December 2009 Newsletter
Wed, 2009-12-30 18:53 — Pat Heyman
Well, we're at the end of yet another year. As our parents always told us, time speeds up as you get older. I still think things that happened three years ago happened only a few months ago. It's been a while, since we have sent out an official newsletter/update, so it's about time. (This newsletter will only cover 2009, but I'll go back and retroactively add in some past newsletters later.)
Family Stuff
God has continued to bless us this past year with our continued health, steady jobs, good friends, our loyal doggy...and we're having a baby!!!!! Jen is seven months pregnant with our firstborn who we're told will be a boy. His tentative name is Logan Matthew Heyman. Jen's due date is March 24. We have a wishlist/registry available if you would like to contribute to the welfare of a minor.
The Logan Cometh
Tue, 2009-12-15 21:25 — Logan HeymanYou may have heard that a new Heyman is on the way. Allow me to introduce myself. The name is Logan, and I am scheduled to arrive around March 24. You can help my parents out by buying things on my wishlist or baby registries at Walmart, Babys R Us. Oh, and please do me a favor and get me clothing or blankets without any cutesy baby-style prints. If you wouldn't wear it, neither will I. (Being named after Wolverine, I do have an image to live up to after all.)
Outside Reading: Choices
Fri, 2010-02-19 23:03 — Pat HeymanThis is an article from another website that I found interesting along with a link back to the original article.
From: LewRocwell.com
Synopsis: An interesting article that starts with criticizing anti-gun rhetoric and ends with an analysis of anti-freedom actions in the United States.
Outside Reading: Fascism reigns in America
Tue, 2010-02-16 22:52 — Pat HeymanThis is an article from another website that I found interesting along with a link back to the original article.
From: Youtube
Synopsis:
This is pretty much the definition of fascism, also known by Mussolini's preferred name—corporatism. It is the partnership between government and private businesses. Watch the video; you'll see what I mean.
Outside Reading: Are you smarter than an eighth grader?
Tue, 2010-02-16 00:02 — Pat HeymanThis is an article from another website that I found interesting along with a link back to the original article.
From: Lewrockwell.com
Synopsis: Here is a test that was administered to eighth graders in 1895. See how you do today. Bet you fail.
Outside Reading: Keeping Blacks Down
Thu, 2010-02-11 19:41 — Pat HeymanThis is an article from another website that I found interesting along with a link back to the original article.
From: Jewish World Review
Synopsis: Walter Williams describes how "cultural sensitivity" toward black Americans keeps them down far more than any overt oppression. Pretending that blacks cannot speak English or be held to the same standard as white Americans is true racism.
Outside Reading: America's Yankee Problem
Wed, 2010-02-10 18:56 — Pat HeymanThis is an article from another website that I found interesting along with a link back to the original article.
From: LewRocwell.com
Synopsis: It's interesting that throughout the world you can hear, "Yankee, go home" yet the phrase was first uttered by Southerners. There is, in fact, a large difference between Americans and Yankees. Other countries love America and Americans—it's Yankees they hate. Americans love freedom, mind their own business, and help their neighbors. Yankees want you to be free to do what they think is best, meddle, and think they are superior to their neighbors. In this article, Clyde Wilson gives us some insight into why we should wary of Yankees and the Yankee attitude.
Outside Reading: What a Neocon you ask?
Sun, 2010-01-31 11:02 — Pat HeymanThis is an article from another website that I found interesting along with a link back to the original article.
From: LewRocwell.com
Synopsis: Ron Paul does an admirable job of describing the Neoconservative philosophy. For those of you who don't have time to read the whole article, they are the worst of the old-style Progressives—embodied in Woodrow Wilson, who believed that he was improving the world by fighting a war, because by "making the world safe for democracy" he was ushering in the Millennial reign of Christ. They have never met government spending they didn't like, whether military or welfare. They believe the government should lie to its own citizens for their own good Unfortunately, the conservative movement was completely co-opted by the Neocons. The revolution of 1994 gave way to the largest increases in government spending and power ever.
Outside Reading: Confiscation of Retirement Accounts is Coming
Sat, 2010-01-30 11:53 — Pat HeymanThis is an article from another website that I found interesting along with a link back to the original article.
From: LewRocwell.com
Synopsis: I clearly remember hearing Rush report in 2008 that a Congressional subcommittee had heard this confiscation plan presented to them. Naturally, he was poo-pooed for taking it seriously. The only problem is that you can bet your breeches that the bureaucrats and elected officials in Washington are taking it seriously. Medicare is bankrupt; Social Security is bankrupt; the deficit is at an all time high, and Washington can't find buyers for their worthless debt. It's only a matter of time before they come after your retirement funds. This article describes how and offers some strategies to prevent the complete destruction of your personal wealth.
Outside Reading: A Conservative Christian's Descent into Anarchy
Wed, 2010-01-27 20:55 — Pat HeymanThis is an article from another website that I found interesting along with a link back to the original article.
From: Joseph Sobran
Synopsis: Joseph Sobran, a long-time writer for the New Republic describes his journey from political conservatism to libertarianism, and finally anarchy. (For the record, when libertarians use the term, they do not mean chaos and lawlessness, but rather a condition in which there is no state.) I have excerpted the end which deals directly with Christianity.
