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The Golden Age of American Manufacturing and the Chinese Bastards
The second presidential debate of 2012 gave me the maddening spectacle of two candidates disagreeing vehemently with each other within a shared context of falsehood. The subject was “shipping jobs overseas.” Three weeks from the election neither presidential candidate has … Continue reading
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Shipping Jobs Overseas: The Export of American Manufacturing Jobs and Lousy Education
Replayed October 27. Replayed Feb. 13th 2011. Replayed March 24th 2012. Replayed June 7th 2012 Note (3/25/2012): The “comparative advantage ” argument is important to the discussion below. The concept of comparative advantage stumps many intelligent people including some of … Continue reading
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Fascist Political Action Summarized
Attempts to impose rule from above. Government control of large business and manufacturing organizations. Quasi-religious cult of personality. Initiatives to muffle the opposition. Denial of moral legitimacy to opponents. Reliance on goons to intimidate adversaries. Use – under various names … Continue reading
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The Global Cult
Today, Easter Day of 2013, I had to become embroiled in a religious controversy, of course. It arose from a a long discussion on my blog in the form of comments to my posting Bush’s War -2. It’s about the … Continue reading
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Obama Stories. Updated 10/20/12
I waited for more than a day from the second 2012 presidential debate to write on it. That’s one way to resist the temptation to tell you who “won,” or whether it will make a difference in the race. I … Continue reading
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France Does not Export Wines, nor Mexico Guacamole, nor Does the US Import Cars, etc. “National Competitiveness” for the Intelligent Ignorant
It’s national election season again. As always happens in this season, in every developed country, the old battle horse of national competitiveness gets a news coat of shiny paint and is led out by its sparkle- strewn tether to support … Continue reading
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Socialism: Sinister, Silly
Many of the conservative comments about President Obama I hear on the radio have been leaving me vaguely non-plussed. (If you think about it, it’ s not easy to be non-plussed in a vague way, or on the contrary, is … Continue reading
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Communist Dinosaurs
I watch a French two-and-a-half-hour weekly television show that’s pretty good in most respects. It mixes no- hold-barred interviews of politicians with talks with movie directors, authors and artists, including singers. There is a presidential election beginning in France too. … Continue reading
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