"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
From the Economist A cautionary tale from the future This newspaper story has just come to light after falling through a gap in the space-time continuum Sept. 26, 2021 Financial authorities in America and Europe took sweeping powers yesterday to…
WaPo. The quotes speak for themselves. Whoever Bill Ayers was then, he is not now. Like many of us forty years later. Ayers is an informal adviser to Mayor Richard M. Daley and has been awarded more than $50 million…
Thomas Dart, sheriff of Cook County, has banned evictions, saying he was outraged at banks evicting renters because the owner was in foreclosure. “These mortgage companies … don’t care who’s in the building,” Dart said Wednesday. “They simply want their…
Especially when their banks were crazy over-extended in other countries? The government of Iceland has now nationalized all their major banks, their currency is dropping off a cliff, and their stock market has been closed until Monday. Apparently their banks…
“The Bush administration, which took office as social conservatives, is now leaving as conservative socialists.” — Allan Mendelowitz (And I don’t want any squawking in the comments from Marxists about how this isn’t real, actual, 100% Lenin-would-approve socialism. The US…