Category Archives: Politics and Economics

(money) – (control) = (failure)?

Posted on October 26, 2013 by Glynn Marshes

Glynn Marshes writes: On the NPR website, a story on the charity GiveDirectly that’s trying to help poor people in the developing world in an unusual way: by sending them money with no strings attached. Skeptics thought “the poor” would … Continue reading →

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Quote Du Jour

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Andrew Bacevich thinks he knows why so many establishment journos consider isolationism such a clear-and-present danger: Warn about the revival of isolationism and your prospects of making the grade as a pundit or candidate for high office suddenly brighten. … Continue reading →

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How Government Drags Us Down

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Epaminondas

epiminondas writes: This is a very good talk given by John Tamny, an editor at Forbes Magazine.  He discusses many misconceptions about the Great Depression and how the reckless actions of the Federal Reserve endanger our ability to invest scarce … Continue reading →

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Linkage

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Harrowing. Comments are pretty spicy. Riffs for sale. Armond White must be the most talked about (and argued over) movie critic in the world. How gay. Towards a new art? How to take this as anything but … Continue reading →

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Quote Du Jour

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: From an excellent essay by traditionalist conservative Jim Kalb: What allows the managerial liberal regime to function are habits of loyalty and sacrifice, and understandings of natural goods and purposes, which it continually undermines and cannot justify … Continue reading →

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Utopia?

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes:

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“I Love Red Hair”

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: This bit from “Young Mr. Lincoln” is probably my favorite passage in all of John Ford. It’s Ford at his most Griffithesque; it’s similar in a number of ways to Griffith’s light pastoral works, the great … Continue reading →

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Confidence

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: My tax dollars helped pay for this piece of feel-good-about-yourself propaganda: But, hey, maybe this is a message that’s urgently needed … because we all know that, if today’s girls and young women are lacking in anything, … Continue reading →

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Not The Onion

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: H/T Glynn Marshes

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Linkage

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Unleash the Beef shares the eulogy from his father’s funeral. It could almost serve as a eulogy for traditional American manhood. Related. Bring back the ’70s-style sex film! This strikes me as one of the great … Continue reading →

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