Archive for March, 2011

About Libya, and much else by Justin Raimondo LewRockwell.com I couldn’t bear to watch the President’s why-we’re-in-Libya speech as it was broadcast: it’s Spring, after all, and my garden needs planting. Priorities, priorities, priorities: so important, in politics and in life. We all have our priorities: I have mine, and the President of the... »

by Thomas R. Eddlem LewRockwell.com Professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr. has taken syndicated radio talk show host Mark Levin (picture inset) to task for claiming the President can constitutionally bring the nation to war without the permission of Congress. Woods argued that Congress has the exclusive power under Article I, Section 8 of the... »

by Gary D. Barnett LewRockwell.com Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service. ~ Smedley Butler, Major General... »

By Coach Dave Daubenmire March 31, 2011 NewsWithViews.com I know what you are thinking. Coach Dave is finally coming out of the closet as a “Birther.” He has joined that ‘”fringe element” in America that doesn’t think that Barack Obama is an United States citizen. Well, to be perfectly honest, I have been part... »

By Chuck Baldwin March 31, 2011 NewsWithViews.com The Internet is filled with good and bad. Personally, I believe the Internet (along with a precious few independent newspapers and radio talk shows) is analogous to colonial America’s “Committees of Correspondence”: it is the last resource of uncontrolled, unfiltered information left. I dare say if it... »

By Jayne O’Donnell USA TODAY 3/30/2011 U.S. consumers face “serious” inflation in the months ahead for clothing, food and other products, the head of Wal-Mart’s U.S. operations warned Wednesday. The world’s largest retailer is working with suppliers to minimize the effect of cost increases and believes its low-cost business model will position it better... »

By: Richard Hartley Market Oracle Mar 30, 2011 The first part of this sorry tale was caused by greed and inflated money markets. This gave near full employment and unprecedented growth around the world. The last two years has been caused by the markets realization that you cannot carry on and keep re-inflating the... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 03/30/2011 And once again our prediction about Fukushima (namely the inevitable entombment of the entire facility in thousands of tons of concrete) is about to be realized. Bloomberg reports that Japan will consider pouring concrete into its crippled Fukushima atomic plant to reduce radiation and contain the worst nuclear disaster... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 03/30/2011 From the AP: The Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration say that very low levels of radiation have turned up in a sample of milk from Washington state. But federal officials say consumers should not worry. The FDA said such findings are to be expected in... »

There are at least five reasons why more of us should take up the spade, make some compost, and start gardening with a vengeance. Ellen LaConte AlterNet Spring has sprung — at least south of the northern tier of states where snow still has a ban on it — and the grass has ‘riz.... »