Larry Ludlow and co-conspirators did some fine hell-raising on Election night. San Diego has a public hall where candidates gather and election results come in. Here is Larry’s summary of the action: W e had lots of fun poking holes in democracy. Here are some photos. One of the candidates, a bald, eye-patch wearing ex-Marine […]
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Biggest Weasel Winners of the 2010 Election??
Who is the biggest weasel amongst the newly elected politicians? Andrew Cuomo, the new governor of New York, always does well in weasel ratings. Richard Blumenthal, who lied all over Connecticut to make people think he had actually fought in the Vietnam war, is CONN’s new U.S. Senator. What other newcomers deserve weasel accolades? Unfortunately, […]
Redundant????
from a photo posted on the Washington Post page for photos from the Jon Stewart rally on Saturday – photo by “consistentflatcher”
Demolition Derby Democracy, Crash #4283
The real irony is that people expect from progress from elections. (cartoon by Tom Toles, Washington Post)
De-Sacralizing Democracy to Save Liberty
from the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily (July issue) – posted online today – De-Sacralizing Democracy to Save Liberty by James Bovard In the 1770s, the British colonists living in America won their freedom from British rule thanks to the
Exposed: The Federal Reserve’s Toxic Waste
from the new issue of The New Yorker
A Tea Party Bright Side: Making the Fed Sweat
It’s great that the Tea Party is making the Federal Reserve sweat…. The New York Times has a piece detailing how, thanks to Tea Party activists, one “likely outcome” of the November elections “is greater scrutiny of the Fed, even though the Wall Street regulatory overhaul that Mr. Obama signed in July already calls for […]
R R Schoettker
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
Jim
Montaigne also wrote: Laws remain in credit not be
Alan Strange
Great video, visited there a few years back to pay