There are quite a few sites which do care about the careless money printing of the FED and the lending of government. Just a few actual links: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2011/05/23/visualizing-the-debt-ceiling/ and even more frightening (at least to me): http://www.usdebtclock.org/ I mentioned...
Let's see BP chef does yachting in England. And Obama sits in his white house, blaming that BP has caused the biggest envorinmental catostrophy ever. (Howerver we should not forget who has allowed them to exploit the oil in the gulf?, and who has the power to decide upon the to be granted security...
While the Associated Press blames the disaster in the Gulf on the lack of regulatory oversight, the White House's call for increasing the liability cap on oil companies belies the real culprit in this mess. Previous legislation capped oil company liability at 75 million. What reason could there possibly...
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William Green
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Ok, Obama got his healt care "reform". Future will tell if it's was a vicotry or just a Pyrrhic victory I expect the latter one. I expect also that someday the politicians will learn that more laws does not make for higher justice. It's the opposite the more laws there are the more...
(Originally posted at damienmanier.com) The way we punish criminals and restore justice is very important to our overall crime prevention strategy. It is important to establish a punitive system that will exact the right amount of punishment while also bringing about justice and restitution to the victim...
Well just so much. Let us assume I steal something from you. Well the thief goes and tries to make the stolen things to money (or something else worht something). The value from the stolen good was let's say 100 EUR. He tries to sell of of any price. Is the thief still a criminal? Now the situation...
Fannie Mae reports third quarter loss of $18.9 billion and requests another $15 billion in taxpayer funds. Another government enterprise comes back to the well for more, with no end in sight. Bloomberg has a summary of the results here . FNM was the organization that couldn’t do accounting properly...
On several occasions ( the most recent ) I have discussed the abandonment of our Constitution and its principles as leading to the inevitable economic mess we now confront. As an example of how the Constitution no longer matters, at least in the eyes of the ruling class, the following article from the...
Growing up with five brothers, my parents had to be particularly careful that they were seen to be fair and just if all out war was not to ensue over the most trivial matters. One technique that we often used was that whoever cut the cake was the last person to be able to choose which piece of the cake...
The growing use of tasers by the police and the invention of novel non-lethal weapons have led to calls to ban or restrict their use. The two sides of the debate are usually identified as the "civil libertarian" left/liberals versus the "law and order" right/conservatives. The liberals...