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Short answer for my thoughts on the film: I LOVED IT!!!! I now put it up as my favorite Star Wars film of all time just right above Empire. It brought the feeling of Star Wars and soul which for as much as I appreciate the Prequel Trilogy (especially Revenge of the Sith) seriously lacked. The film is about the First Order trying to find Luke Skywalker who's been in hiding for years by this point to finally destroy the last of the Jedi. The First Order is led by a very powerful bean named Snoke (who I still think...

By Jonathan Gillispie Vote3 8

I've this before, but I felt this should be getting its own column. Free and open immigration works - when there's no welfare state or military industrial complex present like a hundred years ago when we last officially had open borders (though we've had de facto open borders since 1965 thanks to the late Ted Kennedy's immigration bill which opened up third world immigration). Ever since then, the State has quadrupled in size and power (though LBJ's War on Poverty and Nixon's War on Drugs are obviously to blame). Though immigration coming in from the third world had a significant...

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Some libertarians may disagree with this. And no I'm not necessarily advocating banning ALL Muslims from the country like what Donald Trump suggested (though I do think there should a moratorium on Muslim immigration from certain countries). Islam for the past 1,400 years it's existed has been all about conquering and waging war. And despite what Barack Obama and the left say about the crusades, it was in fact a response Islam's conquest of Europe. They had pretty much controlled Spain and southern Europe in the 1oth and 11th centuries if I'm correct (I'll make sure to amend this if...

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For awhile now, internet gurus have speculated that Rey in The Force Awakens is the daughter of Han Solo and Leia Organa (not a princess anymore; waaaaay past that). And that Kylo Ren is their son too which would them the proto Jacen and Jaina Solo of the new canon. Except I don't think she's necessarily Han and Leia's daughter. I thinking 50-50 (better than that actually) that she's Luke Skywalker's daughter.While Kylo Ren could easily turn out to be Luke's kid instead, I'm leaning towards Rey for a couple of reasons. She's seen on a desert planet. Hmmm, hadn't...

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My immediate answer YES YES YES YES, but I'm getting ahead of myself. For over a year now, it's been circulating around the web that the main villain for Star Wars: The Force Awakens Supreme Leader Snoke (played by the ever talented Andy Serkis) is in fact Sith Lord Darth Plagueis. For those of you who don't know who he is, Plagueis (who masqueraded as Hugo Damask of the Intergalactic Banking Clan or IBC) was the Sith master to Darth Sidious Sidious speaks of him to Anakin during the Opera House scene in Revenge of the Sith (which while I...

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The US Presidency has gotten so powerful and so out of control over the course of over a century starting with Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson (Lincoln too, but it was a very unique period that was the Civil War). First it was TR who expanded Presidential powers by starting up the FBI without congressional authorization and started the national park system by outright stealing land from that was owned either privately or by the states especially in the West. When Woodrow Wilson was President, he was a key figure in getting the 16th amendment and Federal Reserve Act passed....

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Well it's that time of the week again where I just pick random stupid shit from the intelligence black hole that is Salon.com. Don't why I started this, guess I'm just bored and have nothing better to do on the weekends (other than collecting eggs from my chickens). So here we go I guess. First up is Scary lessons of Matt Bevin. Matt Bevin of course was elected as the new Governor of Kentucky who previously had challenged Mitch McConnell for the US Senate nomination last year getting 35% of the vote in the primary. Polls likewise here were predicting...

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Well there's much stupid as always with Salon.com. Finding stupidity at Salon is like finding shit in a shit pile. Though finding something that's interestingly stupid is bit of a challenge. Lot of what the left shits out of their anuses nowadays are pretty predictable. So finding something interesting is harder. But I've found a couple columns that qualify for this. First one up is The Uber-economy f**ks us all: How "permalancers" and "sharer" gigs gut the middle class. Somehow the column's author isn't aware of other things that actually gut the middle class. *coughs* Federal Reserve *coughs* But I...

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This'll be a new regular thing I'll try doing as Salon.com offers up many great things of pure stupid. I'll try doing at least 3 stories per column every week and I'll try picking out the most outrageous ones which could be a challenge as most of what Salon writes by this point is pure predictability. So here we go. First off is climate change. When it comes to the environment and weather, the left is totally out of touch with reality and this is no exception. Basically the writer is trying to make a point that government action is...

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As I'm writing this, Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party has won 184 seats, Stephen Harper's Tories are down by 60 to under a hundred and Thomas Mulcair's NDP are in third party status once again. What's incredible is that the Liberal Party started out with only 36 seats and managed to win almost 150 by the end. Liberal Party leader and incoming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the son of former PM Pierre Trudeau who was a radical socialist who sympathized with the communist Sandinistas in Central America and was friends with Fidel Castro in Cuba. Justin just like his father...

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Currently I'm a supporter of Rand Paul's campaign for President and I've donated so far 40 bucks. I love Rand to death, but his campaign has been subpar in the organization and the fundraising. Ted Cruz by contrast collected 31 MILLION in the first week of his campaign. Recently at the RLC gathering in NH, he nabbed 51% of votes while Rand got 57%. Kinda odd that both of them won majority support, but I suspect it was a multi ballot option system which would explain that oddity. It does show that there's a strong libertarian appeal among both men....

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Just several days ago, John Boehner announced he'll resign at the end of October. Not just from the office Speaker, but Congress period. Thank God! Be gone with that fraudulent politician! Most of the things he's done as Speaker have been either mediocre or just horrible. The Speaker of the House holds nearly as much power as the Presidency when muscles are fully flexed. And John Boehner has never flexed them in the nearly 5 years he's been in the podium. Ever since his resignation was announced, the immediate presumptive successor was Kevin McCarthy who's been the House Floor Leader since...

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I've admittedly have gone back and forth on The Donald since he first entered the race earlier this summer. On one hand, he's a fraud who's switched policy positions more times than LBJ. As recent as 3 years ago, he was friends with Hillary Clinton. Now he despises her. He was a "liberal" on healthcare and helped the Democrats in '06 and '08 the latter of which gave us Barack Obama and filibuster-proof Democratic Senate that passed Obamacare. In fact, just as recent as the first GOP debate, he called the Canadian and Scotland healthcare systems "great". Try asking the...

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This is my overview and grading of all the Presidential candidates. I'll say however much I feel like whether it's a paragraph or two, or just a couple of sentences. My grading system is 0-100 with 100 being excellent. I plan to go alphabetical order so let's start with Jeb! J.Bush - 40% This maybe being a little too kind to him as I've got my major issues; among the biggest being his foreign policy stance (he said at a National Security Summit recently that going into Iraq was the right decision). He also said the NSA needs to expand...

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Leftists and socialists will generally say that the free market capitalist system exploits the poor and feeds the greedy and evil rich or something to that effect. Quite the contrary is true. Over the past two centuries, free markets have helped countries and entire continents even to get out of poverty and into prosperity. Case and point of this is Africa. More and more Sub-Sahara countries are pursuing economic liberalization and privatization. Africa as a whole has had the greatest economic growth of any continent or region in the world, even that of Hong Kong or Singapore. Something else of...

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I recently discovered a site called DollarTimes.com which breaks down how much the dollar in let's say 2015 would've been worth in 1955. Or you can do the contrary. It's a really cool site so you should go check it out. And it highlights what a disaster the federal reserve and government policy has been. The average median income in 1955 would've been roughly $29,000 a year. Last year it was $53,891. Any average joe would look at that and say 'Oh great! That's progress!'. Not so fast, the devil is in the details. Yes we earn more dollars, but...

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As marijuana legalization spreads further across the country with AK, OR & DC most recent to join, Republican candidates (mostly) say they'll leave states be in that perspective. That is with exception of Mike Huckabee, Chris Christie and Marco Rubio who've each said they'll enforce federal laws on states that legalize marijuana. These are the same people who've denounced the SCOTUS's ruling on same-sex marriage several days ago because the states should be allowed to choose their own approach on marriage. You know, as opposed to being a big-ass hypocrite, try being consistent one way or the other. Either endorse...

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Over the past few days, I've wrote columns on SCOTUS rulings of Obamacare subsidies and same-sex marriage. Today I've decided to the GOP some advice on what to do in response. While I don't approve of the SCOTUS ruling on gay marriage, there's some positive aspects happening. For one this ruling is actually prompting states to end government involvement with marriage. First state to seriously flirt with the idea was Oklahoma a year ago after a federal judge declared our state amendment against gay marriage unconstitutional. Then just this previous session a bill to end govt marriage licensing was passed by the...

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Ever since I was 3 years old, I've been a devoted fan of the Star Wars Saga. And it's especially great to be one right now as the whole Saga is expanding with a whole new trilogy of episodes VII, VIII, IX and a trilogy of anthology films each of which will focus on its own particular thing. Not to mention there's also the Rebels TV series which I've been a huge fan of since it started airing last year and I was able to watch the season 2 premiere featured Darth Vader with James Earl Jones returning to the...

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The Supreme Court ruled on King v. Burwell 3 days ago as I'm writing this that the IRS rulings are constitutional. Whereas with the gay marriage decision I was pretty much meh on it (with exception to the civil liberties aspect) as I explain in my column from yesterday, I was outraged and baffled by the Supreme Court's upholding of the IRS rules on Obamacare subsidies to states with federal exchanges. The law itself clearly states that only states with their own exchanges are eligible for subsidies, but John Roberts for a 2nd time now has saved Obamacare (for a...

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Why open and free immigration is bad idea (in this current state of affairs) UPDATED Dec 12, 2015

Why Islam and libertarianism are incompatible Dec 8, 2015

Should we consider creating a Prime Ministership to replace the Presidency? Nov 16, 2015

@Salon Stupidity – Saturday 11/7/2015 Nov 7, 2015

This week in @Salon stupidity – Saturday 10/31/2015 Oct 31, 2015

This week in @Salon stupidity as of Saturday 10/24/2015 Oct 24, 2015

Why Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party had a horrible night Oct 20, 2015

Is Ted Cruz the real inheritor of Ron Paul’s Liberty Movement? Oct 15, 2015

@justinamash for Speaker of the House (@SenateMajLdr must go next) Sep 30, 2015

@realDonaldTrump: Clown of the 2016 Presidential Race Sep 11, 2015

My rating for the GOP Presidential Candidates Aug 22, 2015

The Greatest Miracle of the Free Market that’s never spoken of Aug 17, 2015

The Ponzi Scheme of the Federal Reserve Jul 29, 2015

Why the GOP adopt Drug Policy neutrality in their platform Jul 1, 2015

What the Response to Same-Sex Marriage Should Be Jun 30, 2015

My Love for the Star Wars Saga UPDATED Jun 29, 2015

The Free Market solution for Healthcare Jun 28, 2015