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Wednesday, January 26. 2011

Weds. morning links


'The King's Speech' leads Academy Awards with 12 nominations, including best picture


Commentary: The Difference Between Public and Private Words


NYT: Obama Sets Stage for Clash of Governing Ideals


US Communist Leader Urges Unification With Democratic Party


Thought that happened long ago.


MPs Slam 'Secretive' Climategate Probes


Prelutsky: liberals don’t deserve America


It's a fun rant.


E-mails Suggest Bear Stearns Cheated Clients Out of Billions


Selling "sacks of shit" which were Triple-A rated


Q&O: Corporations, unions, taxes and libertarian ideas


Reb: My new answer to everything


WSJ: Advocate of Violence - Frances Fox Piven and the New York Times's dishonest campaign for "civility."


How Public Unions Took Taxpayers Hostage:



The first to seize on the political potential of government workers was New York's Mayor Robert F. Wagner. The Kennedy White House took notice of his success.


Politico: Farm subsidies test GOP pledge


Step up to the plate, folks. Enough corporate farm welfare.


IBD: Price Of Junk Science


Reason: Grading Barack Obama - Libertarian legal scholar Richard Epstein on his former University of Chicago colleague


Image: Our friend Elissa Gore's Winter Sunset

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 05:40 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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"More government... what was the question again?"

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#1 theSubstitute on 2011-01-26 09:15 (Reply)
I recently re-read "Blacklisted By History", by M Stanton Evans, an historical reassessment of Joe McCarthy based on the archives, and "Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case", by Allen Weinstein, a highly acclaimed work on the cause celebre that never dies. No spy novel ever written can equal the Weinstein book!

As both of these works point out over and over, the Stateside Commies were always trying to stay just below the radar so as not to be noticed; their backstage allies in government were the New Dealers and liberal Democrats. These books are amazing reads and one realizes that nothing has changed in the past 60+ years.

The battle lines are still the same, the tactics, the liberal media lining up with the left, and all the rest. We do not seem to learn from our past mistakes and end up fighting the same battle over and over. Freedom has great worth and therefore the price is high.
#2 greenmtnpunter on 2011-01-26 09:37 (Reply)
I think that the bonds sold by Bear and others were Triple-A rated by Moody's, S & P and Fitch. To say they were U.S. government rated is inaccurate, I believe.
#3 Dunque on 2011-01-26 09:47 (Reply)
Right you are.
Let's say that the SEC was indifferent.
#3.1 Bird Dog on 2011-01-26 09:54 (Reply)

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