Posted on July 31st, 2008 by Kemp
1. In this day-and-age, in the United States of America, I often question whether we will restore our Limited Constitutional Republic or continue to descend into the depths of oligarchic rule and despotic imperial aspiration. News flies fast and heavy, at times utterly disgraceful and at times encouraging. The people remained silent for [...]
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Posted on July 27th, 2008 by Kemp
I watched nearly all six hours of Friday’s congressional hearings on executive branch abuses of power. There were 10-12 individuals with sound, rugged break downs of administrative abuses and their need to lead to impeachment. There were two men who were rationalizing apologists. They were in the strict minority and were grasping [...]
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Posted on July 24th, 2008 by Kemp
This is big news and I am excited that Barr is included in this. Also testifying are Democrat Dennis Kucinich, bringing the Articles to committee, and Republican Walter Jones from a military-heavy area of North Carolina. This article gives a full list. Notice how CBS titled it “impeachment” with lower case and [...]
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Posted on July 24th, 2008 by Kemp
Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by Kemp
- The just-released smash box office hit, The Dark Night, illustrates a showdown between essential good and evil. Batman, a representative of the “Will to Excellence” fights tooth and nail with the coolly insane and generally power hungry Joker, representing the Nietzschean concept of the “Will to Power”. In this quality article, Jeff [...]
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Posted on July 21st, 2008 by Kemp
Oh man, the economic situation is rapidly rushing towards some of the troubles we have been calling for in published writings for a number of years. The threat of further economic dislocation is very high at this time. On to the economic six-pack:
1. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, the international business editor of the Daily Telegraph, [...]
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Posted on July 18th, 2008 by Kemp
Sometimes I wonder how we got to where we are in terms of insane federal legislation. This video is a good reminder. With the party conventions coming up, here’s a nice reminder of what the focus was in 2004:
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Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Kemp
I would just like to point Ponder This… readers back to my August 2005 analysis of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. A full three years before their virtual implosions, I was railing on the situation and providing a warning. Please check out page nine of the PDF newsletter issue.
Also, Robert Higgs provides a [...]
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Posted on July 16th, 2008 by Kemp
Bernanke admits that inflation is a tax!
Also, be sure to digg this story. Click here.
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Posted on July 14th, 2008 by Kemp
1. Well, last week we posted that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were crashing. Over the weekend, (VERY wayward) portions of the U.S. government decided that they were going to work to bail out these massive failing institutions. Jim Rogers, a very famous global investor, is calling the deal an “unmitigated disaster” and [...]
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