Europe overtakes the US
In 2007 total European stock market capitalization exceeded that of the US for the first time since 1945. Paul Kennedy Lecture, LSE 6 February
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Clenard Childress Jr., founder of BlackGenocide.org, says Barack Obama is serving as a front-man for a racist Planned Parenthood strategy to destroy African Americans: "No other ethnic group in the United States has been decimated more by abortion than the Afro-American community. The war being waged upon innocent captives in the womb is led …
Epicurus and conformity
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. ..John F. Kennedy Conformity is the great undiscussed disease of modern life. Epicurus would , were he alive today, be constantly warning us against it. Huge blocs of "public opinion", formed by priests, schools, so-called pundits the biased blather of the media are exploited …
Epicurus and handguns, Part 2
The democratically supported ban on handguns in the District of Columbia is being challenged in the Supreme Court today. In addition to the ban DC requires rifles and shotguns kept in private homes to be unloaded or to have a trigger lock. You would think that to be entirely reasonable. I can’t imagine why I …
Climate change – an apology to the youngest generation
What will they say of us when we are gone, When it dawns on them all that their grandparents knew (As they wrestle with flooding, starvation and storms),Of the turmoil their world would be struggling through? What will they think of us (selfishly setUpon motors and holidays, easily bought) And the choking pollution discharged in …
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