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  • similarities

    In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn’t like about Bush’s former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House’s displeasure, and then he told me something that at…

  • The free market doesn’t like green energy all that much

    When economists talk of “the market”, they mean the collective decision of investors. The Obama administration is lending to build electric cars and batteries. a total of $8 billion in loan commitments, including a whopping $5.9 billion to help Ford retool factories in Kentucky, Michigan [..], Illinois, Missouri and Ohio…

  • Casinos and conventional economics

    Conventional economics used by everyone from Paul Krugman to the wacknuts at the Chicago school is based on the assumption that people who participate in the market all act to maximize their income. There are a lot of problems with this assumption, but it’s fundamental to conventional economics and it’s…

  • Showing some fight and drawing lines in the sand

    “Progressive” critics of President Obama have often complained about a perceived lack of passionate commitment. A common complaint goes something like this: If he would only fight hard and draw a line in the sand, I don’t care if he wins I guess I’m not progressive because I’m interested in…

  • Amazing that none of our “limited government” dispshit “conservatives” cared about this. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • Tea Party thoughts from 2005

    Every  society  has  a conservative elite that generally acts  to defend order and privilege. But when that elite becomes too fearful  or  too proud, like our American conservative elite, it forgets the fragility of social order and presumes to hire the Devil as  a  servant.  The same insanity and hubris…

  • Rapture of the Republicans

    Rapture of the Republicans

    In my dream, the dead flew up from their graves to the Judgment of Republicans and the Angel of Mercy put out a hand and cradled them against the pull of the void and the weight of their sins. The Judging Angel asked: You have heard  “So God created the…

  • Economics as if “conservatives” could learn and cared about their country

    Look past the hype: elite “conservative” economists and ideologists from AEI and Chicago University and similar places  favor  enormous and intrusive governments and burdensome public debt and are deeply afraid of free markets. Their support for small government and free markets is an advertising gimmick that is designed to deceive…