Posts Tagged ‘ Obama ’

Sustaining the Unsustainable: The Abyss Stares Back

Feb 24th, 2009 | By James Howard Kunstler | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
The public perception of the ongoing fiasco in governance has moved from sheer, mute incomprehension to goggle-eyed panic as the scrims of unreality peel away revealing something like a national death-watch scene in history's intensive care unit. Is the USA in recession, depression, or collapse? People are at least beginning ...read more

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The Left in Power

Feb 18th, 2009 | By Whiskey Contributor | Category: Featured, Politics
The theme of my book, The Left, the Right, and the State, is that both sides of the political aisle represent a grave threat to liberty — though each of a different sort. It is like two people tugging at a turkey's wishbone: the turkey is liberty, and you are ...read more

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What the First Black President Means for the U.S.

Nov 13th, 2008 | By Dan Denning | Category: Politics
“How do you feel about the election?” we were asked by a friend at the pub a few nights ago. “I have a cold. I don’t feel very well.” “But about the election? About Obama?” “Well, it’s great that a black man can be elected President in America. But it doesn’t exactly expiate ...read more

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