Soimething to offend Everyone

Political satire or reality?We will do something a little different in today’s post. Rather that blather about our own political views, let me share with you the contents of an email I received from dear friend and colleague Dr. Jerry. We’ve omitted the illustrations from the original since my technical knowledge is not sophisticated enough to [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 00:17:00

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2008 Year in Review - A Look Back (1 of 3)

What follows are excerpts of posts from 2008. It was a busy year.George Bush and Karl Rove were masters of politics and the two stooges of policy, a frightening reminder that voters can be easier to seduce than reality.-----------Why not build the Escher Expressway – build all roads to slope downhill as a means to improve gas mileage? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 07:53:00

One Nation Divisible Under Obama? Not Indivisible Under God.

“I would have hoped that if the Union were ever again to be imperiled it might at least be in a cause as noble as the Abolition of Slavery. To imperil it for the vanity of a single individual is unimaginably petty!” By Judah Benjamin, Guest Author Before I do anything else, I want to re-state my position on the subject of Barack Hussein Obama II, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 22:43:41

Blocking, Tackling & Running: Leveraging a Crisis Into Real Change

There's a fairly well known cartoon of two scientists working out a problem on a chalkboard covered with complex equations and down in the circle is a little circle with the key step inserted in small print - "and then a miracle occurs". Wouldn't it be nice if we could take the same short-cut to fixing the horrendous shopping list of significant [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 20:07:11

Nader v. Obama

Part 11 (”The Anti-Reagan”). The daily videos involved are from NeverFindOut.org, a project of Let Freedom Ring (donation link is here) ... . In 2005, he was ranked to the left of such notable fiscal conservatives such as Chuckie “Free Credit Report” Schumer, Joe “Plagiarists ‘R Us” Biden, Robert “KKK” Byrd , John Francois Kerry, Ted “ [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 15:45:25

09 01 09 New York TimesWith the recession in full swing, the nation’s employers shed 524,000 jobs in December, the government reported Friday, ... than who gets credit for it. Asked at a news conference whether he was worried that some lawmakers ... others think it is too small, he said he was open to consultations with Congress.But the president-elect [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 18:12:59

Is the Prospect of Stimulus De-Stimulating?

Yesterday’s front page story in the Washington Post mentions the skepticism many policymakers and economists–even those from the President-elect’s ... . John F. Kerry (Mass.) and other Democrats object to a proposed $3,000 tax credit to corporations for each job they create or save, saying the credit would be ripe for abuse and difficult to administer [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 21:01:08

Short-Term Strategies Don't Work for Wall Street or the Planet

By Mindy S. Lubber The fiscal crisis on Wall Street is a painful lesson in how entire industries can delude themselves into ignoring the most fundamental issues -- in this case, the hidden risks from easy sub-prime mortgages. It also reveals the vast pitfalls of an economic system obsessed with short-term gains and growth at all costs while [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 16:25:47

This morning's headlines about campaign and political news include conflicting reports about Republican presidential nominee John McCain's plans, poll numbers that signal his campaign's latest strategy hasn't been working, advice for McCain from conservative columnist William Kristol and another Web video from the Republican National Committee [more...]

Date: 2008-10-11 01:27:13

Stanley Kurtz: HOW ACORN & ITS DEM ALLIES BUILT THE MORTGAGE DISASTER, and how Obama is right in the middle of it

UPDATED Please scroll down I didn’t have a chance to post on it yesterday, but Maria and a couple of friends sent this, ... to force banks into making high-risk loans to low-credit customers is still active. None ... , was worried that charges of discrimination had become an excuse for lowering credit standards. She warned [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 12:37:34

Weekend Conspiracy Theory - Can You Stomach It?

A: Are we all just pawns in a bigger chess game? I'm not one to buy into conspiracies, but this read is just too crazy, given what we know of today's credit/financial crisis and how it has evolved from dynamics/products such as counterparty risk, credit default swaps, complex derivatives - mortgage backed securities [more...]

Date: 2008-10-18 22:54:48

Transcript of Mayor Michael Nutter’s budget update

Date: Jan 15, 2009 Location: Philadelphia City Hall Speaker: Mayor Michael Nutter (transcript provided by Mayor’s Office of Communications) ... be leaving the city to travel to Washington to present testimony at a House Committee on President-elect Obama’s stimulus package. But first I want report on three primary issues: First, I want to give [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 19:01:46

The Bipartisan Homeland Security State

For two years, Bart McIntyre was deeply involved in the insignificant, thinly populated white supremacist movement ... criminal syndicates, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives, and Persecution ... impositions helped precipitate the Whiskey Rebellion; the agency also played a key federal enforcement [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:35:00

Miliband to press energy firms for price cuts

Energy companies will be urged to pass on savings to their customers in the wake of massive falls in oil and gas prices when Ed Miliband, ... pressure to act and want other firms to make the same commitments. Scottish and Southern, with 8.9 ... report gave the big six suppliers a relatively clean bill of health, saying they were not colluding [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 00:04:16

The Organised Homosexual Movement: Its Methods And Its Goals

By Alexander Baron Date Published: Nov-2002Table of Contents: Introduction “Gay” Propaganda The One In Ten Myth Catch Them Young The Consequences of Unnatural Sex Other Homosexual Propaganda Techniques Bad Blood [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 02:06:00

Obama, Democrats Look to Revamp Financial Bailout

Barack Obama’s economic team is talking with the Bush administration about having Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson ask Congress within the next week ... for the beleaguered $700 billion rescue program. The House could act as early as next week on a new tack ... , is broadening the program’s goals, aiming to unfreeze credit for homeowners, consumers, small [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 02:16:48

Howdy, Weekly Rampart organising meetings are held at Rampart every Monday from 7pm, feel free to come by to see how you can get involved ... /TERRASSA last week, and could give a report back on the evening if people are interested.** Groups ... to placate the revolt.For some people this is the first credit-crunch riot, a sign of things to come [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 12:46:48

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/12/2008

Some headlines to look at:“Muslim Killed Catholic Girl in Love With Flatmate”“London Fundraisers Linked to Stoning of 13-Year-Old”“Possibly Tens of Thousands of Somalis in the US Illegally”“New Anti-Christian Attack in Mosul, Two Sisters Killed”But then there’s this:“Denmark: Ready to Ban Headscarves for Judges”So it’s not all bad news [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 04:52:00

Destroy the Unions

If there wasn’t an organized labor movement in the United States, McCain would probably be president ... efficient cars came on line, they were hit by high gas prices and the credit crisis. Both Honda ... of additional jobs through out America, that depend on our auto makers. Alexander Hamilton’s 1791 report [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 09:02:56

DrumBeat: December 8, 2008

Oil rises on talk of auto bailout, stimulus NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Oil prices rebounded from a nearly 4-year low Monday as U.S. automakers neared a deal that would keep them out of bankruptcy and President-elect Barack Obama pledged to stimulate the economy of the world's largest oil consumer. U.S. crude for January delivery rose $2 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 13:37:28

The Bailout of Abominations

By Robert Higgs of The Independent Institute: As a rule,we may assume that any statute containing the word “emergency” in its title, preamble, or statement of purposes is a bad law. If you want an apt example, consider the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which the president signed into law on Friday, October 3, 2008, soon [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 18:10:36

What Didn't Cause the Crisis?

Tyler Cowen, contradicting Anna Schwartz, says it was private sector imperfections, not government policy that caused the imperfection ... Funds rate to blame?, by Tyler Cowen: ...I don't side with Austrian Business Cycle Theory in citing ... of that wealth through credit and the desire for additional risk. Note that if an increase in real [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 22:06:00

So, he's running for Hypocrite-in-Chief now?

For anybody who expects me to shill for a certain political candidate here on the pages of America's Right, you are mistaken ... credit where credit is due and strenuously voice my concerns where needed. In this case, my interests ... Palmeiro, Roger Clemens, and the Mitchell Report's indictment of Major League Baseball. The goddamn [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 21:31:37

Senator Says Former FBI Agent Who Vanished in 2007 Is in Secret Iran Prison

HelpBobLevinson.comRobert Levinson A U.S. senator revealed Tuesday that he believes a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran nearly two years ... secretary of state confirmation hearing in Washington."I haven't received any information ... investigative work for a private security firm. His credit cards and passport have not been used since [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 15:55:00

Red Ink, Green Proposals, No White Smoke (Yet)

The chatter continues over California's $40 billion budget hole, as Democrats pitch some new economic stimulus ideas, all sides continue to meet in private, and the Republican faithful start ratcheting up the pressure on the issue of a tax increase. Talks continue today between legislative leaders and Governor Schwarzenegger [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:42:50

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/5/2009

Read through the official European reactions to Israel’s ground offensive into Gaza: Zapatero, the Vatican, the Italian government — all are pressuring Israel for a ceasefire. The surprise is Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, who states that it would be pointless to condemn Israel without addressing what Hamas is doing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 04:54:00

Fed to lend to companies in emergency move

Frantically trying to stop the bleeding on Wall Street, the Federal Reserve took a first-time step Tuesday to get cash directly to businesses and hinted that interest rates could come down soon. Stocks continued their free fall anyway and hit new five-year lows. [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 22:52:55

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/2/2009

In tonight’s news: Israel is poised to send ground troops into Gaza.A Muslim family was removed from a plane before takeoff, and is being compensated by the airline for the error. CAIR is in high dudgeon about the incident.Thousands of shoes were dumped on a Miami expressway — is that a message for President-eject Bush? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 04:42:00

Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/16/2008

A woman will lead Muslim prayers in Oxford. The EU bans incandescent bulbs. The FBI launches an investigation of ACORN.But the story about the subduing of the drunken hijacker on an airliner bound from Turkey to St. Petersburg is my favorite, because of this quote:“Surprisingly this hooligan was not British,” said an official at Pulkovo [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 03:55:00

How To Do A Short Sale

Why Would a Lender Accept a Short Sale? By Elizabeth Weintraub A short sale in real estate is not always a pleasant transaction ... credit, embarrasses the family and strips an owner of dignity is one of the hardest. For owners ... . For your protection, I suggest that all borrowers: Obtain legal advice from a competent real estate lawyer [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 18:17:51

Bombshell: Obama Neck Deep in Breaking Campaign Finance Scandal

This is a bona fide bombshell. Obama loves to say that 90% (or whatever the phony made-up figure is) of his donors contributed less than $200? ... Will were credited back to a credit card. But the most recent report, filed on Sept. 20, showed a net ... is named Good Will. Mr. Will is from Texas. And we are just getting warmed up. From Newsmax. Read [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 20:34:24

De-leveraging the Children of Wall Street

submitted by James Baker Welch, VP of Rothschild Investments One of the most stunning facts of the 2008 Financial Melt-down has been the wholesale ... regulatory agencies to determine if the institution has met the credit needs of its entire community. 1   The CRA began to compel banks to underwrite less credit-worthy mortgage loans in order [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 15:40:18

Why Did Bank of America Pay ACORN?

On September 29, the article “Bank of America Pulls ACORN funding” appeared on the CNN political ticker. While the short piece thankfully does list some of ACORN’s recent scandals, such as the Breitbart video investigation and the voter registration fraud, it didn’t answer the question that was surely on every reader’s mind: What exactly [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 07:08:36

Not Very Stimulating

At 06:00 this fine Saturday morning, the Obama folks released an analysis by their economic team of how their economic stimulus package is supposed to work (see full text here).  Quite frankly, I think there would be more stimulus from handing out coupons to Starbucks for a good shot of Joe, than this stimulus plan suggests [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 23:22:00

Where There's Smoke ...

It's an ordinary part of day-to-day life now, so much so that most people probably don't give it much thought, ... surgeon general, Dr. Luther Leonidas Terry (pictured at left), published a report that cautioned ... health problems is a moral shortcoming.But Dr. Terry, who died in 1985, deserves credit for being [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 15:33:00

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/4/2009

The overwhelming evidence of global warming continues to accumulate — as does the level of ice and snow in Greenland’s central ice cap, which increases at a rate of about two inches a year.Shhh! Don’t tell Al Gore…Thanks to Abu Elvis, Barry Rubin, C. Cantoni, heroyalwhyness, JD, Lexington, LN, RRW, VH, and all the other tipsters who sent these in [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 04:27:00

Tuition Crunch by Pedro de la Torre III

Students are often the last ones given a seat at the budget table when times are good, and the first to be put on the table when bearish economies ( ... report awarded every state in the country, except for California, an “F” when it comes to college ... market, real estate market, and other markets plummet. The near-frozen credit markets are causing cash [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 09:20:49

Identify Credit Repair Scam in 6 Ways!!

by David Wada Everyday, companies target consumers who have poor credit histories with promises to clean up their credit report so they can get a ... . The truth is, these companies cant deliver an improved credit report for you using the tactics they promote. Its illegal: No one can remove accurate negative information from your credit report. So [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 06:23:45

Oversight Panel Report Grim, Tough, Inviting

Americans are being formally invited to participate in discussingthe ongoing federal program to stabilize the ... the program’s implementation. The panel also issued its first report yesterday, signed by the panel’s Chair ... and New York Superintendent of Banking, Richard Neiman. (One panel member, Rep. Jeb Hensarling [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 22:13:12

To p2pnet — ‘You’ll be sorry!’

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P: “You a fucking washed out loser. You can not make a living in any other way except by running a site which says it is a new site that which is nothing but you shooting your mouth off.” That’s part of several emails I found waiting for me following yesterday’s Trolls? Not. But flames? OK (mostly) [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 15:27:24

Fair Weather Friends of the Market

It’s hardly a news flash that many people who are widely regarded as lions of the pro-market side have gone over to the dark side in recent months ... tremendous volatility, officials at the Fed and the Treasury began to act as if imminent disaster loomed ... have known better began to talk and to act as if the economy stood on the brink of complete [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 22:46:08

What’s the Carbon Footprint of my Checking Account?

Crossposted from the Understory RAN released a new report today, “Financing Global Warming: Canadian Banks and Fossil Fuels“, ... , we also launched a new website, climatefriendlybanking.org. The report results are striking ... s largest credit union), would reduce your annual carbon footprint by 1.4 tonnes of CO2, a very meaningful [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 22:15:55

McCain Must Expose the Real Obama

Tony Blankley lays out John McCain's challenge in tonight's debate:The essence of this election season couldn't be simpler ... , the public's lack of interest in the facts is facilitated by the major American media's refusal to report ... with dignity than win by questionable means. I hope that isn't Sen. McCain's view because the aide [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 19:12:00

A typical evasive reply from a Senator regarding auditing the Fed

As most readers of Liberty Maven know, there’s been a push for quite some time now to get the Federal Reserve audited, a first small step in getting it abolished altogether (in my mind). As many have done, I’ve contacted my Congressmen and Senators to let them know that I unequivocally support the Fed audit and that they should too. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 18:16:35

Universal Service

According to this November 6, 2008 article in the Examiner, the following appears in The Plan: Big Ideas for America, a book Rahm Emanuel coauthored: It's time for a real Patriot Act that brings out the patriot in all of us. We propose universal ... of civilian service. They'll be asked to report for three months of basic civil defense training [more...]

Date: 2008-11-09 01:00:00

Attorney-Client Privilege Reform Needed

COALITION TO PRESERVE THE ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGEAmerican Chemistry CouncilAmerican Civil Liberties UnionAssociation of Corporate CounselBusiness ... rights during investigations in return for cooperation credit. The Securities and Exchange Commission ... on its privilege waiver policy outlined in the 2001 “Seaboard Report.” Though helpful,the SEC’s new [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 17:13:00

How To Get Your Free Government Credit Report

How To Get Your Free Government Credit Report by Andy ZainBy law, you are entitled to one free government credit report each year, but you have to apply to get it. The consumer reporting companies are covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act to ensure privacy and accuracy.Contained in your credit report is personal information like how you pay your bills, any arrests, bankruptcies or legal actions, as well as your full name and address. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 08:17:23

Harriet Miers, Monica, etc.

Hump day, hump day. Almost made it to the weekend. Hold on, everybody. We'll get there. :DI got seven e-mails saying they enjoyed Isaiah's comic yesterday and encouraged me to highlight another one. Beau actually had one picked out. "A Flunky Scorned."That's Harriet Miers punking out the Democrats. They should have forced her to appear [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 03:47:00

The Group of Twenty & the Evolution of Global Governance

By Joan Veon News With Views | In 1994 when I covered my first global meeting, there was a press briefing by the Commission on Global Governance on their forthcoming report, Our Global Neighborhood . The man giving the briefing was one of the co-chairs, Sir Shridath Ramphal who was not only president of Guyana but also president of the (British) Commonwealth Association. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 11:41:34

Recognizing a Credit Repair Scam

by David Wada Everyday, companies target consumers who have poor credit histories with promises to clean up their credit report so they can get a ... . The truth is, these companies cant deliver an improved credit report for you using the tactics they promote. Its illegal: No one can remove accurate negative information from your credit report. So [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 06:24:58

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