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Today marks the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. Before then, East & West divided neatly down a line manned by men with guns and barbed wire. This was a time when the boundaries between cultures were laid in stone and cemented with the blood of those who attempted…
Second-Term Obama Cabinet Likely To Be Even More To The Left Special To The Libertarian Republic by BOB BARR November 9, 2012 Already, less than a week after his electoral win that gives him four years within which to institutionalize his left-wing agenda, President Barack Obama is weighing a number of possible cabinet replacements. Rumors…
President Obama’s reelection was greeted with a steep selloff in stocks this week. Markets have been bleeding in anticipation of a continuation of the executive branches anti growth policies and threats of more regulations, taxes and barriers to trade. That has been compounded by signals that Speaker John Boehner of the House of Representative may…
In an appearance on a popular talk radio program Wednesday, Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain added fuel to the fire of “civil war” talk going on in the GOP. Although it’s clear that if there is a war, he’s claiming to be on the side of the rebels. Cain states, “I never thought that I…
Should Democrats vote for Mitt Romney in the 2012 Presidential Election? Certainly many will. There are always people who for one reason or another decide to support the opposing candidates for President. Some could be teachers angry at Obama’s lack of support after the teachers strike in Chicago. Others could be the liberals who, like Bill…
The longer you are in Washington D.C. and the more influential you become, the more the pressure comes down to conform. A perfect example of this is in these final few days before the election, many on the free market right have put down their cudgels for reform and picked up the banner of compromise…
New Yorkers in the wake of Hurricane Sandy lined up at pumps, waiting sometimes for up to six hours to receive gasoline during a shortage brought on by the disaster. Gov. Cuomo acknowledged there is a shortage of fuel, but said “there is no reason to panic.” It would seem natural that such a high demand…
In 5 days, the American people will decide which President is best to manage the economy, police the world and spread democracy overseas. On November 6th, we as a people will vote for one of the two major party candidates, President Barack Obama and former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney. …
Polls are deployed only when they may prove useful- that is, to help the powers that be in their quest to maintain their position and influence. Indeed the polling industry is a powerful ally of depoliticization and its counterpart, which is consensus. The polls undoubtedly help decide what people think, but their most important long term…
It’s exceedingly common after tragic events for economists to claim that a natural disaster or act of terrorism is a benefit to an economy. With Hurricane Sandy on her way out, dozens of economists have taken to the press with their defunct ideas about how the hurricane’s devastation will be a “stimulus.” The natural disaster…