Category Archives: Politics: International

Where Liberty Clashes With Liberty: A Study of the Leftist

Posted on April 13, 2010 | Leave a comment

So, what is Liberty? What is a “human-right”? People say all kinds of things are human-rights. In fact,in many nations, more and more things are becoming human-rights.

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Conditions of Being Poor

Posted on April 12, 2010 | Leave a comment

A reader called shenanigans on my last post.  While likely that the average salary in the United States is higher than the average salary for the rest o the world, what can someone in those countries purchase with that salary.  Is there a measure by which we can gauge “quality of life”?

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Can You Really Be Poor?

Posted on April 12, 2010 | Leave a comment

There is significant talk about the poor in America. And to be sure, there are those who have an those who have not.  But can you say that America’s poor are truly poor?

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A Glimpse into Tomorrow

Posted on March 31, 2010 | Leave a comment

We’re not there.  Yet.  Out health care system hasn’t transitioned from a free market based delivery system to one of a more socialist system, but we took one step closer.  Think of it as economic fascism, or medical fascism.  It’s like what they always say:  “It’s not the end of the world, but you can see it from here”.

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QALY: The Left Will Explode

Posted on March 24, 2010 | 2 comments

And so will the rest of us, of course.  Obamacare removes any limit that an insurance company can place on an individual per year or per life of the policy.  Which is niffty, because if we had the Single Payer, the government itself would impose that very limit.

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It Can't Be Hottest Ever if it Was Ever Hotter

Posted on March 11, 2010 | Leave a comment

We have to go green!  We have to see $7 gas.  We HAVE to tax the snot out companies that contribute to global warming by pouring CO2 into the air.

Why?  “‘Cause it’s the hottest ever.”

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Capitalism: Millions of People Are Being Yanked Out of Abject Poverty Daily

Posted on March 1, 2010 | 3 comments

It’s a pretty familiar refrain “Everything is made in China, that’s why it’s so cheap!”

This is usually followed up with the typical “slave labor” and “sweat shop” and other oft trotted out horror stories.

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Earthquake

Posted on February 28, 2010 | Leave a comment

We all know that Haiti experienced a total and complete disaster last month.  People are seriously struggling to find even drinkable water.  In fact, the goal of charities is to distribute 1 million tarps to the folks there on the island.

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An Amazing Article

Posted on February 17, 2010 | 2 comments

You know that feeling?  The one where you are getting your head slammed into a wall and then it suddenly stops?  Oh how it feels so good.  Which, if you are like me and believe that all people are good and will eventually see the light, only makes the shattering of hope all the more painful when the beating continues.

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I Would Be Fired For This

Posted on February 15, 2010 | 2 comments

I work in a world where success actually matters.  You have to be right.  Often.  And significantly so.  If you are too wrong too often, you are no longer needed and will eventually get promoted to “customer”.

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