Next time you hear Tom Friedman or some other supposed ‘sophisticate’ praising China’s enlightened, technocratic government or it’s vaunted economic wisdom, remind them of these prisons and prisoners. This is an ongoing human rights violation and a crime against humanity. Friedman once longed for the U.S. to be “China for a day” so the U.S. [...]
Watch this video. Jon Stewart skewers Fox and CNN for their willful exclusion of Ron Paul from their coverage. It’s too good to not pass on! The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook
Alan Blinder, Ph.D. of Princeton, laid out the case for not cutting government spending right now due to it’s economic impact in today’s Wall Street Journal. In this article, he posits such half-truths and simplistic questions as the following: “The generic conservative view that government is “too big” in some abstract sense leads to a [...]
Wow, rarely have I read such a direct and damning assessment of our relationship with Pakitan. I’m not sure what to think of it. Here’s an excerpt, from Christopher Hitchens in July’s Vanity Fair. “Salman Rushdie’s upsettingly brilliant psycho-profile of Pakistan, in his 1983 novel, Shame, rightly laid emphasis on the crucial part played by [...]
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 [...]
Great “Rap” video of Keynes and Hayek!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
