Thursday, April 17

Jeremy Horpedahl is the guest editor today. 

 

The Trillion Dollar War

“If the war were being accounted for based on a rational, transparent budget process instead of an opaque and politicized shell game, Americans would be painfully aware that we are now in the seventh year of what the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has called a $1 trillion war.”

 

The $3-Trillion War

Pick a number, any number.

 

Free Tibet? Hell, Free America!

“But this is not a column to say we're in the same situation as Tibet/China. There is no real comparison. After all, Bush has yet to order the Army into the streets of Eugene and Austin and San Francisco to crack people's skulls for doing some yoga and lighting incense and for believing that Jesus wasn't actually a warmongering Muslim-hating isolationist jackass like he is. Not yet, anyway.”

 

Big Tax Breaks for Businesses in Housing Bill

Shocking! (2 pages)

 

Has Capitalism Failed?

Only if you count the above story and many, many others as “capitalism.”

 

“Thomas Jefferson's Looking Down, and He'd Be Very Dissatisfied”

Oh, those libertarians, always causing trouble!

 

Introducing The Seasteading Institute

“By making it safe and affordable to settle this frontier, we will give people the freedom to choose the government they want instead of being stuck with the government they get.” An interesting idea. But why set up a government at all?

 

9/11 Conspiracy Theories 'Ridiculous,' Al Qaeda Says

Satire (video).

 

Ahmadinejad Casts Doubts on Sept. 11 Attack

Not satire.

 

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