Politics
President Obama exhorted Senate leaders just over a month ago to pass the health care bill. “We are on the precipice,” he declared, of health care change. At the time, I figured he’d simply misspoken. A precipice, after all, is a situation of great peril or the edge of a ...read more
The Changing Role of the Nation-State
Jan 8th, 2010 | By Byron King | Category: Featured, Politics
Looking at the bigger picture, the U.S. has its troubles. But the U.S. also has many unique economic, cultural and historical strengths — if the national leadership can keep its eye on the ball. Thing is, we’re in for some tough innings.
The world is experiencing what some commentators call “the ...read more
Time Magazine Blunders with Bernanke
Jan 7th, 2010 | By Wayne Allyn Root | Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Politics
You can usually count on Time magazine to get things backwards, and they missed in a big way with their selection of Ben Bernanke as “Person of the Year” for 2009. Bankster Ben was wrong, wrong, and wrong again in his Federal Reserve policies and prognostications, with the result being ...read more
Neither Left Nor Right: Of Liberty And Libertarians
Jan 4th, 2010 | By Doug Carkuff | Category: Featured, Politics
I have always taken it as a good thing that libertarians are detested by both the left and the right. To me it is proof positive that we libertarians are in the right. After all, both the left and the right are fundamentally the same — authoritarian statists who wish ...read more
Government, Slavery and the State
Jan 1st, 2010 | By Henry David Thoreau | Category: Featured, Politics
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but ...read more
Henry David Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Governing the Least
Dec 31st, 2009 | By Henry David Thoreau | Category: Featured, 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 ...read more
Governments Are Just Monopolies on Force
Dec 30th, 2009 | By Doug Casey | Category: Featured, Politics
"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitable he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is ...read more
Climate and the Fate of Humanity
Dec 28th, 2009 | By Doug Casey | Category: Featured, Politics, Technology
L: [Phone rings. It’s Doug Casey, whose gravelly, "Lobo, let’s talk!" always makes me smile.] Hi Doug! What’s on your mind?
Doug: Global warming. People like my fanatical neighbors here in Aspen seem perfectly willing to undo centuries of progress because they are completely delusional about global warming. The People’s Republic ...read more
Science Hasn’t Failed About Climate, Government Has
Dec 14th, 2009 | By Patrick Cox | Category: Featured, Politics, Technology
What a fascinating week. The leaked e-mails and computer code from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit have become the greatest scientific scandal of our age. The head of the CRU has been forced to step down. Scientists who cooperated with the CRU in other locations, including the ...read more
Reverse Racism and the Big Obama Con Job
Dec 1st, 2009 | By Wayne Allyn Root | Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Politics
Did you see the announcement of a week ago that Goldman Sachs is giving a half billion dollars to small businesses. Or are they? Why are they suddenly concerned with small business? They’ve certainly never cared about small business before. In the history of Goldman Sachs, what have they ever ...read more