Category Archives: in the news

a poem to dispell the hatred

Joel Watts has written a post condoning hatred of BP.  And although I think he’s substantially right on details, except that the post should probably be renamed “Another Reason to Hate the British Government and their Friends at BP,” I won’t argue the ideological implications of the spill here.  Instead, I will simply try to [...]
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supreme court voids labor board decisions — good, but only a band-aid

It is immoral for government to stand between a willing employer and a willing employee by dictating the terms of employment.  It is likewise immoral for government to compel employers to keep employees who are refusing to show up for work, that is, striking.  And it is a denial of basic freedoms of political behavior [...]
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a sad day for poland

A plane with about one hundred people in it has crashed.  All passengers have died, including: Lech Kaczysnki – Polish president. Maria Kaczynska – The president’s wife Ryszard Kaczorowski – Poland’s last president-in-exile Aleksander Szczyglo – head of the National Security Office
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on child labor laws and the blues

Child labor laws have taken this poor kids blues away.  He lives in Wisconsin, and is an 8-year-old with a shocking musical ability.  He will from time to time go play at blues venues, and the money from that is all put toward his college education.  It’s sort of the opposite of child exploitation.  But [...]
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the fed godfather?

Hmm . . . The concept of the Fed as a destructive con-job has apparently hit even the mainstream media (in the form of MSNBC).  Very good.  This is a pretty good description of exactly where our financial problems came from. Keep in mind, of course, that by ‘con job’ I am referring only the [...]
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murdoch misunderstands the internet news world

“I think when they’ve got nowhere else to go they’ll start paying,” he said.
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the meaning of this net neutrality ruling

A court ruled today that the FCC has no right to enforce net neutrality standards.  What does this mean?
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on jobbik, conservatism, and the nazis

Let me turn your attention, if you will, to the nation of Hungary.  The controversial Jobbik party appears to be on the verge of gaining significant power in the upcoming elections, and as conservatives they are being compared to Nazis by the press of socialist Britain. 
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on drudge and mainstream media

NBC journalist Chuck Todd has lately been blasting “Drudge-Driven Journalism“.  Why?  Some might say it’s because Drudge‘s right-wing leanings.  But I have to suspect that intermixed into the frustration might be something to do with the fact that people are increasingly turning away from traditional forms of media and getting their information from web-based sources.  [...]
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abc cut — score one for blogging

Story here. ABC is replacing a bunch of traditional journalists with journalists expected to produce their own material and rely it by computer.  That’s because internet-based news is way better than the printed stuff. 
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