December 2011
Gingrich Plummets, Paul Skyrockets and Romney... →
alexholzbach:
In the last two weeks, Mitt Romney has remained steady at the top in the polls in New Hampshire and Huntsman has remained steady in the low teens. Newt Gingrich has slipped from second to third, losing nearly a full one-third of his support. On the flip side, Ron Paul has nearly tripled his support in the last two weeks.
December 13th:
Mitt Romney - 38%
Newt Gingrich - 20%
Jon...
I'll tell you why movie revenue is dropping... →
Obviously, the absence of a must-see mass-market movie. When moviegoers hear about “Avatar” or “The Dark Knight,” they blast off from home base and land in a theater seat as quickly as they can.
Ticket prices are too high. People have always made that complaint, but historically the movies have been cheap compared to concerts, major league sports and restaurants. Not so much any longer. No...
Ron Paul's Unrivaled Budget Plan →
All Republicans running for president say they want to cut federal spending.
But a study the libertarian Cato Institute conducted by analyzing the candidates’ websites showed that most of them are light on details about specific cuts they would insist on as president.
The study’s author, Tad DeHaven, wrote in his “Guide to the Presidential Candidates’ Proposals to Cut Spending” that Texas...
“Third-party extensions and hacks are a part of the web, perhaps Tumblr should...”
– Drew Olanoff of The Next Web has Jeremy Cutler’s back on Missing e. (via shortformblog)
“Employee rights are said to be valid when employers pressure employees into...”
– Ron Paul, Freedom Under Siege: The U.S. Constitution After 200-Plus Years (1987), pg. 16
Are you getting sexually harassed at work? That’s your problem. Quit.
Is Ron Paul done yet?
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“Every year new groups organize to demand their ‘rights,’” he continued. “White...”
– From Ron Paul’s 1987 book Freedom Under Siege.
Let me guess, Lew Rockwell wrote Ron Paul’s book too?
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Crocodile tears, diamond studded shit, poor white people, oh the horror, etc.
(via cwnl)
Are we all reading Ron Paul's book Freedom Under... →
Why Ron Paul’s Racist Newsletters Matter →
cwnl:
idontlikeronpaul:
http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/why-ron-pauls-racist-newsletters-matter/
Ron Paul is back in the hunt for the Presidency. Many see him as an appealing candidate, one who opposes the wars, wants drugs legalized and supports fiscal responsibility. What they don’t know, is his long history of racism and connection to white supremacists. He has dodged...
What Happens to the Unemployed if There’s No Deal... →
occupyonline:
About 1.8 million Americans will face a cutoff in unemployment benefits in January if Congress doesn’t extend emergency federal unemployment insurance (UI) before returning home for the holidays, according to estimates from the National Employment Law Project (NELP). The NELP report (which includes state-specific estimates) says that the 1.8 million workers affected in January...
“Credit expansion cannot increase the supply of real goods. It merely brings...”
– Ludwig von Mises (via laliberty)
amanda palmer: The Most Important Thing I Learned... →
amandapalmer:
i thought i’d write you a little essay on the most important thing i learned this year. (more photos of recent melbourne goings-on under the essay.) i was thinking of putting up a end-of-the-year best-of list of things i’ve seen and read. and maybe i will….after new years. i always think i’m…
Jay Herself: 2011 Round Up →
jayherself:
Got sweet marks at Uni
Met Adam McLean!
Lost Adam McLean to China!
Bought a bunch of cameras
Bought my first ever gaming console (hasn’t even arrived yet)
Made a rad friend and tattooist in Joshua Rhat Klor Solomon
Discovered the wonders of “smart” phones by drunkenly messaging and…
The Tea Party’s “utopian market populism”
Salon: You write that after Obama took office, “market populism was the only utopian scheme available to disgruntled Americans.” There was no liberal utopian scheme that said, “Here’s how we get out of this.”
Tom Frank: There wasn’t even a Rooseveltian scheme, which was not utopian but very practical. Just to talk about Roosevelt would have been fantastic. One of the research points in the book that I thought was really interesting … was the history of the bailouts in 1932 and 1933 — when the Hoover administration did a lot of bailouts. We don’t remember that. [These bailouts] were massively unpopular for the same reason they were unpopular this time around: really blatant cronyism. We don’t remember that a big part of Franklin Roosevelt’s campaign [in 1932] was to be against these bailouts. There were maybe five newspaper articles in 2008 that mentioned this pre-history of the bailouts. It just never came up.
Salon: It was like the party’s muscle memory of the New Deal was lost. With Obama the muscle memory of the Democratic Party is the Clintonian technocracy of the 1990s.
Tom Frank: That’s exactly right. Their message was: The technocratic way is going to solve our problems. Just leave it up to the experts who are going to figure a way out. [Obama and the Democrats] seemed to think they didn’t need to dirty their hands by making a populist appeal. They did a lot of good things — the stimulus package of 2008 was good thing — but they didn’t realize you have to sell something like that. They were like, “We know what the answer is: Keynesian stimulus. So let’s just do it.” They didn’t understand that this nation only adopted Keynesian stimulus spending back in the 1930s amidst this terrible wrenching experience, the Depression, and an enormous campaign [by FDR] to tell the nation why this was necessary.
If you don’t sell it — if you just do this spending — well, people have a lot of suspicion of government handouts. Government debt bothers people for very obvious reasons. [Obama] didn’t make any effort to make the argument. It was just “listen to the experts.” I have a quote from [Obama economic advisor] Christy Roemer where she says, “Things would be better if we listened to the experts.” And she’s one of the good guys, one of the best people in the Obama administration. That’s their view.
Why Irish soldiers who fought Hitler hide their... →
mohandasgandhi:
kohenari:
This article provides a brief look at a fascinating bit of World War II history about which I’d previously heard nothing: Irish who deserted their own neutral army to fight against the Germans and Japanese, and who were then blacklisted when they returned to Ireland after the war.
They were formally dismissed from the Irish army, stripped of all pay and pension...
chrisvoss:
Ex-Employee Sued $340,000 Over Twitter Account And What It Means To You http://bit.ly/ryTkwH
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