December 2011
14 posts
Steve Horwitz at BHL:
The paleo strategy was a horrific mistake, both strategically and theoretically, though it apparently made some folks (such as Rockwell and Paul) pretty rich selling newsletters predicting the collapse of Western civilization at the hands of the blacks, gays, and multiculturalists. The explicit strategy was abandoned by around the turn of the century, but not after a lot...
Salant at Businessweek:
Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, who has been excluded from most Republican debates, said he will seek the Libertarian nomination for president.
“I am a Libertarian — that is, someone who is fiscally very conservative but holds freedom-based positions on many social issues,” Johnson said in an e-mail to supporters that noted he was making his...
“Persecuted Minority”
Cooperman, 68, said in an interview that he can’t walk through the dining room of St. Andrews Country Club in Boca Raton, Florida, without being thanked for speaking up. At least four people expressed their gratitude on Dec. 5 while he was eating an egg-white omelet, he said.
“You’ll get more out of me,” the billionaire said, “if you treat me with...
Hodgman:
He said that the bankers were not the bad guys in the subprime mortgage scandal and near financial collapse that they had everything to do with. They were just doing what the government allowed them to do.*
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*This was his actual argument. It is not an argument an adult makes. It’s the actual argument that TEENAGERS make at prestigious high schools where cheating is...
“So, yes. I am cutting way back on trips to the steam table of half-finished,...”
– Better by Merlin Mann
“In one time at-bat, [Pujols is] going to make more than I made in my 18 years of...”
– Red Schoendienst
“There is nothing wrong with balancing your budget. In fact, European nations...”
– Dr. Paul Krugman, in an article where he also links high unemployment in France with generous benefits. Of course, this was 1997, when he was an economist.
Rush, on OWS and antagonism against the 1%:
It seems to me that if we’re going to start hating people, we’re looking in the wrong direction. Will somebody explain to me where is the valor in sitting on your butt taking money from other people?
I love his assumption that those are two distinct categories.
For all of her faults, what I like about Ayn Rand is how she used large...
