Politics
Feb 2nd, 2012 |
By Bill Bonner |
Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
Readers will scarcely have given any thought to the fact that they have never lived in the system of government argued for by Madison, Jay, and Hamilton in the Federalist Papers.
"It may come as a shock ..." wrote John Flynn, "to be told that[you] have never experienced that kind of society ...
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Tags: funding empire, income tax, sixteenth amendment
Posted in Economics, Featured, Politics |
2 comments
Feb 1st, 2012 |
By Charles Goyette |
Category: Featured, Gold, International, Politics
It looks just like a reality show that's not going to be renewed for another season. President Obama's State of the Union ratings are headed in the same direction as American Idol's so far this season – down.
Let me make a secret confession right here. For years, the producer of ...
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Tags: Gold, India, Iran, Oil, petrodollar, State of the Union Address
Posted in Featured, Gold, International, Politics |
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Jan 31st, 2012 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Featured, Politics
I've blogged quite a bit lately about SOPA and PIPA and the recent Internet blackouts and other protests against these bills, which threaten free speech and the open Internet (Mike Masnick et al. at Techdirt have also been great on exposing and analyzing SOPA).
As Jeffrey Tucker noted recently, the protests ...
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Tags: abolition of copyright, Golan ruling, intellectual property as source of problem, SOPA
Posted in Featured, Politics |
8 comments
Jan 27th, 2012 |
By Jeffrey Tucker |
Category: Featured, Politics, Technology
Last week's violent government attack on the hugely popular site Megaupload -- the U.S. government arresting Belgian citizens in New Zealand, of all places, and stealing at gunpoint servers bank accounts and property -- has sent shock waves through the entire digital world.
The first shock was the realization that the ...
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Tags: intellectual property, legality of file sharing, Megaupload, SOPA
Posted in Featured, Politics, Technology |
12 comments
Jan 24th, 2012 |
By Gary Gibson |
Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
First, a correction. A Bar regular writes...
"Joe Lieberman is not a Democrat. He is an independent, as he resigned from the Democratic Party. Don't you ever check things out before stating them as facts?
"Wish you the best with your paranoia,"
"-- Steve K"
This comes from one of our most-faithful, unswerving, persistent ...
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Tags: flat tax, head tax, Jeffrey Tucker, Lieberman, progressivism, taxes
Posted in Economics, Featured, Politics |
2 comments
Jan 23rd, 2012 |
By Jeffrey Tucker |
Category: Featured, Politics
A horrifying aspect of modern life is how nearly daily threats to fundamental freedoms and human rights nearly require that citizens become politically aware and active.
Here we are struggling to put food on the table, cultivate a civilized private life, support things we care about, manage our households, and otherwise ...
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Tags: Charles Dent, EEA, potential expatriation of dissenters, U.S. government
Posted in Featured, Politics |
3 comments
Jan 20th, 2012 |
By Jeffrey Tucker |
Category: Featured, Politics
The government seems determined to turn out the lights on the digital age. And this is with or without SOPA or the other bills that were only this week shouted down by the global digital community on Blackout Wednesday. The very next day, after support for that legislation collapsed after ...
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Tags: intellectual property, Internet, Megaupload indictment, SOPA
Posted in Featured, Politics |
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Jan 19th, 2012 |
By Gary Gibson |
Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
Enthusiastic tax shill Warren Buffett has put his money where his mouth is.
He's ponied up $49,000 to help pay down the national debt. He's simultaneously matching voluntary contributions already made by Rep. Scott Rigell of Virginia.
Yes, $49,000 to Mr. Buffett is the equivalent of 49 pennies to the rest of ...
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Tags: $49, 000, government debt and spending, tax shill, taxes, voluntary exchange, Warren Buffett
Posted in Economics, Featured, Politics |
2 comments
Jan 18th, 2012 |
By Jeffrey Tucker |
Category: Politics, Technology
There's been a long debate over digital technology. Does it help or harm the cause of liberty, individualism and human rights? People who say it has hurt point out that government has been able to use the products of private innovation for its own purposes. The government can watch us ...
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Tags: Black Wednesday, digital protest over SOPA and PIPA, Wikipedia goes dark
Posted in Politics, Technology |
3 comments
Jan 17th, 2012 |
By Jeffrey Tucker |
Category: Featured, Politics
Wikipedia, that ever-evolving monument to human collaboration in the cause of global enlightenment, goes completely black tomorrow, Wednesday, Jan. 18. The blackout is a choice, and a brilliant one, made by founder Jimmy Wales in consultation with the whole Wikipedia community. It is a protest, a statement, a symbolic warning ...
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Tags: Blackout Wednesday, opposition to SOPA, Wikipeia blackout
Posted in Featured, Politics |
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