Virginia Right!

This blog entry from Daniel J. Mitchell, from the Cato Institute, in Forbes Magazine, perhaps not surprisingly, came out on the side of Estonia, not Prof. Krugman!  Here’s a couple of highlights: I have great fondness for Estonia, in part because it was the first post-communist nation to adopt the flat tax, but also because [...]

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Is this another right wing conspiracy theory, or is there something to the fact that President Obama is allowing classified materials to be released on the internet? You be the judge. Wikileaks Provocateur-in-Chief Julian Assange has telegraphed his intentions for weeks, yet the Obama Administration did nothing. Nada. Zilch. So, some of the documents were [...]

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« « Watcher’s Council Nominations – Hanukkah Edition | main | The Council Has Spoken!! JoshuaPundit on Dec 03 2010 at 11:57 am | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken! The votes have been cast, the sacred runes read and this week’s Watcher’s Council results are history. Many of the entries this week focused on [...]

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Forbes magazine’s cover story “How Obama Thinks”  by Dinesh D’Souza offers a brilliant explanation of the inexplicable behavior our 44th President. The strange policies, bizarre actions and  general oddities have frustrated and befuddled Americans (both critics and supporters alike). D’Souza identifies the president’s Father and his anticolonial dream as the impetus for all that Obama does. The author is from India and his perspective and insight into the Asian and African idea of anticolonialism. Here is his description Anticolonialism is the doctrine that rich countries of the West got rich by invading, occupying and looting poor countries of Asia, Africa and South America. As one of Obama’s acknowledged intellectual influences, Frantz Fanon, wrote in The Wretched of the Earth , “The well-being and progress of Europe have been built up with the sweat and the dead bodies of Negroes, Arabs, Indians…

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