Asking challenging questions about a new, experimental medical treatment isn’t “anti-science.” It’s anti-authoritarian. What today’s medical fascists and their hangers-on are objecting to when you do this is your failure to obey a preselected set of authorities, chosen not by you, but by them. They’re objecting to your insistence on independent thought and judgement if you don’t…
Category: Politics
Posts on Contemporary American and World Politics
A Politically Motivated “Stress Test”
Given the actual strength of BB&T’s reserves and its well-earned reputation for financial soundness, what should the reader make of the Fed’s decision? It doesn’t take a genius to recognize it as a politically motivated hatchet job — and specifically, as political payback for former BB&T CEO John Allison’s truth-telling in his book, “The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure.”
The Looters of Virtue
I’m no admirer of president Obama, but even I was surprised to hear him say something as idiotic and contemptible as this: “If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that…
The Open Fraud of Social Security
Well, if someone has to take the hit and not be repaid — and someone does, with any Ponzi Scheme when it finally collapses — then it should be the current and pending generations of recipients. They are the ones who are responsible for allowing such a corrupt system to continue for so long, and who fought against efforts to reform it in the previous decade.
Herman Cain: Another RINO Phony
So Herman Cain turns out to be just another bailout-loving RINO phony. And he has the nerve to rail against people who object to being ripped off to bail out his politically connected banking buddies as “free market purists?”
The “Homer Simpson Approach” to Social Security
I’m pleased to note that Paul Hsieh’s latest article on PajamasMedia quotes from and links to my post On Eliminating Social Security, here on the Repeal the Bailouts Blog: The Homer Simpson Approach to Social Security by Paul Hsieh Paul’s article is excellent, as always. Like my post, it shines a light on the “dirty…
Lemonaid
Stop the Cycle. Don’t Reward Incompetence.
The Emperor’s New Clothes Gambit, Take 1
This looks to me like a textbook example of a rhetorical technique that I often observed, and then named, many years ago in Usenet debates during the 1990s. I call it the Emperor’s New Clothes Gambit.
‘Obamacare’ Ruled Unconsitutional
As reported in the news yesterday, The ‘Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’ — colloquially known as ‘Obamacare’ — has been ruled to be unconstitutional, in its entirety, by a Florida court. This is the case in which 26 US states filed suit (not including Virginia, which filed separately) to overturn the act. In his…
Jefferson on Future Debt
From AZ Quotes: But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years….