Degeneration of Democracy
When Adolf Hitler was building up the Nazi movement in the 1920s, leading up to his taking power in the 1930s, he deliberately sought to activate people who did...
About: Dennis Behreandt
Posts by Dennis Behreandt
FCC Moves to Regulate the Internet
The Federal Communications Commission is set to begin a move to regulate the Internet. ...
American “Ninja” Faulkner on “Mission from God”
An armed American arrested in Pakistan while on a solo trek to find Osama bin Laden says that he was on a mission from God. Construction worker Gary...
Eminent Domain and the Rights of Property
In China, one man has had enough. Yang Youde, who lives near the city of Wuhan, has had to begin defending his property rights with homemade artillery. He's...
Elena Kagan and the First Amendment
The Obama administration and the Democrats are openly hostile to the First Amendment. On that issue, here is the scoreboard so far: ...
Government and the Price of Gas
Gas is getting expensive again. A year ago, according to AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge Report, the price of a gallon of regular unleaded was $2.051. That...
Utah to Use Eminent Domain to Seize Federal Land
For years government has been using declarations of eminent domain to seize private property and use it, supposedly, for the public good. It's a practice that has...
Google Makes a Good Move on China
It’s refreshing to see that at least one large American company is willing to take a stand against tyranny. That company, surprisingly, is Google. ...
America’s New Form of Government: Federal Socialism
On March 21, 2010, a day that will live in infamy, our beloved Constitutional Republic came to an end. Its murder was committed by a small majority of socialist...
The Meaning of the Second Amendment
Open carry laws in the State of Wisconsin have gotten a lot of attention lately, most recently from the BBC. In a column titled "Armed and ready...
The Keystone Kops’ Great Beer Bust
Time for an axiom: Big Government is Bad. Or, put another way, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Or, maybe another one: big government is the last,...
Global Warming Murder-Suicide: Why Didn’t Al Gore Save Them?
At last we have incontrovertible proof that global warming is indeed dangerous. In Buenos Aires, the Latin American Herald Tribune reports that "a 7-month-old baby survived alone for three...
How to Stop Inflation
The good news on the economy this month, according to news reports, is the modest level of inflation. On this matter, CNN reported that consumer prices "rose 2.6% during...
CPAC 2010 – An Interview with J.D. Hayworth
Former Congressman J.D. Hayworth of Arizona is taking aim at the Senate seat now held by former presidential candidate John McCain. Hayworth has gotten attention for pointing out that...
A Conversation with Rachel Maddow
On day one of the CPAC conference for 2010, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow dropped by the JBS booth for a visit with William F. Jasper, senior editor for The...
iPhones and Freedom
Dan Woolley's story of survival in Haiti after the earthquake there caused his hotel to collapse around him is one of what are certain to be hundreds if...
Requiring Health Insurance Is Not Like Auto
As President Obama and Democrats in Congress try to build a case for requiring all Americans to purchase health insurance, they have compared it to mandatory auto insurance laws...
Obamacare Sets Up a Health Dictatorship
Now that the Obama Healthcare Reform Bill has been posted on the Internet, anyone can read it. It is over one thousand pages long, and its complexity defies any...
Mexico Shuts Down Cancun Beach Over Alleged Theft of Sand
It sounds like something that can only happen in a third world country — police and navy personnel wrapping a beach in crime scene tape because of a suspicion that,...
My Experiences With National Healthcare
Obama’s castle-in-the-air, pie-in-the-sky, wish-upon-a-star health care would never, could never, and should never be appropriate for Americans. As Dr. Seuss might put it, “not in a hush, not in...