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Though relatively few people on Main Street are consumed with anxiety over the unfolding events on Cyprus, a tiny Mediterranean island with a population of barely one million, the chaos there is a grim harbinger of a burgeoning worldwide financial crisis that will ultimately reach U.S. shores. The outlandish nature of Cypriot governmental action is… Continuă lectura America Is Not Immune To EU Calamity

Your correspondent has arrived to inconvenient conclusions. Often, the mainstream media lies. Most troubling is that it does so even when it is unaware that it does so. Ascribe this to the input of trusted “experts” that grind the axe that will decapitate the misled public. Even non-conforming individuals are influenced by “official” versions even… Continuă lectura Duly Noted – The Strategy of Lies

There’s no better time than April Fools Day to check in on the progress of the global warming crisis: Debate about the reality of a two-decade pause in global warming and what it means has made its way from the sceptical fringe to the mainstream. Even global warming profiteers have had to admit that their… Continuă lectura Even Hoaxers Admit It Isn’t Getting Any Warmer

Why are capitalist countries wealthy and socialist countries poor Because the free market allocates resources more wisely than bureaucrats. This is how healthcare resources are allocated under Britain’s regime of socialized medicine: Britain’s National Health Service, the NHS, recently spent £4,800 — about $7,200 — on enormous breast implants for an aspiring model while nearly… Continuă lectura Socialized Medicine: Money for Fake Boobs as Patients Starve

In what has become a depressingly familiar EU template, yet another “eleventh hour” deal was reached between the European Central Bank (ECB) the European Commission (EC) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) — known as the “troika” — and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades to avoid national bankruptcy. “It’s been yet another hard day’s night,” European Union Economic and Monetary Affairs… Continuă lectura An Offer Cypriots Can’t Refuse

A month before the election that would make Obama the first Democratic Socialists of America member in the White House, another prominent DSA’er wrote a cheerful article about the 160th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto. Barbara Ehrenreich, the daughter of a Gillette executive, had gone mainstream by writing about poverty in America, but her politics… Continuă lectura A Bad Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From the Radical Tree

The Republican National Committee’s Growth and Opportunity Project post-mortem of the 2012 election cycle covers a lot of ground in its effort to diagnose the Party’s losses. This first installment of my response covers the report broadly and particularly its prescriptions for messaging. The RNC report categorized its recommendations in seven areas: Messaging Demographic Partners Campaign… Continuă lectura The RNC Diagnosis: Part 1 – Messaging

As one of the largest American cities ever to declare Chapter 9 bankruptcy, San Bernardino found itself driven to insolvency by three things. Revenues from sales and property taxes were too low; the city’s charter required that public-safety workers’ salaries be equivalent to those in wealthy coastal suburbs; and public-safety workers’ contracts were letting them… Continuă lectura Salvation Through Extinction

The motor of human history turns on the question of political form. In the ancient world, two such forms prevailed: the city-state and the empire. Indeed, the history of the ancient world is essentially the history of the interplay of these two forms, whether through war (as in the Greek cities’ war against the Persian… Continuă lectura Birth of the Nation

After 28 years of wedded bliss and 2 kids, I’m guessing I’m probably the Conversation’s resident marriage champ. (It was an arranged Hindu ceremony, I was 3 and she was 2.) And there’s nobody who can better attest to the joys and benefits of a traditional monogamous union. That said, I’m not going to join the… Continuă lectura Same Sex Marriage and Gilligan’s Island Game Theory