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A new report out of Washington estimates that around $360 million in US military money went into the hands of enemy insurgents in Afghanistan, including the Taliban. A special task force put together by General David Patraeus has estimated that more than a quarter of a billion dollars in US funds trickled into enemy...
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Did you know that the word ‘idiot’ is actually derived from the origins of democracy in ancient Greece? Thousands of years ago, a Greek citizen who demonstrated disinterest in politics was labeled ‘idiotes’; it literally meant ‘private person,’ which curiously enough was a term of derision at the time. Fast forward to the pitiful...
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We all had just read Jeffrey Tucker's Mises Daily article “Why Everything is Dirtier,” which is about why laundry detergent no longer gets clothes “clean and bright.” Yuri said something that I will never forget. He informed us that when he told his mother, who suffered for most of her life living in Soviet...
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Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters, according to a profile of the billionaire in Details magazine.
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Section 1 of the legislation requires: The use of a fitted sheet, instead of a flat sheet, as the bottom sheet on all beds within the lodging establishment. For the purpose of this section, a “fitted sheet” means a bed sheet containing elastic or similar material sewn into each of the four corners that...
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Listen to the Communist economist Paul Krugman spew a Broken Window Fallacy.
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As I have repeatedly documented, influential Americans are lobbying for war in order to save the American economy – what is often called “military Keynesianism”. For the first couple of years that I wrote on this topic, commenters more or less said, “That's crazy, no one is calling for war to stimulate the economy”.
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The world monetary system is just a game; a game that is about to embark on a giant shift in direction. The events of August 2011 should be a wake-up call for many. However, like everything in life, don’t take my word for it – go out and do your own research and be...
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A former juvenile court judge in Luzerne County, Pa., who accepted nearly $1 million to send juveniles to for-profit detention centers has been sentenced to 28 years in prison. The court also ordered the former judge, Mark Ciavarella Jr., to pay $1.17 million in restitution.
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Paul concluded of sanctions: “That makes it much worse. Why would that be so strange if the Soviets and the Chinese had nuclear weapons, we tolerated the Soviets. We didn't attack them. And they were a much greater danger. They were the greatest danger to us in our whole history. But you don't go...
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