Our protests vs. Their protests Stark differences. One swastika at a Tea Party protest dooms the whole rally to MSM ridicule. How many did you count at this one rally in Atlanta? h/t Stix
Smoke coming from a parked Nissan Pathfinder in NY’s Times Square led to the discovery of a failed fuel-air bomb. Via Patterico; But don’t worry. The feds tell us it’s not terrorism: The police discovered a car bomb in a smoking Nissan Pathfinder in the heart of Times Square Saturday evening, prompting the evacuation of [...]
The Daily Bell is pleased to present an exclusive interview with Robert Higgs. Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and Editor of the Institute's quarterly journal The Independent Review. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University, and he has taught at the University of Washington, Lafayette College, Seattle University, and the University of Economics, Prague. He has been a visiting scholar at Oxford
Was swinging right, guess she swings both ways? First Carly Fiorina in an interview with Wolfie Blitzer on CNN’s The Situation Room angered the left; Carly Fiorina just lost the Latino vote in the California Senate race Continuing the run of stupid statements made by GOP representatives, we have Carly Fiorina. (As a note before [...]
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When something has feathers, a bill, waddles, and quacks...you'd think it would be difficult to deny...it's a duck! But there's a lot of denial going around these days, in fact it seems practically epidemic. Despite any and all evidence presented, people do not want to believe what's staring them right in the face. What's being denied primarily is bad ethics, but also, there is denial of questionable associations, and agendas. The fact that bad ethics don't seem to bother so many people sure bothers me, so I've actually spent a good deal of time thinking about it. I've realized that the difficulties we're experiencing as a country are reflected in recent events within the movement to put a stop to out of control government. So, lacking any other term, I must say, events inside the Tea Party "movement" are reflective of what has been plaguing us as a country.
We truly live in a convoluted and strangely chaotic world. This last week alone has been a mix of all kinds of 'Updates' -worthy matters to discuss, one interlinked with the other. Where should I start??? Goldman Sachs? Eyjafjallajokull (the ominous volcano in Iceland)? US-Chinese trade battles? International currency wars?
The idea that making a profit is somehow ignoble has ancient roots. Partly it stems from the utterly fallacious notion that when someone wins, someone else must lose. So if you go to the mall and purchase a sweater you really like, you must rip off the store where you do this. It is only after modern economics got going full blast that it became clear that when there is a purchase, both sides win. Or at least they understand themselves as having won. You got the sweater, they got the money, you
We blame American oil companies for this most recent oil spill, but not for the predictable reasons. American oil companies, in our opinion, have helped set up a situation where there is a substantial amount of oil production offshore, even though there doesn't need to be. It's been our opinion all along that US oil companies especially, have been funding Green movements in the US and abroad to help ensure that regulatory issues prevent drilling in the lower 48. This forces drilling offshore and
This article appearing recently at the Huffington Post by James Bacchus, a "former member of Congress," is noteworthy because it musters all the arguments against a Federal Reserve audit and, generally, Fed transparency. While Ron Paul (R-Tex) and others have been calling for an audit of the Fed, various defenders of the Fed's business as usual are mustering any defense they can to retain the "independence" of the said agency.