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  • News Flash: Christopher Hitchens Seeks Catholic Confessional

    I was surprised to read Christopher Hitchens today, riding high on his moral horse as to the political, cultural and economic predations of Maximum Leader Robert Mugabe in his current Country of Residence, Zimbabwe. What people like Hitchens never seem to understand, is that morality is never just for other people, or leaders, or religious types. ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on June 10, 2008

  • Increase Govt Revenue: Nationalize Energy Industry

    Increase Govt Revenue: Nationalize Industriesby Usama2 01/08/2008, 2:51 PM # Rate this topic Delete Favorites Reply For those ritewing folks complaining about taxation or the threat of increased taxes AND who realize debt kills the value of the US dollar, here is one solution: NATIONALIZE SOME INDUSTRIES. Let the government turn a profit ...
    Posted to The Undercover Economist by Usama2 on January 8, 2008

  • Is Milton Friedman going to Hell?

    I am currently reading Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. Its not an easy read, but its definitely a MUST READ for anyone interested, practicing, or even educated in economics (and we all took economics in high school). SO GO READ SHOCK DOCTRINE. [BTW Klein is married- I checked- so even if you desire her for her brains, insights, and looks, she's ...
    Posted to The Undercover Economist by Usama2 on January 6, 2008

  • Discrimination, Grocery stores and Nubile Baggirls

    I'm outraged. After an exhaustive statistical study, I've uncovered a corporate prejudice which suggests systemic sexual discrimination the likes of which could be nationwide!!!!! As a frequent customer to a regional grocery store deemed superior to the Walmarts and Safeways in service (which naturally translates into higher prices), I have ...
    Posted to The Undercover Economist by Usama2 on November 22, 2007

  • Would You Deny A Man's Need to Protect Women?

    Perhaps this is a most appropriate forum to raise my disliked topic given this forum's Highbrow title and my viewpoint often condescendingly framed as being Lowbrow. In any case, while pop editorialists ponder whether America needs men to protect the women in their lives, the call of human nature goes unabaded in every new generation. It is an ...
    Posted to The Highbrow by Usama2 on November 20, 2007

  • Corporatism

    My understanding of fascism ties it inexorably to corporatism, whereby powerful business interests and the state collude to form a ruling elite, which then rallies the nation around a nationalistic, ethnocentric cause. The corporatist model is only really possible in more advanced societies, like 1930s/40s Germany, Japan, and Italy. I think the ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by melisande on October 23, 2007