“More convinced than ever…” an essay by Pat Slattery

Today’s Guest Saturday post comes to us from Pat Slattery of The Free Market Project. Pat has been AWOL for the last couple of months, for good reason. We are glad to have him back at his keyboard! In this essay, Pat bemoans the lack of even a minimal understanding of economic principles by a […]

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Saudis Playing Hardball with Russia? Is Syria All About Petrodollars?

On Tuesday of this week, Zero Hedge posted what I think you will find to be a very interesting article. The author references an earlier post he had done about a secret meeting between  Saudi’s influential intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and Putin. supposedly, in this “secret” meeting, Bandar lavished gifts on Putin and offered […]

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In The Name of National Security, The State Is More Interested In Its Security Than Yours!

For the last few weeks, we’ve seen almost daily revelations about how our government, the State, is spying on its citizens in the name of national security. Top government officials, up to the President, lied to us from the day of Snowden’s story first broke. Who can forget the image of the Director of National […]

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NCIS Special Agent Gibbs Doesn’t Believe In Coincidences. I Wonder What He Thinks Of President Obama?

The TV series NCIS is one of only a few English language programs I get down here in the land of 21st Century Socialism and one of the very few that I can actually sit through. And, one thing I’ve learned from watching NCIS is that Special Agent Gibbs does not believe in coincidences. I […]

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