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On May 29, 2007, Mark Everson former head of the IRS became president and CEO of the American Red Cross. Just six months later, he was ousted for engaging in an inappropriate sexual relationship with a subordinate. Prior to that, Mr. Everson sat dow
Didn’t like what “cap and trade” legislation will do to your electric bill or the economy? No problem! We’ll just call it “reduction and refund.” It's the same bill with a new name. The Senate’s political hacks go back to 1984.
There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed in truth and regarded truth as an independent power and not as an auxiliary for government, class, race, ideological, personal, or financial interest.
Barry Hess announced his candidacy for Governor on the same day that folks were lined up next to the capitol lawn to see the Declaration of Independence. Musicians 4 Freedom took the opportunity to interview a small group of young girls waiting in li
Who is Obama? Everyone has their favorite theories: he a typical American undergrad; a national traumatizing force; a Rogue Democrat; a tool of the bankers. Introducing BHO v8.0. 8 answers to our national parlor game: Who is Barack Obama?
On Monday Arizona made a bold move to check unlimited federal power. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed the Arizona Firearms Freedom Act (HB 2307) into law, making Arizona the sixth state to pass this type of historic Tenth Amendment legislation.
Incremental tyranny has marched, step by step, up to our door. Are we going to accept authoritarian control over our lives, travel, currency and economy? Will we actually accept martial law in the streets or the internment of “domestic terrorists” an
Alex welcomes back to the show economist and a nationally syndicated columnist Paul Craig Roberts, who recently announced his journalistic retirement in an article entitled “Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty With It.”
"It's Time To Part Company", Walter Williams on secession. - "Congress Is a Criminal Syndicate", Gerald Celente - "It's Coming, and It's Far Worse Than Real ID" Obama, totalitarian national biometric ID, and his GOP allies. Article by Alex Newman.
The line up reads like a day's listing on LewRockwell.com, including one Charles Goyette. The theme is - The Inflationary Path to Despotism. All this for 85 skins (including lunch). Not too shabby, I say. Not too shabby indeed.
The era of record-low mortgage rates is over. The average rate on a 30-year loan has jumped from about 5 percent to more than 5.3 percent in just the past week. As mortgages get more expensive, more would-be homeowners are priced out of the market
World markets slid Thursday amid mounting worries about a potential Greek debt default as the country's borrowing costs continue to go through the roof.
Bjoernsdottir is not alone in planning to leave Iceland's economic mess behind and seek a new future abroad. Most people in Reykjavik have someone in their surroundings who has already packed their bags and left.
Anna Margret Bjoernsdottir never thought she would be forced to leave her once wealthy homeland. But taking out a loan in a foreign currency was a disastrous decision. After 18 months of economic upheaval she has decided to join the biggest emigrat
Tim Geithner, the US Treasury Secretary, is to meet with China's vice-premier on Thursday in an unexpected visit likely to advance hopes of an end to Beijing's currency peg. Mr Geithner's meeting with Wang Qishan comes just days before President
First, the US-led capital game has reached its own limit. Financial liberalism has gone wild since the Thatcher cabinet of Great Britain and the Reagan administration of the US set off a wave of "neo-liberalism" in the 1980s. In 1999 the US adopted
The researchers scoured tumbled boulders and gravel terraces along the Mackenzie River for signs of the meltwater's passage. The flood "would solve a big problem if it actually happened", says oceanographer Wally Broecker of Columbia University's
Despite all this government help, lenders have continued to turn their backs on riskier borrowers, driving students to the government’s direct lending program. With the banks enjoying heavy subsidies while failing in their mission, Obama campaigned i
March, 2010. Thousands of harp seal pups are presumed dead in Canada's Gulf of St Lawrence and starving pups are being found abandoned on the beaches of Prince Edward Island, tragic victims of the worst ice conditions recorded in eastern Canada.
With U.S. President Barack Obama shifting his nuclear nonproliferation strategy to rogue states and terrorists, Chile has become an example of how small countries can play...
Tax Day is a dreaded deadline for millions, but for half of households it's simply somebody else's problem. 47% will pay no federal income taxes at all for 2009. Either their incomes were too low, or they qualified for enough credits, deductions and
It's not just ideology that motivates women terrorists, a new book finds. It's physical, sexual and mental abuse.
The shape of things to come? Most Massachusetts insurers stopped offering new coverage to small businesses and individuals. State officials demanded that the insurers post updated rates online and resume offering policies.
Twice in one day, Paul Krugman brushes off the Austrians with quips that are easily handled by real experts. A full thread on all of this at Mises.org, including his claim that Austrians are self-hating Keynesians.
For those who argue that we are emerging from recession and that we are seeing real final demand increases, you have to square that against these charts. It simply isn't happening.
John McCain: “I never considered myself a maverick.” John McCain isn’t selling his soul for political gain — he’s driving down its price so he can make a fortune in default swaps on the backend. Jon Stewart does a nice job of exposing the ridiculous
You have no idea how hard it is for me to report survey results like this. In spite of all that has happened over the past four years, American's refuse to face reality on any level. I guess propaganda beats reality hands down.
This is a great article. Coincidentally, I was thinking about this very subject just the other day. I was driving through the new traffic circle they added a while back on Galvin Parkway by the entrance to the Phoenix Zoo, contemplating the fact that
Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard’s team took its round-the-world solar plane prototype into the skies for the first time, with 4 propellers lifting the massive craft off the ground at near bicycle speed. With the wingspan of a 747 and the weight of
Oh no, we better not talk about the black hole opening up on bank balance sheets (again)..... that might be a problem eh? Just remember that right up until Lehman blew up the market, while it had its ups and downs, didn't react "too badly" either.
