Politics Archive

Amod Lele: The Love of All Wisdom

June 10, 2009  ·  Category: Buddhism, Intellectual, Politics
Harvard Ph.D. graduate and occasional Mudita Journal commenter Amod Lele (see here and here, for example) has started a new blog called "Love of All Wisdom" that some of you might enjoy exploring. His political ...
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No hating on Facebook! ... unless it’s hating Christians, Republicans, or terrorist masterminds

June 8, 2009  ·  Category: Current Events, Politics
I recently created a new Facebook group for Mudita Forum. Interestingly, at the bottom of the form for creating a new Facebook group appears this warning: Note: groups that attack a specific person or group of ...
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Inflation on the horizon (and why it matters)

May 12, 2009  ·  Category: Current Events, Politics
Lately I've become very interested in the subject of monetary inflation. It's well worth boning up on the subject today, because it sounds like inflation will be coming back with a vengeance, starting sometime in ...
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Do not miss Bill Whittle’s PJTV response to Jon Stewart

May 3, 2009  ·  Category: Current Events, Intellectual, Politics
This response to Jon Stewart by Bill Whittle is so incredibly good that I decided to become a paid PJTV subscriber, strictly to help support their new business model. (If you've not seen the full ...
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Are you a right-wing extremist?

April 14, 2009  ·  Category: Current Events, Individualism, Politics
Drudge has had two headlines today that are just delicious together. First, we learn that the Department of Homeland Security has sent out a nine-page document warning local law enforcement officers that the economic recession, the ...
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Stop spending our future

April 8, 2009  ·  Category: Current Events, Politics
A great video from Reason.tv.
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Who saw the financial disaster coming, and tried to stop it?

April 4, 2009  ·  Category: Politics
This video only tells part of a very large story -- but it is an important part.
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Why Keynesian “stimulus” bills do not, and cannot, work

April 2, 2009  ·  Category: Politics
This is quite simply the best explanation I have ever seen for why Keynesian government "stimulus" efforts do not -- indeed, cannot -- actually achieve anything like what they set out to achieve: I had never ...
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Daniel Hannan: The Rise of a Free Market Star

March 27, 2009  ·  Category: Current Events, Politics
After my post "Where is OUR Daniel Hannan?" I looked up Hannan on YouTube to see what else he's been up to, besides his regular blog on the Telegraph web site. I appears the public flogging ...
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Where is OUR Daniel Hannan?

March 25, 2009  ·  Category: Current Events, Politics
Via Drudge, this is rich: More like this, please. Additional backstory from Hannan himself, here.
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