Look at this video featuring a brilliant young entrepreneur who is engaging in the only proper way to redistribute wealth: with full consent from all parties. In this case, no doubt, he is helping to move money from the pockets of professional athletes, entertainers, and heirs into his own and those from whom he purchases goods and services.
Free Market Wealth Redistribution Read Post »
Pop quiz: What do Rod Blagojevich, Forrest Claypool, Samantha Power, Jim Johnson, Louis Farrakhan, Bernadine Dohrn, William Ayers, Tony Rezko, Trinity United Church of Christ, Father Michael Pfleger, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Alice Palmer, and the Armenians all have in common?
Give up?
Answer: Barack Obama has thrown them all under the bus at some point.
Hey, Charles Rangel: welcome to the party, pal!
Look out for that bus! Read Post »
In an earlier post, I mentioned how important it is that we stop treating presidents like gods and recognize they’re just ordinary jerks.
In that spirit, here’s a transcript (and audio) of LBJ ordering some pants, belching, and talking about his “nuts” and “bunghole.”
It’s not as good, though, as the incident Gene Healy recounts in The Cult of the Presidency, in which “asked by a reporter why America was in Vietnam, LBJ unzipped his fly, wagged his member at the audience and exclaimed, ‘this is why!'”
Healy suggests LBJ’s behavior there was the result of being intoxicated by power, but maybe it was just those uncomfortable pants.
In any event, perhaps it says something encouraging about the present times that the press would no longer suppress such a story. (Would they?)
Great Moments in Presidential History Read Post »
The Departments of Defense and Homeland Security among other groups are pressuring the Federal Aviation Administration to permit drones in US airspace. The Jonas Brothers better watch their backs.
Drones in US Airspace? Read Post »
