The question of why so many Jews have been so good at making money is a touchy one. For hundreds of years, it has been fraught with suspicion, denial, resentment, guilt, self-hatred and violence. No wonder Jews and gentiles alike are so uncomfortable confronting Jewish capitalistic competence. Still, in his slim essay collection “Capitalism and [...]
The Velvet Philosophical Revolution
February 15, 2010 By 6 Comments
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the battle for political freedom goes on.
A Non-Violent Jihadi is Still a Jihadi
February 8, 2010 By 9 Comments
How Hizb ut-Tahrir spreads extremism around the world.
Bin Laden Goes Green
February 5, 2010 By 29 Comments
What does the world’s most notorious terrorist have in common with Al Gore?
Make Mine Freedom: Prophetic Cold War-Era Comic
February 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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While watching the news tonight I experienced a flash of dissonance, whereby my preferred perception of reality was distinctly incongruent with the moment. I found my usual optimistic outlook on events in direct conflict with the reality of America’s descent into the radical blend of Marxism, Socialism and Communism currently progressed by the Obama administration. [...]
Howard Zinn’s History of Hate
February 2, 2010 By 200 Comments
For the late Marxist historian, America was always the enemy.
Wall Street: Free Market or the Next Slaughter House?
February 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Greed, according to the New Leftist “morality” handbook, is the only sin deserving of the death penalty. Wall Street, they would have us believe, is unrepentant and has demonstrated its depravity repeatedly. According to Americans United for Change (AUC), now it’s time for the “pigs” on Wall Street to be penned, branded and neutered by [...]
The Most Ridiculous Tweet Today: NBC Newser Mitchell Tweets about Tweets
January 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I don’t know about you, but when I think about the ultimate in cool, the person furthest from my mind would probably be NBC’s Andrea Mitchell.
But GREAT NEWS, the doyenne of the D.C. bureau stopped down long enough today to point out the ultimate in tweeting cool:
how cool is it that obama just tweeted on [...]
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PBS: 2010 – The Year of Informed Pessimism
January 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Leftists are SOOOOOOOOO depressing.
The January 4th broadcast of PBS’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook - 2010: The Year Ahead – included guest Jack Beatty, news analyst and senior editor at The Atlantic, a notoriously leftist publication. Remember, it was The Atlantic who hired crazed photographer Jill Greenberg to take photos of John McCain. Greenberg manipulated the photo [...]
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Russia’s Market Reform Architect Dies at 53 – Obituary Obit – NYTimes.com
December 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
MOSCOW — Yegor T. Gaidar, the economist who oversaw the largest transition from Communism to capitalism as the first finance minister of post-Soviet Russia, only to be vilified by his countrymen for the decade of poverty that followed, died on Wednesday. He was 53. via Russia’s Market Reform Architect Dies at 53 – Obituary Obit [...]
