Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,
In Part One of this article I explored Thomas Paine’s critical role in the creation of our nation. His Common Sense pamphlets inspired the common people to uncommon acts of courage and heroic feats of valor; leading to the great experiment we call the United States of America. Paine, Franklin and the other Founding Fathers produced a republic, if we could keep it.
Good news for globe-trotting Americans: most countries around the world are free or very cheap to get in to. But, as this map from HowMuch.net shows, some countries do charge through the nose for a visa. And it's not the ones you would expect.
Source: HowMuch.net
Just three months after Atlanta Fed president Dennis Lockhart announced he would step down as president effective February 28, moments ago another (non-voting) FOMC member, the uber-hawkish president of the Richmond Fed, Jeffrey Lacker, 61, also decided to call it quits as well, and on Tuesday said he will retire as president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond on Oct. 1, after 28 years at the Richmond Bank.
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?” ? Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherd Institute,
“What’s past is prologue.” ? William Shakespeare, The Tempest
What a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year this has been.
Endless wars. Toxic politics. Violence. Hunger. Police shootings. Mass shootings. Economic downturns. Political circuses. Senseless tragedies. Loss. Heartache. Intolerance. Prejudice. Hatred. Apathy. Meanness. Cruelty. Poverty. Inhumanity. Greed.
Here’s just a small sampling of what we’ve suffered through in 2016.