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Enough with the Scapegoating

Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

“What drags our entire economy down is when the benefits of economic growth and productivity go only to the few … and the gap between those at the very, very top and everybody else keeps growing wider and wider.” — … Continue reading →

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Obama’s “Buffett Rule”: Good Politics, Bad Economics

Posted on Sunday, September 25, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

Pleasing the Proletariat Obama’s call for increasing taxes on the wealthy is playing well with the ever-expanding ranks of the proletariat. According to a September 15-18th Gallup poll, 66% of respondents favored increasing income taxes on individuals earning at least … Continue reading →

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President Obama’s Jobs Speech: Marxism Redux?

Posted on Thursday, September 8, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

Scapegoating one group of people to convince the rest to follow your self-destructive policies blindly into oblivion is the way of demagogues. President Obama’s speech tonight teetered dangerously on the edge of this technique. I was hoping the President would … Continue reading →

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Highway to Hell: An Anniversary of Sorts

Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

“Rule 1, on page I of the book of war, is: ‘Do not march on Moscow’. Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good. That is the first rule.” — Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery … Continue reading →

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North Korea: Linking Fuel to Famine

Posted on Tuesday, March 1, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

I recently came across a book called Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture by Dale Allen Pfeiffer. In his book, Pfeiffer uses the North Korean famine in the mid-nineties as a cautionary tale about what … Continue reading →

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Felling Pharaohs: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid (Part I)

Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

Arab Discontent Abounds… Since unrest began in Tunisia in early 2011, news outlets have reported unrest or threats of unrest in eight Arab nations including Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen, comprising a combined population of over … Continue reading →

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