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Daily Archive for October 4th, 2011

Just imagine how a “free-market” police and court system would destroy our rights! They’d probably impose ghastly rules on us like, “if a crime occurs on your property, the corporation can seize the property as if the property itself were a criminal.” And then when seized, it will not compensate you, the innocent owner, and […]

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Quote of the Day

From the eminently quotable Tim Taylor: FDR and others saw Hoover during the 1920s as a possible presidential candidate for the Democrats Another myth that dies hard. Hoover the free-market ideologue. Same ol’ stuff that prevails today. I had a student telling me the other day that the Fed manipulating interest rates was why he […]

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Soviet Navel Gazing

Yet another economist craps all over the “old ideas:” Finally, a New Republic article by Peter Orzsag, former Obama Administration Director of the Office of Management and Budget and now Vice Chairman of Global Banking at Citigroup, calls for more reliance upon “automatic policies and depoliticized commissions” because “we need to counter the gridlock of our […]

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I am positive the Take Over Wall Street People have large signs about that, right? Here is Coyote, pay attention to his last sentence: I simply cannot believe that the President of the US just ordered an American citizen killed, without trial or due process, and the country just yawns.  And in some cases, cheered. […]

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Ethanol is a fuel that is derived from the digestion of sugars in plant material by bacteria. One of the most “popular” is ethanol. Now, you guys are all by now pretty familiar with how “un-green” ethanol is likely to be (if not, I can remind you in a later post). But let’s be charitable […]

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