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Entries from November 2006

Fast Food Nation: unveiled

November 16th, 2006 · 13 Comments

Today sees the release of a movie called Fast Food Nation, based on the 2001 book by Eric Schlosser of the same name. If you’ve ever read this book, you’ll know what irritates me about it.
Like other leftist dross in the same vein, it’s dressed up as ‘investigative reporting’ - an ‘examination’ - of […]

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Tags: Film · Health

Milton Friedman dies today at 94

November 16th, 2006 · 3 Comments

The brilliant libertarian economist Milton Friedman has died at 94 years old of heart failure. This man made strides in advocating libertarian economic principals and his work - along with that of his son, philosopher and economist David D. Friedman - has been referenced in this blog on numerous occasions.
After being educated in Rutgers […]

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Tags: Capitalism

Down With the Nazis

November 15th, 2006 · 12 Comments

A bunch of racists. . .a band of thugs. . .a pack of hate-filled bigots. I agree with all such descriptions of the British National Party (BNP), and such opinions could only be reinforced by a BBC documentary a year or so ago that brought us some rather nasty undercover footage. Of course, for many […]

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Tags: Stephen Graham

PROMO: Iran Exposed

November 15th, 2006 · No Comments

According to Glenn Beck, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the leader of Iran, is a fricking nutcase with an apocalypse wish on the world. This show, Glenn Beck Exposed, airs tonight on CNN Headline News network. In an interview today Beck described getting CNN to air this program as one of the biggest struggles of his […]

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Tags: War

Next President of the United States?

November 13th, 2006 · 11 Comments

This is my prediction for 2008; President Rudy Giuliani to take the White House! Today it emerged that former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani is planning a run for the presidency in ‘08 and has established the necessary first steps of his bid for Washington.
I like Giuliani. Who doesn’t? He first […]

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Tags: Politics

America swings to the Left

November 8th, 2006 · 13 Comments

As I write, Donald Rumsfeld has resigned. More details in the news media.
Pew Research Center says that libertarians make up 9 percent of the U.S. Electorate. About 2 percent of the electorate vote for the Libertarian Party, which means that about 7 percent of the electorate are what we call ’small-L libertarians’; people […]

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Tags: Politics