Saturday, February 14
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Derek Henson is the guest editor today. |
“Obama’s
bailout plan, added to the FY 2009 budget deficit he has inherited from Bush,
opens a expenditure hole of about $3 trillion. As Roberts, former
assistant secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan years, pointed out here last
week, ‘Who is going to purchase $3 trillion of US Treasury bonds? Not the
Iraq
Vet: We're Losing 'More Soldiers to Suicide Than to Al Qaeda'
“The
complete disconnection of price movements from underlying real cost changes in
modern times is a measure of contemporary monetary authorities’ laxness when
it comes to preventing inflation, combined with their refusal to acknowledge
the theoretical possibility of a benign deflation.”
Obama
Honors Lincoln's Vision of Strong Union
“'Only
a nation can do these things,’ Obama said. ‘Only by coming together, all
of us, and expressing that sense of shared sacrifice and responsibility...can
we do the work that must be done in this country. That is the very definition
of being American.’”
The
Six Most Insane Moral Panics in American History
International
Criminal Court Faces Big Test With Israel
New
Shock Absorber Harvests Energy From Bumps in Road, Increases Fuel Economy
“In
their testing so far, the students found that in a 6-shock heavy truck, each
shock absorber could generate up to an average of 1 kW on a standard road --
enough power to completely displace the large alternator load in heavy trucks
and military vehicles, and in some cases even run accessory devices such as
hybrid trailer refrigeration units.”
Bongs,
Virginity and Other Stuff You Can't Sell on eBay
Scott
Horton interviews Dahr Jamail on Iraqi security, US funding of militias, and
the unlikelihood of the
Fresno
Police Officers Violent Arrest of a Homeless Man
Armed
Police Raid Wild West Party
Latin
American Leaders Say U.S. Drug War a Failure
“From
“America
is a place where you can destroy millions of lives as a Wall Street executive
and still get invited for photo-ops at the White House; a land where the
everyman icon - Joe Sixpack - is named for his love of shotgunning two quarts
of beer at holiday gatherings...Phelps is the evildoer of the hour because he
went to a party and took a hit off someone's bong.”
FDA
Approves Depressant Drug for the Annoyingly Cheerful
(Video)
Satire.
Sen. Harry Reid Says Paying Taxes Is Voluntary
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