"He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys; he may look dumb but that's just a disguise; he's a mastermind in the ways of espionage." Charlie Daniels, "Uneasy Rider" February 2010 - Posts - TT's Lost in Tokyo

February 2010 - Posts

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On climate, myopic progressives console themselves by pointing out fossil $ behind science "skeptics"; but miss the same from left and ignore middle ground by TokyoTom

 

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Forget Mt. Vernon; see the Campaign for Liberty's Principles by TokyoTom

Readers might have heard that Republican conservatives - who hope to retake control of Congress and the White House, head off/engulf TeaParty reformers, and thence to further drive the federal government into the ground - have joined together in announcing...
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Crazy Bill Gates on the need for energy innovation: We need to "fix market barriers and dysfunctions" by TokyoTom

[Note: Snark inside.] As I mentioned earlier , Bill Gates has recently posted his thoughts on how to address climate issues . Since we know Gates has been funding scientific inquiry into (and patent rights regarding) methods to dampen "climate change"...
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Avatar, tragedy of the socialized commons and crashing salmon stocks; how the dirty hands of government destroy wild resources by TokyoTom

It's a sad, sad story, now being played out practically wherever wild salmon stocks once were abundant. (This version refers to the Pacific Northwest, particularly to events in British Columbia). First, national governments wrest control over salmon...
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Independent business advocates condemn Supreme Court ruling allowing unlimited corporate money in US elections, join public interest groups in launching campaign to amend Constitution by TokyoTom

No, I didn't write this press release (but I did add emphasis!). I note my related posts are here . DATE: January 21, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jeff Milchen, American Independent Business Alliance 406-582-1255 INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ADVOCATES...
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Breaking News! "Let's Franchise Corporate Democracy!" In wake of #CorpSpeak decision, MD company running for Congress signs first franchisee, in Va by TokyoTom

I reported two weeks ago that a PR firm, Murray Hill, Inc. , had embraced the recent decision by the conservative, non-activist majority of the Supreme Court which resoundingly affirmed that the Founding Fathers had granted First Amendment rights to corporate...
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Snicker-snack! We hold these truths to be self-evident: That WE're right, and THEY are stoopid, deluded, evil AND cunning, out to destroy all that is good and holy by TokyoTom

 

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Problems with "Presidents Day" by Tom Eddlem at LewRockwell.com; but let's not just "restore Congress," but amend Constitution to limit the federal government by TokyoTom

I encourage readers to take a look at the excellent essay by Thomas R. Eddlem , Down With the Presidency! A President's Day Message , now up at LewRockwell.com. I quote first a few key portions, and then note my further thoughts. But the role of the...
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WSJ: another stupid MSM #CorpSpeak organ, uninterested in Constitution and an agent for expanding our oppressive, corrupt & broken federal government by TokyoTom

[Here's the title I preferred but was apparently too long. Dang. "WSJ reveals itself as another stupid MSM #CorpSpeak organ, uninterested in Constitutional or representative government, and perversely, as an ally with Dems in engendering a oppressive...
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Bill Gates, Roger Pielke, Avatar & the Climate (of distrust); or, Can we move from a tribal questioning of motives to win-win policies? by TokyoTom

"Whhhaaat the heck is TT up NOW?" I can hear some of you asking yourselves. Bill Gates , Roger Pielke , the movie Avatar and climate? Just what elusive illusions am I alluding to here? (Stop playing, you say.) Well, brace yourself, and bear...
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Speech and Sociopaths: Does it make sense to collapse, for Constitutional and legal purposes, the distinctions between human beings and corporate "persons"? by TokyoTom

Further to my preceding posts on corporate "free speech" , let me copy here for those interested some parts of a post by legal blogger/law prof Kimberly Hauser , and excerpts of the comment thread (emphasis added). Says Hauser: Justice Kennedy...
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Towards a productive libertarian approach on climate, energy and environmental issues by TokyoTom

 

 

 

 

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Historic Times: A libertarian view on what liberal Larry Lessig has missed regarding our broken, corrupt government by TokyoTom

I won't reprise the essay referred to in my preceding post , by which Lawrence Lessig presents his view of our current problems (much of which I agree with, including his conclusion that the "conservative" Roberts Supreme Court five-Justice...
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Historic Times: Larry Lessig calls for Constitutional Convention to fix our corrupt, broken government by TokyoTom

Lessig doesn' expressly say it, but we also need to rein in the "self-evident", "unalienable rights" of all corporations Actually, the last quip in the title are my words, not Lessig's. Last week, I noted Harvard law prof Lawrence...
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#CorpSpeak: "Jefferson Was Right" about the dangers of corporations and of the Supreme Court by TokyoTom

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." -- Thomas Jefferson , letter to to George Logan...
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