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One Salient Oversight (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
One way to check on the various beliefs of German Nazism is to look at the books they banned and/or burned. Thanks to someone at Reddit , a link has been provided to a site which translates the original German book-banning guidelines into English . What we find is interesting: "The literature of Marxism, Communism and Bolshevism." Well I guess that pretty much confirms the idea that Nazism...
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Check out an email I got this week from an ex-coworker and friend of almost 20 years: ======================================= I found this to be very truthful and interesting. We need to stand up for our beliefs instead of letting the more vocal become the majority. The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary. My confession: I am a Jew, and every single...
The Big Picture (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
There is a small cadre of Economists — original thinkers, contrarians, out of the box theorists — I respect a great deal. It is a modest list ranging from Richard Thaler to David Rosenberg to Robert Shiller, with lots of econ wonks in between. This morning, however, I find myself somewhat disagreeing with the main premise [...]
startupspark.com (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
While I’m not always a huge fan of Ben Stein, he does come up with some interesting insights every now and again, and he does have some clever and funny things to say about them. For Fortune Magazine, he recently offered these 4 lessons that he learned from the recession: Economic forecasting is difficult. Financial market forecasting is more troublesome than economic forecasting. The financial...
Underbelly (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
I don't regularly read Wired , but idling through (and not paying for) a paper copy at Barnes & Noble this morning, I ran across the most interesting thing I've read all day: the story about the contest to find Evan Ratliff , the writer who challenged readers to crack his scheme to scrub his identity--including a 60-percent-Ben-Stein double-dare to pay the prize (in part) out of his own money (paper...
Consumerism Commentary (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The United States must be approaching the end of the recession when economists begin offering their retrospectives. Even if the data are pointing to an end to the recession, in technical terms, the economy is a long way from recovery. Just look around at the people out of work. Even those who have maintained their [...] Rating: 0.0/ 5 (0 votes cast) The Consumerism Commentary Podcast is in full swing...
Adam Smith's Lost Legacy (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Ben Stein writes on “Four lessons from the recession” in (19 November) in Fortune HERE which includes this observation: “ And another little note ... my much-missed father used to tell me with great approval Adam Smith's famous quote regarding prophecies of doom for America, "there is a lot of ruin in a nation ." Comment Another example of a famous quotation from Adam Smith...
CNNMoney.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
As I write this from real estate disaster-ridden but still-glorious Los Angeles, I read much speculation that the recession is over.
The Hot Joints (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
It seems as if every time we turn around we see some Hollywood d-bag like Sean Penn rubbing elbows with Hugo Chavez, Castro, or some other nasty dictator or Commie. Given that actors make a living using freedom of expression and rake in millions of dollars through the capitalist system, it seems odd that Hollywood [...]
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Today a Senate staff report prepared for Jay Rockefeller was released that details how “loyalty programs” harvest subscribers by purchasing ads on the “thank you” pages that are displayed after you complete a transaction with various online merchants, many of which you’ve heard of. These Web loyalty programs, run by Affinion, Webloyalty, and Vertrue, have hauled [...]
Peppered with Salt (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
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Ken Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
/rant Union power, the corruption it has spawned in the Democratic party, and the businesses unions have killed, are among the primary reasons this country teeters on the edge of collapse. I’m not going to make nice and say union members are okay but their management isn’t. That is an intellectual cop out you won’t get on [...]
felixsalmon.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Flâneur points me to the 35-page staff report for Jay Rockefeller on “Aggressive Sales Tactics on the Internet”. It concentrates on three extremely sleazy companies, all based in Norwalk, Connecticut: Affinion, Webloyalty, and our old friends Vertrue , the employers of Ben Stein. Here's a typical datapoint: In discussing methods for reducing the cost associated with the call centers,...
John's Egocentric World (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
As President Barrack Obama's poll rating heads south, Ben Stein explains why in The American Spectator: Why is President Barrack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed? Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths: The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008. They wanted so much to believe Barrack Obama was...
Captain Capitalism (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Humans are amazing creatures of habit and repetition. So much to the point you really wonder if they're sentient beings at all and are instead automotons that just do what their genetic programming tells them. Foremost of which I view as an " automotomic " trait being that of having children. As most of you know, I am thoroughly ensconced in the "no children camp," actually forever...
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wei12 | 11/07/2009
"I was a fan of both his work and a fan of him as a person. The world has lost not only a quintessential filmmaker whose influence will be felt for generations, but a great and decent man." – actor MACAULAY CULKIN • "John was an amazing mentor to me during the time we were shooting Curly Sue . He had a childlike spirit that connected us instantly and always made me feel loved. He will be missed but...
sonupt5@gmail.com | 10/05/2009
Family Goy S08E02 | Family Guy Season 8 Episode 2 08x02 Family Guy Promo Pics After finding a lump on her breast, Lois goes to the doctor to get it tested. Thankfully, the tests come back benign. However, the doctor looks into her family medical history and reveals that Lois is actually Jewish. Peter is eager at first for this new change, but after being visited by the ghost of his father, he changes
siamakbvp4f | 08/17/2009
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