Dec

8

Copenhagen Conference Opens by Scaring Little Children

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I guess if junk science doesn’t impress them, the climate commies figure scaring the little buggers to death might work. Hey kids! Here’s some news for you, some adults are just plain evil.

Sep

19

The best obituary for Irving Kristol

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Short and sweet by Lew Rockwell

Feb

15

Ron Paul’s latest update on the native criminal class

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Progressives continue Neocon policy of “Don’t give anybody time to read the bill before you make them vote”
Yes, that’s “Change You Can Believe In!” May they all be stimulated as they rot in hell.

Feb

10

Woods and Folsom on Glenn Beck

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Thomas E. Woods, author of Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse and Burton W. Folsom Jr., author of New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged America on Glenn Beck


Dec

30

Donald J. Boudreaux presents Mencken’s timeless insights

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As Murray Rothbard wrote in H. L. Mencken: The Joyous Libertarian, “No one truly immersed in Mencken could emerge quite the same again; no one could retain the same faith in our “statesmen” or in the democratic political process itself, no one could ever be quite the same sucker for all manner of ideological, social, and political quackery, the same worshipper of solemn nonsense.”

Donald J. Boudreaux of Cafe Hayek, who is truly immersed in Mencken gives us some timeless Mencken wisdom.

Mencken’s timeless insights

By Donald J. Boudreaux
Friday, December 26, 2008

L’affair Rod Blagojevich reminds me that if I could bring one person back to life for an evening of good food, stiff drink and sterling conversation, that person would unquestionably be H.L. Mencken (1880-1956).

Mencken was a newspaper reporter, magazine editor, literary critic and expert on what he called “the American language.” But he was, in my view, above all this country’s unmatched observer and recorder of politics. So sit back and feast on these intellectually nutritious and tasty tidbits of Mencken’s political wisdom.

In Mencken’s view, the typical politician is a “merchant of delusions,” a “pumper-up of popular fears and rages.”

READ ON AT THE PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW

Dec

30

Obama is like FDR, only dumber

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Like F.D.R., Only Worse
by A.W.R. Hawkins
12/23/2008

When F.D.R. took office in 1933, our country had been in a depression for approximately three and half years. Not unlike today’s severe recession, the depression he faced was international in scope, but the faltering economy of the United States predominated. F.D.R.’s “solution” to the economic hardships we faced was a socialism-made-simple approach that included everything from an expansion of government through more regulatory oversight and tax increases to the creation of employment opportunities via jobs for which the private sector saw no need.

READ ON AT HUMAN EVENTS

Mr. Hawkins does a pretty good job comparing Obama’s New New Deal with FDR’s New Deal at Human Events. Dumb ideas always manage to find their way back to bring ruin on a new generation of victims, reborn new and improved—usually even dumber than the original. As H.L. Mencken wrote, “The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.” There’s an important distinction there, a man with idiotic ideas that would effect a large number of other people typically wants to use the force of government to impose his ideas on others. If he could only rely on voluntary participation in his dumb ideas, practically nobody would listen. Government on the other hand can do what no sane and moral person could ever do; they can give idiocy—legitimacy. Why anybody would allow some idiot elected by idiots to have control over their lives and property I’ll never understand.

Dec

7

Commie Keynes

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Ilana Mercer writes on John Maynard Keynes and his disciples, the contemptible lot that they are.

The commie who controls the economy from the grave

“Why do people still fail to get Keynes, after all these years?” carped an impatient and uppity Paul Krugman, columnist for the New York Times.

Krugman, an avowed Keynesian – and the recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics – replied robotically:

“For – though no one will believe it – economics is a technical and difficult subject.”

In other words, leave it to the experts.

Diminishing ordinary people, like demonizing private enterprise, is essential Keynesianism. Ditto “semantic obscurity.” Keynes “clothed the simplest proposition in the most complicated phraseology,” writes the author of “Keynes At Harvard: Economic Deception as a Political Credo.”

READ ON AT WORLDNETDAILY

Nov

28

Robert Ringer on Fighting the Ugly Beltway Brew

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Warnings From Insiders
Hyperinflation Fear

By Robert Ringer

I had a long talk yesterday with an old friend, an ex-Congressman who served eighteen years before retiring in disgust. Back in the late eighties, he invited me to give a talk to a group of likeminded conservative colleagues in his office. (A couple of young Congressmen who were at that meeting are now very high-profile politicos, but, to protect their privacy, I will refrain from giving their names.)

Afterward, my friend told me how impressed they had been with what I had to say. But I didn’t buy it, because one of the things I remember most vividly about that meeting was their blank stares. Clearly, those supposedly conservative Congressmen were not prepared to hear my analyses of government, the economy, or the future.

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Nov

27

Have we become a communist country yet? Part II

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Below is Chapter 3 of the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS.
The Constitution of the United States in comparison grants none of these delegated powers to the federal government. Strangely enough our federal government has over the years adopted practically all of these responsibilities and powers that the Soviet government gave to itself to mold social development and culture. Even though most Americans despised communism and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and would consider these powers to be tyrannical and un-American, how many people have noticed that the federal government through its many laws and the alphabet soup agencies they created over the decades have adopted parts of the Soviet Constitution? Not many I would guess. I don’t think most Americans have a clue about what powers are delegated to their federal government in the constitution and why, but I would guess confidently though that many Americans would defend the federal government having these Soviet-like responsibilities and powers anyway—they would even consider it American as apple pie if only because they don’t know any better! Is there any wonder why this country is headed down the crapper like the late Soviet Union? Our forefathers must be turning in their graves.

Chapter 3: SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND CULTURE

Article 19. The social basis of the USSR is the unbreakable alliance of the workers, peasants, and intelligentsia.
The state helps enhance the social homogeneity of society, namely the elimination of class differences and of the essential distinctions between town and country and between mental and physical labour, and the all-round development and drawing together of all the nations and nationalities of the USSR.

Article 20. In accordance with the communist ideal–”The free development of each is the condition of the free development of all”–the state pursues the aim of giving citizens more and more real opportunities to apply their creative energies, abilities, and talents, and to develop their personalities in every way.

Article 21. The state concerns itself with improving working conditions, safety and labour protection and the scientific organisation of work, and with reducing and ultimately eliminating all arduous physical labour through comprehensive mechanisation and automation of production processes in all branches of the economy.

Article 22. A programme is being consistently implemented in the USSR to convert agricultural work into a variety of industrial work, to extend the network of educational, cultural, and medical institutions, and of trade, public catering, service and public utility facilities in rural localities, and transform hamlets and villages into well-planned and well-appointed settlements.

Article 23. The state pursues a steady policy of raising people’s pay levels and real incomes through increase in productivity.
In order to satisfy the needs of Soviet people more fully social consumption funds are created. The state, with the broad participation of public organisations and work collectives, ensures the growth and just distribution of these funds.

Article 24. In the USSR, state systems of health protection, social security, trade and public catering, communal services and amenities, and public utilities, operate and are being extended.
The state encourages co-operatives and other public organisations to provide all types of services for the population. It encourages the development of mass physical culture and sport.

Article 25. In the USSR there is a uniform system of public education, which is being constantly improved, that provides general education and vocational training for citizens, serves the communist education and intellectual and physical development of the youth, and trains them for work and social activity.

Article 26. In accordance with society’s needs, the state provides for planned development of science and the training of scientific personnel and organises introduction of the results of research in the economy and other spheres of life.

Article 27. The state concerns itself with protecting, augmenting and making extensive use of society’s cultural wealth for the moral and aesthetic education of the Soviet people, for raising their cultural level.

In the USSR development of the professional, amateur and folk arts is encouraged in every way.

Sep

17

What the Anti-Free Market Capitalists are up too

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That would be the FED and their Wall Street cronies for the unenlightened.
Thomas Jefferson knew the dangers of a central bank and fiat money in his time.
“Everything predicted by the enemies of banks, in the beginning, is now coming to pass. We are to be ruined now by the deluge of bank paper. It is cruel that such revolutions in private fortunes should be at the mercy of avaricious adventurers, who, instead of employing their capital, if any they have, in manufactures, commerce, and other useful pursuits, make it an instrument to burden all the interchanges of property with their swindling profits, profits which are the price of no useful industry of theirs.” –Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 1814

And he knew that they would corrupt everything they touched including the Congress.
“The bank mania… is raising up a moneyed aristocracy in our country which has already set the government at defiance, and although forced at length to yield a little on this first essay of their strength, their principles are unyielded and unyielding. These have taken deep root in the hearts of that class from which our legislators are drawn, and the sop to Cerberus from fable has become history. Their principles lay hold of the good, their pelf of the bad, and thus those whom the Constitution had placed as guards to its portals, are sophisticated or suborned from their duties.” –Thomas Jefferson to Josephus B. Stuart, 1817.

Now back to the moneyed aristocracy of our time:

Free market capitalism: A ‘peek behind the curtain’

“It is a popular myth that financial markets are based on principles of capitalism,” observes Ron Rowland in his All Star Investor newsletter, adding, “but the opposite is closer to the truth.”

Assessing what he calls the Federal Reserve’s moves to “buy Wall Street,” he offers a straight-forward overview of the current situation and a “peek behind the curtain” of free markets and Wall Street.


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