“I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” Thomas Jefferson
Nineteenth French statesman and journalist Georges Clemenceau calls Christ followers to task for their historically verifiable hypocrisy.
The financial, political, and international forces of our time, by all accounts, are just now taking a breather from the greatest depression since the greatest depression ever in the universe of time, ever. Sales down, unemployment up, companies crumbling, national economies in tumbling freefall, like dark matter careening in a toilet-bowl spiral toward the event…
I’ve already written about the wrongheadedness of gay-marriage activism (here, here, and especially here) and of its morally inconsequential and ideologically indefensible hollowness. I’ve even suggested that a much larger battle could be won — the removal of government from the characterization and enforcement of marriage — if only those who are so near-sighted and…
I’m sitting in my grandmother’s living room in Branson, MO, trying to stay awake during my usual mid-afternoon nap slump. Grandma is napping in stereo; she’s directing people to do her bidding, something to do with shoes, I’m trying not to listen lest I hear something scandalous from her 85 years of memories.
Anybody reading this blog knows I’m a left-leaning libertarian and that, despite my contributions to and primary-election support for Barack Obama, I’ve now abandoned him because of his post-primary decisions to support FISA and conditionally embrace Bush’s faith-based initiatives. And because — as much as I like and admire him — he is a textbook…
…but I beat you to it. And you’re supposed to be so wicked smaht. Oh, nice way to “interview” with Americans for the job of Treasury Secretary, especially all that 100% USA investment nonsense. The smart investor is looking at Chinese markets, too. You’re dishonest not to talk about that.
I guess that winning the Nobel for Economics means you get to idiotically offer economic advice that is rooted in ideology rather than fiscal responsibility. In his latest tedious op-ed, Mr. Nobel says to hell with deficits and spending freezes. Being responsible about the future, anticipating the threat a constant flow of increasing national debt…
OK, so I didn’t save Wall Street, but I find it awfully odd that today saw a big bump in stock prices after I followed my plan last week to spend a bunch of money buying up cheap stocks. Think about it. Last week, stocks were cheaper than they had been in decades. You could…
I’m embarrassed to admit that I ventured over to the NY Times editorial section to see if there was any sign of intelligent life in the aftermath of Congress’ horrible decision to send Bush its misguided Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. Editorialist Paul Krugman was doing his usual dance of dread and blame, which seems to…