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Month: March 2010

Accounting/Debt

Why are forgiven debts treated as income?

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Why are forgiven debts treated as income? After all it doesn’t really make sense: you don’t actually receive any money when debts are written off, b...

Constitution/Supreme Court

The Supremacy Clause and Treaties

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

The Constitution typically is interpreted to be superior to every branch of government in the United States. It lays the framework for the Federal government an...

Debt/Law

Never miss your court date

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

This is pretty much sound advice, and advice I definitely kept in my own personal dealings. You see, I have the unfortunate ability to say that I was involved i...

Constitution

Constitutional reality

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

The Constitution is irrelevant. There, I’ve said it. The Constitution is irrelevant. All of our arguing about the Constitution, all of our bickering over ...

Politics

Rep. Steve King

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

On Glenn Beck‘s radio program, Congressman Steve King [R-IA(5)] said this on March 18, 2010: This is my argument and I have made it publicly a few times, ...

Second Amendment

Commentary on the right to bear arms

Posted on March 20, 2010 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People...

Debt/Law

How to tell a debt collector to f$&@ off and not get sued

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Step 1: Pay off the debt owed to them. Step 2: Tell them to f$&@ off (not literally). Were you expecting me to say something else?

Children/Health care/Life/Religion

Have you heard of Kent Schaible?

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Anyone who has conversed with me in detail knows how I feel about parents substituting prayer or homeopathy for actual medicine in treating their children. In e...

Constitution/Law/Life

"There should be a law"

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

"That should be illegal." Typically when someone says something like this, it means one thing: they’ve heard or seen something which has no dire...

Constitution/Rights/Supreme Court

What are rights?

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Let me lay this idea out there, which I will expand on in a later article: A right is inherent and inalienable, something for which no action is required of any...

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