Ron Paul, last March: You have a right to your life and you have a right to your property, but you don’t have, education isn’t a right, healthcare isn’t, education…these are things you have to earn. So Ron Paul is following this year’s pattern for GOP presidential candidates of rising briefly and the gaseously popping. [...]
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The High Point Enterprise ran this cartoon critical of new FAA regulations requiring pilots have more rest time between flights. Ah, another stab at “burdensome” federal regulation which require people operating a 200+ ton vehicle, six miles above the earth’s surface, traveling at 600 mph, not be sleep deprived. Until my pilot can get me [...]
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Steve Nagel was kind enough to send the link. What I find fascinating about it is that the Walker supporter is wielding his own camera, like he thinks this is all going to make him look good.
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Once again, I have to ask – who are these people?
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Ron Paul: I never read that stuff. I was probably aware of it ten years after it was written. And it’s been going on twenty years that people have pestered me about this. And CNN does it every single time. Gloria Berger, CNN: Is it legitimate? Is it a legitimate question to ask that something [...]
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Back in 2009, there was a slight flurry on the Internet over an online game – “2011: Obama’s Coup Fails.” It was (and apparently, still is,) a right wing gamer’s wet dream narrated with “future” news stories that include Ted Nugent attacking an ACORN youth rally: “the children were spared but all others were slaughtered…” [...]
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“C-SPAN has no control over the U.S. House TV cameras – the Speaker of the House does.”
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Bloomberg News offers us a fascinating roundup of filthy-rich cluelessness: Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase & Company: Acting like everyone who’s been successful is bad and because you’re rich you’re bad, I don’t understand it. Bernard Marcus, Home Depot Co-Founder, and Founding member of the Website Job Creator’s Alliance in response to a [...]
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To paraphrase a line from the Broadway play, The Elephant Man, If this is their kindness, what is their cruelty like?
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Well, it’s an arresting headline, anyway. “Don’t Support Your Local Bookseller,” Farhad Manjoo thunders in Slate, adding “Buying books on Amazon is better for authors, better for the economy, and better for you.” Manjoo is reacting to “Amazon’s Jungle Logic,” the recent Richard Russo New York Times piece about a nasty promotion by Amazon. The [...]
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