"The 1978 musical told the story of Eva Peron, the actress turned first lady of Argentina. Seen as ruthless and cunning, she and her husband drew support from the "descamisados," or the poor and the working class, to climb to power."
Strike at the Root of Polarized Politics
Directing a spotlight on the ignorance in politics, and on the complacency of the public at large.
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." - Henry David Thoreau
Friday, October 16, 2015
Clinton Spanish Posters: Hillary Or Evita?
"The 1978 musical told the story of Eva Peron, the actress turned first lady of Argentina. Seen as ruthless and cunning, she and her husband drew support from the "descamisados," or the poor and the working class, to climb to power."
Sunday, April 5, 2015
Feinstein wants to delete The Anarchist Cookbook from the Internets
Senator Diane Feinstein tends to be ignorant of a great deal of subjects in which she involves herself. The latest is the Internet:
"I am particularly struck that the alleged bombers made use of online bombmaking guides like the Anarchist Cookbook and Inspire Magazine," Feinstein wrote. "These documents are not, in my view, protected by the First Amendment and should be removed from the Internet."
Feinstein only admits through her speeches how much she does not know about the world around her, including how the Internets work.
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Mandatory Voting: A Bad Idea
President Obama believes that forcing people to vote is a good idea. But is voting still a right if one has no choice to abstain? Sheldon Richman breaks it down at Liberty.me:
"If voting is a right, it can't be a duty, and if it's a duty, it can't a right. Perhaps it's neither."
More:
http://sheldon.liberty.me/2015/03/25/mandatory-voting-a-bad-idea
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Hillary Clinton's Self-destructive Campaign
Hillary Clinton continues to make bad decisions, whether through policy as head of the State Department, or in preparing for a calamitous big for the presidency.
"For a would-be presidential candidate with her deep experience in Washington, that's a lot of unforced errors. The foundation shouldn't have accepted donations from foreign countries so that no one could ever accuse Clinton of being influenced by that money. She should have stopped giving paid speeches a long time ago. And she should have used a government email address at the State Department. These should all be easy decisions to make, and yet Clinton got them all wrong. (And, in the case of the paid speeches, continues to get wrong.)"
More:
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/03/04/quotes-of-the-day-2015
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
This is Why You Want a "Do Nothing Congress"
"So as per usual a bill has been passed that accomplishes the polar opposite of what one would expect by name. The USA Freedom Act means less freedom as the Patriot Act would never be condoned by a true patriot, as the Affordable Care Act makes healthcare everything but affordable. This my friends is why you want a “do nothing Congress.”"
More:
http://www.punkrocklibertarians.com/usa-freedom-act-passes-house-extends-patriot-act-2017
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Why Wall Street Loves Hillary
"An odd thing happened last month when, stumping just before the midterms, Hillary Clinton came in close proximity to the woman who has sometimes been described as the conscience of the Democratic Party."
It would be interesting if Clinton became president. We've seen a man elected president primarily because of his race, would it be far-fetched to think that a woman could be elected simply on the basis of gender. Politics have become so dumbed down, along with the voters, that these sort of factors become more important than policy and candidate history. Obama had little to no political history, and Clinton leave corruption and scandal in her wake. Stranger things have happened.
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Laying out a Picnic for Vultures
Regulation, the rules they tell you to hate, are the way we apply democracy to the economy. Votes versus dollars. I think you can understand that.
Yes, I know, the government is deeply fucked up. That’s the U.S. government, the UK government, and let’s not even talk about the Chinese, Malaysian, and Tanzanian governments. People have been belly-aching about rules and regulations ever since Moses schlepped the first ten down from Mount Sinai.
But the Big Problem with government is that we don’t have enough of it; the rules aren’t tough enough to stop BP from blowing Cajuns to Kingdom Come. Or the rules are corrupted, made by politicians who are greased to make Steve Cohen’s monkey jump.
If you’re screaming for the “guvmint to git off” your back, I see your point. But you’re still a loser, a cheap mark, a decoy duck, a dim, unwitting stooge for forces even more powerful than that ugly guvmint, a toy for powers who are shitting on you while telling you it’s raining chocolate.
While he does a service by doing the hard work, the research and investigation that uncovers so much of the corruption in government today, he does focus a bit much on the corporate problems, which are a result and creation of an oppressive regime. Political school has little to do with it, and believing that more government can resolve the problems created by too much government is hardly a rational solution.
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Michael Brown's Grandfather to Obama: 'I Voted for You,' So Come Meet Me
President Obama has become notorious among his Missouri supporters for not visiting the embattled city, and the grandfather of the teen shot by police there a week ago is perturbed over the President's distance. This week he went on TV to remind Obama he voted for him and urge the President to make his way to Ferguson to stand with his family.
Monday, July 14, 2014
Damascus Goes up in Smoke
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
The Strength, and Weakness, of the State
Lord Acton, Freedom and Power
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Mexican lawmakers present medical marijuana bill
More:
http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/worldNews/~3/jrSR47E9FrI/story01.htm
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Don't Get Out the Vote, It Makes You Look Ignorant
"A mass democratic system encourages voter irresponsibility, says Sheldon Richman. Because the consequence of any single vote is negligible, individuals have an incentive to vote on some basis other than an understanding of current issues — which would require, among other things, the costly acquisition of a grasp of basic economics. Voters, then, are free to vote their biases. This voter mentality is known as rational ignorance."
More:
http://reason.com/blog/2014/02/16/sheldon-richman-says-dont-get-out-the-vo
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Voting is a Lousy Excuse to Inflict your Will over Others
"It matters not at all what any individual voter does. The odds are that no election in your lifetime would have been different had you done something other than what you did that day — including staying home. One vote is like one drop in the ocean: inconsequential."
The act of voting and the system it enables is simply one of mob rule. Whether that is what democracy is, or has devolved into, is aside the point. It is the system in place today. Seeking to inflict one's will over others through government is an immoral attempt to remove oneself from acting through aggression over others, but the act is nonetheless the same. If you would not force others directly, why rely on government for the same effort?
"Some will say in response, But what if everyone thinks like that? This misses the point. No one is waiting to see what you do on election day. The rest of the country will do whatever it’s going to do — no matter what you do. (But if everyone did stay home on election day, think of the message that would send!) You control only yourself, and you undertake actions only when you believe they have a good chance of effecting consequences that matter. Otherwise you don’t act."
http://reason.com/archives/2014/02/09/the-cruel-joke-of-sacralizing-voting
Like they say, if voting changed anything, it would be illegal. I am more encouraged by low voter turnout, a sign that the population is starting to see the futility of electoral politics and government in general.
Keep voting. I'll keep laughing.
Monday, January 27, 2014
The Problem with Public Spending and Debt
Friday, January 24, 2014
Defending Cannabis by Blaming Racism
"Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin tells Remnick that in 2007, Obama explained, “I have no desire to be one of those presidents who are just on the list—you see their pictures lined up on the wall. … I really want to be a President who makes a difference.” But Obama’s approval ratings are mired in the low 40s, a reality he partially—and unconvincingly—attributes to racism: “There’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black president.” As HotAir’s Ed Morrissey notes, the existence of rump racists completely fail to explain Obama’s two electoral victories and his 60 percent-plus approval ratings at the start of his presidency. A far better explanation is simply that he’s failed to accomplish much of anything the public likes."
More: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/21/ending-the-war-on-pot-is-obama-s-last-chance-for-a-legacy.html
What a poor excuse from a lame duck president, that racism, when a large portion of minorities now disapprove of Obama, could be the problem, and ending another example of the inherent failure of prohibition by legalizing cannabis could be nothing more than a token (tokin?) gesture to appease those who have been most harmed by his partisan policies. Given the progress of the legalization movement, which effectively nullifies federal law under the Tenth Amendment and has been used since the northern war of aggression to end slavery on a state level without violence, institutionalized or otherwise. The president would do better to simply recognize reality instead of resisting it. Good ideas do not require force, nor do they need defending. But they do require indefatigable recognition. And is on us as individuals to promote the conscious solutions to predative, collectivist problems that a free society so greatly requires.
Saturday, December 28, 2013
What's so Great About Government Health Care
Governmet in a nutshell: providing ineffective solutions to the problems it creates.
Saturday, December 7, 2013
Anti-Federalists Prophesied The End Of Freedom
"On the eve of the federal convention, and following its adjournment in September of 1787, the Anti-Federalists made the case that the Constitution makers in Philadelphia had exceeded the mandate they were given to amend the Articles of Confederation, and nothing more. The Federal Constitution augured ill for freedom, argued the Anti-Federalists. These unsung heroes had warned early Americans of the "ropes and chains of consolidation," in Patrick Henry's magnificent words, inherent in the new dispensation."
"After 200 years of just such "consolidation"—in the magisterial “Liberty, Order, And Justice: An Introduction to the Constitutional Principles of American Government”—constitutional scholar James McClellan distilled the Anti-Federalist argument with the respect it deserves."
More:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/economicpolicyjournal/YZSb/~3/bjgkr5Bh3rc/anti-federalists-prophesied-end-of.html
Friday, November 22, 2013
LBJ Killed JFK
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/feed/
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Another Boom-Bust Example from the Fed
Unfortunately, good intentions do not guarantee good results. Without natural market corrections, reallocating resources through price signals, entrepreneurs will continue to make bad long-term investments. By allowing interest rates to rise and monetary volume to readjust properly and signal spending reductions and savings increases.
When all major economies are in a race to the bottom to debase their currencies to make exports more competitive. But there is only one end-game; the bottom. Our politicians are playing "chicken" with those in the oligarchy, and we in the proliteriat are the cars.
http://feeds.mises.org/~r/MisesMedia/~5/cvITDPKFOwI/Monetary%20and%20Fiscal%20Policy.mp3
Elizabeth Warren 2016 ~ Wall Street's Worst Nightmare
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/CRkw/~3/0PcJ1vVOrKY/elizabeth-warren-2016-wall-streets.html
Considering the economic ignorance of Warren, I would think that it would take quite a campaign to garner much public support. Then again, we did end up with Bush and then Obama, which is why I have little faith in the political process.