Personal Liberties
Apr 2nd, 2009 |
By Adam Hopkins |
Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey, Personal Liberties, Politics
As President Barack Obama stays in Europe this week, meeting with world leaders at the G-20 Summit and the smitten mass media in tow, the focus will be on improving the global economy. And why not? America’s 44th has promised “change we can believe in.” So far, that change involves ...
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Tags: American Renaissance, Barack Obama
Posted in Featured, Morning Whiskey, Personal Liberties, Politics |
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Mar 20th, 2009 |
By Bill Jenkins |
Category: Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics
We watched in dismay as the unemployment numbers soared again last Friday -- a massive loss of 651,000 jobs in February. Thank God it was a short month...
But let's put this into perspective. In December, the non-farm payroll (NFP) figure was 577,000 jobs lost. In January, the NFP figure was ...
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Tags: liberty, socialism, taxes, unemployment
Posted in Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics |
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Mar 20th, 2009 |
By Linda Brady Traynham |
Category: Commodities, Featured, Morning Whiskey, Personal Liberties
I keep thinking of Ray Stevens ("Ahab the Arab," "Shrine Convention," "The Day the Squirrel Got Loose," etc.)
I just want to sing my little song," plot my stock charts, love my great sailor, play in my greenhouses, buy gold no matter what the economy is doing, and be the happiest ...
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Tags: Commodities, depression, peak food
Posted in Commodities, Featured, Morning Whiskey, Personal Liberties |
5 comments
Mar 13th, 2009 |
By Gary Gibson |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Morning Whiskey, Personal Liberties
Morning Whiskey: The First Shot’s on Me
Greeting Shooters,
Your submissions are rolling in, but I figured I’d pour the first shot.
Welcome to Morning Whiskey. We’re going to use this little corner of our site to feature your thoughts on the matters dear to all the hearts at this bar.
First up: Muntadhar ...
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Tags: George W. Bush, Madoff, Ponzi
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics, Morning Whiskey, Personal Liberties |
6 comments
Feb 4th, 2009 |
By Dan Denning |
Category: Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics
The week begins with a bang, according to the Financial Times. The FT reports that, "The Obama administration is gearing up for a 'big bang' announcement within the next two weeks that will combine a bank clean-up with measures to reduce home foreclosures and probably steps to kick-start credit markets."
Obama ...
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Tags: free market, government, Marxism
Posted in Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics |
15 comments
Jan 30th, 2009 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Featured, Personal Liberties
I'm going to start with a most controversial proposition:
No government has the right to exist.
First, I must specify what I mean by a right. We can define a right in many different ways, but the one thing that all conceptions have in common is that they are, ultimately, a justification ...
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Tags: government, liberty, rights, state
Posted in Featured, Personal Liberties |
9 comments
Jan 16th, 2009 |
By Gary Gibson |
Category: Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics
In a few days the offspring of the sexual congress between an African black (who really and truly was from an actual nation in Africa) and an American white of European descent will be sworn in as president of the United States. I don’t think this amounts to much at ...
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Tags: race, socialism, state, welfare
Posted in Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics |
24 comments
Dec 30th, 2008 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics
I heartily accept the motto,—"That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe—"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for ...
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Tags: anarchy, freedom, government
Posted in Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics |
3 comments
Dec 22nd, 2008 |
By Byron King |
Category: Featured, Gold, Personal Liberties
What if you woke up one day and there was a flying saucer sitting in the middle of Central Park? It would change your view of the world, if not the universe, right? At least that’s the idea behind the newly released remake of the classic 1951 film The Day ...
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Tags: money, physical gold onwership, Ponzi scheme
Posted in Featured, Gold, Personal Liberties |
7 comments
Nov 25th, 2008 |
By Don Stott |
Category: Economics, Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics
There is nothing so sad as to see an elderly person with a whole medicine cabinet full of various prescription drugs, which are regularly taken several times a day and for some strange reason their health doesn’t seem to improve. Thousands of times, a son or daughter has come upon ...
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Tags: Bureaucratic Prescriptions, Financial Crisis, Non-Productive People, Printing money, Un-backed Paper, waving the Union
Posted in Economics, Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics |
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