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Showing posts with label iraq war. Show all posts

Monday, December 15, 2008

Headlines: December 15, 2008

Where Have All the Doctors Gone?

China Sinks New Kyoto

Powerline: Throw Another Log On the Fire...

"The best chapter in either of these books, and the only one that meets the test of political history head on, is Ellis's on U.S.-Indian relations."

2003: Saddam’s son fed his love rivals to the lions

Friday, October 31, 2008

Headlines: October 31, 2008

Obesity blamed for doubling rate of diabetes cases

Bailout funds being spent in ways Congress never foresaw

U.S. deaths in Iraq on track for record low

Paul Johnson: Can We Afford Liberalism Now?

MIT scientists baffled by global warming theory, contradicts scientific data

Don't Just Do Something. Stand There.

The richest Jew in Damascus, 1816

2004: Sitting on a String

"Look at the adjusted monetary base. This monetary component is the one that the Federal Reserve System controls. It reveals the FED’s holdings of assets, mainly U.S. government debt certificates. The monetary base is what Friedman has called high-powered money."

The Adventures of Baracchio: Episode 2

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Headlines: October 15, 2008

CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos: Waterboarding Got White House Nod

What is Debt Monetization?

Who Do We Owe and How Much?

Spurious Jefferson quotations

Oil price slides below $72 to 13-month low

"Steve and Rachel Larman say a strange credit card charge appeared on their statement this month -- a $2300 donation to Barack Obama's presidential campaign."

Obama: "My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

Ludwig von Mises: "It is an illusion to expect that despotism will always side with the good causes."

Henry Hazlitt on the Bailout

Economics 101: Crisis of Confidence

Bailout v. Workout -- The continuing crisis

Commentary on the Financial Crisis (Updated Regularly)

Uncle Sam, Inc.: Postcards from the moral-hazard highway.

Number of Embedded Reporters in Iraq Falls to All-Time Low Since Start of Surge

California polls shock gay marriage supporters

California may seek $7bn emergency loan

Retail sales plunge 1.2 percent in September

Tyler case opened schools to illegal migrants

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Headlines: October 2, 2008

HIV up sharply among women, gay men in China

Senators who voted No

PIGGY POLS IN HOG HEAVEN WITH PORK-PACKED PACT

Obama’s Fishy $200 Million

America's Nervous Breakdown - and the World's

Obama’s Assault on the First AmendmentStifling political debate with threats of prosecution is not the “rule of law” — it’s tyranny.

Maddening for Madisonians

Government aid to automakers is not a bailout, Ford CEO says

Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis?

Who caused “the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression?”

Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure

Marines accused in Iraqi slayings refuse to testify against each other: Lawyers say two sergeants will not provide court-martial testimony. The pair also refused to testify at the August federal trial of their former squad leader, who was subsequently acquitted of killing four Iraqi prisoners.

Ex-Marine charged in Iraq killings

Criminal-Homicide Charges Warrior on trial: Jose Nazario came home from Iraq a hero for valor in the Battle of Fallujah. Now they're calling some of his actions criminal.