This article on the IHT discussing the much overdo global move to social democracy made a particularly interesting point about China
In China, where the demise of the American market has brought to light the perils of excessive savings at home, the government has not only recently proposed a big Keynesian-style stimulus program but has [...]
From Another Forum/Another Place
Someone asked — what are Conservative values anyway ?
My reply
This is what I consider conservative values, the old Reagan Republican/Country Clubber and Paleo-Con Values. This isn’t an endorsement, mind, but a list in no particular order.
#1 Don’t do nothing in public that would offend the neighbors
#2 Peace through a strong [...]
A short Prosper lecture:
The best way to think of the children is not to pass more ill thought out and invasive laws . Instead you do what it takes to leave the country me free and in better financial shape than the way you found it. Oh yeah and for heaven sakes if you [...]
T.A.S.S is of course the Russian State Newspaper and neither it nor its kin Pravda (ironically The Truth) had much of a reputation for useful or accurate journalism
Government aid for newspapers doesn’t fit the American ideas of a free press or capitalism very well. I really don’t think that there won’t be strings attached [...]
I quite enjoyed Mr. Jenkins article but I think he is a bit off on the constituency of the American political system today.
Today’s Republican party is not like the party of 1980. There doesn’t seem to be a new Reagan or any kind of leader that can appeal to the broad base of under [...]
Somehow I think its a lot more likely to the fact that people can’t afford an education.
However as I mentioned on the original boingboing article games like WOW and its predecessor EQ can be very addictive for some people.
I’ve seen many a life wrecked by them. MMO’s bore me so I am [...]
To borrow a line from Beetlejuice “You Know I hate ‘em”. In addition to being a skeevy way around the Do Not Call list they don’t create any jobs.
As I see it if some idiot is going to call me on the phone and try to sell me something I’d rather it be a human [...]
We seem to have trillions of dollars to waste on banker parasites but can’t seem to come up anything to help our domestic auto industry.
Simply put there aren’t enough blue collar people in office today. The elitists that make up the legislative and executive branch haven’t enough knowledge or experience to tell the [...]
I don’t indulge much in art criticism or worry about tattoos (or piercing for that matter) as Kunstler does here. James Kunslter may think badly of tattooing longing spewing his for patriarchy over his excellent and rudely named blog
but folks while well this is a well turned phrase but [...]
What is it with Governments and Dystopias. Most sane people take these as cautionary tales and things to be avoided.
Governments on the other hand seem to take the worst of the worst, 1984, Brave New World and the like as a “master plan” or a “good idea”
Given a few more years of Republican misrule [...]