Three Hundred Billion. That’s how much our elected representatives have decided to flush down the toilet in a grand example of good money after bad. The Federal Housing Authority has already put the nation in over its head vis-a-vis risk, having promoted the bundling and trading of mortgage loans without providing standards or ratings. Now, [...]
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Am I the only one that thinks yesterday’s Tel Aviv Airport suicide story doesn’t pass the smell test? Let’s do a Mike O grey zone what-if: What if a DC cop or Homeland Security Officer caught a bullet in the head just as Vlad Putin or Gordon Brown or any other head-of-state was doing the [...]
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With home prices collapsing across the country, can we stop nattering on about ‘affordable’ housing? The state of New Jersey is about to demand that all home-builders (developers) must create one unit of “affordable” housing for every five units of “market-rate” housing. Doesn’t “Market-Rate” define “affordable”? Do our politicians understand how capitalism works? With corn-based [...]
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Journalism is biased, and always has been. The concept of the “fourth estate” as representative of the common people dates back to the French Revolution, and is the first acknowledgement that news reporting has a distinct viewpoint. Over the course of time, corporations began to invest in newspapers (as advertisers), which induced publishers to be [...]
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“You say you want a Revolution? We’d all love to change the world.” -Lennon/McCartney America must lead a revolution. The people of America, and the world, must once again have real money. Money that has value. In many countries around the world the currency is linked to the US Dollar with a value of X [...]
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I was thinking of Quasimodo when I heard that another Waco was brewing last week. The sad old hunchback grabbed the condemned Esmeralda off the gibbet, and fled back to Notre Dame shouting “Sanctuary! Sanctuary!” Back in Texas, a couple of morally hunchbacked ogres were likewise crying “Sanctuary!” as the Texas Rangers were rounding up [...]
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Inflation will save us. The dollar is in china syndrome, and interest rates are approaching zero, but what appears to be an ugly duckling is the goose that will lay the golden egg. A long decline in housing prices (in real dollars), dating from the 1987 stock crash and lingering through the rest of the [...]
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Admiral William “Fox” Fallon resigned as head of CentCom on Tuesday, reportedly in protest over the President’s push for war with Iran. The Esquire article that heralded the admiral’s demise was labeled everything from a mis-fired puff piece to a gross act of insubordination, and as usual, the real story — War with Iran Imminent! [...]
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How much mileage does John McCain expect to get on entering the White House from his image as a Crazy Man? Do our enemies step back out of respect for the brutalized war prisoner, out of fear of his rightousness? Richard Nixon ascended to the Presidency when we still faced the Red Menace, and the [...]
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Blatantly calling for a New Fascism in his Wisconsin acceptance speech, John McCain declared Tuesday night that, “we must re-think and re-build the structure and mission of our military, the capabilities of our intelligence and law enforcement agencies, the purposes of our alliances, the reach and scope of our democracy, the capacity of all branches [...]
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Here’s how to fix the primaries: Kick off with Iowa and New Hampshire, like normal. The next state, and one that wanted an early slot, should be Florida. If they’re going to campaign in January, it might as well be in Florida. A candidate could cover most of the state in a couple of weeks [...]
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He is the new face of the Anti-War Movement. His appearance is timely, coming at the dark hour that ushers in new NATO policies of nuclear first-strikes. His advent is heralded by plans to increase the size of our standing army. And the new face of the Anti-War movement greets the latest “signing statement” of [...]
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The ghost of JFK loomed large this week, one week since fellow martyr MLK took center stage. Standing in for his brother, Ted backstopped Caroline’s endorsement and gave the eastern establishment seal of approval to Change We Can Believe In. Stopping the Clinton sequel, “Momma’s Back! (and Daddy’s off his leash),” is still all uphill. [...]
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Let’s keep discussing McCain. Good Points: 1. Quality of Character — he’s a legit hero for staying in the Hanoi Hilton to make sure everybody got out. 2. Open communication style — you know what he thinks and believes and he’ll answer any question. Bad Points: 1. Understanding of Economics — he’s a boob and [...]
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Ron Paul was given a hot six minutes to make his case last night. He was not asked to weigh-in on the economic stimulus package being prepared by President Bush and the congress. He was not asked how he would take on the tag-team of Mr and Mrs Clinton in the general election. He was [...]
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We stand at a crossroads. It is a road we have been on for one hundred years. We have passed through many frontiers and seen many marvels. From here, should we go on, we can never return to the homes we have known. This is our last chance to turn back from wretched empire. The [...]
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Here are some snippets of MLK, and more below with expanded MLK and bonus JFK material, appropriate for the day. “Don’t let anybody make you think that God chose America as his Divine, Messianic Force To Be, a sort of policeman of the whole world.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. The Kennedy brothers, JFK and [...]
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Stand up and salute a true patriot. Time is short, but men like this, given public exposure, can make an enormous difference. Watch. Link. Repeat. See also:Civil Disobedience.
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Leggo My Eggo! Or, Dude, Where’s the Food?
Food riots in Haiti have caused the ouster of the sitting Prime Minister there, and if Somalia had a functioning government it, too, would be be in collapse. We are told it is the price of oil, the diversion of corn supplies from the food-chain into ethanol production, and restrictions on exports that are to [...]
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