Yesterday Mark Steyn was filling in for Rush Limbaugh and he was discussing the Business Insider story of the 16 U.S. cities facing bankruptcy, and several of them are located in California, which itself is facing bankruptcy. And Steyn was asking, well if a city such as San Diego needs to be “bailed out,” how [...]
December 28, 2010 (Link to article at Strike the Root) The ongoing WikiLeaks affair has been an exposé of who really understands the principles that define America, and who is truly confused. The “classified” leakers and their publishers (who include the New York Times and the Guardian) are merely attempting to expose the State and [...]
Tammy Bruce was filling in for Laura Ingraham today, and Tammy mentioned many subjects, one after another, each one as annoying as the other. And I only listened for a little while, too. She mentioned something about Barack Obomber going to seize our savings accounts. I think she’s referring to the Obama Administration’s proposal to [...]
Glenn Greenwald has this lengthy and confusing post today, with detail after detail regarding the ongoing soap opera drama that is the Bradley Manning-Adrian Lamo-Kevin Poulsen-Wired-WikiLeaks affair. Supposedly, Kevin Poulsen of Wired online only published 25% of the chat cables between alleged WikiLeaker Manning and the one who turned him in, Adrian Lamo, and Greenwald [...]
The New York Times has this article on the latest WikiLeaks release, Cables Portray Expanded Reach of Drug Agency: WASHINGTON — The Drug Enforcement Administration has been transformed into a global intelligence organization with a reach that extends far beyond narcotics, and an eavesdropping operation so expansive it has to fend off foreign politicians who [...]
John Denson: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce David House: Bradley Manning Speaks About His Conditions Lew Rockwell: The Economic Lessons of Bethlehem James Bovard: How Washington Protects Your Privacy and Liberty Business Insider: 16 US Cities Facing Bankruptcy If They Don’t Make Deep Cuts in 2011 Glenn Greenwald: U.N. to investigate [...]
Robert Wenzel writes about the New York Times‘s story on Prichard, Alabama’s public employee pension fund running out of money, and their merely stopping sending retirees their pension checks, a situation that Wenzel thinks may be indicative of the near future for many American cities. And to remedy such a situation, the Federal Reserve would [...]
William Grigg: ‘Toy Gun Bash’: A Sacrament of Collectivist Self-Destruction Jason Ditz: In Baghdad, Christmas Cancelled Robert Murphy: Rise of the Free-Market Zombies Glenn Greenwald: The NYT spills key military secrets on its front page Robert Wenzel: What Does Elizabeth Warren Do when She Isn’t Being Interviewed by the Press? Bloomberg: No Congress Since ’60s [...]
Paul Hein: Some Christmas Reflections for Our Rulers
Carl Watner on the moral case for “hard money” (1987) …In 1886, in A Letter to Grover Cleveland, Spooner observed that the power of Congress to coin money was simply a power to weigh and assay metals and that there was no necessity that such a service be provided by or be limited to the [...]
In my article that was on LewRockwell.com yesterday, Who Has Integrity?, regarding Karen Kwiatkowski’s assessments of the Pentagon and its brushing aside of dissenting military personnel’s opinions, a sentence begins, “Kwiatkowski had told of her own betrayal and anger as well as that of fellow military personnel…” I meant to write “her own feelings of [...]
Karen Kwiatkowski: Brad Manning Has Rights! Glenn Greenwald: The government’s one-way mirror Washington Post investigation: Monitoring America Fred Reed: Awaiting the Storm Ran HaCohen: Racism, Rabbinical and Otherwise Robert Wenzel on the failed “shovel-ready stimulus” of Chinese centralism Steve LaTulippe: Banana Republic Journalism Charles Burris: Taxation and Slavery: A Parallel Max Blumenthal and Tom Engelhardt: [...]