One of the best discussions of the Great Depression (to my mind) is historian Paul Johnson's in Modern Times (see especially chapter 7, "Degringolade"). This might be a good time for us all to read it or re-read it.
Here is a key passage:
“Business downturns serve essential purposes. They have to be sharp. But they need not be long because they are self-adjusting. All they require on the part of governments, the business community and the public is patience. The 1920 recession had adjusted itself within a year. There was no reason why the 1929 recession should have taken longer, for the American economy was fundamentally sound. . . .If the recession had been allowed to adjust itself, as it would have done by the end of 1930 on any earlier analogy, confidence would have returned and the world slump need never have occurred" (Paul Johnson, Modern Times, 240).
I agree with Johnson
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Headlines: September 30, 2008
Report: U.S. attorney Ryan's firing justified
Those who remember the Depression fear its return
Obama's McKnight In Shining Armor
Lack Of Confidence, Not Capital, Is Issue
Shocking Video Unearthed Democrats in their own words Covering up the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Scam that caused our Economic Crisis (video)
Pelosi Punks America... Stocks Lose $1.1 Trillion (video)
Pandora's Bailout
McCarthy: I respectfully dissent
In Times of Crisis, Trust Capitalism
Those who remember the Depression fear its return
Obama's McKnight In Shining Armor
Lack Of Confidence, Not Capital, Is Issue
Shocking Video Unearthed Democrats in their own words Covering up the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Scam that caused our Economic Crisis (video)
Pelosi Punks America... Stocks Lose $1.1 Trillion (video)
Pandora's Bailout
McCarthy: I respectfully dissent
In Times of Crisis, Trust Capitalism
Monday, September 29, 2008
Headlines: September 29, 2008
O'S DANGEROUS PALS: BARACK'S 'ORGANIZER' BUDS PUSHED FOR BAD MORTGAGES
Bailout Plan in Hand, House Braces for Tough Vote
Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis? (video)
Venezuela to build nuclear technology with Russia
Saddest Thing About This Mess: Congress Had Chance To Stop It
You won't believe where that $700-billion bailout figure came from
The Rescue Package Will Delay Recovery
The Bailout Reader
Bailout Plan in Hand, House Braces for Tough Vote
Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis? (video)
Venezuela to build nuclear technology with Russia
Saddest Thing About This Mess: Congress Had Chance To Stop It
You won't believe where that $700-billion bailout figure came from
The Rescue Package Will Delay Recovery
The Bailout Reader
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Headlines: September 28, 2008
Partners at the Destruction: Fannie, Freddie and just about everybody.
Wash Mu Bondholders Were Not Paid-- Consequences Could Be Devastating... Warnings of Monday Crash
The Fannie Mae testimony that will make you scream in anger
The Real Costs of the Bailouts
Deal reached on financial markets bailout
Lawmakers Reach Accord on Huge Financial Rescue
Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
Behind Insurer’s Crisis, Blind Eye to a Web of Risk
Wash Mu Bondholders Were Not Paid-- Consequences Could Be Devastating... Warnings of Monday Crash
The Fannie Mae testimony that will make you scream in anger
The Real Costs of the Bailouts
Deal reached on financial markets bailout
Lawmakers Reach Accord on Huge Financial Rescue
Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
Behind Insurer’s Crisis, Blind Eye to a Web of Risk
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Headlines: September 27, 2008
Scientists say carbon dioxide emissions up 3%
Iran on Way to Atomic Bomb Capability: ElBaradei
Richard Nixon's Revenge
In Too DeepWorking away from a “stunningly irresponsible” bailout.
Why play by the rules?
Devastating!... Dems Refuse to Reform Freddie & Fannie in 2004 (video)
Media Mum on Barney Frank's Fannie Mae Love Connection Democratic House Financial Services Committee Chair promoted GSEs while former 'spouse' was Fannie Mae executive.
Iran on Way to Atomic Bomb Capability: ElBaradei
Richard Nixon's Revenge
In Too DeepWorking away from a “stunningly irresponsible” bailout.
Why play by the rules?
Devastating!... Dems Refuse to Reform Freddie & Fannie in 2004 (video)
Media Mum on Barney Frank's Fannie Mae Love Connection Democratic House Financial Services Committee Chair promoted GSEs while former 'spouse' was Fannie Mae executive.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Headlines: September 26, 2008
Wild day, no deal
Bailout Baloney
Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending
WaMu is largest U.S. bank failure
Russia may launch nuclear cooperation with Venezuela: Putin
Material on Community Reinvestment Act and Clinton-era Changes:
1. Assault on the mortgage lenders: in the name of racial justice, the Clintonites want the power to decide who gets a home of his own - efforts to impose regulations on banks to make loans even if applicants are not creditworthy
2. The Trillion-Dollar Bank Shakedown That Bodes Ill for Cities
3. Andrew Cuomo and Fannie and Freddie: How the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history gave birth to the mortgage crisis
4. The CRA Scam and its Defenders
5. How A Clinton-Era Rule Rewrite Made Subprime Crisis Inevitable
6. Commentary: Bailouts will lead to rough economic ride
7. THE REAL SCANDAL: HOW FEDS INVITED THE MORTGAGE MESS
Bailout Baloney
Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending
WaMu is largest U.S. bank failure
Russia may launch nuclear cooperation with Venezuela: Putin
Material on Community Reinvestment Act and Clinton-era Changes:
1. Assault on the mortgage lenders: in the name of racial justice, the Clintonites want the power to decide who gets a home of his own - efforts to impose regulations on banks to make loans even if applicants are not creditworthy
2. The Trillion-Dollar Bank Shakedown That Bodes Ill for Cities
3. Andrew Cuomo and Fannie and Freddie: How the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history gave birth to the mortgage crisis
4. The CRA Scam and its Defenders
5. How A Clinton-Era Rule Rewrite Made Subprime Crisis Inevitable
6. Commentary: Bailouts will lead to rough economic ride
7. THE REAL SCANDAL: HOW FEDS INVITED THE MORTGAGE MESS
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Headlines: September 25, 2008
House clears $25bn for carmakers
Pastors plan to defy IRS ban on political speech
The U.S. Global Insurance Company
Judgment Day
Four Palestinians arrested at checkpoint
Figures. When Your Candidate Has a Record of Supporting Infanticide You Do What You Can to Redefine "Values Voter"
Barack Obama and Alinsky's Rules for Psychopaths
Russia grants Venezuela $1B to buy arms
Sharia Law: Coming to a Western Nation Near You?
The case against a federal bailout
Questioning King Henry: The rush to pass the government’s bailout plan will cause more problems than it will solve.
GOP conservatives present rescue alternative
Betrayal and the True Believer
Scientists Find Way to Regress Adult Cells to Embryonic State: Researchers Hopeful That Recent Breakthroughs Could Lead to Clinical Applications
Israel asked US for green light to bomb nuclear sites in Iran
Pastors plan to defy IRS ban on political speech
The U.S. Global Insurance Company
Judgment Day
Four Palestinians arrested at checkpoint
Figures. When Your Candidate Has a Record of Supporting Infanticide You Do What You Can to Redefine "Values Voter"
Barack Obama and Alinsky's Rules for Psychopaths
Russia grants Venezuela $1B to buy arms
Sharia Law: Coming to a Western Nation Near You?
The case against a federal bailout
Questioning King Henry: The rush to pass the government’s bailout plan will cause more problems than it will solve.
GOP conservatives present rescue alternative
Betrayal and the True Believer
Scientists Find Way to Regress Adult Cells to Embryonic State: Researchers Hopeful That Recent Breakthroughs Could Lead to Clinical Applications
Israel asked US for green light to bomb nuclear sites in Iran
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Headlines: September 23, 2008
Surprise spring snowfalls blanket KZN
Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools
Conservatives Try New Tack on Campuses
Financial meltdown, 2008: What would JP Morgan do?
McCain Lacks Presidential Temperament
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Triumph
LaBruzzo considering plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have tubes tied
Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools
Conservatives Try New Tack on Campuses
Financial meltdown, 2008: What would JP Morgan do?
McCain Lacks Presidential Temperament
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Triumph
LaBruzzo considering plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have tubes tied
Monday, September 22, 2008
Headlines: September 22, 2008
The Wall Street Bailout Plan, Explained
Free nursery for two-year-olds will help parents climb ladder, says Labour
Military intelligence: Iran halfway to first nuclear bomb
Sexually active girls get depressed more than virgins
A Career Working Behind Enemy Lines
Greenspan’s sins return to haunt us
Fury at $2.5bn bonus for Lehman's New York staff
Radosh: The End of a Lie
Hope, Change, & Lies: Orchestrated "Grassroots" Smear Campaigns & the People that Run Them [Updated]
Luther Martin: Uncouth, Unheeded
Everyone Needs to Worry About Iran
Chants in Iran: Death to America, the infidel (video)
Free nursery for two-year-olds will help parents climb ladder, says Labour
Military intelligence: Iran halfway to first nuclear bomb
Sexually active girls get depressed more than virgins
A Career Working Behind Enemy Lines
Greenspan’s sins return to haunt us
Fury at $2.5bn bonus for Lehman's New York staff
Radosh: The End of a Lie
Hope, Change, & Lies: Orchestrated "Grassroots" Smear Campaigns & the People that Run Them [Updated]
Luther Martin: Uncouth, Unheeded
Everyone Needs to Worry About Iran
Chants in Iran: Death to America, the infidel (video)
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Headlines: September 21, 2008
Is Wired Magazine’s ‘Military Correspondent’ a Kremlin Dupe? (Part 2)
Pit Bulls attack, kill 4-month-old
4 ways to turn a recession into a depression
British ethicist: Senile should be “put down”
Drunken-driving crash changed lives of Irving couple, man who hit them
Pit Bulls attack, kill 4-month-old
4 ways to turn a recession into a depression
British ethicist: Senile should be “put down”
Drunken-driving crash changed lives of Irving couple, man who hit them
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Headlines: September 20, 2008
Pakistan in sovereignty warning
The Drumbeat
Did the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act cause the housing bubble?
Dispelling The 'Deregulation' Myth
Column One: It is time to act
The Drumbeat
Did the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act cause the housing bubble?
Dispelling The 'Deregulation' Myth
Column One: It is time to act
Friday, September 19, 2008
Headlines: September 19, 2008
The United States Acquires AIG, the Largest American Insurance Company
The Big Bailout: “A Large Mistake As A Matter of Policy, Politics, and Fairness”
Storms on the Horizon
Richard Fisher: "Add together the unfunded liabilities from Medicare and Social Security, and it comes to $99.2 trillion over the infinite horizon. Traditional Medicare composes about 69 percent, the new drug benefit roughly 17 percent and Social Security the remaining 14 percent."
The Big Bailout: “A Large Mistake As A Matter of Policy, Politics, and Fairness”
Storms on the Horizon
Richard Fisher: "Add together the unfunded liabilities from Medicare and Social Security, and it comes to $99.2 trillion over the infinite horizon. Traditional Medicare composes about 69 percent, the new drug benefit roughly 17 percent and Social Security the remaining 14 percent."
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Headlines: September 18, 2008
Old Media Helps Obama Push False Rush Limbaugh Immigration Quotes
Democratic Congress May Adjourn, Leave Crisis to Fed, Treasury
CNN's Crowley: Obama Team Wanted 'Horrific' Wall Street Headlines
Russia ratchets up US tensions with arms sales to Iran and Venezuela
Wall Street's Unraveling
What's Behind the Financial Market Crisis?
Democratic Congress May Adjourn, Leave Crisis to Fed, Treasury
CNN's Crowley: Obama Team Wanted 'Horrific' Wall Street Headlines
Russia ratchets up US tensions with arms sales to Iran and Venezuela
Wall Street's Unraveling
What's Behind the Financial Market Crisis?
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Windfall Tax on Oil Companies
Video: Senator Obama's “Pocket TV Ad”
"Obama says he doesn't take money from oil companies. We say that's a little too slick."
"Obama's Overstatement: An Obama ad says McCain's campaign got $2 million from "Big Oil." The total is actually $1.3 million."
Exxon's 2007 Tax Bill: $30 Billion
“Currently, the United States has the second-highest corporate tax rate of all industrial societies, after economically anemic Japan. The U.S. federal rate of taxation is 35 percent, and when the average state and local corporate tax rates are added, American corporations pay, on average, a 39.27 percent tax on their incomes. China is at 25 percent; Mexico is at 28 percent; socialist Sweden is at 28 percent; and prosperous Ireland is at a mere 12.5 percent.” ("It's Still the Economy, Stupid," A Commentary by Tony Blankley, Rasmussen Report, September 3, 2008)
“Taxes - Federal excise taxes are 18.4 cents per gallon, and state excise taxes average 18.2 cents per gallon. There may also be some additional taxes, such as applicable state sales taxes, gross receipts taxes, oil inspection fees, underground storage tank fees and other miscellaneous environmental fees. Add that to the state excise taxes, and it can average 27.4 cents. It could be worse. In Europe, gas prices are far higher than in America because taxes on gas are much higher.”
"Obama says he doesn't take money from oil companies. We say that's a little too slick."
"Obama's Overstatement: An Obama ad says McCain's campaign got $2 million from "Big Oil." The total is actually $1.3 million."
Exxon's 2007 Tax Bill: $30 Billion
“Currently, the United States has the second-highest corporate tax rate of all industrial societies, after economically anemic Japan. The U.S. federal rate of taxation is 35 percent, and when the average state and local corporate tax rates are added, American corporations pay, on average, a 39.27 percent tax on their incomes. China is at 25 percent; Mexico is at 28 percent; socialist Sweden is at 28 percent; and prosperous Ireland is at a mere 12.5 percent.” ("It's Still the Economy, Stupid," A Commentary by Tony Blankley, Rasmussen Report, September 3, 2008)
“Taxes - Federal excise taxes are 18.4 cents per gallon, and state excise taxes average 18.2 cents per gallon. There may also be some additional taxes, such as applicable state sales taxes, gross receipts taxes, oil inspection fees, underground storage tank fees and other miscellaneous environmental fees. Add that to the state excise taxes, and it can average 27.4 cents. It could be worse. In Europe, gas prices are far higher than in America because taxes on gas are much higher.”
Headlines: September 17, 2008
Case closed: The Rosenbergs were Soviet spies
Walter Williams: Stubborn Ignorance
Khrushchev's Shoe Returns to Russian Diplomacy
Are Fannie and Freddie Too Big to Fail?
Reconsiderations: Betty Friedan's 'The Feminine Mystique'
Attack on US Embassy in Yemen Kills 16
Female Suicide Bombers Are Latest War Tactic
Pakistan Is the Problem: And Barack Obama seems to be the only candidate willing to face it.
Corporations Know U.S. Has Uncompetitive Tax Rates
Walter Williams: Stubborn Ignorance
Khrushchev's Shoe Returns to Russian Diplomacy
Are Fannie and Freddie Too Big to Fail?
Reconsiderations: Betty Friedan's 'The Feminine Mystique'
Attack on US Embassy in Yemen Kills 16
Female Suicide Bombers Are Latest War Tactic
Pakistan Is the Problem: And Barack Obama seems to be the only candidate willing to face it.
Corporations Know U.S. Has Uncompetitive Tax Rates
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Headlines: September 16, 2008
Judge: Riviera Beach 'saggy pants' ban unconstitutional
On Sex-Ed Ad, McCain Is Right: What was that Illinois sex-education bill really about?
At least 100 rapes in Karachi a day
EGYPT: ONE CONVERT’S NEVER-ENDING STRUGGLE: Snares abound as Christian seeks to protect wife, baby and future faithful
SAUDI ARABIA: POLICE ARREST FOUR EAST AFRICAN CHRISTIANS: Detainees held at Jeddah’s deportation jail.
How to Manage Savagery
No Oil for Blood Thanks to three American senators, China will be pumping Iraqi oil.
On Sex-Ed Ad, McCain Is Right: What was that Illinois sex-education bill really about?
At least 100 rapes in Karachi a day
EGYPT: ONE CONVERT’S NEVER-ENDING STRUGGLE: Snares abound as Christian seeks to protect wife, baby and future faithful
SAUDI ARABIA: POLICE ARREST FOUR EAST AFRICAN CHRISTIANS: Detainees held at Jeddah’s deportation jail.
How to Manage Savagery
No Oil for Blood Thanks to three American senators, China will be pumping Iraqi oil.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Headlines: September 15, 2008
Hazlitt: Is Ethics a Science?
A battle over 'God's will': People of faith line up for and against a ban on same-sex marriage
Blackstone: On Offenses Against the Law of Nations
Video on Obama and Ayers
Bruce Walker's The Swastika against the Cross
Spengler: Lehman and the end of the era of leverage
My Favorite 40 Blogs For 2008
Lesson from Ike: Nobody does evacuations like Cuba
A battle over 'God's will': People of faith line up for and against a ban on same-sex marriage
Blackstone: On Offenses Against the Law of Nations
Video on Obama and Ayers
Bruce Walker's The Swastika against the Cross
Spengler: Lehman and the end of the era of leverage
My Favorite 40 Blogs For 2008
Lesson from Ike: Nobody does evacuations like Cuba
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Headlines: September 13, 2008
Russo-Georgian War and Balance of Power
Moscow’s Sinister BrillianceWho wants to die for Tbilisi?
A few thoughts on the Russian invasion of Georgia
Krauthammer: Charlie Gibson's Gaffe
48 Liberal Lies About American History
Moscow’s Sinister BrillianceWho wants to die for Tbilisi?
A few thoughts on the Russian invasion of Georgia
Krauthammer: Charlie Gibson's Gaffe
48 Liberal Lies About American History
Friday, September 12, 2008
In Response to Bovard
I have long admired FEE, but I must take exception to James Bovard's "Torture and Liberty" (Ideas on Liberty--July 2008).
The most glaring mistake in this article is Bovard's statement that the U.S. Constitution guarantees the rights of alien combatants. The U.S. Constitution establishes a government to protect the American people from those who would harm them and places limits on that government to make sure that it will not harm the people it was designed to defend. When the Second Amendment speaks, for example, of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms," it guarantees the right of the American people to bear arms, not the right of all the people of the world. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court shares Bovard's misunderstanding of whom the Constitution is designed to protect. In Rasul v. Bush, for example, the Court extended the protection of habeas corpus to the detainees at Guantanamo Bay on the grounds that the English common law extended it to "all ... dominions under the sovereign's control." The Court fails to note, however, that the right to challenge one's detention was only enjoyed by "the King's subjects" (see the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 and Blackstone's Commentaries).
Bovard is also wrong to assert that the detainees at Guantanamo are entitled to the protections of the Geneva Conventions. Common Article 3 protects prisoners of war and Common Article 3 protects civilians in the case of a conflict "not of an international character" (that is, a civil war). The detainees do not fit either description. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court wrongly extended the protections of Article 3 to the detainees in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld on the grounds that al-Qaeda is not a nation and the conflict between the US and al-Qaeda is, therefore, "not of an international character." Apparently this was the first time that anyone had understood the treaty in this way, because the Court could only cite Jeremy Bentham's definition of the word "international" to support its decision.
This is not to say that the U.S. government can treat the detainees in any way it pleases. As men, the detainees enjoy the rights with which all human beings are endowed by their Creator. But the U.S. is well within its rights to balance the rights of the detainees against the rights of those it was designed to protect. As for the alleged atrocities that Bovard cites, the only sources that I could find to support them were publications such as Mother Jones and the Guardian--hardly friends of liberty in the sense that FEE understands it.
In short, Bovard's article confirms what I have long suspected, that there is a great difference between libertarianism (which is essentially anti-government) and a love of liberty, which recognizes that an essential part of liberty is "to be free from restraint and violence from others." Thank God that the Bush administration understands what James Bovard does not.
The most glaring mistake in this article is Bovard's statement that the U.S. Constitution guarantees the rights of alien combatants. The U.S. Constitution establishes a government to protect the American people from those who would harm them and places limits on that government to make sure that it will not harm the people it was designed to defend. When the Second Amendment speaks, for example, of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms," it guarantees the right of the American people to bear arms, not the right of all the people of the world. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court shares Bovard's misunderstanding of whom the Constitution is designed to protect. In Rasul v. Bush, for example, the Court extended the protection of habeas corpus to the detainees at Guantanamo Bay on the grounds that the English common law extended it to "all ... dominions under the sovereign's control." The Court fails to note, however, that the right to challenge one's detention was only enjoyed by "the King's subjects" (see the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 and Blackstone's Commentaries).
Bovard is also wrong to assert that the detainees at Guantanamo are entitled to the protections of the Geneva Conventions. Common Article 3 protects prisoners of war and Common Article 3 protects civilians in the case of a conflict "not of an international character" (that is, a civil war). The detainees do not fit either description. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court wrongly extended the protections of Article 3 to the detainees in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld on the grounds that al-Qaeda is not a nation and the conflict between the US and al-Qaeda is, therefore, "not of an international character." Apparently this was the first time that anyone had understood the treaty in this way, because the Court could only cite Jeremy Bentham's definition of the word "international" to support its decision.
This is not to say that the U.S. government can treat the detainees in any way it pleases. As men, the detainees enjoy the rights with which all human beings are endowed by their Creator. But the U.S. is well within its rights to balance the rights of the detainees against the rights of those it was designed to protect. As for the alleged atrocities that Bovard cites, the only sources that I could find to support them were publications such as Mother Jones and the Guardian--hardly friends of liberty in the sense that FEE understands it.
In short, Bovard's article confirms what I have long suspected, that there is a great difference between libertarianism (which is essentially anti-government) and a love of liberty, which recognizes that an essential part of liberty is "to be free from restraint and violence from others." Thank God that the Bush administration understands what James Bovard does not.
Headlines: September 12, 2008
Young black men at high risk for HIV, CDC says
Palin 'governed from the center,' went after big oil
Global warming may bring cooler summers near coast
Look HereTragedy in Britain.
Austrian court unfreezes $10m of Palestinian terror group Abu Nidal's funds
What Exactly Is the 'Bush Doctrine'?
Is Wired Magazine’s ‘Military Correspondent’ a Kremlin Dupe?
Mises, the FDIC, and the Last Bubble of the American Empire
Terrible, but not a crime: Hiroshima and Nagasaki should be remembered for the suffering which was brought to an end
Total War in the Pacific: A Relentless Campaign Against a Foe That Preferred Death to Surrender
How the Atomic Bomb Saved 4,000,000 Lives
Harry S. Truman's statements after the dropping of the first atomic bomb
Iran is a threat, but the West can't afford to have Israel bomb it - yet
Campaign commercials 1952-2008
Hugo Grotius, The Rights of War and Peace (2005 ed.) vol. 1 (Book I) [1625]
Palin 'governed from the center,' went after big oil
Global warming may bring cooler summers near coast
Look HereTragedy in Britain.
Austrian court unfreezes $10m of Palestinian terror group Abu Nidal's funds
What Exactly Is the 'Bush Doctrine'?
Is Wired Magazine’s ‘Military Correspondent’ a Kremlin Dupe?
Mises, the FDIC, and the Last Bubble of the American Empire
Terrible, but not a crime: Hiroshima and Nagasaki should be remembered for the suffering which was brought to an end
Total War in the Pacific: A Relentless Campaign Against a Foe That Preferred Death to Surrender
How the Atomic Bomb Saved 4,000,000 Lives
Harry S. Truman's statements after the dropping of the first atomic bomb
Iran is a threat, but the West can't afford to have Israel bomb it - yet
Campaign commercials 1952-2008
Hugo Grotius, The Rights of War and Peace (2005 ed.) vol. 1 (Book I) [1625]
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Headlines: September 11, 2008
Bush Said to Give Orders Allowing Raids in Pakistan
Georgian breakaway 'will join Russia'
Greenwashing a jury
Video: John Stossel on gas prices
Foiled Terror Plots Against America Since 9/11
Clinton Impeachment Precluded Forceful Response to Terrorism, Filmmaker Says
The Other 9/11 Story: What has and hasn't happened in the seven years since September 11, 2001.
US troops already out of cities of most Iraqi provinces: Petraeus
Red Meat... McCain Releases the Wolves Ad Against Palin Bashers
“CIA & FBI in the hot seat,” June 4, 2002
Don't Bail Them Out
Oil Profit Margins vs. Other Industries
In defense of oil companies
More Pain in the Gas
Letters from Al Qaeda leaders show Iraqi effort is in disarray
Figure in Rosenberg Case Admits Spying for Soviets
Georgian breakaway 'will join Russia'
Greenwashing a jury
Video: John Stossel on gas prices
Foiled Terror Plots Against America Since 9/11
Clinton Impeachment Precluded Forceful Response to Terrorism, Filmmaker Says
The Other 9/11 Story: What has and hasn't happened in the seven years since September 11, 2001.
US troops already out of cities of most Iraqi provinces: Petraeus
Red Meat... McCain Releases the Wolves Ad Against Palin Bashers
“CIA & FBI in the hot seat,” June 4, 2002
Don't Bail Them Out
Oil Profit Margins vs. Other Industries
In defense of oil companies
More Pain in the Gas
Letters from Al Qaeda leaders show Iraqi effort is in disarray
Figure in Rosenberg Case Admits Spying for Soviets
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Headlines: September 10, 2008
Trucks Power China’s Economy, at a Suffocating Cost
Bomb plot - the al-Qaeda connection
Homeland Security goes on special alertAgents watching for al-Qaida op involving Turkish terrorists, homegrown jihadists
Two top al-Qaida operatives killed in Pakistan
Russia threatens to target US missile shield sites: reports
OPEC decides to curb overall output; prices rise
Revolution you can believe in
How to Avoid Another Depression
Torture and Liberty
Bomb plot - the al-Qaeda connection
Homeland Security goes on special alertAgents watching for al-Qaida op involving Turkish terrorists, homegrown jihadists
Two top al-Qaida operatives killed in Pakistan
Russia threatens to target US missile shield sites: reports
OPEC decides to curb overall output; prices rise
Revolution you can believe in
How to Avoid Another Depression
Torture and Liberty
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Headlines: September 9, 2008
Russia agrees troops pullout from Georgia heartland
Ohio: Life Term for Microwaving Baby
Top Lawyer Is Selected As U.S. Mulls Google Suit
Who Is Sally Quinn?
Venezuela Plays The Russia Card
Spengler: “The fact is that there won't be any Georgians or Ukrainians in the not-too-distant future. By coincidence, Washington's two favorite beacons of liberty happen to be the two countries with the world's fastest rate of population decline.”
Spengler: Americans play Monopoly, Russians chess
“Big music, big ballets, big books: Russian culture deals in big things - from Tchaikovsky's Life of Man symphony to Tolstoy's block-busting two-tome epic War and Peace.”
Spengler’s suggested reading list and fiction here
The Middle of Nowhere: Western analysts are forever bleating about the strategic importance of the middle east. But despite its oil, this backward region is less relevant than ever, and it would be better for everyone if the rest of the world learned to ignore it
A Truman for our times: The received wisdom is that President Bush has been a foreign policy disaster, and that America is threatened by the rise of Asia. Both claims are wrong—Bush has successfully rolled back jihadism, and the US will benefit from Asian growth
Spengler: Putin for US president - more than ever
Ohio: Life Term for Microwaving Baby
Top Lawyer Is Selected As U.S. Mulls Google Suit
Who Is Sally Quinn?
Venezuela Plays The Russia Card
Spengler: “The fact is that there won't be any Georgians or Ukrainians in the not-too-distant future. By coincidence, Washington's two favorite beacons of liberty happen to be the two countries with the world's fastest rate of population decline.”
Spengler: Americans play Monopoly, Russians chess
“Big music, big ballets, big books: Russian culture deals in big things - from Tchaikovsky's Life of Man symphony to Tolstoy's block-busting two-tome epic War and Peace.”
Spengler’s suggested reading list and fiction here
The Middle of Nowhere: Western analysts are forever bleating about the strategic importance of the middle east. But despite its oil, this backward region is less relevant than ever, and it would be better for everyone if the rest of the world learned to ignore it
A Truman for our times: The received wisdom is that President Bush has been a foreign policy disaster, and that America is threatened by the rise of Asia. Both claims are wrong—Bush has successfully rolled back jihadism, and the US will benefit from Asian growth
Spengler: Putin for US president - more than ever
Monday, September 8, 2008
Headlines: September 8, 2008
Russia opposes EU monitoring in Georgia
Russia Sets War Games in Caribbean
Bible is Palin's professional guide, friends and pastors say
Fill-in-the-Blank Article About Price-Gouging Laws
A stark choice on abortion
“Currently, the United States has the second-highest corporate tax rate of all industrial societies, after economically anemic Japan. The U.S. federal rate of taxation is 35 percent, and when the average state and local corporate tax rates are added, American corporations pay, on average, a 39.27 percent tax on their incomes. China is at 25 percent; Mexico is at 28 percent; socialist Sweden is at 28 percent; and prosperous Ireland is at a mere 12.5 percent.”
Totten: Russia’s Kosovo Precedent
The dumbest things Obama and McCain have said
Creation Myth by John B. Judis: What Barack Obama won't tell you about his community organizing past.
Russia Sets War Games in Caribbean
Bible is Palin's professional guide, friends and pastors say
Fill-in-the-Blank Article About Price-Gouging Laws
A stark choice on abortion
“Currently, the United States has the second-highest corporate tax rate of all industrial societies, after economically anemic Japan. The U.S. federal rate of taxation is 35 percent, and when the average state and local corporate tax rates are added, American corporations pay, on average, a 39.27 percent tax on their incomes. China is at 25 percent; Mexico is at 28 percent; socialist Sweden is at 28 percent; and prosperous Ireland is at a mere 12.5 percent.”
Totten: Russia’s Kosovo Precedent
The dumbest things Obama and McCain have said
Creation Myth by John B. Judis: What Barack Obama won't tell you about his community organizing past.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Headlines: September 7, 2008
Barack Obama — Magna Cum Saudi?
SHOW US THE BODIES: AFGHAN DEAD-CIVILIAN LIES
Vladimir Putin set to bait US with nuclear aid for Tehran
Nurses' Participation in the Nazi Euthanasia Programs
Iran's inflation tops 27%
Treasury to Rescue Fannie and Freddie
The Tribe of Sarah: A Guide for the Perplexed Media
SHOW US THE BODIES: AFGHAN DEAD-CIVILIAN LIES
Vladimir Putin set to bait US with nuclear aid for Tehran
Nurses' Participation in the Nazi Euthanasia Programs
Iran's inflation tops 27%
Treasury to Rescue Fannie and Freddie
The Tribe of Sarah: A Guide for the Perplexed Media
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Headlines: September 6, 2008
Russia accuses West of warship provocation
EU moves to loosen Russia's 'energy stranglehold'
Dick Cheney tells Ukraine's leaders to unite in face of Russian threat
Video: Obama gaffe
EU moves to loosen Russia's 'energy stranglehold'
Dick Cheney tells Ukraine's leaders to unite in face of Russian threat
Video: Obama gaffe
Friday, September 5, 2008
Headlines: September 5, 2008
Al-Qaeda commander threatens Denmark
Jobless rate at 5-year high
Wilson row over green 'alarmists'
In the Bronx, a Parting Shot: Only 2,700 Fans Saw Lou Gehrig's Last Home Run, But It Left an Echo
Unnatural Selection: Peter Pringle pays tribute to a scientist whose life and work were sacrificed on the altar of Soviet ideology.
A Letter From the Editor: The Future of the Sun
The Mansourian Candidate
31000 scientists sign Oregon GW Skeptic Petition
Barack Obama with Edward Said
Bummer... Obama Is Losing Jewish & Evangelical Voters
The Law of Human Nature
Great and Imperfect: Einstein's Mistakes
Jobless rate at 5-year high
Wilson row over green 'alarmists'
In the Bronx, a Parting Shot: Only 2,700 Fans Saw Lou Gehrig's Last Home Run, But It Left an Echo
Unnatural Selection: Peter Pringle pays tribute to a scientist whose life and work were sacrificed on the altar of Soviet ideology.
A Letter From the Editor: The Future of the Sun
The Mansourian Candidate
31000 scientists sign Oregon GW Skeptic Petition
Barack Obama with Edward Said
Bummer... Obama Is Losing Jewish & Evangelical Voters
The Law of Human Nature
Great and Imperfect: Einstein's Mistakes
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Headlines: September 4, 2008
Pentecostalism obscured in Palin biography
Cheney slams Russia for war against Georgia
Biden Asked About Bush 'Crimes'
Obama Ad: McCain Will Outlaw Abortion
Second Russian journalist in three days killed
Biden Was Wrong On the Cold War
Exxon's 2007 Tax Bill: $30 Billion
Heritage Foundation on Russia’s Invasion of Georgia
Returning to Russian Valuations: Politicophobia
John Ortberg on Religion AND Politics: Why the human race needs an administration of another kind.
Comment on High IQ and Depression
Cheney slams Russia for war against Georgia
Biden Asked About Bush 'Crimes'
Obama Ad: McCain Will Outlaw Abortion
Second Russian journalist in three days killed
Biden Was Wrong On the Cold War
Exxon's 2007 Tax Bill: $30 Billion
Heritage Foundation on Russia’s Invasion of Georgia
Returning to Russian Valuations: Politicophobia
John Ortberg on Religion AND Politics: Why the human race needs an administration of another kind.
Comment on High IQ and Depression
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
2000 Election
2000/2004 Elections by county
MEDIA RECOUNT: BUSH WON THE 2000 ELECTION
Florida recount study: Bush still wins
"Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector" (Article II.1)
Video: George W. Bush steals 2000 Election
MEDIA RECOUNT: BUSH WON THE 2000 ELECTION
Florida recount study: Bush still wins
"Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector" (Article II.1)
Video: George W. Bush steals 2000 Election
Headlines: September 3, 2008
"Governor, Who's the Leader of Angola?"
Stalin's mass murders were 'entirely rational' says new Russian textbook praising tyrant
US poised to announce $1B in aid for Georgia
History starts again
Two covers, one conclusion
Pakistani neuroscientist is indicted in U.S.
Stalin's mass murders were 'entirely rational' says new Russian textbook praising tyrant
US poised to announce $1B in aid for Georgia
History starts again
Two covers, one conclusion
Pakistani neuroscientist is indicted in U.S.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Headlines: September 2, 2008
U.S. hands back a quieter Anbar Province
Dutch intel: US to strike Iran in coming weeks
Diggers defended over dog cage jail
Video: Anna Eshoo on Bush's Warrantless Surveillance Bill
Obama's Years at Columbia Are a Mystery
Leftist Protesters Attack, Throw Poison & Spit On RNC Delegates!... 80 Year-Old Connecticut Delegate Injured!!!
Pakistani women buried alive 'for choosing husbands'
Report: Gonzales mishandled classified data
Europe Warns, and Warns Again
Slight Hope in Pakistan
Putin’s Useful Idiots
How Obama lost the election
Stalin makes a comeback with Russian teachers
Dutch intel: US to strike Iran in coming weeks
Diggers defended over dog cage jail
Video: Anna Eshoo on Bush's Warrantless Surveillance Bill
Obama's Years at Columbia Are a Mystery
Leftist Protesters Attack, Throw Poison & Spit On RNC Delegates!... 80 Year-Old Connecticut Delegate Injured!!!
Pakistani women buried alive 'for choosing husbands'
Report: Gonzales mishandled classified data
Europe Warns, and Warns Again
Slight Hope in Pakistan
Putin’s Useful Idiots
How Obama lost the election
Stalin makes a comeback with Russian teachers
Monday, September 1, 2008
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