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Originally published on OneUtah June 2007.
Morris Berman, a distinguished professor and writer is known as an innovative cultural historian and social critic. His most recent book, Dark Ages America, is not pretty. I first saw him on C-Span book TV. It was interesting because even among the predictably liberal sympathetic crowd in attendance, some got [...]

Barack Obama:
The fact that we have reached a point where the Federal Reserve felt it had to take this unprecedented step with the American International Group is the final verdict on the failed economic philosophy of the last eight years. While we do not know all the details of this arrangement, the Fed must ensure [...]

Problem solved. We know longer need to explain WHY Democrats are better on economics than ‘pubs.’ We need only survey economists.
Oh looky, someone did, and the choice is clear.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
66% of Economists are Economists for Obama
This is according to a new survey of 523 economists who are U.S. citizens and members [...]

As I continue my desultory series on the four freedoms, I find myself, in the face of the seemingly endless sludge of bad economic news pondering the idea of freedom from want.
FDR’s original line was:
The third is freedom from want–which, translated into universal terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy [...]

Jesse Helms died at the age of 86. He served 30 years in the US Senate. He was a shrewd manipulator of Senate rules and a fearless champion of racism in its most honest form. Helms was also a rare breed - a truly honest bigot. He didn’t dress up his [...]

Sometimes others say it better than I. I’d like to add one more culprit…OK, about fifty million culprits; every uninformed idiot that voted for him the second time too.
Sorry, Mr. President, But Your Legacy Is More Awful Than You Think
Posted June 11, 2008 | 04:57 PM (EST)
h/t Huffington Post
Rest assured, Mr. President, that [...]

A gaffe happens when a politician, accidentally or on purpose, speaks the truth in public. That’s what Barack Obama got caught doing.
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has something to say about the “bitter” so-called controversy that’s been heavily promoted by the Clinton campaign and the media all weekend.

Male hourly wages began to drop [...]

Pat Buchanan wrote an op-ed that pretty much confirms there is an invisble white pointed hood on his head.

What is wrong with Barack’s prognosis and Barack’s cure? Only this. It is the same old con, the same old shakedown that black hustlers have been running since the Kerner Commission blamed the riots in Harlem, Watts, [...]

Watching the mortgage meltdown go from bad to horrific to George Romero has got me thinking about credit in general.
Credit is an odd thing; the more credit you use the more credit worthy you become.  Even if you are making insane purchases, so long as you make your monthly payments, you can get more credit - [...]

They can’t be serious. That’s always my first thought. In 2003 I figured President Bush couldn’t be serious about invading Iraq– after all, that would be illegal, morally wrong, and bound to have disastrous consequences. Now it may be our turn to suffer the consequences. The federal government has come back [...]

Oil’s Well That Ends Well
by DarkSyde
Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 05:30:46 AM PST
Exxon-Mobil (XOM - CNBC) closed out the last quarter of 2007 with record earnings, handily beating consensus estimates. The Irving, Texas, based integrated oil giant benefited from the rising price of crude: each one dollar increase in the price of a barrel is [...]

Over a Orcinus, Sara has a great series on leadership that has gotten me thinking about America’s history of leadership. Read it here, here, here and here.
Sara makes an important point. Political systems have a life cycle - they begin as a solution to a set of problems. They function well for [...]