Should Fear “Big Brother”

— by Polydamas The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan wrote an excellent column on May 16, 2013, titled ” This Is No Ordinary Scandal: Political abuse of the IRS threatens the basic integrity of our government”  (http://on.wsj.com/13q7VVZ). It should be…

Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain!

— by Polydamas Even before and certainly during the first term of President Barack Hussein Obama, his administration enjoyed the adulation as well as the protection of the liberal mainstream media. The complicit media uncritically brushed aside such fundamental issues…

How to Analyze the News

— by Odysseus There is an old saying that goes: if you give a man a fish, he eats for a day, but if you teach a man to fish, he eats for the rest of his life. Some day,…

Tattoo Too

  — by Odysseus President Barack Obama recently saw fit to give America parenting advice. He shared with us an apocryphal story about how he and Michelle chose to dissuade their daughters from getting a tattoo. In doing so, by…

A Background Check that Makes Sense

— By Polydamas None of our avid readers here at The Cassandra Times should have been surprised in the least by Jenny Deam’s article in the Los Angeles Times, dated April 4, 2013, titled “James Holmes’ Psychiatrist Warned He May…

The Party of Promiscuous Puritans

— by Odysseus A curious shift has come about in the American political left over the last 25 years, and one that challenges the notion that its adherents should be called “liberals”. Since the 1970s, their whole raison d’être seems…

Economic Folly From a Nobel Prize Winner

— by Polydamas On February 17, 2013, Paul Krugman wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times titled “Raise That Wage” (http://nyti.ms/Xf5cPF). In his opinion piece, Krugman demonstrated without doubt that his 2008 Nobel Prize in economics was just…