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John Silveira
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Articles & Columns from BHM

Issue #111 What’s driving prices up? What can you do about it?
Issue #110 Our "unenumerated" rights
Issue #109 A doomsday scenario to sleep on
Issue #108 Questions about global warming
Issue #108 The unheralded roots of America’s freedoms
Issue #108 Talking with horses: an interview with Paul Brousseau
Issue #107 Is "peak oil" the new end-of-the-world?
Issue #106 Are aliens stealing our honeybees?
Issue #105 Where our farm animals come from
Issue #104 Finally, a choice in 2008
Issue #104 Ancient history of modern plants
Issue #103 Loading the gun for a dictatorship
Issue #102 Who's supposed to protect our rights?
Issue #102 Killer Blizzards—understanding them could save your life
Issue #101 The land of the unfree
Issue #100 A brief history of health and medicine
Issue #100 Confident liberals vs. whiny conservatives?
Issue #99 Government spending
Issue #99 "If you don’t like it here, why don’t you move to another country?"
Issue #98 The National Animal Identification System is the bureaucrats’ latest grab for power
Issue #98 Monster Quake
Issue #97 Avian flu — How afraid of this chicken should you be?
Issue #96 Let prisoners get high on marijuana
Issue #94 Subduction zone tsunami
Issue #93 One good reason for tax reform
Issue #92 Why we have no “constitutional” rights
Issue #91 The impact of firearms on crime, business, and politics
Issue #90 A republic vs. a democracy
Issue #90 Something for nothing
Issue #89 Fake lawsuits, stacked juries, and lawyers
Issue #89 Getting rich through generosity
Issue #88 Democracy in Iraq?
Issue #87 The tenuous hold of honesty in modern America
Issue #86 The coming ice age
Issue #86 Save money when you buy your next vehicle
Issue #85 The world is ending!...again?
Issue #85 A homeschooling lesson in physics
Issue #83 Gun control, race, and rotten politicians
Issue #82 The curse of oil
Issue #81 Biological and chemical weapons through history
Issue #81 Is television still a wasteland?
Issue #80 Do we really need Yuppies?
Issue #79 A proposal for ending violent crime
Issue #79 Book Review: Guns Save Lives
Issue #78 Fixing a broken jury system
Issue #77 The Coming American Dictatorship revisited
Issue #75 Supplements — it’s a murky science, but here’s what I take, and here’s why
Issue #74 Silveira's 1st Law: Every group needs a black sheep
Issue #74 Nuclear terrorism
Issue #73 We should have seen this one coming
Issue #73 The coming American dictatorship, Part VIII
Issue #72 Money can buy happiness
Issue #72 The Coming American Dictatorship, Part VII
Issue #71 Man vs. the machine
Issue #71 The Coming American Dictatorship, Part VI
Issue #70 The Coming American Dictatorship, Part V
Issue #69 The Coming American Dictatorship, Part IV
Issue #68 The Coming American Dictatorship, Part III
Issue #68 Chuck meets Bubba
Issue #67 The coming American dictatorship Part II
Issue #67 Outplayed & outbluffed
Issue #66 The coming American dictatorship
Issue #66 Communism vs. the Kool-Aid stand
Issue #65 A lesson in respect
Issue #64 Stumbling over your own stupidity
Issue #63 I don't know
Issue #62 Baseball: It's still the American sport
Issue #61 A (very) short history of the earth
Issue #60 The greatest American who was never President
Issue #60 How big is the solar system?
Issue #58 We don’t need no steenking 2nd Amendment
Issue #57 The chances of global disaster
Issue #54 Would the United States be better off if it was a Christian nation?
Issue #54 Do we really need more Democracy?
Issue #53 Do we need a Taxpayers' Bill of Rights?
Issue #53 If we can't throw out our outmoded Constitution, then let's have the NBA run the U.S. government
Issue #52 Happy birthday Communist Manifesto
Issue #52 What's left, what's right? What's liberal, what's conservative?
Issue #50 Why bureaucracy will likely destroy America
Issue #49 Who were the best...and worst U.S. Presidents?
Issue #47 The saga of the brand name computer and why you should buy a "clone"
Issue #46 Science and truth...are they related?
Issue #45 Prohibition: then, now, and always
Issue #44 Losing our rights as we watch television
Issue #44 Save time and energy with the fenced chicken coop/garden
Issue #40 Want proof of luck, ESP, and psychic powers?
Issue #39 Just how smart is that computer on your desk?
Issue #38 What you do to one side of an equation, you do to the other to keep it balanced
Issue #37 Just how good of a bet are those lotto tickets?
Issue #37 How I've started my child in a program of home schooling
Issue #36 Steam Driven Cars
Issue #35 Presidents’ wives, Part IV — cunning, vindictive, and maybe one murderess (First Ladies)
Issue #35 The logic behind term limits and a historical perspective
Issue #34 A little skepticism can be very helpful
Issue #34 Presidential wives, Part III (First Ladies)
Issue #33 Fully Informed Juries
Issue #32 James Polk — a model for modern presidents
Issue #31 Carver--he wrote the book on self reliance
Issue #30 Former First Ladies — beautiful, brilliant, crazy (Part II)
Issue #29 America’s earliest First Ladies were fascinating (Part I)
Issue #28 Looking behind the Declaration of Independence
Issue #23 History of the Oregon Trail
Issue #21 Understanding the environmental movement
Issue #18 The Electoral College — how we elect the President
Issue #16 The genius of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and America's Declaration of Independence
Issue #15 Soviet nuclear weapons...What effect on our freedoms if terrorists get hold of them?
Issue #13 Why does the year begin in January?
Issue #12 Bicentennial of the Bill of Rights— would we pay the price again?
Issue #11 With the World Series at hand, let's take a walk down Memory Lane through the amazing Series of the past
Issue #10 Injured and sick wildlife get a lease on life from this California group
Issue #9 A practical survival strategy in the event of catastrophe
Issue #8 The Guayule Plant -- an oil-saving opportunity begging for an American entrepreneur
Issue #7 Today it is oil that controls the wealth of nations; yesterday it was salt that made empires rise and fall
Issue #5 The summer it snowed
Issue #3 Zugswang (short story)
Issue #2 Spice up your life with lemon grass
Issue #1 The Perfect Defense (short story)

The World According to Silveira

February 23, 2007 Socialism in America, South American-style
October 24, 2006 Teaching them to fish
September 2, 2006 Why American pros lose in international play
April 7, 2006 What is reality?
March 8, 2006 Planning the lives of generations to come
February 9, 2006 The Runaway

OP/ED Columns

October 28, 2001 ID cards are an idea whose time should never come
September 11, 2001 Terrorist attack! Was this predictable?
August 10, 2001 Beautiful Women
July 29, 2001 Presidential IQs
August 4, 2000 Why I Will Not Vote for a Law & Order President
July 22, 2000 Why I’m nice to telemarketers
March 16, 2000 What kind of Americans sit on our juries?
February 23, 2000 Helping crackpots kill kids
February 6, 2000 Dealing with Liberals and History
January 29, 2000 Next time you see me, don’t be afraid to say, “Hello.”
January 15, 2000 Real-life heroes
December 28, 1999 Time’s Person of the Century — Plus a Runner-up for the Ages
December 21, 1999 Why I Hated Santa Claus
December 16, 1999 Is the Mainstream Media Finally Recognizing How the War on Drugs is Destroying Our Rights?
December 7, 1999 Credit Where It’s Not Due

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