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What you are about to read is virtually unknown. Yet it is an old story. I first read a version of this story in Douglas Hyde’s little book, Dedication and Leadership (1956). Hyde had been a Communist Party leader in Great Britain in the 1930s and 1940s. In the late 1940s he defected and joined [...]
Continue reading →There are activists in the Tea Party movement who are unaware of when the movement began, and why. This video explains both. The issue is about more than taxes — just as the original tea party was. It’s about cutting spending. Because it is about cutting spending, there are fissures within the movement. As with [...]
Continue reading →I thought that when Rick Santorum quit, that would get Ron Paul into the news. It is now a three-way race. I wrote that the media could no longer pretend that Paul is not running. Google lists only three candidates in its reports. So, that would mean Romney, Gingrich, and Paul. Wrong! In Google’s algorithm, [...]
Continue reading →There is a new cell phone application. It allows anyone with a smart phone to record anything suspicious and send it to the Department of Homeland Security. There is a pilot program in West Virginia. It will spread. Here is where it gets interesting. The DHS is using regional centers to collect and maintain this [...]
Continue reading →The state kidnaps students. They charge parents to run schools that cost up to $15,000 per student per year (in Detroit). Then they use the classrooms to indoctrinate the kids in a philosophy alien to their parents’ view. Parents put up with this. “I have paid for the schools. I want to get my money’s [...]
Continue reading →Michael Moore is the multimillionaire producer of anti-free market movies. He says there is plenty of money to run the U.S. government. Just tax the rich. Mr. Moore would do well to read the report by Iowahawk on what this government is costing us, and how long the money would fund the government if it [...]
Continue reading →What you are about to read may seem too far off the wall to be taken seriously. But, after you have examined the evidence, you will see that our problem is not that this story is off the wall; it is off the radar. The public is unaware that the federal government is preparing to [...]
Continue reading →What is the American dream? A good job at a decent wage. This matters even more than owning your own home. A pair of historical charts show that this dream ceased to be a reality in 2008. They show that total non-farm employment declined in 2001, then shot up in Greenspan’s bubble. But employment fell [...]
Continue reading →The politicians in Europe are planning another summit meeting on December 9. The more summits they have, the more it becomes clear that they have no solution. If they did, they would need only one summit. Matthew Lynn nails it: “Every week we get another big search for a smart-sounding scheme to rescue the project. [...]
Continue reading →Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell now says he will back an extension of the payroll tax cut. Democrats favor it. It is perceived as helping the middle class. The Democrats want a surtax on the rich to pay for it. Republicans are unlikely to get on board. “In all likelihood, we will agree to continue [...]
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