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The red poppy, one of the first blooms from the mud of Flanders Field, linked battlefield death since the Great War of 1914-1918. The famous poem written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae ” In Flanders Field” ...
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I really asked: Are Americans Really Committed to Capitalism? I concluded, sadly, no.
Contrary to vague endorsements of capitalism and limited government, the...
made popular Jul 1 2010
The Economist magazine recently opined that the American people are committed to limited government and strongly support capitalism despite the recent economic turmoil....
made popular Jun 29 2010
President Obama is philosophically an Orthodox Liberal who believes that Government=Good and Free Market=Bad.
This is why the president recently proposed (and...
made popular May 28 2010
Conservatives have rallied against James Cameron’s “Avatar” - officially the biggest worldwide movie of all time and soon to surpass...
made popular Jan 27 2010
Lying in bed this morning at around a quarter to five and contemplating life I had a minor revelation. I had been wondering (and not for the first time) why there is...
made popular Jan 14 2010
“Am I to be blamed for the recession?” This must be the question raging in the minds of many unemployed educated youth here in India. This is the situation in...
made popular Dec 30 2009
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday that his country will not sign the declaration being prepared at the climate change summit because it was agreed upon...
made popular Dec 19 2009
What good is it to be right if you’re all alone? President Nicolas Sarkozy of France wants his country to lead the world by example in restricting bankers’ bonuses....
made popular Aug 27 2009
Mao Tse-tung tried to stamp the custom out as a relic of feudalism, but the return of capitalism to China has also meant a major comeback for the concubine. And for the...
made popular Aug 27 2009
While the economic downturn is affecting almost every nation and industry in this world, and everyone is scrambling for jobs and money, it would be a good time to do...
made popular Jul 25 2009
Dressed in white or yellow T-shirts and black slacks, the dozens of people at Wednesday’s ceremony looked like typical South Korean company trainees. But the high...
made popular Jul 8 2009
It seemed so obvious for a few years, back when the Berlin Wall had just fallen, that democratic capitalism would be the only way left for a developing country to...
made popular May 30 2009
Stephen Colbert and his astute topical show reminded me of an article in The Economist I read about Objectivism founder and novelist Ayn Rand. Ms. Rand is most famous...
made popular Mar 12 2009
Growing up in America I believed, as with many. that the “forgotten man” is the when whom politicians always speaking about helping. The “man”...
made popular Mar 6 2009
President Barack Obama - prior to his election the most liberal senator- wasted scant time before his announced his intention to raise taxes on the wealthy.
For...
made popular Feb 24 2009
After injecting sums with gazillion zeros into the sclerotic global financial system, European-style socialism and communist China’s capitalism are sounding the death...
made popular Oct 21 2008
Capitalism as we used to know it is on its deathbed. And those who predicted that the old brand, the unfettered, American-promoted system, was a danger to the world,...
made popular Oct 18 2008
Germany will provide as much as 500 billion euros ($681 billion) in loan guarantees and capital to bolster the banking system, the country’s biggest government...
made popular Oct 14 2008
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Bretton Woods was the system of global financial management set up at the end of the second World War to ensure the interests of capital did not smother wider social...
made popular Oct 10 2008
A Secret Memo from John McCain to Sarah Palin
Dear Sarah,
You are doing a good job distracting them. Today, I want you to walk up to the podium and call for the...
made popular Oct 8 2008
Is it really a fact or we just perceive it that way. Was the USA always a superpower or it has just behaved like one, I mean here the attitude. Brand America is...
made popular Oct 6 2008
The United States government has pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into private banks and insurance companies to essentially save the United States and world...
made popular Sep 30 2008
In many ways, America has remained the forefront of the capitalist movement. If there is a laboratory where research on capitalism is taking place it is here in...
made popular Sep 22 2008
With regards to the differences between the families of today and those of before, various causes for the deteriorating family ties can be studied on standard averages...
made popular Aug 29 2008
In a new tape to be released soon to the media, it is expected that Al Qaeda will call for the use of chemical, nuclear, and biological weapons against the West.
This...
made popular May 28 2008
Whatever happened to the Great Depression? Not the real one from 70 years ago, the lost decade of unimagined misery and Steinbeckian angst, the worst period in the...
made popular May 7 2008
Recently we are experiencing a great sense of exhilaration and excitement on the front pages of all news papers. This whole excitement has produced a vehement amount of...
made popular Apr 1 2008
“Is it love or is it Fancy Feast?” I’ll choose option three: it’s fucking stupid.
If there was ever a moment when perhaps American consumerism...
made popular Mar 26 2008
The rise of Daniel Ortega is seen as a victory for Venezuelan leader and American antagonist Hugo Chavez. The question that immediately arises is - has the threat that...
made popular Jan 11 2007
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, right, gestures during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. French President Nicolas Sarkozy hit out Thursday at financial speculators for...
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