Oil – Democracy’s Black Straightjacket
Göran Persson, Sweden’s prime minister from 1996 to 2006, coined the expression, “Those who are in debt are not free”. At that time he was talking about the nation’s debt levels but the expression can […]
Day: February 24, 2011
Jamie Kelso at CPAC: Rights versus Interests
Jamie Kelso’s experience at CPAC, on video here, shows how far we are from changing the rhetoric about race and immigration. CPAC is sponsored by the American Conservative Union which claims it “represents the views of […]
A Novel Idea: Register Non-Gun Owners
Vermont State Rep. Fred Maslack has read the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as Vermont ‘s own Constitution very carefully, and his strict interpretation of these documents is popping some eyeballs in […]
Rachel Maddow’s Idiocy
For Maddow to tell Leno and his large television audience it is not reasonable for Wisconsin to limit its public employees’ ability to collectively bargain is totally false. States indeed do have such authority whether […]