Political Humor
Perspective on World, and domestic news, and how that news is being covered by the traditional mainstream media with a smattering of culture, faith, and a lot of snark. All from the standpoint of a politically conservative, observant Jew.
Mission
Since the site was started in 2005, its mission has been to provide an accurate and unique perspective on the news, along with finding the stories the mainstream media does not cover. Accuracy must be important therefore each news fact presented on the site either links to the original source, report, or video; or if a link is unavailable identifies the source. The only exception is news events covered personally by owner/editor Jeff Dunetz. Those events will be identified in the posts they are covered.
Individualism/Capitalism
Ayn Rand’s goal as a novelist and philosopher was to “define and present the image of an ideal man—specifically, the image of what man can be and ought to be.” To do it, she needed to discover a new philosophy and define a new moral code. “My philosophy, in essence,” Rand once said, “is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”
Justice, prosperity, responsibility, tolerance, cooperation, and peace.
Many people believe that liberty is the core political value of modern civilization itself, the one that gives substance and form to all the other values of social life. They're called libertarians.
Psychology
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson is a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, a clinical psychologist and the author of the multi-million copy bestseller 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, #1 for nonfiction in 2018 in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, the Netherlands, Brazil and Norway, and now slated for translation into 45 languages.
Raised and toughened in the frigid wastelands of Northern Alberta, Dr. Peterson has flown a hammer-head roll in a carbon-fiber stuntplane, piloted a mahogany racing sailboat around Alcatraz Island, explored an Arizona meteorite crater with a group of astronauts, built a Native American Long-House on the upper floor of his Toronto home, and been inducted into a Pacific Kwakwaka’wakw family (see charlesjoseph.ca). He’s been a dishwasher, gas jockey, bartender, short-order cook, beekeeper, oil derrick bit re-tipper, plywood mill laborer and railway line worker. He’s taught mythology to physicians, lawyers, and businessmen; worked with Jim Balsillie, former CEO of Blackberry’s Research in Motion, on Resilient People, Resilient Planet, the report of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Global Sustainability; helped his clinical clients manage the triumphs and catastrophes of life; served as an advisor to senior partners of major Canadian law firms; penned the forward for the forthcoming 50th anniversary edition of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago; lectured to more than 200,000 people across North America, Europe and Australia in one of the most-well attended book tours ever mounted; and, for The Founder Institute, identified thousands of promising entrepreneurs, in 60 different countries.
Sociology
Center for Humans and Nature
Expanding Our Natural and Civic Imagination