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Jon Stewart: The Audacity of Hos

September 16, 2009  ·  Category: Current Events, Humor, Politics

Hilarious. The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c

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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 views couldn't be more different than my own, but he's proven himself interested in and open to cross-dialogue. In his latest post, "Wishing George W. Bush Well," Amod explores a theme dear to my heart -- learning not to vilify those with whom you disagree strongly. At the urging of a spiritual teacher, Amod had begun exploring his ability to wish other people well, including his ...

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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 the next year or two. Last week's article "Inflation Nation" in the New York Times, by financial historian Allan Meltzer, is one of the best I've seen on the subject. (Thanks to Greg Feirman for e-mailing the link.) Here are a few choice paragraphs: It doesn’t help that the administration’s stimulus program is an obstacle to sound policy. It will create jobs at the cost of an enormous ...

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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 exchange between Jon Stewart and Cliff May, it's well worth watching, just to get a handle on the depth of Stewart's intellectual skew. Aside from claiming Harry Truman is a war criminal -- for which he later apologized without much explanation of why it warranted apology -- he also asserts that the Geneva Convention should protect terrorists. His lack of historical context is staggering, especially ...

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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 election of the first black president, and the return of a few disgruntled war veterans could lead to a resurgence of right-ring extremists. Here's the best part: A footnote attached to the report by the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines "rightwing extremism in the United States" as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of ...

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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 heard of Cato's Dan Mitchell before, but this video suggests he is a very gifted communicator, not unlike Daniel Hannan. YouTube turns up many more gems from Mitchell, including a discussion with Neil Cavuto of Obama's inevitable massive attack on middle class taxpayers and a discussion of tax haven myths. In a similar vein, Jeffrey Miron explains what the Obama team would have done if ...

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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 he administered to Gordon Brown has turned him into a rising star among free market advocates. His comments spoke for many people's concerns, have resonated widely, and are causing important people to stand up and take note. Take a look at these clips from Hannan's recent TV appearances on Fox News. Here's Daniel Hannan being interviewed by Neil Cavuto: And Part II of the same interview: And ...

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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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