"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Borderland Beat ponders the deranged violence in Mexico, fueled by drug cartels and corruption, and wonders how it ever got so crazy. What they say applies here in the States. No, we don’t have the same sickening levels of violence,…
Thank you, Mexico. Thank you, China. Thank you, corrupt money laundering US banks and hedge funds. The youth of America salutes you. A legitimate pharmaceutical company in India exports cold pills to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, where…
From Naked Capitalism This video from a Mexican news broadcast… illustrates one of the mechanisms of propaganda: how the non or under reporting of key facts is used to manage popular perceptions. This video appears getting play only on CNN…
CBS News The problem with that statistic is that it is only partially true. There is a word missing – and that word is “traced.” The U.S. is responsible for over 90 percent of the traced firearms found in Mexico,…
I’m an accountant, and by nature I analyze numbers. So when Bob reported the oft-quoted statistic that 90% of the guns recovered in Mexico originated in the U.S., that statistic bothered me. Don’t get me wrong: Bob accurately quoted his sources. But…