Once the shit really hits the fan, do you really think you’ll just be able to jump into the old station wagon, drive across the Canadian border and spend the rest of your days fishing and drinking Molson? No, the government is going to lock the place
It was common
on the left to intimate that George W. Bush was like Hitler, a remark
that would drive the National Review crowd through the roof
but which I didn't find entirely outrageous. Bush's main method
of governance was to stir up fear of foreign enemies and instigate
a kind of nationalist hysteria about the need for waging war and
giving up liberty through security.
Hitler is the
most famous parallel here, but he is hardly the only one. Many statesmen
in world history have used the same tactics, dating back to ancient
times. Machiavelli wrote in his Art
of War advice to the ruler: "To know how to recognize an
opportunity in war, and take it, benefits you more than anything
else."
But what's
the point of studying Hitler's rise to power unle
The US Treasury unveiled a six-billion-dollar package to assist GMAC, the troubled financial arm of General Motors. The Treasury said in a statement it would purchase 5 billion dollars in senior preferred equity with an eight percent dividend from GM