Big government, abetted by Keynesian macroeconomics, fostered today’s macro meltdown in the financial markets. Collectivism in the Federal government since the 1930s New Deal is paralleled by the emergence in financial markets of giant, multi-national financial institutions. Both reflect the detached, numbers only, view of socialistic regulators who deal in large abstractions called “the...
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About 50 of my readers have written to me about the T-Mobile commercial "26." Brace yourself for a surprise--it's a commercial where a father acts like an idiot in front of his kids, and his wife is contemptuous of him. One wonders how long a commercial featuring a math-challenged woman who was too dumb...
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I just got this fax from a fairly local Moveon.org mob where they will release a "new report" called "War at Home". Actually, they originally sent an email release to my job's account last week and called up this morning to confirm we had received it. I took the call. Imagine how it...
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In 2005, I wrote a column entitled “The Case for Imperialism†which candidly espoused the United States’ responsibility to maintain global preeminence given the retrograde tribal dynamics that remain in play throughout the Middle East, Africa and much of Asia. This gave rise to a couple of articles that applied this philosophy to our...
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Murderess Mary Winkler--who shot her husband in the back and then refused to aid him or call 911 as he slowly bled to death for 20 minutes--walked away a free woman this week after serving a farcically brief "sentence" for her crimes.
Winkler scammed the court with uncorroborated claims that Matthew (pictured with his wife...
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Two of Joyce Carol Oates’ earliest, and most powerful, novels, A Garden of Earthly Delights and them, deal extensively with poverty. Both are specifically about poor whites or “white trash” — for during this part of her prolific career, Oates rarely wrote from the perspective of characters who were not Caucasians. In a rather...
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One wonders if Amazon.com, Alibris, Waterstone's (UK), and others would proudly market a book describing how men can torture, stalk, and/or emotionally abuse their ex-wives.
The author, a vindictive, twice-divorced woman who writes under the pen name "Nomo Wenie," writes:
"I no longer advocate the actual dismemberment of a man. Not that they don't deserve it,...
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I just can't believe this. The election system in this country has been cheapened. Our political process has devolved into a smutty, degenerate pop culture whiffle-ball — devoid of substantive debate and lacking any redeeming social value.
… until this came along to add credibility:
One of the biggest videos on You Tube this summer has...
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In the next two days the immediate future of this country may be decided. Heads of State are gathering in Lusaka and today, in preparation, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Security and Finance meet to work through what will go to the Presidents when they meet on Thursday. According to the South African Foreign...
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