Strike-The-Root.com | From time to time I receive in the mail demands from strangers for money, often a rather large amount of money. The people making these demands may have impressive titles, such as Revenue Director, or Collector of Revenue, but the writer is often anonymous, although on an impressive letterhead that, presumably, is sufficient to convince you to send the money. I suspect that you receive similar demands.

Ken O'Keefe | For those that can do the math. The result isn't hard to get...

Emory.edu | Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots but limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots of disappointed shells that dropped behind.

LarkenRose | Time for an honest lesson about democracy and representative government.

Strike-The-Root | Along with thousands of other St. Louis Countians, I recently received in the mail a document entitled “St. Louis County Missouri Real Property Tax Bill.” It was anonymous, but presumably from the “Collector of Revenue.” He—or she--demands thousands of dollars. Of all the taxes with which we are burdened, the property tax may be the most onerous, although the race would be a close one, to be sure.

This film documents the personal experiences of a former Moscow prison inmate (Zbigniew Stypułkowski), who described the psychological torture methods used to try to extract a confession after being arrested in Pruszków by the NKVD on 27 and 28 March 1945..

Strike-The-Root | Jurisdiction! What a wonderful word! It’s easy to see why it is used so often by lawyers and judges; its meanings allow such broad interpretation--and application.

FreedomFeens.com | Oh what a day. On this holiest of holidays, Americans young and old; alive and dead; set their theological differences apart to engage in the sacrament of voting. The religion of the State brings so many together from every race, gender, sexual orientation, theological belief and even the two major political parties to do their civic duty. War be with you… and also with you.

PaulCorbitBrown.com | “We are called to do no great things, only small things with great Love.” - Mother Teresa

Henry Friedrich Carl Metelmann, was born on 25 December 1922, the son of a socialist railway worker in Hamburg, Germany. As a lively and active boy, he joined the scouts, and later his group was merged with the Hitler youth. With Hitler's rise he was seduced by the fascist movement, and the experiences and privileges it bestowed