Glenn Greenwald: The Wretched Mind of the American Authoritarian Jack Kenny: Bipartisan Warfare State Charles Johnson: There’s Too Little Trust in Government? Rick Rozoff on NATO and the globalization of defense Tyler Durden on Bernanke’s real intentions Chris Floyd with the common sense analysis of the recent terrorist attempt Kathryn Muratore to the airlines: Lose [...]
Tyler Durden: A Paralyzed Fed Defers Decision On Monetary Policy To Primary Dealers In An Act That Can Only Be Classified As Treason
Gary North: The Police State Is Doomed …In 1920, Ludwig von Mises wrote a short essay, “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth.” He argued that socialist economic planning is inherently blind. Without free market prices that are based on private ownership, the government’s central planners have no way of knowing where to allocate scarce resources. [...]
Karl Denninger: The Wall Street Journal Again Opines — and Lies Radley Balko on police incompetence Thomas Woods on his new online course on Nullification Eric Novack, MD: Health Care Law Allows Open Season on No Bid Contracts Justin Raimondo: Anti-Interventionism, Then and Now Darian Worden: A Trick and a Treat Pat Buchanan: Victory for [...]
Harvard Kennedy School international relations professor Stephen Walt had a debate among his students on the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO: They debated the resolution,”Resolved: This House Believes NATO Should be Disbanded.” Prior to the debate they had a vote and only one student voted for the resolution, but after the [...]
Some people don’t seem to understand when I assert that Republicans, like Willard Romney and Charlie Baker as I mentioned yesterday, are socialists, and that socialism is a bad thing. It is necessary to understand how socialism as a system violates individual rights and Liberty. The Declaration of Independence recognizes the rights of the individual [...]
Economist Robert Wenzel notes the Wall Street Journal’s asking what would Milton Friedman do at this time, and then points to Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises and asks what Mises would do. Mises predicted exactly what the U.S. is now experiencing.
Massachusetts Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker has said this week that his main opponent, Democrat incumbent governor Deval Patrick will raise taxes (even more) if elected, but that he, Charlie Baker, will not. As usual, the major party candidates have many Brooklyn Bridges to sell, and I’m sure many voters in the People’s Republic of [...]
Big Democrat leaders Schumer and Biden are hinting at “compromise” on the extension of Bush tax cuts, which, if they do that, will be for maybe another year. They need to include the capital gains as well as personal income tax, and they need to make these tax cuts permanent, because otherwise businesses (Remember them, [...]
I recently became familiar with Karl Denninger via LewRockwell.com and Denninger’s article in which he refers to Sarah Palin and Hermione Gingrich as a “joke,” and criticizes the Tea Party movement as no longer being concerned with “Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government, and Free Markets,” but with “Guns, gays and God.” The Tea Party movement [...]
Glenn Greenwald writes on today’s “Nixonian henchmen”: The New York Times and CNN as the “Establishment Media,” smearing WikiLeaker Julian Assange in the same way that President Nixon’s “Plumbers” smeared Daniel Ellsberg as punishment for his leaking the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times. While in 1971, officials of the government broke into a [...]
Robert Higgs: I Now Report Sightings of Shovel-Ready Projects Daniel Tencer: Tea Party ‘founder’: Palin, Gingrich a ‘joke’ Karl Denninger on the Tea Party Stephan Kinsella: How Intellectual Property Hampers Capitalism Robert Murphy: QE2 and the Alleged Deflation Threat Thomas Sowell on Barney Frank Nebojsa Malic: At the Crossroads Business Week: Will the Antivirus Industry [...]