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Utah Republicans Oust Sen. Bob Bennett in Anti-Incumbent Rage
Post Date: 2010-05-10 14:42:56 by Original_Intent
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Sen. Bob Bennett, a conservative who fell out of favor among even more conservative Republicans in an anti-incumbent rage, failed to get his party's nomination in Utah Saturday, making it very difficult for him to seek a fourth term. The gangly, bespectacled senator finished third in the second round of balloting at the Republican state convention in Salt Lake City, sealing his fate, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. Businessman Tim Bridgewater and lawyer and Tea Party favorite Mike Lee finished first and second respectively and will face off in a June 22 primary. When results were announced there were shouts of "he's gone, he's gone," as some GOP delegates waved ...
The Impossibility of American Empire
Post Date: 2010-05-10 13:23:23 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Since the return of democracy in Spain, Spain’s political leaders and political society have demonstrated an extraordinary determination to start anew, after the crisis-afflicted 75 years that began with what the Spaniards have called “the catastrophe” – the collapse of the Spanish empire under blows from an exuberant and adolescent United States that believed it was coming of age as a world power. It’s evidence that empires end, but nations don’t, and resurrection is possible. America’s transcontinental expansion following the Civil War and the garish joys of the Gilded Age gave Americans a taste for foreign adventure, whetted by the proximity and ...
Living with Risk is the Cost of Freedom
Post Date: 2010-05-08 21:47:34 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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We always seem surprised. Even after Oct. 1, 1910, when a bomb destroyed the Los Angeles Times building and killed 20 men. And Nov. 24, 1917, when 10 people died in the bombing of a police station in Milwaukee. And Sept. 16, 1920, when 38 people lost their lives in a bombing on Wall Street. And May 18, 1927, when 45 people, most of them children, died in a school bombing in Bath Township, Mich. And Sept. 15, 1963, when four little girls died in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. And Feb. 26, 1993, when a bomb in a basement of the World Trade Center left six people dead. And April 19, 1995 when a truck bomb destroyed a federal building in Oklahoma City, ...
I wonder who is behind the immigration push?
Post Date: 2010-05-08 20:43:34 by Itistoolate
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I wonder who is behind the immigration push?
Can There Be Good Government?
Post Date: 2010-05-08 19:03:56 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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For the past four weeks I have blogged on a trial in which a teacher named Tonya Craft is charged with child molestation. It has become convincingly clear the charges are false. But government can crush innocent lives, as we saw in the rush to prosecute these kinds of cases 20 years ago, resulting in the conviction and imprisonment of many people. (Most of the convictions were overturned.) No entity is better than government at destroying life and property. As R. J. Rummel pointed out in his book Death by Government, a person in the past century was twice as likely to die at the hands of a domestic government as be killed by a foreign one. This is a frightening number, since it tells us ...
Fidel Castro: Gulf oil spill shows world governments powerless to stop major corporations
Post Date: 2010-05-08 14:38:33 by tom007
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Fidel Castro: Gulf oil spill shows world governments powerless to stop major corporations By Will Weissert, AP May 8th, 2010 Fidel Castro: Oil spill shows corporate domination HAVANA — Fidel Castro says the spreading oil slick fouling the Gulf of Mexico is proof that the world’s most powerful governments cannot control large corporations that now dictate the public’s destiny. Officials are rushing to seal an underwater oil gusher triggered after a deep-water rig operated by BP PLC exploded and sank on April 20, killing 11 people. It still is unclear whether some of the 3 million gallons of spilled crude could eventually reach Cuba’s shores — though government ...
This is Clearly In Bad Taste (but I had to laugh)
Post Date: 2010-05-07 20:07:21 by tom007
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Subjugating Ourselves: Ideas, not force, rule the world.
Post Date: 2010-05-07 13:45:18 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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In The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude (pdf), the sixteenth-century French poet, judge, and political philosopher Étienne de La Boétie wondered how it happens that so many men, so many villages, so many cities, so many nations, sometimes suffer under a single tyrant who has no other power than the power they give him; who is able to harm them only to the extent to which they have the willingness to bear with him; who could do them absolutely no injury unless they preferred to put up with him rather than contradict him. Surely a striking situation! La Boétie was establishing the undeniable but overlooked truth that in any political system ...
The Compassion of the Left
Post Date: 2010-05-06 19:50:32 by X-15
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Those of us who lean to the right politically and theologically are continually being upbraided by those on the evangelical and political left because we are not “loving” enough. We just don’t seem to show much compassion for welfare deadbeats, communists, socialists, illegal immigrants, women’s libbers and other such multicultural, politically correct types. Those on the left continue to try to portray themselves as caring, loving, compassionate, and concerned, while they seek to pretend that all others are racists, hate mongers and male chauvinist pigs, or to use today’s vernacular of the uncouth (thanks to the uncouth in Congress)--low level terrorists. ...
Feds let BP avoid filing blowout plan for Gulf rig
Post Date: 2010-05-06 19:28:35 by tom007
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Feds let BP avoid filing blowout plan for Gulf rig Posted: May 06, 2010 3:36 PM MDT Updated: May 06, 2010 5:15 PM MDT By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and RICHARD T. PIENCIAK Associated Press Writers NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Petrochemical giant BP didn't file a plan to specifically handle a major oil spill from an uncontrolled blowout at its Deepwater Horizon project because the federal agency that regulates offshore rigs changed its rules two years ago to exempt certain projects in the central Gulf region, according to an Associated Press review of official records. The Minerals Management Service, an arm of the Interior Department known for its cozy relationship with major oil companies, says it ...
Don't Visit Greece
Post Date: 2010-05-06 19:08:24 by tom007
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You have doubtlessly been informed that Greece is bankrupt and had to recourse to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). You might be wondering who are those responsible for Greece's bankruptcy. If your country was bankrupt, wouldn't you ask for those responsible to be brought to justice? I guess so. This is what the Greeks ask for as well. However, in Greece there are none responsible for the bankruptcy. Nobody has been charged and nobody has been brought to justice. Nobody! Is this hard to believe? Read the newspapers of your country, search on the web and you will see that Greece's bankruptcy is an orphan. Those that made the country bankrupt and moved their assets to foreign ...
America: The Grim Truth
Post Date: 2010-05-06 12:33:56 by X-15
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You have the worst quality of life in the developed world – by a wide margin. If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia, you’d be rioting in the streets calling for a better life. In fact, the average Australian or Singaporean taxi driver has a much better standard of living than the typical American white-collar worker. I know this because I am an American, and I escaped from the prison you call home. I have lived all around the world, in wealthy countries and poor ones, and there is only one country I would never consider living in again: The United States of America. The mere thought of it fills me ...
Rep. Gene Taylor: Oil Spill Not So Bad, Looks Like Chocolate Milk
Post Date: 2010-05-05 16:00:47 by RickyJ
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Rep. Gene Taylor: Oil Spill Not So Bad, Looks Like Chocolate Milk Mississippi Congressman Gene Taylor says the oil spill isn’t so bad after all. During an interview with WLOX-TV Biloxi, Taylor says oil tends to “break up naturally” and referred to it as a “chocolate milk-looking spill.” (via Think Progress) Taylor: That chocolate milk looking spill starts breaking up in smaller pieces … It is tending to break up naturally. Video at link: www.alan.com/2010/05/03/r...ooks-like-chocolate-milk/
GOLD AND PROCRASTINATION
Post Date: 2010-05-04 20:44:21 by DeaconBenjamin
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Beginning in late 2001, I began recommending that my readers buy gold. I have continued to make this recommendation every year since then. When I first made it, gold was selling for under $300 per ounce. Today, it is approaching $1,200 per ounce. I wonder what percentage of my readers have taken my advice and put a minimum of $10,000 in gold coins. I would like to think 80%. I hope it is at least 4%. Some people have bought IOU's to gold issued by some firm that promises to pay investors fiat currencies. The payment will be made in digital money, not gold. The commodity futures market is a system of IOUs. Overall, about 1% of these contracts result in actual delivery of physical ...
Texe and Jeff
Post Date: 2010-05-04 08:20:04 by Itistoolate
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Louisiana Oil Spill Threatens Future U.S. Oil Supply
Post Date: 2010-05-03 16:20:15 by tom007
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Louisiana Oil Spill Threatens Future U.S. Oil Supply 1 comment by: Daryl Montgomery May 03, 2010 | about: APC / BP / CAM / HAL / OIH / OIL / RIG / XES / XOM Daryl Montgomery picture Daryl Montgomery 797 Followers 24 Following Follow * Profile * Articles (119) * Comments (48) Send Message You are currently following Daryl Montgomery Stop Following You are no longer following Daryl Montgomery About this author: * Visit: The Helicopter Economics Investing Guide Submit an article to back to yahoo finance add to my yahoo back to cake * Customize Font Size: * Print * Email * Recommend 0 Share this page Share0 As the easy to get to oil on land has become scarcer, the industry has ...
Exxon Valdez Victims Give Gulf Region Oil Spill Advice, Describe Shocking Human Toll Of Disaster
Post Date: 2010-05-03 13:04:20 by tom007
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Exxon Valdez Victims Give Gulf Region Oil Spill Advice, Describe Shocking Human Toll Of Disaster DAN JOLING and MARK THIESSEN | 05/ 3/10 06:05 AM | AP digg Huffpost - stumble reddit del.ico.us What's Your Reaction? Inspiring Enlightening Infuriating Scary Helpful Amazing Innovative Adorable Read More: Exxon Valdez, Gulf Coast Oil Spill, Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill 2010, Gulf Oil Spill, Oil Slick, Green News vote nowBuzz up! 48 12views Oil Spill Exxon Valdez Get Breaking News Alerts * Share * Comments 35 CORDOVA, Alaska — Communities along the Gulf Coast wondering about what kind of legacy the monstrous oil slick will leave can look no further than the towns along the ...
Obama Can't Be Trusted on Wall St. Reform -- Here's How to Forge a Finance Bill That Doesn't Suck
Post Date: 2010-05-02 00:10:49 by christine
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Let’s pretend that, sometime in 2002, thousands of cars started exploding. In our pretend world, oil refineries added a new chemical to gasoline that was supposed to make it burn more slowly but in fact caused horrific explosions. And let’s say that in response to these explosions, then-President George W.Bush angrily lashed out at the “pollutifying” oil companies and demanded that the government “intensifize its scrutinimany” of Big Oil. This populist tirade would come despite the fact that Bush had received millions of dollars from the oil and gas industries and that Bush himself began his post-alcoholism career as a Texas oil man. While it’s possible ...
Political Tennis
Post Date: 2010-05-01 17:20:23 by wetlandjack
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Reagan's list of accomplishments:
Post Date: 2010-04-29 20:40:57 by tom007
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Reagan's list of accomplishments: 1. Provided amnesty for most illegal aliens. 2. Knowingly sold weapons to known terrorists and then lied about it until it became inconvenient. 3. Imported crack cocaine to underprivileged communities in California and Florida. 4. Created the permanent national debt and the corresponding permanent national tax burden. 5. Actively lied to the American people about the Soviet threat, literally terrorizing us into complying with his corporate-welfare tax schemes (ransom demands). 6. Gave us two Bush presidencies. And this is the guy Teabaggers and other Republicans hold up as an example? Weird.
A Keener Whiff of Revolution
Post Date: 2010-04-29 11:13:28 by christine
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Columnist, Alan Caruba, wrote a recent article entitled, “A Whiff of Revolution,” in which he generally describes the people of the United States as being fed up and disgusted with federal politics.[1] Caruba rightly compares the actions by the federal government (particularly under Obama) to the actions by Great Britain just before the America Revolution, stating that “[i]t is the antithesis of a nation of laws, a republic.” Caruba predicts that Americans will eventually take this matter of freedom back into their own hands once again: “If, between now and the midterm elections, the President and Congress pass the Cap-and-Trade Act and an amnesty for illegal ...
Political Biology
Post Date: 2010-04-29 06:10:10 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Political Biology Genetic Interests and White Protest By Ellison Lodge This is the third in a series of articles on the question, raised most publicly by Patrick Buchanan, whether the Tea Party movement nurtures white consciousness and unity and will become the political basis for whites as a people. Patrick Buchanan has argued that whites' dispossession and displacement by non-whites is forging a new sense of white identity that hadn't existed before. Tea Parties are the most visible, though certainly not the only, manifestation of this deep, political, cultural, and historical phenomenon. Pat compared this process to the birth of Palestinian nationalism in the wake of Israeli ...
Kevorkian Stuns Students As He Assails A "Renegade, Rogue, Criminalistic" America
Post Date: 2010-04-28 11:15:01 by X-15
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Gainesville, FL (AHN) - Dr. Jack Kevorkian surprised a crowd of over 5,000 people at the University of Florida (UF) Tuesday night when he unleashed an attack on a "cowardly and deceitful Supreme Court," assailed the "made up mythology of religion," called American involvement in Iraq a "modified genocide" and declared that "whites can't unite" because "they're wimps." While students expected the controversial "Dr. Death" to speak about euthanasia, Kevorkian only briefly touched on the topics that made him the leading physician-assisted suicide advocate. Instead, Kevorkian explained during his first major speech since being ...
Bill Maher BECOMES a Teabagger - 4/23/10
Post Date: 2010-04-27 13:51:58 by Ferret
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-- Bill Maher BECOMES a Teabagger - 4/23/10
Whose country is this?
Post Date: 2010-04-27 10:59:23 by christine
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With the support of 70 percent of its citizens, Arizona has ordered sheriffs and police to secure the border and remove illegal aliens, half a million of whom now reside there. Arizona acted because the U.S. government has abdicated its constitutional duty to protect the states from invasion and refuses to enforce America's immigration laws. "We in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act," said Gov. Jan Brewer. "But decades of inaction and misguided policy have created an unacceptable situation." We have a crisis in Arizona because we have a failed state in Washington. What is the response of Barack Obama, who took an oath to see to it ...
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