As an architect of the new Constitution, Madison knew that Article IV, Section 4 says, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” He knew, therefore, that the American regime contained a self-contradiction. It took civil war and Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation to continue the liberation that the founders had begun. Lincoln extended his hand to Madison, redeeming the promise of the old fathers who had not lived to see the fulfillment |
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Lincoln's Extended Hand
Socialists Kill
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Wind Damage
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Infragravity
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What Will Go Next? II
The technique is familiar. The powers-that-be allow a scandalous situation to develop whereby no serious attempt is made to police paedophile, pornographic and criminal activity on the web. Then the authorities use the excuse of public concern to overreact and impose Draconian controls that police ordinary citizens but are usually circumvented by criminals. It is a familiar scenario, offline as well as in cyberspace.
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What Will Go Next?
The recent uprising in the blogosphere that resulted in the overturning of the Global Warming consensus can only have focused our rulers’ attention more acutely on this infuriating challenge to their totalitarian control. “What will go next?” |
Dead Mann Walking
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Where Is It?
We find the same thing in this record as in the CET. The fastest rise was a long, long time ago. |
Rent-A-Mob Update
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Missing
Do not wait for the mainstream media to answer these questions. They still have not thought to ask where Obama spent the first year of his life. |
50!
The storm that just dumped enough snow on the Florida Panhandle to force the closing of the University of West Florida has brought the official count of states with the white-stuff on the ground to a full 50. |
Fanciful Failure
The more-worrying factor here is that we've got this "mystery" direct buyers out here again taking nearly 25% of the offered amount (who is bidding for that undisclosed?) and another 11% taken down by The Fed for the SOMA account. Given the Primary Dealer system we have in this country, any BTC under 2.0 is an effective fail. To get an auction that behaves in this sort of fashion, complete with mystery direct bidders and heavy SOMA (Fed) participation, yet Treasury has to pay up in the form of a significantly higher coupon is not a good sign at all. It will continue through the year, as we are on track to run record budget deficits, so the premise that "it will all be ok and this won't start a ratchet up of rates on the long end" is perhaps more than a bit fanciful. |
Friday, February 12, 2010
It's A Frozen Wasteland
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Stepping In
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Cancelled By O Duce Of Course -- Just Like The Space Program Has Been Cancelled In Favor Of...
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53 And 2.4 Are Both < 100
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The Bering Straight is 53 miles wide and there are islands within it on the respective sides that are 2.4 miles apart. Yes, you can see 2.4 miles across water.
Unless you're morally and intellectually blind.
And we're all dead already.
Don't worry, it's coming soon enough with O Duce getting trounced by the evil Ahmadinnamidget.
Stopped Clock Watch
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Did I forget to mention that Bush is Hitler?
Brother.
Oh, Yeah...
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O So Odd
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Banking On Re-election
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
The (Non)Working Man
Nearly 20% of men in this age group [25-54 yrs] are out of the workforce, and none of the overall second-derivative labor market improvements seem to be helping much. How this trend impacts society more broadly should be interesting, to say the least. |
Sleep Deprivation
Which brings us to the second story, the release, apparently via a Freedom of Information Act request, of aerial photographs of the collapse of the World Trade Center You can see the NYPD pictures here. On September 11, thousands of Americans experienced something far worse than sleep deprivation. |
6%
Even the Obama administration acknowledges the legislation’s centerpiece — a tax cut for businesses that hire unemployed workers — would work only on the margins.
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Yes Way!
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
6"
The regime cannot rule by terror alone, and now all it has left is its race-based military ideology. Small wonder that each "negotiation" with it is more humiliating than the previous one. As Myers points out, we cannot expect it to bargain away its very raison d'etre. All of us who scrutinize North Korean affairs are preoccupied with one question. Do these slaves really love their chains?
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QOTD: Archives Are A B*tch
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His D.L.
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Never Mind
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At Least 12.5%
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Monday, February 08, 2010
Curiously Contra
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Projections Of The Mad
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Countdown
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran is set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution. |
Divide
We’re seeing laments about how the good old day before the damned internet, talk radio and 24 hour cable let the enlightened elite do as they wish. |