The Political Inquirer

I just finished reading the Newsweek article that was touted everywhere as something special: “The Post-American World“. It is a good article that really shows how capitalism has advanced in other countries while we in the United States have been holding ourselves back–now other countries are beginning to catch up. Not all, but many, and [...]

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(Slight spoilers)
The Iron Man movie’s underlying story is political–mainly about the Afghanistan operations and character Tony Stark’s company’s involvement in selling arms to both sides of the conflict. Americans and terrorists are both shooting each other with Stark Enterprise weapons.
Iron Man becomes a movie about some sort of moral sense to Tony Stark that his [...]

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(Part 1) (Part 2) (Parts 3 and 4) (Parts 5 and 6) (Part 7)
I finished watching the last episode of the John Adams miniseries by HBO. It was another moving episode, definitely one of the the best. It obviously follows the end of the life of Adams, his wife, his daughter and many of his [...]

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I recommend reading some of these books, they’re all very good and I enjoyed all of them:

Patton: A Genius for War
Socialism (Ludwig von Mises). This is possibly my favorite economics book of all time, simply because Mises put to rest any thought that socialism could ever exist in a society as more efficient than capitalism. [...]

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(Part 1) (Part 2) (Parts 3 and 4)
I had time to catch up on HBO’s John Adams miniseries with episodes 3 and 4 the past few days and I wanted to share my thoughts on them. These episodes are again very well done but seem a little lacking after the profound speeches and gathering of [...]

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After 24 hours in Club Gitmo I announce my return late this April 1st. The great “fooser” was kind enough to alert everyone to my “detainment” during the night.
It was an experience. The other tourists in Club Gitmo and I had a blast in the areas of extreme cold to the hot rooms with the [...]

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Ron Paul announced that, if elected, his Cabinet would include John Bolton as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton as HHS and Rumsfield returning to Defense.

Massacre!  15 Shoppers and clerks slain at local gun store by lone gunman; killer escapes.

General Petraeus and Osama Bin Laden exchanged gay wedding vows today in a mosque, following it up by leading Flower [...]

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The guest blogger at the Daily Dish points out that a PEW poll reports 80% of Chinese believe the Internet should be controlled.The reasoning:
Much of the highest profile press focuses on children and their internet use and abuse. Over half of all internet users in China are under the age of 25, and 20% are [...]

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I plan to publish a series of Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s “videos” that delved into the important “community” work this man has performed. This media lynching, this insane character assassination perpetuated by Sean Hannity and his Fox News friends (some friends) needs to cease and desist. And only you can help achieve this goal.
View the videos.
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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 [...]

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Last night I had the pleasure of watching the first episode of HBO’s new miniseries, John Adams. I have learned a lot about John Adams over the past few years and after learning they were making a miniseries based on David McCullough’s biography of Adams, I highly anticipated its release.
I first read the book on [...]

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A hilarious article at the London Guardian on Hillary and her poor choice of clothing. (Photo: The Guardian)
Of course a woman shouldn’t be denied the presidency just because she can’t dress well, but that is not the point with Clinton - she has always carefully tailored her style to what she thinks the electorate desires. [...]

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