Category archives for: Pickings

The Oppression of Women in Islamic Societies

Warning, the images in this video are not suitable for children or the faint of heart. Real images of stoning, genital mutilation and honor killings are shown so be prepared. While I’m actually opposed to our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, I also think that we shouldn’t kid ourselves about what the Islamic faith is [...]

Fear the Boom and Bust – Keynes vs. Hayek Rap Battle

Great “Rap” video of Keynes and Hayek!

Global Warming Solved by Capitalism!

I just saw an interview with J. Craig Venter, famous for his participation in the human genome project and now CEO of Synthetic Genomics, in which he stated that he is creating a microbe which eats C02 and creates hydrocarbon fuel. That’s right, you heard me correctly. Using genetic engineering, they essentially assemble this little [...]

The Tea Party is Over

The Tea Party is Over

I watched some of the speechifying from the Tea Party convention this weekend (as much as I could stomach) which showed that it is the new home (and probably only the temporary one) of the ‘moral majority’ types from the Republican party. You know, the big C Conservatives, who are mostly Christian evangelicals, mostly white [...]

Congress is Choking Us!

Congress is Choking Us!

See this from Downsizer Dispatch D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h Congress passed fewer laws in 2009, but they were nearly three times as large! Please send Congress a letter telling them to stop bundling unrelated legislation by passing DownsizeDC.org’s One Subject At [...]

Inside Afghanistan-Fighting Alongside Stoned Afghan Soldiers

This is the reality that our governments don’t want you to see – that’s why this is UK footage. What would you think if we sent you there to fight for these people?  This is why the Libertarian policy of ( more …. ) Video Tags: afghanistan, taliban Technorati Tags: afghanistan, taliban

Federal plus 150k club doubles during recession!

Federal plus 150k club doubles during recession!

That’s right, just in case you had any doubt whether federal bureaucrats were out of touch with the rest of us, here comes this gem.http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/12/11/federal-salaries-explode/ Anyone with a libertarian thought in their head should see this as a ‘canary in the mine’. It is mostly due to the unionization of government labor, which in term [...]

Obama’s Policy Fethishist Administration Exposed

Click here to see a truly funny send-up of the Obama  cabinet based on their lack of public sector experience. I apologize in advance as it’s fairly offensive to those of you on the left, but I think it’s so funny that it’s worth watching. For a more balanced view on Obama’s faith in social [...]

Pravda gets U.S. economy better than the WSJ

Pravda gets U.S. economy better than the WSJ

It’s really just too much to get my head around, but you have to read this article about the U.S. economy headed for another crash – in the Russian newspaper Pravda! The Russian word for “truth”,  it was synonymous with Soviet state run media and propaganda back in the bad old days. But it seems [...]

Ayn Rand – Objectivism vs Altruismism

I love the way that Ayn Rand never apologized for her beliefs. She makes some very clear delineations in this legendary interview with Mike Wallace about coercion, virtue and love that I think ( more …. ) Video Tags: libertarian, love, morality, self-interest, virtue Technorati Tags: libertarian, love, morality, self-interest, virtue

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