The Establishment’s Response to Edward Snowden’s Disclosure of PRISM is Predictable

Monday, 10 June 2013 13:13 Written by Bob Adelmann 0 Comments

Now that the source of the leak published last week in the Washington Post has identified himself, the response from defenders of the surveillance state was immediate and predictable. Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old employee of a National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton, hoped that with the election of President Obama in 2008 the erection of the surveillance state in American would at least be partially dismantled. When it was clear that the infrastructure of that vast intelligence community and its increasingly threatening capabilities was

How to resist Leviathan

Saturday, 08 June 2013 07:22 Written by Bob Adelmann 0 Comments

I heard Robert Higgs speak at a Cato conference in California a few years ago and found him winsome, humble and bright. His resume is remarkable: Senior Fellow in Political Economy at the Independent Institute, Editor of The Independent Review, senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He's best known for his tour de force, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government, which was first published in 1987 and was just republished a few months ago.

He has been inveighing against big government for decades and, happily, has condensed his methods of resistance into a short article,

US Now Produces More Oil than it Imports for the First Time since 1995

Friday, 07 June 2013 12:47 Written by Bob Adelmann 0 Comments

When Brantley Hargrove noted in the Dallas Observer on Thursday that the US produced more oil than it consumed during the last week in May (for the first time since February, 1995) he was awfully quick to give nearly all the credit to Texas. But he was proud, nevertheless:

Staff Report from the IMF Blames the European Union for Mishandling the Greek Crisis

Thursday, 06 June 2013 13:41 Written by Bob Adelmann 0 Comments

The report from the International Monetary Fund is remarkable in its candor: efforts to bail out Greece were fumbled as the IMF, the European Commission and the European Central Bank all tried to promote their own agendas with little regard for the lowly Greek citizen.

Happily the disclaimer appeared on the front page:

NSA and Verizon and our privacy

Thursday, 06 June 2013 08:03 Written by Bob Adelmann 0 Comments

By now every sentient being on the planet knows that the National Security Agency ordered Verizon back in April to give it the phone records of its customers. They also know that it was signed by a phony judge of a phony court under an illegal section of an unconstitutional law passed by congress and then reauthorized by another congress.

I've looked into this a little bit and here's what I've found.

Slowing Economy Confirmed

Wednesday, 05 June 2013 13:00 Written by Bob Adelmann 0 Comments

The report from Automatic Data Processing (ADP) on Wednesday morning surprised economists once again by coming in substantially below their expectations. The 135,000 new private sector jobs created in May were way below the

Obamanomics is to Blame for Worst Recession since the Great Depression

Tuesday, 04 June 2013 12:27 Written by Bob Adelmann 0 Comments

When libertarian scholar Peter Ferrara asked rhetorically in Sunday’s issue of Forbes, “Economically, Could Obama be America’s Worst President?” he relied heavily on statistics provided by the chief enabler of the Great Recession,

John Morse’s recall: two perspectives

Tuesday, 04 June 2013 07:47 Written by Bob Adelmann 0 Comments

I've just finished reading each side of the John Morse recall effort that appeared in the Gazette over the weekend, one pro-Morse by Laura Long, the other anti-Morse by Laura Carno. I found out some interesting things about each author which

One Second After: some thoughts

Tuesday, 04 June 2013 06:06 Written by Bob Adelmann 0 Comments

Someone recommended that I read this book by William Forstchen, whose resume is breathtaking:

WILLIAM R. FORSTCHEN has a Ph.D. from Purdue University with specializations in Military History and the History of Technology. He is a Faculty Fellow and Professor of History at Montreat College. He is the author of over forty books, including

Social Security Trustees Celebrate: Trust Funds won’t be Broke for Years

Monday, 03 June 2013 12:14 Written by Bob Adelmann 0 Comments

With Friday’s announcement by the Trustees of the Social Security Administration that “reserves are still growing and will continue to do so through [the year] 2020,” it didn’t take long for groups like Strengthen Social Security (SSS) to chortle that not only is Social Security “fully affordable and structurally sound, [but it] will

The Establishment’s Response to Edward Snowden’s Disclosure of PRISM is Predictable

How to resist Leviathan

US Now Produces More Oil than it Imports for the First Time since 1995

Staff Report from the IMF Blames the European Union for Mishandling the Greek Crisis

NSA and Verizon and our privacy

Slowing Economy Confirmed

Obamanomics is to Blame for Worst Recession since the Great Depression

John Morse’s recall: two perspectives

One Second After: some thoughts

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