Category: Aggregated

The guy who sexually discriminates against women writes: There’s something very dangerous happening in states across the country. A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors…., on behalf of Apple, I’m standing up to oppose this new wave of legislation — wherever it emerges. Translation: Although I don’t want to have sexual relations with women, I want the government to coerce others to have transactional relationships even  when they don’t want. But don’t you dare mess with the way I discriminate, bitch! As I have pointed out before, discrimination … Continue reading →

A responsible financial institution would not extend a new loan of between 17 and 40 billion dollars to a borrower already struggling to pay back an existing multi-billion dollar loan. Yet that is just what the International Monetary Fund (IMF) did last month when it extended a new loan to the government of Ukraine. This new loan may not make much economic sense, but propping up the existing Ukrainian government serves the foreign policy agenda of the US government. Since the IMF receives most of its funding from the United States, it is hardly surprising that it would tailor its … Continue reading →

Perhaps more than any other post, my recent post on the forced famine in Ukraine has really remained with me.  When thinking about people living in impossible situations (picture Iraq or Syria), I try to put myself in the position of a father sending his children off to school, not knowing if they will return safely; of a husband seeing his wife off to market, carrying the same burden of possible finality; of the breadwinner living in a place in which the economy has been destroyed. The following – taken from the author of the book Bloodlands – has struck me and is what has … Continue reading →

Should the Polish people memorialize fellow Poles who collaborated with the Soviets?  This of course is a preposterous question to ask, yet the “logic” displayed in a recent National Review article suggests that the answer to the question would be an unequivocal “yes.” The article in question is “The Romance of the Confederacy” by one Josh Gelernter (March 28 issue), who is identified as someone who “writes for National Review and The Weekly Standard.”  In this article Gelernter points out that there were Southerners in the Union Army during the War to Prevent Southern Independence.  In border states like Maryland, … Continue reading →

This sounds like a miracle answer to every woman’s prayers: a cheap, painless injection that melts away body fat in days. It’s certainly what managing director Belinda Puaar, 52, thought when she spotted an advert for new treatment Aqualyx at her local beauty clinic in North London. ‘I’ve always been a slim size eight, but after having my son ten years ago, I was left with a mum tum that no amount of exercise could shift,’ she says. ‘I tried everything, from aerobics classes to karate, but nothing helped. ‘My pot belly almost felt detached from the strong muscles I’d … Continue reading →

Black politicians, civil rights organizations and others who say they are concerned with the welfare of poor black people often support harmful measures. One of the most effective tools for disadvantaged people is to be able to charge a lower price for what they sell and pay a higher price for what they buy. Let’s look at this principle first using a couple of nonracial examples. How does chuck steak compete with a more preferred cut such as filet mignon? Everyone knows the answer. It sells for a lower price, say $7 a pound compared to filet mignon’s $20. Suppose … Continue reading →