Why Slavery Is Here to Stay

By Robert Ringer

The next presidential farce (er, race) is already starting to heat up, and it promises to be great entertainment. I admit it, I absolutely love good theater. The presidential campaigns are reality TV at its best — a year-and-a-half of nonstop lies, gaffes, chest-pounding, and some of the best slapstick comedy America has to offer.

Granted, it also can become boring, because we’ve heard all the lines so many times before. For example, it’s 100 percent guaranteed that every troglodyte who seeks the dictator’s job will, with a straight face, promise to “stimulate the economy,” “create jobs,” “level the playing field,” and initiate both “immigration reform” and “tax reform.”

We also know that there will be nary a mention of shrimp on treadmills nor the all-important question of why lesbians tend to be obese. No sir, none of the new crop of power seekers will so much as hint at wasting your money.

Beware the Victimization Trap

By Robert Ringer

As every straight-thinking adult knows, a faulty belief system — i.e., a belief system based on false premises — leads to bad consequences. Perhaps the best example of this is a person who is caught up in the Victimization Trap.

It’s a trap that mentally paralyzes the afflicted person, because he

A Commentary on Personal Entrepreneurship?

Robert Ringer has this comment up at his web site toady. I look at is as a commentary on how most people, thanks to our distorted government education system, have no clue about the opportunities around them, that is, personal entrepreneurship should be flowing for everyone, but hardly is at all. Don't be one of them: 

Sadly, most people spend a majority of their time completely unaware of what’s going on around them. The result is that they are totally oblivious to the opportunities that continually cross their paths.

The good news is that no one has the power to prevent you from being aware, nor can anyone prevent you taking action on opportunities when they find their way into your life. You, and you alone, are in control.

-RW