Today on Queercents, I question the benefit of the stimulus package currently working its way through Congress: “The US government has been moving fairly quickly to pass some form of stimulus package to try to head off a recession. The stimulus package would basically amount to mailing $150 billion out to everyone, with the point [...]
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My new post on Queercents today discusses Ron Paul’s position on getting rid of the Federal Reserve: “The Federal Reserve has been getting a lot of attention in the last few months. With the recent housing meltdown and market volatility, it’s hard to miss the articles in the financial press. Some have blamed the Fed [...]
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Over on Queercents, Marc posted about how he feels ostracized by the gay community for his beliefs. Actually he says LGBT community, but I’m going to distill that down to ‘gay’ to simplify my argument. I commented there, but I wanted to address a particular point at greater length. Defining the gay community “Gay community” is [...]
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MSNBC reports: “In reality, however, the companies were merely vehicles for Hsu’s Ponzi scheme, in which money owed as returns to older investors was paid with money received from newer investors, and Hsu never invested the money in the manner he represented to his victims,” prosecutors alleged. Sounds like Social Security. When are Congress and [...]
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When it comes to teaching your children about money, personal finance specialists will tell you it’s important to give your child enough of an allowance to let them make mistakes they can learn from. It’s important to let them blow their whole allowance on a toy so that they are completely broke until they get [...]
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The Associated Press reports: Declaring a new direction in energy policy, the House on Saturday approved $16 billion in taxes on oil companies, while providing billions of dollars in tax breaks and incentives for renewable energy and conservation efforts. You can be pretty sure the economic incidence of these taxes will not fall on the [...]
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I’ve been reading Brian Doherty’s Radicals for Capitalism, an interesting book that covers some of the lesser-known corners of the history of the libertarian movement, and I want to share an amusing little song I came across. From 1935 through the late 1950′s, a religious-based group called Spiritual Mobilization promoted free markets by distributing pamphlets to churches. One [...]
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Express health clinics opening inside retailers such as Wal-mart have given people an alternative to expensive and time-consuming visits to a doctor’s office. So it was only a matter of time before the special-interest groups mobilized to do what they do best – use the government to hurt their competitors. Newsweek reports: Critics complain that [...]
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First, how about some full disclosure. I have never voted for a Republican candidate for president. I actually voted for Clinton in ’92, since that’s what gays were supposed to do, but then he tried to socialize the health care industry. Since then I have never been able to stomach voting Democrat, and have instead [...]
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Cho Seung-Hui killed 32 people including himself this week. He explained in his ‘manifesto’ that “You have vandalized my heart, raped my soul and torched my conscience. You thought it was one pathetic boy’s life you were extinguishing. Thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ, to inspire generations of the weak and the defenseless [...]
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