By Robert Ringer

Both Hitler’s infamous Gestapo and Mussolini’s OVRA (Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism) were secret-police organizations that had as their aim the control and prevention of political dissent.

Though Heinrich Himmler modeled his Gestapo force after OVRA, it became much more violent than its Italian counterpart. A German law, passed in 1936, exempted the Gestapo from judicial oversight, which in turn exempted its henchmen from answering to administrative courts. Read the rest of this entry »

By Robert Ringer

If you watch Glenn Beck regularly, you probably find yourself shaking your head in amazement and wondering why a vast majority of Americans aren’t demanding that the president, most of his cabinet, all of his czars, and a significant percentage of House and Senate members be criminally investigated.

Beck is overly generous when he insists that he’s not a journalist, that most of what he says is simply his opinion. There’s no question that he offers strong (and courageous) opinions, but I would argue that most of what he says is fact. I know, because I check out a lot of the information he serves up, and, almost without fail, his words are backed up by legitimate sources. Read the rest of this entry »

By Robert Ringer

After all these years, I’m throwing in the towel and complimenting Greta. When it comes to actions that I believe to be unconscionable, I’m not one who easily forgets. I didn’t mind Greta being a philosophical liberal — that’s her right. But her nightly defenses of the 21st century’s most infamous murderer, O.J., were hard to swallow.

Now that I’ve finally put aside the O.J. stuff (well, almost), I’m able to view Greta more objectively. When she finally broke free from CNN and made the transition to Fox News back in 2002, it took her a few years, but she began moving ever so slowly toward the middle. And the last year or so — I suspect as a result of her buddy-buddy relationship with Sean Hannity — Greta may have actually started leaning a tad … just a tad … to the right. Read the rest of this entry »

By Robert Ringer

As I expected would be the case, my interview with David Horowitz yesterday was fascinating. As many of you undoubtedly know, Horowitz, like Thomas Sowell, is one of the lucky ones who had the intellect to figure out the sham of communism and evolve into a committed conservative.

Horowitz is not your everyday case of a naive youth gone astray under the tutelage of Marxist professors. Hard as it is to believe, he got his communist training at home — from his own parents! He was one of those rare “red-diaper babies” with a mother and father totally committed to the worldwide communist cause. Read the rest of this entry »

By Robert Ringer

As I watch the White House and its henchmen — the Pelosi-Reid-Frank-Schumer crowd, ACORN, SEIU, youth pawns, and miscellaneous thugs and goons (loons?) — engage in childish name calling in an effort to discredit anyone who disagrees with Obama’s vision of two Americas (political-elite class and taxpaying serfs), it brings back memories of being in grade school.

I’ve written extensively about teacher and student bullying  (The Cho Factor, Parts I-XXXIV), so what the Obamaviks are now doing rings a familiar bell with me. Almost without fail, the schoolyard bully, when confronted, accuses his victim of doing precisely what he himself is guilty of. And, sadly, all too often it works. Read the rest of this entry »

By Robert Ringer

A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I had an appointment in Arlington, Virginia. As we were walking toward our destination, we noticed a thin, elderly lady standing near the street corner. She was exceptionally well groomed, and dressed in a colorful, neatly pressed outfit.

Leaning on her cane, she was looking around in what appeared to be a confused manner. We were concerned, because the temperature was well into the nineties, and it was a very humid day. As we approached her, my wife asked if she needed any help. She smiled sweetly and said that she was looking for her bank, but was not certain she was walking in the right direction. Read the rest of this entry »

By Robert Ringer

Amidst all the insanity and meaningless chatter that overwhelms us each day, every so often the Conscious Universal Power Source cuts us a break and hooks us up to nature’s Sanity-Support System. We have little control over when the blessed intervention will take place, how often it will occur, or what its components may be.

In my book Action! Nothing Happens Until Something Moves, I describe one such experience I had on a beautiful sunny day in November, when I was still in my mid-twenties. I was driving on the Grand Central Parkway on my way to JFK International Airport, and my mind was exploding with a thousand and one thoughts about all aspects of my life. Read the rest of this entry »

By Robert Ringer

In Erich Fromm’s 1956 classic The Art of Loving, he provides some unique insights into the subject of faith that have given me a lot to think about. Fromm did not believe faith is in opposition to reason or rational thinking. On the contrary, he simply made a distinction between rational faith and irrational faith.

He believed that irrational faith is based on submission to irrational authority, while rational faith is based on one’s own convictions. Rational faith is a character trait that involves one’s whole personality rather than a specific belief. Read the rest of this entry »

By Robert Ringer

I’ve often been asked if I think Mike Huckabee will run for president in 2012 and, if so, do I believe he can win the Republican nomination — and the presidency. These are three interesting questions, and, until recently, my answers were (1) I’m not sure, (2) no, and (3) no.

The reason I’ve never been certain whether Governor Huckabee would run or not is because if I were in his shoes, it would be a monumental decision for me to make. Overnight, he’s become a TV star and is in a position to make untold millions of dollars in the coming five-to-ten years. He’s incredibly talented, and began his stint as a TV host as though he had been doing it all his life. Read the rest of this entry »

By Robert Ringer

Well, here’s one for the books: Dr. David L. Scheiner, who was BHO’s general physician for twenty-two years, is more extreme on the issue of healthcare than Obama himself! I’m not kidding. Scheiner believes that Obama’s healthcare plan doesn’t go far enough.

The good doctor says we that the U.S. should have “Medicare for all,” a single–payer system in which the government would pay all medical costs for everyone. Let the good times — and the printing presses — roll! Scheiner would put a limit on what doctors could charge patients for various kinds of services and operations. Sounds so … you know … progressive. Read the rest of this entry »