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The Master Plan

In preparation for a presentation Carlos Lara and I gave at the recent Infinite Banking Concept (IBC) Think Tank, our go-to guy on all technical matters, John Connolly, found some really cool footage in the national archives. I asked John to cull out the promotional stuff and just show the historical footage. They were trying […]

The Joke’s On Me

Over at EconLog Bryan Caplan writes: “Stand up for yourself” isn’t just overrated; it’s also misdirected. We’re quickest to dispense this advice to the people least likely to benefit from it. Consider: If you have wealth and power, standing up for yourself tends to work well. But we usually advise the wealthy and powerful to […]

Skullduggery in Maine

If you haven’t really been paying attention to the allegations of vote fraud in Maine, you really need to watch this whole thing. (HT2 LRC) It starts out a bit slow in the beginning but then it gets pretty good. For rank-and-file Republicans, I have a question for you: Isn’t it weird how your side […]

How the Private Bankers Are Using the Financial Crisis to Reshape World Government

How’s that for a neutral title? If you are willing to play this in the background, there are a few decent jokes sprinkled throughout.

Follow-Up on Labor versus Investment Taxes

Steve Landsburg thinks he’s got Mate in One in the comments of my previous post, so before he declares victory let me write this follow-up post. To set the context (again), I am dissatisfied when Steve (talking about Mitt Romney) uses a thought experiment to conclude, “people with investment income bear a higher tax burden, […]

Why the Ruling Class Fears the Internet

If you’re a would-be tyrant and you’ve got a network that allows creative cynics to generate a video like this, and distribute it to millions of people, within a few days, and where all of those people know that other millions are seeing it and think it’s hilarious…well, you’ve got a problem on your hands.

And We’re Back

I’d like to say the FBI shut me down, but I’m not that important yet. I’d like to say what the real reason was, but my blog hosting company has now given me three different reasons. Also, when you call their customer support, they explain that all they have to work with is the trouble […]

When a Referendum Is Seen as Cheating

This FreedomWatch interview of Gerald O’Driscoll hit on something I’d been thinking too: Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com Near the end of the above clip, Napolitano and O’Driscoll discuss the irony that when it comes to the crisis in Greece–the birthplace of democracy–the one group who will not be consulted is the Greek people […]