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Actual Class Warfare

With talk of class warfare in the air, it’s perhaps useful for the sake of context to re-examine the 1929 platform of the Communist Party of Great Britain, titled “Class Against Class” and representing an avowedly class warfare approach to an economic crisis. Here’s what they had to say on tax policy: (1) Abolition of… Continue reading Actual Class Warfare

End the Patriot Act | The White House

Official White House petition to end the Patriot Act.

Ralph Nader praises Sarah Palin – “I think she’s a lot smarter than most people credit her,” says the left-wing crusader

Headline could also be Ralph Nader picks fight with Democrats again.

German police seek help over mystery ‘forest boy’

Berlin police have appealed for information to help them establish the identity of a teenager who appeared in the city saying that he had been living in the woods for five years.

The Buffett Rule

President Obama on Monday will call for a new minimum tax rate for individuals making more than $1 million a year to ensure that they pay at least the same percentage of their earnings as middle-income taxpayers, according to administration officials. … Mr. Obama, in a bit of political salesmanship, will call his proposal the… Continue reading The Buffett Rule

House GOP Rejects Tax Cuts For Middle Class

Anyone surprised? They would be against sunshine if Obama said he liked it.

Mitt Romney: Dick Cheney Is ‘The Kind Of Person I’d Like To Have’ As Vice President (VIDEO)

At some point Mitt Romney is going to kill a hobo; just to prove how bad ass GOP tea party neo-con he can be.

Exciting new talking point: Jobs bill is “blue state bailout” – War Room – Salon.com

The Wall Street Journal today has a column by Hoover Institution fellow Paul E. Peterson reframing the concept of aid to cash-strapped states as a “blue-state bailout,” because “bailouts” are unpopular and it is more fun to imagine that Obama is rewarding his “most fervent supporters” with free money than it is to think that… Continue reading Exciting new talking point: Jobs bill is “blue state bailout” – War Room – Salon.com

When bitcoin collapses, it will prove Milton Friedman right once more

This kind of hoarding is made more likely by the way Bitcoin is set up. Whereas the supply of modern, “fiat” currencies is controlled by central banks, the supply of bitcoins is permanently limited; there will never be more than 21 million bitcoins in existence. (The total number of coins is a result of the… Continue reading When bitcoin collapses, it will prove Milton Friedman right once more

Ron Paul’s Campaign Manager Died of Pneumonia, Penniless and Uninsured

“As it turns out, Paul was not speaking purely in hypotheticals. Back in 2008, Kent Snyder — Paul’s former campaign chairman — died of complications from pneumonia. Like the man in Blitzer’s example, the 49-year-old Snyder (pictured) was relatively young and seemingly healthy* when the illness struck. He was also uninsured. When he died on June 26, 2008, two weeks after Paul withdrew his first bid for the presidency, his hospital costs amounted to $400,000. The bill was handed to Snyder’s surviving mother (pictured, left), who was incapable of paying. Friends launched a website to solicit donations.”