A little math to start your morning: Let X = number of persons who died in the USA as a result of the 9/11 attacks. X ≈ 3,000. Let Y = number of persons who have died in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan as a result of direct war violence associated with the U.S. attacks and…
DetailsAmerica is dying. It is already too late, and was the day I started this blog. But today you can see very clearly the ratchet effect in civil rights, economics, and war, among millions of other policy avenues. The best government will always end in the worst… The main issue is that people have believed…
DetailsWhere have I been? Summer, that’s where. But here are the things you missed… While you were Facebooking, Zuck was selling your info to the government and calling you a dumbfuck. ETHICS. Race & Crime in America. FACTS. Parkinson’s Law of Triviality means that the media will always make huge shows of things like Trayvon…
DetailsYour lecture of the week this week is Tom Woods, expressing why people are attracted to the Austrian School. Here are some of the basics we love. Enjoy:
A few weeks to catch up on, here… The Districts – Funeral Beds Empire of the Sun – Walking on a Dream Chevelle – Face to the Floor Lykke Li – Little Bit Howard Shore & Annie Lennox – Into the West This might be my funeral song… Fergie – A Little Party Never Killed…
DetailsHe speaks, from The Onion: Well, it looks like we’re about ready. The reporters have taken their seats, the photographers have set up their equipment, and everyone in the briefing room is waiting for me, the White House press secretary, to walk up to the podium and address the American public’s most pressing questions. And…
DetailsDaniel Somers’ suicide note after several tours in Iraq is making the rounds, and I believe it is appropriate to share here. He was 30: I am sorry that it has come to this. The fact is, for as long as I can remember my motivation for getting up every day has been so that…
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