Archive for April 2012
Remembering Milton Friedman (1912-2006)
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Milton Friedman’s birth and the 50th anniversary of the publication of Capitalism and Freedom From Remembering Milton by Allen R.Sanderson: Quotes of Milton Friedman, call these gems “The Wisdom of Milton Friedman:” Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. History…
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catholic adjective SYNONYMS: Universal, diverse, diversified, wide, broad, broad-based, eclectic, liberal, latitudinarian; comprehensive, all-encompassing, all-embracing, all-inclusive. Her musical tastes are quite catholic He was hard to provoke; open- minded; catholic in his views. — Economist and Nobel laureate Robert Fogel, referring to Milton Friedman ANTONYM: narrow.
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It’s not just that Obama ate the dog, but that he’s screwing the pooch. — Mark Steyn
Read MoreI Think We’ll Be Seeing A Lot More of This…
From Pensions and Investments: In an apparent first, a public pension plan files for bankruptcy In what’s believed to be a first by a public pension plan, the Northern Mariana Islands Retirement Fund, Saipan, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday. The public defined benefit plan is only 38.8% funded, thanks to low investment…
Read MoreGuns Save Lives — A Recent Example
Thirty-four year old Kiet Thanh Ly, a South Vietnam national, bought a knife at a Salt Lake City Smith’s grocery store and then started stabbing people with it. He was able to seriously injure 2 people before a 47-year old man with a CCW permit intervened by pointing his gun at Ly and ordering him…
Read MoreLove of Theory Is The Root Of All Evil
The website Bill whittle mentions and from whence he found what he calls “the greatest sentence ever” is here. The most pernicious “theory” of the left, to my lights, is what they call “Critical Legal Theory.” Its roots go as far back as the 1960’s although I had never heard or read anything about it…
Read MoreAlan Dershowitz Says Prosecutor Angela Cory Should Be Thinking About Hiring Her Own Defense Lawyer
Ordinary self defense law, regardless of any “stand your ground” law, is that one must have a reasonable fear of great bodily injury or death before one is justified in using deadly force in self defense against an attacker. If one is the initial aggressor or provoked another to attack them self defense law is…
Read MoreDelusional Nonsense at the Occupy the Justice Department Rally
Some facts to consider in the face of the superstitious nonsense being promulgated by Obama’s useful idiots: Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook on April 24, 1954) is a convicted cop killer. He is presently serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. He was sentenced to death at his…
Read MoreTwo Robbers Lost When They Confronted a Woman With A Gun and a Warrior Mindset
Lulu Campbell is a 57-year old Filipina who owns 13 convenience stores in and around Macon, Georgia. Her deceased husband was a police officer and he taught her how to shoot. She owns several guns and she always carries one on her hip. At 2:00 AM last Saturday morning she was confronted by two armed…
Read MoreIf You Wanted America To Fail, That Would Be Easy — Just Don’t Change A Thing
Below is devilishly well done video from Free Market America that was inspired by Paul Harvey’s classic “If I Were The Devil.” Here is the Paul Harvey classic, “If I Were The Devil.”
Read MoreThe Credit For Killing Osama Bin Laden Belongs to Whom?
It is contemptible for any man to claim credit that rightfully belongs to another. Osama bin Laden was killed while Obama was president, but do the circumstances justify Obama claiming the credit? John Bolton weighs in on that and more on the Obama foreign policy. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
Read MoreHe said, “I Beat Up A White Man Because I Am Mad About The Trayvon Martin Case”
Alton Hayes III, age 18 of Maywood, Illinois, and a 15-year-old accomplice attacked a 19-year-old white man from behind. Hayes pointed a large tree branch to the man’s head and said, “Empty your pockets, white boy.” The two then rifled the man’s pockets, threw him to the ground and kicked and punched him several times.…
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