Monday Brief - Vol. 09 No. 09 THE FOUNDATION “Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” –Thomas Jefferson INSIGHT “One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in esta...

Not hard to find, just look at FDR's playbook, with a new cover on it for 2008. A Recipe for the Next Great Depression by Thomas DiLorenzo: "Along with the ascendancy of the Democratic Party to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://amateureconblog.blogspot.com/ for full links, other con...

20/20 is looking for a few good screwed consumers: Have you been ripped off recently by a store, hotel, airline, repair service or other retailer? ABC 20/20 would like to help you get satisfaction. If you feel you were cheated, please let us know BRIEFLY what happened to you and what you've done so ...

It's been fun Jameth, but I am through playing here. Your friends are assholes. Bye. I was defriended. What the hell happened here?!?! I am just now catching up....

Photo: Getty ImagesBeyoncé. Beyoncé's reps awesomely tease "Page Six" over pregnancy rumors. ABC's John Stossel wants to legalize marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and crack. Eighty-eight-year-old Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau wants another term in office. Lily Allen is acting li...

"'I think all of it should be legal: marijuana, cocaine, heroin and crack.' The chatty, weed-loving crowd went silent at his call to legalize hard drugs, and Stossel admitted his own 22-year-old daughter doesn't think it's a good idea." [Post]...

I normally agree with John Stossel's opinions on societal aspects of culture and politics, but I disagree with his take on prostitution being a "victimless crime". Prostitution not only degrades women, it destroys families, it's immoral, it speaks to the poverty crisis in our country, it lowers self...

The media have seemed to have forgotten what has made this country prosperous according to ABC's John Stossel. Stossel told an audience at the Heartland Institute's 2008 International Conference on Climate Change on March 4 in New York that the media propagate an anti-capitalist sentiment. "The...

John Stossel saith, emphasis mine: Government may promise to protect us from criminals, but it cannot deliver on that promise. This was neatly summed up in book title a few years ago: "Dial 911 and Die." If you are the target of a crime, only one other person besides the criminal is sure to be on th...

John "Still 'Stachin'" Stossel interviews Republican Texas Congressman/presidential candidate Ron Paul on controversial issues like drugs, prostitution, and gay marriage. He seems to be big on giving more power to the states and less to the federal government. Everything he says in this interview so...