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This book from 1948 absolutely trashes Roosevelt's presidency, even his conduct of the war.
Think economics is a deep, dark subject beyond the ken of mere mortals? Fear not Thomas Sowell has your back.
Uncertainty is the enemy of new jobs and, brother, do we have plenty of uncertainty around right now.
Last quarter's Stimulus money: an unimaginable waste.
Why not take more and more from the "rich"? Well, mainly because it's wrong.
The recent elections are not a repudiation of the Left or an embrace of the Right. They were a an embrace of the American way of democracy.
Cap Metro gets more laughable every day.
I've said it before and I'll say it agin: wind energy is a scam
Capital Metro is just as bad as I always suspected.
The Austin Tea Party held a protest at a Lloyd Doggett speech yesterday and here are the photos.
They're finally starting construction on the courthouse that will replace the skeleton of the Intel building, but there sure is an odd sign out front...
Recovery.gov is up and running! What can it tell us?
People always seem to have it in for anyone else who is successful.
All war is not immoral and we have recent illustrations of this fact.
I'm here to confess: I have carried a gun on school property. I've even fired one. Many times.
The Austin Tea Party protests were actually pleasant, unlike a lot of protests I've seen.
The Austin American-Statesman rarely offers us much in the way of insight and today is no exception.
The recovery.gov website isn't off to much of a start.
Capital Metro: how does it measure up?
We're being goaded into a "stimulus" that is nothing but a hostile takeover.
FDR's New Deal policies were a disaster for most of the people they were trying to help. It was really FDR who put the "Great" in the Great Depression.
Zombie has decided to declare victory in Iraq and I agree.
The election is nearly here and I think we're screwed, no matter who is elected.
The more I learn about Woodrow Wilson, the more I think Jonah Goldberg was right. Wilson was a fascist, he fits the definition to a tee.
H.L. Mencken was about eighty years ahead of his time. Not many people can toss off a newspaper column that's so smart it predicts a scholarly shift eight decades later.
Obama stands for Change. Where have I heard that before?
Humans nearly went extinct 70,000 years ago and scientists suggest it may have been due to climate change. Pretty scary, no?
Was Woodrow Wilson really a fascist President as Jonah Goldberg claims? Let's check some additional sources and find out.
Goldberg's book is a startling look at the political history of the twentieth century.
Let's have a look at the stated policies of the three remaining candidates.
A newly published study by the US Treasury Department makes the traditional media into liars. Of course, that's not news any more.
There is a reason that the news media has consistently gotten the big stories of the last couple of centuries wrong. It's easy to demonstrate and easy to understand.
Yuri Bezmenov claimed that the KGB had, in essence, taken over Look magazine. Was he crazy?
About those "low-skilled jobs Americans can't do: ever tried any of them?
I signed the petition, you should too
An article from the 1955 New Yorker can tell us a lot about what's wrong with our media and politics today.
It's always fun to criticize the President, but it's not always fair.
Here in the 10th Congressional District of Texas, we're represented by Michael McCaul, a solid Republican. Perhaps a little too solid, really.
I've uncovered some horrible statistics. I wish I could say they must obviously be wrong, but they may very well be correct.
It's a mess, but that's mostly a product of politics. If you think about it practically, there are only a few conclusions you can reach.
Borders book stores say that they are "committed" to the First Amendment, but the minute there is even a possibility of danger, they drop that commitment and run away like little surrender monkeys.
Let's actually read The Communist Manifesto and see what it says. Were Marx and Engeles really altrustic pioneers out to help the human race? Or just a new breed of tyrant?
A reading list for dealing with and understanding the War on Terror. Also, some notes about what you will learn as you study the big picture.
Support Free Speech
The Dissident Frogman has kindly prepared banners to allow us to show our solidarity with Denmark over the right to free speech:
Any way you look at it, free speech is a hundred times more important than the right not to be offended. Some religion, somewhere can find a way to object to anything we say. If we restrict ourselves only to that which is offensive to no one, no where, then there is nothing left to say.
Reza Aslan's book does more than explain the history of Islam. It explains a lot about the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East today.
From the mid 1600's to the mid 1800's mankind witnessed a remarkable transformation in human ideas. From Hobbes to John Locke to Jeremy Bentham to Voltaire and John Stuart Mill, our world underwent a change of thinking about as profound as any in history.
I'm getting tired of all of the "panic at the pump" stories running in the news the last few months.
What left-right politics is about in a free society. Hint: it's not about issues directly.
It's hard to have perpective on history.
Intelligent Design is a joke. Nature is full of severely unintelligent design.
We are right and they are evil and I can prove it.
Today seems like a good day to cover a little of the history of Islamic Totalitarianism and understand clearly "why they hate us".
Steinbeck was a terrific writer, even if you disagree with what he's saying.
Eminent domain was abused here in Austin as far back as the 1970's.
The idea of hating America and Americans is nothing new. That attitude was prevalent back in the 1950's, and probably all of the rest of the time.
You know, once upon a time, I actually donated to Amnesty International. Back in those days, they at least seemed to be truly interested in human rights violations and prisoners being abused around the world. Now, they seem to have degenerated into a bunch of self-hating moonbats.
There are subtle traps you can fall into when you set yourself up as the protector of someone else.
Vicente Fox's remarks about black people were deeply strange.
The Iraqi bloggers are genuine and they laugh at the idea that the CIA is paying them to paint a rosy picture of Iraq (which they do not).
This is Locke's most important work, in my opinion. It is the blueprint for a democratic government made up of multiple branches, with checks and balances between them.
A nice web site for getting statistical information about education.
Economics is never simple. And even if it were, politicians should probably keep their mitts off of the controls and just let it work.
How liberals think about social security.
I can refute Intelligent Design with a single snapshot.
Things are not looking rosy over in Europe these days...
Religion may be many things, but it's hardly a disease.
Just a little Socratic dialog about media.
What would the liberals do differently than Bush in the War on Terror?
Compare and contrast the second-term inaugural addresses of Bush and Clinton.
The US is held to far higher standards than any other country. It's a good thing, though.
The UN has done a terrible job of handling the peacekeeping mission in the Balkans. They haven't kept the peace and they haven't managed to transition the countries in the region to stand-along democracies.
The way the US Social Security system is set up, it is bound to fail at some point. You can argue about the date, but not about the fact that it has to be restructured or it will fail.
Religion is the new boogey man. Why?
The UN isn't working. It needs deep structural reform if it's going to be of any use.
More than just Kofi, the whole UN needs to be reformed or tossed out. It no longer fulfills it's mission, if indeed it ever did.
