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“I Did Not Know That. Ed, Did You Know That?”

(I used to do a mean impression of Dana Carvey doing Johnny Carson.) OK, it turns out that people attempting suicide with nail guns–even with multiple shots–is not as unheard-of as some of us thought. Frequent commenter and thorn in my side Ken B. points us to this example of a guy who apparently attempted […]

Financial Sector “Suicides” Mounting

Yet another JP Morgan employee has apparently committed suicide: A third JP Morgan employee has died under mysterious circumstances in a matter of few weeks. A still unidentified “Chinese male in is thirties” jumped from the roof of Charter House, the 30 floor Hong Kong headquarters of JPM. An eyewitness told the South China Morning […]

The Fed and Conspiracies

One of the quickest ways to assess a person’s worldview is to ask, “How do you feel about conspiracy theories?” Murray Rothbard considered the very term to be loaded, used to discredit what were often sober and factual analyses of why certain government policies were actually implemented. In a recent post, Austrian economist Steve Horwitz […]

Hidden in Plain Sight?

The world’s most wanted whistleblower isn’t in Russia. That’s just what he wants you to think.

Kristen Meghan on “Geo-Engineering”

I’ll be honest, when I looked at the list of speakers for the Save Long Island event (where I debated Bill Still), the talk by Kristen Meghan jumped out at me as something that was too “out there” for a respectable, mild-mannered guy like myself. I was imagining General Ripper from Dr. Strangelove. Well I […]

Introduction to the TPP

My cousin has been asking me if I’m up to speed on the dangers of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). I explained to him that Paul Krugman had just declared that the TPP was no big deal, so I assumed it must be awful, but no–I didn’t really know much about it. After reading some of […]

Surely the American People Would Never Let That Happen!?

Things have gotten so bad, I have no choice but to read aloud from the New York Times.

Thoughts on JFK Assassination

Hey let me add my two cents–everyone else is. A year or two ago I actually spent about a week really diving into this issue. I wanted to see if I thought a reasonable person could adequately assess the evidence without becoming a “buff.” I decided at the end of this inquiry–in which I focused […]