Treehouse Hits The 20,000,000 Mark!

The Last Refuge – officially, The Conservative Treehouse – celebrated its third anniversary on February 1, 2014.  Now it’s time for another celebration (and we love celebrations) as we welcome our 20,000,000th visitor!

Why are the authorities becoming more militarized and treating Americans like the enemy? Bill Whittle shares his thoughts.

As you all probably know by now, I am an unabashed Bill Whittle groupie.  I ran across this video while hunting for something else.  Can anyone say serendipity?

This is powerful and informative.  It’s not new, but it was new to me, and I highly recommend it!

In a little less than 11 days, on March 1, the Iditarod race will begin.  The Iditarod is an exciting dog-sled race from Anchorage to Nome – a total distance of 975 miles.  It is exciting even in our modern, perhaps jaded, view, but the story behind this race is historic.

Alaska in winter can be a treacherous place.  The modern race is as safe as it can be made, with regular checkpoints, where supplies have been pre-placed, and mushers and their dogs can rest along the way.

The original “Iditarod” was another matter, indeed.

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Excellent, excellent, excellent!  From Doug Ross at

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2014/02/stuff-bush-didnt-do-illustrated.html

He said we should distribute it to our progressive “friends”.  Just helping to get the word out.

I love Mike Rowe.  I’ve been following him on Facebook for a while now, and he seems to be a practical, logical guy who loves this country.

This past week, Mike has been involved in a controversy over a commercial voice-over that he did for Walmart that ran the other night during the coverage of the Olympics.    Here’s the video, called, “I am A Factory”, in case you missed it (I did):

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The latest in the series is available on YouTube today, and at BillWhittle.Com

Today would have been Ronald Reagan’s 103rd birthday.  If you are interested, there will be a ceremony at the Reagan Library celebrating the occasion, and you can watch it live HERE.

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Bill Whittle expounds on the story of “Boiling Frogs”.

On January 30, The Blaze posted this book review of Business Tides: The Newsweek Era of Henry Hazlitt entitled, The 1948 editorial that could be the GOP response to every Obama State of the Union Address.  An Excerpt:

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