Top 20 Hollywood Donors Have Already Shelled Out $1.45 Million To Parties in 2013
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/08/the-top-20-hollywood-donors-have.html
MLB’s Magglio Ordonez, Who Earned $133 Million, Running for City’s Mayor—as a Socialist
"Ordonez, who earned about $133 million over his professional career, according to baseball-reference.com, supported Chavez’s '21st Century Socialism.' In 2009, he told Venezuelans in political ads that 'the best of the revolution is yet to come.' The obvious question is: Does Ordonez plan to share his millions with the people of Puerto La Cruz or does he see himself as exempt from the share the wealth schemes of socialist planners?" Continue reading →
Most Americans fear anti-aging technology is luxury for the rich
"Most Americans do not want to live beyond age 100, and a poll out Tuesday suggests many worry that anti-aging technologies may end up being a luxury for the rich. A majority of US adults (56 percent) said they would not 'choose to undergo medical treatments to slow the aging process and live to be 120 or more,' said the Pew report. The median, or midpoint, for ideal lifespan was 90, or about 11 years longer than the current US average. Asked whether current medical treatments are worth the costs, 54 percent agreed and 41 percent disagreed on grounds that modern medical advances 'often create as many problems as they solve.'" Continue reading →
Amazon launches online art gallery
"The 19-year online retail juggernaut, which began as a bookseller but now does everything from groceries to patio furniture, launched 'Amazon Art' to market works from galleries in Miami, San Francisco, New York and other US cities. The site showcases more than 40,000 works from over 150 galleries and dealers that run the gamut as far as subject, genre and period are concerned. Works range from modest canvasses like a $44 cat portrait to Norman Rockwell’s 'Willie Gillis: Package from Home,' which retails for $4.85 million. 'From gallery walls to your walls,' boasts the site, which enables users to quickly click through works by period and genre." Continue reading →
Jeffrey Tucker: The Triumph of Scrooge McDuck
"CNBC says, 'According to research from American Express Publishing and Harrison Group, the savings rate of the wealthiest 1% in the second quarter rose to 37%. That’s up from 34% in the second quarter of 2012 — and more than three times their savings rate in 2007.' In other words, their saving is actually increasing, even given the evidence that the everlasting recession has abated in some ways, which suggests that this class has little confidence that the high stock market and seemingly good news that trickles out are really sustainable. They are preparing for the next crisis in ways they wish they had prepared for the last one." Continue reading →
What is an American? Forget the state and just be a child of the nation
"The act of renouncing U.S. citizenship should not 'diminish your personal identity'. If you want to think of yourself as an American that’s fine. Nobody can take that away from you. This is important. Why? Because the Obama 'Witch Hunt' against U.S. citizens abroad has forced people to reevaluate many of their fundamental assumptions. Few Americans abroad still view the United States as 'that great citadel of freedom and justice'. Few Americans abroad see themselves as 'tax cheats' because they have offshore accounts." Continue reading →
CFR Admits Drones May Be Creating Sworn Enemies of the United States
"With its so-called signature strikes, Washington often goes after people whose identity it does not know but who appear to be behaving like militants in insurgent-controlled areas. The strikes end up killing enemies of the Pakistani, Somali, and Yemeni militaries who may not threaten the United States at all. Worse, because the targets of such strikes are so loosely defined, it seems inevitable that they will kill some civilians. The drone campaign has morphed, in effect, into remote-control repression: the direct application of brute force by a state, rather than an attempt to deal a pivotal blow to a movement." Continue reading →
Indiana Appeals Court: Motorist Search Over Expired Tag Disallowed
"A motorist's bag cannot be searched because his car has an expired tag, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled last week. A divided three-judge panel overturned the conviction of Adam Miller, who was pulled over on January 9, 2011 for having an expired sticker on his license plate." Continue reading →
Appeals court reverses course and says poker is gambling, not game of skill
"Poker may be a game of skill, but that does not protect a man who hosted games of 'Texas Hold ‘Em' from being prosecuted under an anti-gambling law, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York reversed a decision last year that said Lawrence DiCristina could not be prosecuted because 'Texas Hold ‘Em' was a game of skill rather than chance. DiCristina was convicted under the law for running games of 'Texas Hold ‘Em' at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York, which he publicized by text message and word of mouth. DiCristina faces 10 years in prison." Continue reading →
Fmr. NSA chief: Snowden defenders ‘20-somethings who haven’t talked to the opposite sex’
"'If and when our government grabs Edward Snowden, and brings him back here to the United States for trial, what does this group do?' said retired air force general Michael Hayden, who from 1999 to 2009 ran the NSA and then the CIA, referring to 'nihilists, anarchists, activists, Lulzsec, Anonymous, twentysomethings who haven’t talked to the opposite sex in five or six years'. 'I’m just trying to illustrate that you’ve got a group of people out there who make demands, whose demands may not be satisfiable, may not be rational, from other points of view, may not be the kinds of things that government can accommodate,' Hayden said." Continue reading →
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