Archive for July 22nd, 2010

FloridaOilSpillLaw.com July 22nd, 2010 Ships ready to leave leaky well as storm brews, Associated Press, July 22, 2010 at 5:48 a.m.: As the storm drew closer, boat captains hired by BP for skimming duty were sent home and told they wouldn’t be going back out for five or six days, said Tom Ard, president... »

By Rocky Vega The DailyReckoning.com When the wealthiest citizens can design tax shelters, Swiss and otherwise, and the poorest can either pay no taxes or receive refunds, the burden of generating US tax revenue falls squarely on the shoulders of the middle class. That same middle class essentially made up of those hardest hit... »

How Congress Fueled the Rise of Private Spies By Michael Tanji Wired.com July 21, 2010 Despite what might you may read in the Washington Post this week, it ain’t exactly breaking news that contractors are performing more and more of America’s intelligence work. What’s interesting is how this came to be — and what... »

OnceUponATime You may not regard the two propositions in my title as deserving of any special attention. You may think, entirely correctly, that if we as Americans are special, it is only in the way that any human being is special: that each of us is unique and irreplaceable, that each of our lives,... »

by: Kurt Brouwer SeekingAlpha.com July 21, 2010 This could get ugly. An amendment that did not get much notice in the health care legislation will bring government scrutiny to gold and silver coin dealers and all those who sell coins and bullion. From this report from ABC News, we find out the recent health... »

How the Lincoln Myth Was Hatched by Thomas J. DiLorenzo LewRockwell.com The violence of the criticism aimed at Lincoln by the great men of his time on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line is startling. The breadth and depth of the spectacular prejudice against him is often shocking for its cruelty, intensity, and unrelenting... »

By Shawn Macomber Spectator.org Amidst economic collapse, Thomas Woods challenged readers in his 2009 book Meltdown, as TAS associate editor W. James Antle, III aptly put it, “to embrace fairly radical notions about the New Deal, the Federal Reserve and the government’s role in the economy.” Now, with a gonzo federal government nudging —... »

Economic reasons these united States should restore the Articles of Confederation as the legitimate central government of the US by Ron Holland LewRockwell.com How would you like to begin a peaceful, legitimate political action which could roll back the last 100 years of government growth and national debt along with the hated federal income... »

By Betty Freauf July 22, 2010 NewsWithViews.com “The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a... »