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Tag Archives: government
To PAYGO or to NO-PAYGO?
Bryan Pick makes a great point on why the GOP should accept Obama’s limited Paygo
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Tagged debt, deficit, government, govt, Obama, paygo, spending
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US Treasury Refusing Bank Repayments?
That’s what’s claimed in this article in the IBD. This becomes pretty thuggish when you add to the fact that these banks were (allegedly) outright threatened to take the TARP funds in the first place. The reason for all of … Continue reading
To Big To Fail
Over at Instapundit, Glenn has been keeping an eye on both the Tax Day Tea Party and the New Way Forward demonstrations. Reading about what the left is doing, I have to think, that if the left thinks banks that … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Economics, Keith's Page
Tagged banks, financial crisis, government
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Obama Fires Izzo
…awards Michigan State 18 points.
Posted in Chris' Page, Domestic Politics, Humor, regulation, Sports
Tagged basketball championship, cato, GM, government, government motors, michigan state, NCAA, President Obama, satire
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This Certainly Explains
the Government we have in DC.
The West as Nuclear Proliferator
(NYT) The New York Times has a fascinating little chart today, illustrating the primary sources of nuclear weapons proliferation over time. In looking at the diagram, one cannot escape the overall impression that until recently the West has been the … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Technology
Tagged Africa, Asia, authoritarianism, chart, China, civic culture, communications, democracy, diagram, DPRK, eastern bloc, English, espionage, former soviet republics, government, individualism, infographic, lingua franca, military intelligence, networks, New York Times, North Korea, nucelar research, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons, political dissent, prc, proliferation risk, rogue states, Russia, scientific community, Soviet Union, Technology, technology transfer, trade, translation services, Transportation, USSR, western democracy
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Morality of the Bailout
In a Q&A session at the University of the Pacific in October, Dinesh D’Souza was asked about the moral dimensions of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. I don’t agree entirely with the causality he posits exists between irresponsible consumer behavior … Continue reading
Flaccid in Mexico City
When you think of the numerous problems routinely facing residents of Mexico City, things like an astronomical violent crime rate, standstill traffic, urban poverty, collapsing infrastructure, chronic water shortages, claustrophobia-inducing overcrowding and toxic pollution might come to mind. Even aircraft … Continue reading
Government by Rich and Poor
Sadly, Myrna Bushell, Bideford (UK) town councillor and stripper/phone sex business owner, is resigning her office due to a lack of respect from colleagues. But in parting she also cited the time constraints necessary for local councilpeople, concluding that you … Continue reading
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Tagged Bideford, government, Myrna Bushell, phone sex, resignations, stripper, town council, UK, unemployed, United Kingdom, wealthy
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Against Galt
Synova wrote a little post that gets halfway to where I would come down on this perennial parlor game of the John Galt general strike. Sy recognized that to be successful, such a revolt would realistically be a miserable experience … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Culture, Lee's Page, Libertarianism
Tagged America, Aristotle, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Carl Schmitt, collectivism, Conservatism, constitutional order, Culture, democracy, epiphany, Eric Hoffer, fascism, futurism, Galt's Gulch, general will, government, group identity, guardians, ideology, individualism, John Galt, justice, liberal democracy, liberalism, Libertarianism, literary style, literature, materialism, Objectivism, Plato, popular democracy, radicalism, Randianism, revolt, revolution, Rousseau, salvation, sectionalism, seperatism, skepticism, socia, social justice, strike, war, William F Buckley
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Social[ism] Programs, Please Take One
Taking his cue from Us Magazine‘s five free issue incentive to dissuade subscribers from canceling over their anti-Palin cover story, TennesseeFree proposes Obama should offer five free personalized social programs to every fleeing voter. I’d caution the electorate against any … Continue reading
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Tagged bureaucracy, forms, government, incentive, Obama, Sarah Palin, social programs, subscribers, subscriptions, Tennessee, Us Magazine, voters
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Limited Government Still Popular
According to a new Rasmussen survey 62% of Americans believe encouraging economic growth is more important than reducing income inequality. 51% also say the federal government exerts too much control over our economy as it stands. It would be wise … Continue reading
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Tagged Americans, economy, government, growth, income inequality, limited government, McCain, Obama, poll, Rasmussen, survey
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Uneven Anti-Western Attitudes in Russia
A survey finds that public perspectives in Russia are turning sharply anti-Western in matters of international relations. But what’s particularly interesting about this, is that such sentiments have grown fastest and strongest in Russia’s most cosmopolitan and urban regions, whereas … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs
Tagged anti-Western, cosmopolitan, far east, government, international relations, Moscow, poll, Russia, St. Petersburg, survey, Urals, urban, xenophobia
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Revolt of the Cherubs
A dissuasive argument against government healthcare actually.
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Tagged government, Health Care, picture image, protesters, riot, suburban, tear gas
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Marital Advice from Todd Palin
Sound recommendation I’d say: “I should’ve asked a few more questions when Sarah joined the PTA. When my wife starts talking about reform, corruption and making government work for the American people, it’s best to just move out of the … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008
Tagged advice, corruption, government, marital, marriage, Political Radar, PTA, Sarah Palin, Todd Palin, wife
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Sarah Palin – Kuwait Gallery
Here at ASHC we get an enormous amount of traffic from people looking for Sarah Palin photographs. My friend Jason over on postpolitical says he’s experiencing the same phenomenon on his blog, and we took to calling it the hunt … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lee's Page
Tagged Alaska, Alaska National Guard, blog, desert, gallery, government, images, Kuwait, Kuwati, MILF, military, National Guard, Palin, palinporn, photos, pics, pictures, public domain, Republican, Sarah Palin, search engine, traffic, troops, veep, vice president, vp, VPILF, websites
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Family in Trouble
American Daily The single most important building block of any nation is her families. Destroy that and you can easily lay claim to a nation’s soul. I agree. I think we have failed to maintain the nuclear family and lost … Continue reading
Posted in MikeR's Page, Uncategorized
Tagged Culture, family, government, left, liberal, pessimism, religious, socialism, Society
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Ethnostatism Fails
The movement of “ethnic studies” curricula from colleges to public schools, is something that troubles many of us who have experienced such classes in modern times. Ethnic studies programs are often called “multiculturalist,” but since they tend to be monoethnic … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Lee's Page
Tagged academia, academic, American history, Arizona, Arizona Republic, astrology, astronomy, Che Guevara, colleges, cultural, curriculum, Department of Education Reform, Doug Maceachern, ethnic studies, ethnostatism, fascism, government, History, Jay P. Greene, math, monoethnic, multiculturalism, non sequitur, political, public schools, raza studies, trigonometry, Tucson, Tucson Union School District, TUSD, University of Arkansas
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The Shift to the Center
It seems a sociopolitical threshold of some kind has been passed in Iraq, as the full range of separatist groups are now seeking power and legitimacy through representation in the central government, rather than in armed conflict.
China’s Olympic Designer to Boycott Olympics
Chinese architectural designer Ai Weiwei, who conceived the now famous “Bird’s Nest” Olympic stadium design for the Beijing games, will not attend the opening ceremonies in protest against Chinese dictatorship. He has some powerful words of explanation in the Guardian … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Sports
Tagged Ai Weiwei, authoritarian, Autocracy, Beijing, bird's nest, boycott Olympics, China, design, designer, dictatorship, games, government, protest, stadium
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Surprise, Central Planning is Still Stupid (Even in China)
(photo: 2 Dogs) Modern China has a curious capacity to make otherwise very sensible capitalists instantly forget every experience they’ve ever had with government central planning. The Western businessman on a trip to Shanghai looks up and sees all those … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Uncategorized, Urban planning and development
Tagged aesthetic, American, bridge, capitalists, central planning, China, commercial, construction, cruise, disaster, Dongguan, Far Eastern Economic Review, government, Hongko, housing, Houston, international, largest, Los Angeles, planning, project, public works, republic, shipping, shopping mall, skyscapers, Soviet, terminal, urban planning, vessels, Waigaoqiao, Yangpu, yangtze
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To Have and Withhold
The National Women’s Committee of the Yemeni government is finally calling for an end to child brides. Their proposal is to reset the minimum marriage age at 18. The official legal age for marriage is 15 in Yemen, but loopholes … Continue reading
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Tagged age, child bride, government, National Women’s Committee, religious police, s, Saudi Arabia, women, Yemen
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Dissonance Control in Political Paranoia
(photo: companyink) After writing about the Ronpaulist fear mongering of Jordan Page, and then reading Lance’s splendid post on the latest contheorist pandering of Glenn Greenwald, a common insight has reoccurred to me: the absurd amount of cognitive dissonance conditional … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Domestic Politics, Glenn Greenwald's Carnival of Fisking, Lee's Page, Uncategorized
Tagged ammunition, car bomb, Christopher Hitchens, cognitive dissonance, compartmentalism, contheorist, cynicism, Daniel Dennett, Four Horsemen, Glenn Greenwald, government, improbable politics, intelligence, Jordan Page, NSA, paranoia, realism, resistance, Richard Dawkins, Ronpaulism, Sam Harris, Twinkies, underground, video, youtube
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Colombia’s Capitalist Communes
Colombian flower farms (photo: Mike Freedman-Schnapp) Colombia’s flower farm workers have for some time been benefiting mightily from industrial support communities, which practice heavy nongovernmental social investment in workforce collectives. Many of the workers in these communities outside Bogota and … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Bogota, business, CFTA, Colombia, Colombia Free Trade Agreement, community, daycare, Fausta, Felipe Arango, flowers, free trade, government, labor, Medellin, MG Farm, rights, Shapiro, Sherrod Brown, social investing, trade, USA, worker rights, workers
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The Dawn of Food Zoning
The Los Angeles City Council has banned the construction of fast food restaurants in low income areas. Perhaps I’ve lost the ability to be shocked by the abuses of paternalistic government, because my immediate reaction was “figures.”
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Tagged fast food, food zoning, government, Los Angeles, Los Angeles City Council, paternalism, Puritain, zoning
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Restructure State to Save It
Cross-posted from Registan.net, your one-stop shop for news and analysis of going on in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Thirteen months ago, I noted the problems caused by the U.S. State Department having dramatically different divisions than the military COCOMs. … Continue reading
Posted in Developmental economics, Foreign affairs
Tagged Domestic Politics, government, policy, State, US
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What Else Fascism?
There’s editorial sensationalism, and then there’s Keith Olbermann. Consider Mr. Olbermann on Bush recently: “If you believe in the seamless mutuality of government and big business, come out and say it! There is a dictionary definition, one word that describes … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush, business, cynicism, dictatorship, fascism, government, Keith Olbermann, militarism, nationalism, plutocracy, power, socialism, t-sirt
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Conflict on Campus in Colorado
photo: Michael Buck The sole finalist for the new president of the University of Colorado system, is a Republican oil executive with only a bachelor’s degree. You can imagine where this is going: Campus observers have fiercely protested the selection, … Continue reading
Posted in Lee's Page
Tagged Benson, boulder, colorado, conservative, CU, government, oil, president, Republican, right-wing, student, university
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McCain’s Secular Conservatism
photo: Chris Dunn The Moderate Voice takes a good and short look at McCain’s politics and notices a compelling absence of social conservative moral lectures, as well as a preference for stressing the characteristics of conservatism that Americans find most … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservatism, election, government, hope, McCain, moderate, nomination, pragmatism, realism, Republican, secularism, social conservatism
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We’ll Get To That Wind Farm Application – Eventually
And by eventually, they mean decades down the road. This is a perfect example of government getting in the way of the innovation we need to dig ourselves out of our fossil fuel dependency. http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1362/1/ If you want to build … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Economics, energy, Environment, Keith's Page, regulation, Technology
Tagged energy, government, innovation, MISO, regulation, stiffling, wind power
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African wages, high and sticky?
Hat tip: Tyler. Chris Blattman has a conjecture, possibly high wages in Africa are holding back growth: One thing that has always struck me in the African countries I have worked is that the real wages (i.e. wages adjusted for … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Developmental economics, Economics, Lance's Page, social science
Tagged Africa, blog, China, Chris Blattman, government, India, NGO's, wages
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A MITI for Detroit
Mitt Romney appears to be calling for a government directed solution to the American automotive indutry’s woes. Marc Ambinder uses the occasion to point out that save Thompson, interventionist government seems to be a consistent theme for all the GOP … Continue reading
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Tagged automotive industry, Fred Thompson, government, Marc Ambinder, Michigan, Mitt Romney, Republicans, statism
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Minister for Kleptocracy
Japan runs the world’s second largest economy with 17 cabinet ministers. Ghana, one of the world’s poorest, currently has 70. Why? Ben Ofosu-Appiah examines the question and argues the need for the dramatic downsizing of African governments. Shakara then offers … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, bureaucracy, ghana, government, japan, statism
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