Archive for December, 2008
Libertarians accuse Obama of “hawkish” foreign policy
America’s largest third-party is accusing Barack Obama of pursuing the same “hawkish” foreign policy of his predecessor George Bush. “What we hoped to see with the incoming Obama administration were plans for a total withdrawal from Afghanistan and Iraq,” says William Redpath, national chairman of the Libertarian Party. “Instead, we’re seeing the same missteps of [...]
Government programs die hard
America’s largest third party is warning against the institution of new government programs in the wake of the current economic crisis. “Government programs tend to linger with disastrous economic consequences,” says Libertarian Party spokesperson Andrew Davis.
US retailers getting desperate
U.S. retailers are slashing prices in a desperate bid to make money, while new data on industrial production is sparking concerns about one of Asia’s leading economies.
Bipartisanship is the LAST thing the US Congress needs!!!
If you are a Democrat, a Republican, an Independent, or a member of any of the sundry other political parties in America… “Bipartisanship” in the US Congress is the last thing you should want!
Government and fraud
Billions of dollars were recently lost in the collapse of Bernie Madoff’s self-described Ponzi scheme, in which too-good-to-be-true returns on investments were not really returns at all, but the funds of defrauded new investors.
The roaring twenties & the roaring nineties
My Mother was a “flapper”, one of the girls during the Roaring Twenties of the last century. She didn’t need a woman’s movement to assert herself. She drove a car, held down a job, but—I was assured—did not dance on table tops, nor smoke, nor anything else that today would be taken for granted. She [...]
