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Thursday, 13 March 2008

  • I?m on Rangel?s Side?Sort Of

    (Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:27:19 +0000)

    Poor Charlie Rangel. The chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee got some bad press in July when the sweetheart deal giving him four rent-controlled apartments became public knowledge. Now he’s getting another dose of bad publicity because he somehow forgot to report $75,000 on rental income for his luxury villa at the Punta [...]

  • Bipartisan Nonsense on ?Energy Independence? and Trade

    (Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:46:34 +0000)

    Sen. John McCain reinforced his bipartisan credentials Thursday evening by sounding as confused as the Democrats on the nation?s assumed need for ?energy independence.? In his acceptance speech at the GOP convention in St. Paul, McCain pledged federal support for alternative energy so the United States can reduce the amount of energy it imports from abroad. [...]

  • Calvo Raid Justified?

    (Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:44:29 +0000)

    The police have now reviewed and justified the violent break-in of Berwyn Heights, Md., mayor Cheye Calvo’s home a few weeks back. The police kicked in his front door without announcing themselves, and shot his two pet dogs dead. The police later cleared Calvo of any wrongdoing but insisted that their raid tactics were appropriate. A separate FBI investigation is under [...]

  • You?re No Reagan?or Lincoln

    (Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:19:23 +0000)

    Last night John McCain proclaimed himself the candidate of “the party of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Reagan.” One of Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speeches was his 1852 eulogy for Henry Clay. “He loved his country partly because it was his own country,” Lincoln declared, ”but mostly because it was a free country.” John McCain managed to give a lengthy [...]

  • Johan Norberg vs. Naomi Klein, Round 3

    (Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:02:39 +0000)

    Last May Johan Norberg wrote a devastating critique of Naomi Klein’s book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. (Watch him talk about it here.) In his paper, “The Klein Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Polemics,” he took her book apart: The Shock Doctrine purports to be an exposé of the ruthless nature of free-market [...]
 
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