I've written about this before and I'll probably write about it again, because I doubt I'll never be able to wrap my head around the hypocrisy of politics. Yes, I know the book "Rules For Radicals" promotes it, and I know that it's effective. I know it shouldn't surprise me. [...]
(p. 212) Before returning to Los Angeles, Disney and Kimball also went to Dearborn, Michigan, outside Detroit, and visited a village of another kind--Henry Ford's Greenfield Village, a collection of old and reconstructed buildings that included the Wright brothers' bicycle shop and a replica of [...]
"I challenge you to a duel!"
What drives people to engage in such mutually destructive activities like personal duels where both individuals may be killed or permanently maimed?
Human beings are social creatures and unconsciously place a high premium on social status. As if by magic, children perceive and internalize the social [...]
The University of California has announced that they need to hike undergraduate fees by 32%. Here's the snippet that draws my attention:
Mark Yudof, the university president, said the state budget cuts had left the university no choice but to raise fees, and noted that the system received only' [...]
As the primary season politicking starts en vigor, there is the question as to what is foremost on the minds of Americans and, particularly, conservative voters. In the Ron Paul camp, we’re hoping that people are starting to understand the wretched mess we’re in due to creeping socialism and the [...]
Briefly: a server at the Hadley CRU at the University in East Anglia' [...]
To me its an example of the incompetence and the contradictions that result from the incompetence of those holding and vying for power. It confirms my suspicion, in order to survive and succeed at least for a while in politics (a) you must not know [...]
Sometimes, a short news clip can be very insightful:
What would a news report on guns be without showing the Black Panthers? At 03:10, Captain Doug asks how the public can be protected from a person that clearly has a firearm on their person. Yes, [...]
Concepts that are insufficiently thought through cause more harm to mankind than anything else of our own making.
If you care for people, do not try to defy reality.
Differences between human beings are an integral part of the human condition. They cannot be removed without [...]
Source of book image: http://press.harvardbusiness.org/on/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/verganti_300dpi.jpg.
George Will describes the efforts of Arizona to fight the efforts of Congress to pervert the Commerce Clause. A piece:
This year, the Congressional Research Service delicately said "it is a novel issue whether Congress may use the (Commerce) Clause to require an individual to purchase a good or" [...]
Lew Rockwell Writes:
Congratulations to Ron Paul! His amendment to audit the Fed was just passed, kicking out he evil Mel Watts version, in the financial services committee. Still to come, the vote on the whole bill, and much can happen, but this is great news. Bernanke and friends must [...]
Here's a cool visual (Look! Shiny colored things!) of the growing USA unemployment numbers by county. It won't embed, so you'll have to click.
[cohort11.americanobserver.net]Hat tip: Mark Perry's Carpe Diem
Tracy has the best headline: "...at the Bailout Ball AGAIN!"
Details are there, too. I'll just say that Mitch McConnell is hosting another fundraiser and let Tracy give you the rest of the story.
And THESE are the people we’re supposed to trust with our health care? They can’t even handle basic bookkeeping, and can’t proofread their website well enough to know that Arizona definitely doesn’t have 86 Congressional Districts (none of the current states of the Union do). I think that they’re [...]
Graham spends a lot of time, making some very good points on the law, I believe.
We had a discussion about this issue in my international relation class the other day (we were talking about international law and some of the attendant problems), and sort of [...]
Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago. Source of photo and information in caption: [faculty.chicagobooth.edu].
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I never could stand O'Reilly much, and when he assumed the role of GOP-machine water boy, he was off the watch list entirely. He shows his true colors in this "interview". Notice that the constitution is tossed out along with decorum and/or objectivity as' [...]
Ron Paul shows the dearth of logic up on the Hill:
But the government’s prescription for the ills caused by intervention is always more intervention. We see this not only in healthcare policy, but also in foreign policy, in economic policy, and in monetary policy - basically, in all [...]
At the very end of the clip you will hear two or three loud noises - don't worry there is nothing wrong in the room where you watch this.
From the NebraskaWatchdog:
There’s good “Stimulus” news for Nebraska and bad “Stimulus” news.
The good news is that according to the federal government’s Web site, recovery.gov, the stimulus has created 17.4 jobs in Nebraska’s 17th Congressional District.
The bad news is that Nebraska has only 3 congressional districts!
[...]I think of Sarah Palin in largely the same way I think of a handsome ex-beau: a huge disappointment once he opened his mouth.
Before McCain pulled her up onto the national stage, Palin's name was occasionally tossed around as a libertarian-leaning Republican. Heck, she even said something nice about Ron' [...]
Our friend and occasional commenter, PTG, created this a year or so ago, and has given permission for us to use:
Seems sort of appropriate given the current foreign trip…
[...]The LJS begs to differ. Lincoln police are looking for two men who robbed a Union College student early Friday. A 21-year-old student walking near the [...]
I think there are places and industries where unions can serve legitimate purposes. For example, coal mining. Very often, the coal mine is the only employer (at least, that actually produces anything) within 100 miles of the mine. It's cruddy work, and the endless regulations create a plethora of entry' [...]
From an interview with Rush:
RUSH: You mentioned earlier you wanted to talk about national security, that you hoped it came up. Well, here it is: What do we face? What are our threats, and are we prepared, or not?
GOV. PALIN: Well, I think domestically a threat that [...]
Representative Mel Watt is back in the news. His attempts to gut H.R. 1207 must not be enough insurance since he has introduced a "transparency" amendment of his own. Here was the salesman's pitch:
"While my amendment will certainly fall short of demands by those intent on destroying" [...]
"The Reaper Curve: Ezekiel Emanuel used the above chart in a Lancet article to illustrate the ages on which health spending should be focused." Source of caption and graph: [...]
All I know is that when I meet Moses, the 60-year-old scientist who runs this place, and he shows me a tiny pellet, about the size of the multivitamin I take every morning, and swears it will provide an endless supply of safe, clean energy, [...]
"They may have to file for bankruptcy if they don't have several big pending grants approved or get emergency loans," a highly placed ACORN source told me over the weekend. This information bolsters Rep. Darrell Issa's (R-Calif.) claim last week that ACORN is in turmoil amidst internal power [...]
Rand Paul gave an interview in which he shows his hostile side:
Washington Wire: Your father opposed the war in Iraq.
Paul: I would have voted no on the Iraq war and yes to Afghanistan. The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law [...]
Mary Anastasia O'Grady reports from Honduras' capital Tegucigalpa:
It's a good 30 minutes by car from here to the Catholic retreat center where I traveled to meet Honduran Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga last week. The brick compound sits just off a dirt road on a hillside in a forest' [...]
LESS than a month before the Climate Conference in Copenhagen there is fierce competition to see who can produce the most absurd global warming scare. Hence the hysterical warnings of disappearing ice caps and temperatures rising 2°C. The winner must be President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, who [...]
(p. 152) As late as January 1940, Disney still resisted selling stock--"I wanted to build this in a different way," he told sonic of his artists--but by then his need for money was such that going public had become the lesser of evils. Preferred stock in [...]
Thinking the stateless society is a challenging exercise, to which Eric Parks has invited us several times.
I feel, liberty is an inherently difficult enterprise not least because the stateless society is impossible. That is to say: the hard, ever perfectible task of [...]
Chapter Five ("Responsibility and Feedom") of Hayek's The Constitution of Liberty commences with the below quote:
It is doubtful that democracy could survive in a society organized on the principle of therapy rather than judgment, error rather than sin. If men are free and equal, they' [...]
In a timely report by CNNmoney.com, we read about a well-known "victim".
Last month, [Nicolas] Cage filed a lawsuit against Levin in California claiming that Levin duped the Hollywood actor out of more than $20 million since 2001 when he was hired. The suit said Levin "lined" [...]
Over at the RLC, I noticed that Senator Jim DeMint was classified as Libertarian in his voting record. I don't know the methodology used to reach this conclusion, but DeMint doesn't strike this SC LPer as a kindred spirit.
His voting record on two major aspects of liberty are [...]
Source of graphic: online version of the WSJ article quoted and cited below.
It must be “let’s see if we can get money out of people on our list” time of the year. In the last week or two, our phone has been inundated by an assortment of numbers—fortunately, we have Caller ID and can generally screen them effectively. Since I know I’m [...]
In case you haven't been paying attention, President Obama again bowed to a foreign leader. Last time, he bowed to the Saudi king, although the White House lamely tried to deny it. (He did not bow to Queen Elizabeth, so apparently women royalty rank lower in Obamaland than male royalty.)
The' [...]
We live in an age of victim-hood: an era where, no matter what ill befalls us, we are told by those in lofty places that it is not our fault. “The true culprits are many.” they explain. We are informed that our hardships are due to our class, our race, [...]
The spelling of the town's name follows German orthography: "Metz," pronounced (English equivalents) "metts" in German, and "mess" in French.
"Raus aus Metz, Paris ist größer." That was one of the wake up shouts of my mother. "Get out of Metz, Paris is bigger (more copious prey)." I suspect she' [...]
(p. A3) BOSTON -- The Democrat-controlled legislature in Massachusetts is poised to pass a bill in coming days giving Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick authority to appoint an interim senator to succeed the late Edward M. Kennedy, strengthening the party's U.S. Senate majority and bolstering prospects for' [...]
