Innumerable arguments and research have been produced showing that government stimulus is useless. Despite what President Obama and his cheerleaders in the academy, like Princeton's Paul Krugman, seem to believe (or at least say), there is ...
Last week, in the wake of another uptick in the official unemployment rate, the administration continued to claim that their economic policies were working, just not fast enough. This administration inherited an unemployment rate of 7.7% and promised a...
We've written a good deal about big, government-funded science. Whenever we do, we get defense feedbacks from those who are somehow invested in the process. These feedbacks make it clear that in the 21st century – unlike the 20 preceding ones...
We have mentioned many times before that "austerity" was the wrong prescription for Europe. But the idea many have is that lazy European socialists deserve what they get. This is in fact, part of a dominant social theme, "The socialists ...
If you are still buying into the myth that a Republican majority in Congress is “the answer to our problems”, then in fact, you are not only not in Kansas, you are not in any of the several states, including your own. Sure, you might be there physi...
The State of Arizona is currently defending seven lawsuits, including actions filed by the U.S. Justice Department, civil rights groups, and two police officers, contesting the state’s controversial immigration law. In the suit brought by the Justice Department, the trial judge recently granted the Department’s motion for a preliminary injunction, preventing parts of the Arizona [...]
Though hardly any of it seems to resonate with the American mainstream press, the rest of the globe is alive with conspiracy theories about American military power, 9/11, HAARP and other maleficent and perhaps mythical US schemes for global domination ...
The Daily Bell analyzes the dominant social themes of the elite and thus it is natural that the Bell should be in the forefront of pointing out that the mainstream media presents these fear-based promotions. One of the ways, ironically, that the elite ...
As the Lincoln Journal Star reported September 1, LES will be holding a public meeting on September 8 regarding future electric rates. This is the third of four meetings on the topic. Click on the link to the Journal Star article to get all of the details. For those who cannot make any of the [...]
“Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.” – Thomas Jefferson This idea has been making the email forward rounds, thought others may enjoy… “Firearms Refresher Course” An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject. A gun in the hand is better than a cop [...]