Can’t wait to hear what former Rick Perry supporter Ted Cruz has to say about foreign policy — a small matter I am expected to overlook, according to an astonishingly large number of people in the “liberty movement.”
Ron Paul Talks Filibuster, McCain/Graham, and Manning
Ed Schultz & John McCain Sitting in a Tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G
Justin Raimondo writes : The thuggish Ed Schultz ranted and raved that “Rand Paul is dangerous,” although he did not say to whom. He even took a poll of his brain-dead audience: 90 percent agreed that Sen. Paul is indeed “dangerous! Lawrence O’Donnell showed a video montage of sentences from Sen. Paul’s speech taken… Read More
Nullification Article Linked from Yahoo Main Page
An interesting piece on nullification , but of course burdened by the usual nonsense. Naturally the only precedent the writer can come up with is southern resistance to desegregation, which is supposed to invalidate the whole principle. (Note the usual double standard: the incarceration of Japanese and Japanese-Americans… Read More
Paul Krugman Is as Bad as You Thought
Remember some time ago, when people dug up old statements by Paul Krugman, from around 2001-2003, in which he said it would be good for the economy to blow up a housing bubble? Krugman and his supporters had all kinds of excuses for these statements.… Read More
More Post-Filibuster Analysis
The always interesting Anthony Gregory weighs in, for two minutes.
What’s Wrong With Keynes?
While hosting the Peter Schiff Show last week I had a chance to talk to my friend G.P. Manish , a professor of economics at Troy University, about Keynes and Keynesian approaches to fighting recessions and depressions. Have a listen. (G.P. is preparing a downloadable course on… Read More
Why the Rand Filibuster Wasn’t a Case of ‘Paranoia’
You may have seen this Glenn Greenwald column already, but I’ve had a pretty busy week and just got to it. Greenwald does his usual skewering of hypocritical progressives, and then explains why there was indeed merit in the Paul filibuster. A couple excerpts: First, the reason this question matters… Read More
Curious About Bitcoin?
I was, so last Friday, while hosting the Peter Schiff Show , I invited Erik Voorhees of BitInstant to explain it and answer listener questions. Here’s the interview: The video mentions WeUseCoins.org as well as “ Bitcoin: A Libertarian Introduction ,” so I’m linking to those as well.