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Chucky Schmucky

Wed, 04/08/2009 - 11:09am | posted by Matt Wittlief

I’m in the middle of working on another post, and The Rachel Maddow Show is on in the background. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who is not-so-affectionately nicknamed by conservative radio host Mark Levin as “Chucky Schmucky”, is making an appearance. He was just discussing how he hopes that more of the “mainline conservative” Republican Senators will be willing to break party ranks from the “hard right” and vote their conscience.

Ron Paul Back In ‘88 Talking About The Crisis

Wed, 04/08/2009 - 5:53am | posted by Alina Stefanescu Coryell

According to the Alex Jones show website, “the mainstream media has already accepted the fact that Ron Paul has been right about the economic crisis, but they never talk about how long he’s been saying this…” Watch the 5 videos (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5) with Ron Paul’s 1988 warnings.

Introducing: The Politician’s Pocket Guide to Raising Taxes

Tue, 04/07/2009 - 10:59am | posted by Matt Chancey

I’ve finally gotten around to publishing my Pocket Guide for Politicians. Some of my readers will recall that this project has been sitting on my shelf gathering dust for years. Well, the first edition is finally complete. You can purchase copies by clicking HERE or on the book cover to the right.

Economic Depressions Don’t Exist Under Totalitarian Systems

Tue, 04/07/2009 - 5:27am | posted by Alina Stefanescu Coryell

So contends Lev Nazrozov. He writes:

Out-of-control predatory capitalists have perpetrated a worldwide economic depression. Capitalism’s degenerate character is now extraordinarily visible during this time of multiple crises.

On each side of the page there is a picture of a miserable emaciated proletarian who carries on his back a huge pack of money, with a bourgeois seated atop of the pack and smoking a cigar.

By simply allowing the government to dominate every sector of the polity, by embracing totalitarianism, we might be able to avoid the woes of economic recession? Historical study makes such a conclusion seem ridiculous. While totalitarian economies did not suffer from “depressions”, per se, one could argue that consumers and citizens lived under a system which continuously mimicked the effects of depression.

Strongman Intimidation Continues in Venezuela

Mon, 04/06/2009 - 2:14pm | posted by Michael O. Powell

As the economy downturns in Venezuela, so does its political freedom:

CARACAS — Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez moved to jail a prominent opposition figure for the second time in recent weeks, an apparent bid to tighten his grip on power amid a sharp downturn in economic growth.

Raúl Baduel, a former defense minister-turned-Chávez-critic, was arrested on corruption charges Thursday, according to Mr. Baduel’s lawyer, Omar Mora Tosta, and government officials. Mr. Mora Tosta says the charges are unfounded.

DC School Vouchers: Better Results, 1/4 the Cost

Mon, 04/06/2009 - 10:54am | posted by Jason Pye

A new study shows that school vouchers in DC bring better results at a fraction of the cost:

The latest federal study of the D.C. voucher program finds that voucher students have pulled significantly ahead of their public school peers in reading and perform at least as well as public school students in math. It also reports that the average tuition at the voucher schools is $6,620. That is ONE QUARTER what the District of Columbia spends per pupil on education ($26,555), according to the District’s own fiscal year 2009 budget.
Better results at a quarter the cost. And Democrats in Congress have sunset its funding and are trying to kill it. Shame on them.

PPIP: The Right Medicine?

Mon, 04/06/2009 - 6:10am | posted by Katy Delay

These tense times need comic relief.

ppip

More Liberty is Needed in the Media

Sun, 04/05/2009 - 2:13pm | posted by Michael O. Powell

Where is a person of a classically liberal inclination to go in today’s political media jungle?

The last four years have been somewhat of a storm for people like us. The unpopularity of George W. Bush tainted conservatism for at best a couple years and at worst a generation. Ron Paul only got a fraction of the Republican primary vote in 2008, not enough to bite into the doomed-to-fail John McCain. William F. Buckley died, as did Milton Friedman.

Glenn Beck, a pseudo-libertarian-inclined talk radio and cable news personality who showed promise by giving airtime to libertarian activists and having constructive dialogues with disagreeable people like Rev. Al Sharpton, has gone completely bat-sh!+ crazy in exchange for good ratings.

Jon Basil Utley Still Rocks the Foreign Policy Establishment

Sun, 04/05/2009 - 11:38am | posted by Alina Stefanescu Coryell

Have a peep at yesterday’s piece for Foreign Policy In Focus, where he enjoins the Left and the Right to pare down the military industrial complex. An excerpt:

With its dispersed base of support and a built-in mechanism for distributing profits, the military-industrial complex is a tough nut to crack. Both sides of the aisle are reluctant to challenge such a behemoth. Democrats are afraid that curtailing military waste will leave them open to accusations of being “soft on terrorism.” Most Republicans, meanwhile, are willing to subsidize the defense industry even as they oppose saving the auto industry.

In Defense of Brandy

Sun, 04/05/2009 - 6:19am | posted by Matt Chancey

President Obama showcased his ignorance of world political history at the G-20 summit in London recently when he made a crack at his political predecessors’ penchant for back-room brandy sessions:

Well, if there’s just Roosevelt and Churchill sitting in a room with a brandy, that’s an easier negotiation. But that’s not the world we live in, and it shouldn’t be the world that we live in.

I realize that every generation likes to think of itself as unique and facing problems their ancestors did not. It’s the easiest way to excuse failure. No one will blame a world leader for poorly handling a challenge that the world has never seen.

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