12/01/2008
Blue State Musings From A Red State Woman (Blogcritics.org)
A not-so-dyed-in-the-wool liberal defends her right to reside in a true-blue state, and explains why small-l libertarianism holds some appeal. This November, for the first time since Bill Clinton's 1992 victory, I experienced affinity with my fellow members of the electorate, as all but one of my favored candidates won, and every one of the ballot items I voted for passed. From Barack Obama for ...
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12/02/2008
Does God Bind or Unleash the King? (Ludwig von Mises Institute)
Does God Bind or Unleash the King?
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12/01/2008
Your Children Will Kill You (Blogcritics.org)
Who will serve and protect the economic elites from the rest of the world? One of the chants the more radical of my generation used to shout was "Your children will kill you". This was intended to be an expression of how we were going to change the world by abandoning the mindless mores and customs of the past. The only problem is, we forgot the wisdom contained in the aphorism "Be careful what ...
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12/01/2008
Turnball is the right man at (New Matilda)
Turnball is the right man at the wrong time. No doubt he will be doing an about turn in all of his on the run policies, as they chop and change with the tide of public opinion. But the tide is low and a recession looms, threatening to become a global depression, so the well-suited, well-endowed Turnball is unlikely to strike a chord of empatico with the Australian public for the time being. ...
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11/28/2008
Ben Cohen: Malkin Pleased To Be On Top Ten List of Idiotic Republicans (HuffingtonPost)
Despite her overwhelming self confidence, there really isn't much to the conservative pundit. Her knee jerk politics are fairly easy to sum up, and her grasp of economics is shockingly poor.
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11/23/2008
Analysis: Libertarianism is far from dead (Portales News-Tribune)
It’s almost enough to make you wonder whether the cause of individual liberty is lost. Shortly after the financial crisis hit, Jacob Weisberg, editor in chief of the online magazine Slate, wrote an article with the headline “Libertarianism is dead.”
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11/26/2008
The word for freedom (Jewish World Review)
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | The word is powerful. In fact, one might even say the word is power. No one is more acutely aware of this than Jeffrey Gedmin, president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).
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11/25/2008
Bush, Olmert meet for last time as leaders (Lawrence Journal-World)
President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert bid each other farewell on Monday, expressing confidence in an eventual Mideast peace deal that won’t materialize on either of their watches. Bush and Olmert met for more than an hour at the White House as their time in office winds to a close. Bush’s two terms end Jan. 20. Olmert plans to resign amid corruption charges and will ...
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11/24/2008
Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz)
RD News Round-Up—November 24, 2008: Religious Right’s ‘Obama Watch’; RaptureReady.com getting readier; Focus on the Family’s ‘I Stand for Christmas’ campaign; Proposition 8: The Aftermath; Huckabee’s revenge; Christian doctrine cures OCD?
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11/24/2008
Rupert Russell: Why the Conservatives Won't Crack-up, But the Left Probably Will (HuffingtonPost)
The conservative Counter-Establishment is the most cast-iron entanglement of alliances and dependencies known in modern American history.
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