The Le Flore County
GUARDIAN
POINT OF VIEW
OCTOBER 7, 2011
"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule."
Words of the Founding Fathers
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Steve Jobs represented the best of American Exceptionalism
country -- that we're falling behind others and live now in a "post-American world," as one of President Barack Obama's favorite books puts it in its title.
As anyone who's ever handled an Apple product or had his life improved by the technological innovations our system has produced in just a decade (that means all of us) will tell you, Jobs and innovators like him epitomize that immeasurable quality the left somehow finds most abject -- American exceptionalism.
The meme of the left is that drudgery and mediocrity is not just our future but probably also our just desserts--for being too imperialistic, consumerist, wasteful, patriarchal, or what have you. (For an inexhaustible list of all our ills and sins, please check with the mob gathered at the "Occupy Wall Street" protest.) One should compare this deadened vision with the wonders Jobs wrought.
1955-2011 - Rest in Peace
By Edwin J. Feulner
Steve Jobs, who died yesterday at the too-young age of 56, was a living refutation of all what liberals constantly tell us about our
Points to ponder
JOHN ADAMS, 3RD President of the United States
Diplomat, Statesman, Moral Voice of Reason