Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Q.E.D.

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If you've ever needed direct evidence of the ruling class, with the mass media as junior partner in plunder, observe the reaction to the...
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Monday, September 29, 2008

Bravo!

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BAILOUT REJECTED Sun Reportedly Expected to Rise Tomorrow Anyway

In Lockstep

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It's nice to see that both the maverick and change agent are in lockstep with the Wall Street bailout. Meet the new boss...
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Bailout Lies

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One of the lies involved in the Wall Street bailout -- and there are many, including the claim that the credit markets are frozen -- is tha...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Moving Target

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The people who refuse to believe that their beloved home-ownership promotion program is largely to blame for what's going on today can...

Welfare State or Corporate State?

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It's a grave mistake to portray the economic problems as consequences of the welfare state, as traditionally defined. Rather, this is a ...
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Who's for the Market?

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Being for the free market means being for full market discipline -- nothing concentrates the mind like the threat of bankruptcy. Therefore, ...
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Sunday, September 21, 2008

McCain Has No Clue

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John McCain brags that a few years ago he supported reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, changes that allegedly would have averted the prob...
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Stupid, Venal Government

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The financial turmoil is most immediately the result of falling housing prices. Prices are falling in part because they were pushed to artif...
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Friday, September 19, 2008

Government Failure

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Pundits and politicians are virtually unanimous in saying today's economic turmoil is the result of a laissez-faire policy in Washingto...
Thursday, September 18, 2008

Constitution Day

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"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain: that it has either authorized such a government as...
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Saturday, September 13, 2008

McCain for President

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No, I'm not endorsing him! I'm predicting he will win. In elections I usually predict wrong. It's a hex. We're all doin'...
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We Will Be Fooled Again

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It is appalling that Barack Obama apparently will go through this campaign without once tearing into George II's Unitary Executive Theor...
Friday, September 12, 2008

The Scariest Thing I've Ever Seen

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It's Sarah Palin's ABC interview here . It really is all about winning (power), isn't it? Be afraid. Be very afraid. Update: Th...
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Bailing Out Statism

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The key to understanding the saga of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- the newly nationalized twin government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) that...
Thursday, September 11, 2008

McCain's Self-Righteous Fakery

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If John McCain keeps up that self-righteous fakery about wanting to be our servant, we’re in for two rather tedious months until election da...
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Politics Turns the World Upside Down

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Didn't anti-PC conservatives once mock the sensitivity of women and people of color and ethnicity to allegedly harmless jokes? So why do...
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Priorities -- Please!

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It is curious that people who obsess over a $400 million "bridge to nowhere" favor spending $10 billion a month in Iraq -- indefin...
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Monday, September 08, 2008

Corporate Socialism Lives!

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I hope we'll no longer hear the Bush administration accused of favoring laissez faire. We didn't need the takeovers of Freddie Mac a...

Non Sequitur

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Defenders of Sarah Palin say her maverick temperament is demonstrated by the fact that she beat an incumbent Republican in her bid to become...