We do not believe that blaming the bankers gets it "just right." In fact, it is the most common of all dominant social themes – that economic downturns are the fault of big, powerful private interests. This sort of populism has been cul...
The story goes that Benjamin Franklin was approached by a woman as he left the Constitutional Convention (1, 2). She asked, “What have you given us?” Franklin is said to have replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” This exchange was common knowledge 50 years or so ago, as commonly taught to schoolchildren as [...]
Mark Levin announced today his Landmark Legal Foundation is jumping in against the Obama/Calderón administration’s attempt to vilify the state of Arizona for passing a law identical to not only the federal statutes, but other state’s laws as well. American’s support for the Arizona law (SB1070) was put at 57% recently in a CBS poll, [...]
The whole system is perverse. It has been set up by a power elite for purposes of consolidating wealth and control in THEIR hands, not for creating better and more prosperous civil societies. In normal, healthy societies, money is a tool of commerce no...
We in America now we have a head of state who actually appears to accept this reactionary philosophy, judging by his eager embrace of the judicial philosophy of his former colleague from the University of Chicago Law School, now Harvard law professor C...
In several previous articles we've examined the possibilities of the US opening a third (or fourth) military front with Iran. Certainly the US and its allies seem on track to do this and from our point of view the examination of this possib...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 By Scott Cooper The governor’s race on the Republican side couldn’t be more different than a Lego and a Lincoln Log. Four candidates are vying for the GOP nomination, but only two have a realistic shot of winning: a well-known political glamour girl and a fist-pumping fellow from the far right. One is the darling of the party and the other is trying to change the party’s dance tune.
I was dying to see this all day About half hour after this happened on Fox News’ America Live with Megyn Kelly I was hearing about this through the grapevine (work in other words), and I dodged an afternoon brush fire traffic slowdown to get home to see this. I say “late”, because it seems [...]
It is of course possible that Big Science will yield some conclusive and surprising results – perhaps all five God Particles, or even more. Equally feasible, it may yield inconclusive results that will be held up as conclusive because of all the ...
When is a report a dominant social theme and when is it reality? And when, perhaps (we wonder) is it both? These are serious questions to those who believe the Western world is manipulated by a power elite that wields dominant social themes as ...