“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” Elie Wiesel Since last week’s mystery aircraft was challenging to identify, according to the number of correct answers I received, this week I have provided another interesting aircraft type. Please send yourRead more
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“It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody’s permission or to obey anybody’s orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.” Friedrich August von Hayek Blackburn B20 (Information fromRead more
“There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.” Christopher Darlington Morley Since last week’s mystery aircraft was relatively easy to identify, according to the number of correct answers I received, this week I have provided another interestingRead more
“Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.” Orson Scott Card McDonnell XF-88 Voodoo was a long-range, twinjet fighter aircraft with swept wings designed for the United States Air Force. Although it never entered production, its design was adapted for the subsequent supersonic F-101 Voodoo. The XF-88 originated from a 1946 United States ArmyRead more
“If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force.” Hans Eysenck Since last week’s mystery aircraft was challenging to identify, according to the number of correct answers I received, this week I have provided another interesting aircraft type.Read more
“There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.” Friedrich August von Hayek Sikorsky XV-2 (Information from Wikipedia) The Sikorsky XV-2, also known by the Sikorsky Aircraft model number S-57, was a planned experimental stoppable rotor aircraft, designated as a convertiplane, developed for a joint researchRead more
“For more than a quarter-century the ANC government has stolen hundreds of billions of Rands each year from competent, hard-working, successful South Africans and has been giving it to incompetent, lazy failures. As a result, the middle-class in South Africa have increasingly become impoverished while the poor have become even poorer. Now come calls fromRead more