http://harrisonlives.com Railing Against the Setting Sun Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:34:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 http://harrisonlives.com/2010/01/20/thank-goodness-its-over-politics-today/ http://harrisonlives.com/2010/01/20/thank-goodness-its-over-politics-today/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:25:13 +0000 Harrison http://harrisonlives.com/?p=352 If you live in Massachusetts, you are most likely glad the campaign to fill the U.S. Senate seat is over.  Chances are if your phone rang in the last five days, it was one of those really annoying automated calls from one of the candidates.  Don’t you just hate them? Rarely do they come at a [...]]]> http://harrisonlives.com/2010/01/20/thank-goodness-its-over-politics-today/feed/ 0 http://harrisonlives.com/2010/01/04/democrats-have-nothing-on-limbaugh-the-entertainer-politics-today/ http://harrisonlives.com/2010/01/04/democrats-have-nothing-on-limbaugh-the-entertainer-politics-today/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:19:04 +0000 Harrison http://harrisonlives.com/?p=338 At his press conference outside the hospital where he was treated for chest pains last week, Limbaugh the Entertainer pronounced the American health care system sound and solid, the best in the world. “The treatment I received here was the best that the world has to offer,” Limbaugh said Friday. “Based on what happened here to [...]]]> http://harrisonlives.com/2010/01/04/democrats-have-nothing-on-limbaugh-the-entertainer-politics-today/feed/ 0 http://harrisonlives.com/2009/09/15/history-reason-and-fringe-politics-today/ http://harrisonlives.com/2009/09/15/history-reason-and-fringe-politics-today/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:22:25 +0000 Harrison http://harrisonlives.com/?p=239 The Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the United States. It was created in 1913, the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly the panic of 1907. The Federal Reserve System has existed to this day, evolving and expanding since then to meet the needs of [...]]]> http://harrisonlives.com/2009/09/15/history-reason-and-fringe-politics-today/feed/ 0 http://harrisonlives.com/2009/09/10/good-speech-now-what-politics-today/ http://harrisonlives.com/2009/09/10/good-speech-now-what-politics-today/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:00:17 +0000 Harrison http://harrisonlives.com/?p=221 President Obama’s speech before a joint session of Congress last night was stirring and well delivered. The man can talk, can’t he? And did you see how many times those sitting to the President’s right, those mostly friendly to his efforts, the Democrats, stood to applaud? And how those to the President’s left, the [...]]]> http://harrisonlives.com/2009/09/10/good-speech-now-what-politics-today/feed/ 0 http://harrisonlives.com/2009/08/11/palin-propaganda-and-politics-today/ http://harrisonlives.com/2009/08/11/palin-propaganda-and-politics-today/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:08:25 +0000 Harrison http://harrisonlives.com/?p=182 Citizenship in the United States can be based upon nothing more than an accident of birth.  It can also be acquired by meeting certain eligibility requirements and taking an oath.  Although American history is taught in all public schools, it is likely that those taking the oath to become naturalized know more about it than [...]]]> http://harrisonlives.com/2009/08/11/palin-propaganda-and-politics-today/feed/ 0