The Brooding Commander in Chief
I am starting to see a disturbing pattern, people trying to defend Trump’s late night call to General..
17 FebruaryTag: politics
Gadhafi and Western intellectuals
Robert Putnam was once called to a meeting with Gadhafi. Here is an excerpt from his account: Students of Western political philosophy would categorize Col. Gadhafi as a quintessential student of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: He made clear that he deeply…
28 FebruaryReader riposte: Eyes over Libya
Margot Carlson Delogne from DigitalGlobe responds to Prakash Mirchandani: I read with interest your posting about Egypt and the recent events in Libya, with the note that it ‘is surprising DigitalGlobe has not released any images of Libya’. We act…
How Egypt shut down the Internet
Perhaps very much so planned in light of the given country, which has been in a state of emergency since 1967, the government had access to the internet entirely cut off from its citizens last week. From days of allegedly denying to be behind the …
31 JanuarySolving Wikileaks’ Problems
I can’t find a better example than Wikileaks as to what Libertarian Socialists have in mind when they describe states of non-bureaucratic and non-hierarchical organizations that hold no private property. The fact that the identity of the original …
13 DecemberLet’s Remove the Politicians
Supporting my point, Hayek states: Nor can certain harmful effects of deforestation, or of some methods of farming, or of the smoke and noise of factories, be confined to the owner of the property in question or to those who are willing to submit …
29 OctoberNext on the list for Climate Change
The next frontier on the global warming front is becoming less and less likely to be the so called cap and trade initiative. The bill died in the Senate recently and the cost of carbon emissions will remain steadily the same in the future. Not man…
15 OctoberThatcher’s last stand against socialism
From Margaret Thatcher’s last House of Commons Speech on November 22, 1990, where she addresses income inequality and a single currency.HT: Taxing Tennessee
4 Juneracism in europe
European political leaders should do more to counter the appeal of the far right THERE was much wailing and gnashing of teeth among liberal commentators after Austria???s election on September 28th. Two far-right parties, led by Heinz-Christian Stra…
6 October