The group Downsize DC has put up a good quote from Thomas Jefferson about taxes, which I’m adopting and putting on my quotes page:

“We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the …

This trailer for a new movie, called “Generation Rx” is generating some buzz. The movie itself has already garnered some great reviews. Paul Haggis called the film “A powerful and often chilling eye opener. The stories continue to haunt me.” The film will be released within the next few months, if all goes well in post production. Take a look at this trailer for Generation Rx and let me know what you think:

Over 50 years ago, the United Nations signed into law the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” and has been busily ignoring those rights ever since. God only knows how many millions of people have been massacred in China since the end of WW II, and how many people Stalin killed in his gulags and by purposefully starving entire populations. The 20th century may have seen more people murdered after WWII, killed by their own governments, than in both the World Wars and in the Great Influenza epidemic of 1918-1919, all put together.

Composer Neal Fox has created a Human Rights …