Showing posts with label The War Between The States. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The War Between The States. Show all posts
Sunday, November 24, 2024

The War Between The States never ended

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Abraham Lincoln was no Socrates, pretending that a man can be neither slave nor master

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 "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." If a man is not a master of himself...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Abraham Lincoln started The War Between The States while under the influence of blue-mass, which gave him mercury poisoning and made him really angry

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He took the pills for depression before the war, and didn't quit them until approximately June of 1865.   Wikipedia, here , so it must b...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

It's always amusing to see what triggers CNBC liberals, in this case a Johnny Reb hat worn by US Senate hopeful Cindy-Hyde Smith

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Appearances are everything to liberals, who are our time's cave dwellers of Plato's Republic, who have never seen a reenactment of ...
Friday, December 1, 2017

Retiring Sen. Bob Corker demands Republicans raise taxes in order to cut them

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We had to destroy the village in order to save it. Bombing is the only way forward. We had to have a war between the States in ord...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

The War Between The States cancelled in Manassas due to safety concerns

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Friday, May 24, 2013

Rush Limbaugh Continues In Error: McCain Did NOT Get More Votes Than Romney

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Rush Limbaugh can be so wrong sometimes it's infuriating, and once he gets some misinformation into his head, it's almost impossible...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Barry Ritholtz Is Against The World Religion Of Gold

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Barry Ritholtz here  recently had some fun with the goldbugs, whom he ridicules as devotees of a "religious cult". The piece is re...
Sunday, November 25, 2012

Joel Kotkin Urges Republicans To Join The Class War

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"It’s time for Republicans to break with the traditions of Goldwater, Reagan, and, particularly, Bush and shift to something more akin ...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Price Of Gold Adjusted To The Purchasing Power Of The Dollar

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What is today's fair value price of an ounce of gold? Is it really $1,579 the ounce? In 1913 the price of gold was still fixed at $20.67...
Friday, October 28, 2011

Federal Revenues Came From Tariffs and Land Sales in First Half of 1800s, From Tariffs and Excises in Second Half

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A largely forgotten fact when discussing the history and meaning of US tax policy. Gary M. Anderson and Dolores T. Martin examined the role ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

The 1913 Income Tax Enabled Stark Increases to Government Revenues to Pay for WWI

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Revenues went up by a factor of 6 in three short years, and dramatically reversed federal reliance on tariffs, excises and other taxes of on...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Angela Merkel Believes in Magic, Which is a Very Bad Sign For Us All

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As reported here , by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Chancellor Angela Merkel said the ruling validated her rescue policies, and once again vowed ...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

I Guess That British Kid Who Told Obama He was a Pussy was Right

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Matthew Franck weighs in here  with an excellent discussion of Obama's concession to judicial supremacy in the case of DOMA: Obama is th...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

War is the Father of Everything

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                      From the very long term perspective, the spending on World War II which supposedly got us out of the Great Depression ...