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Newt Gingrich will never be elected president. Why self-styled conservatives are jumping on the "Kim Kardashian of the GOP" bandwagon, remains beyond my understanding.

America hates Newt Gingrich!
William Jefferson Gingrich

Newt Gingrich is conservatism's Bill Clinton, but without the charm.

Newt and Bill are 1960s generation narcissists, and they share the same problems: waywardness and deviancy. Newt, like Bill, has a proclivity for girl hopping ... His public record is already besmeared with tawdry divorces, and there are private encounters with the fair sex that doubtless will come out.

If I have heard of some, you can be sure the Democrats have heard of more.

It sounds like Nancy Pelosi has the dirt (and is ...

The Top 10 posts from last week.

Bread, Circus, and Rock 'n' Roll Rule 5 style!

Stunning: Elitists Are Planning on Taking Down Capitalism

Paychecks, Perception, Propaganda & Power

Scary Graphs: Why I don't feel like I'm getting ahead

Obama, President of Debt

Young people turn to rental housing

At $400 billion, Apple is worth more than Greece

Dems propose 'Reasonable Profits Board' to regulate oil company profits

Looking Back on a Century of the Fed's BS

John Williams: No Way Out–Hyperinflation by 2014

Is This Why They Won't Prosecute? Top Justice Officials Represented Big Banks, Freddie, Fannie and Mers

We can suppose no other object to be placed before ourselves but happiness… We are then entitled to pursue happiness in that way in

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Believe it or not, "futurist" Newt Gingrich won the South Carolina Republican primary - decidedly - scoring 40.4% of the vote. Yeah, I have no way of processing it either.

What message are voters trying to send here? Why would conservatives support a government-expanding, TARP supporting, serial hypocrite, Freddie Mac lobbyist and a disgraced former-Speaker lacking moral character whom most of America hates?
Is supporting war more important for evangelicals than their social values?

Is supporting war more important for evangelicals than their social values? Isn't Ron Paul a social conservative? He opposes abortion, gay marriage and promiscuous sex, he has never been divorced and certainly supports

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As if you needed any further evidence of how useless and vicious the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is ... Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul is currently being detained by the TSA at the Nashville Airport.

His press secretary Moira Bagley tweets:

Just got a call from @senrandpaul. He's currently being detained by TSA in Nashville
 

Rand's father, Texas Congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, tweets:

My son @SenRandPaul being detained by TSA for refusing full body pat-down after anomaly in body scanner in Nashville. More details coming.

Situation developing ...

TSA detains Sen. Rand Paul in Nashville
Rand Paul Allegedly Detained by TSA
Soviet Amerika
TSA "Detains" Rand Paul
Rand Paul detained by ...

It's Rule 5 Sunday!
Set Culture Free
Recently Salon featured an interview with author Robert Levine, entitled "Does culture really want to be free?" Levine has written a new book, Free Ride, on the subject of intellectual property (IP). His subtitle is How Digital Parasites Are Destroying the Culture Business and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back, the thesis of which is predicated on a misunderstanding of property rights and a poor grasp of economics.

In this essay I'll begin with a brief outline of property rights, explain how IP fails to meet the requirements of tangible property, and refute some of Levine's other fallacies.

Marketilism isn't capitalism

Jim Rogers: The economy is being juiced up before the election, watch out for 2013

Bernanke's White Paper: The Government Your Landlord

Investors Say Supply Sider Arthur Laffer Backed a Ponzi

Abandoning the Future: The Ruinous Consequence of Debt

Secrets of the Fed

Newly released documents show the housing crash took the Federal Reserve completely by surprise

Andrew Jackson Remembered

Foreclosures expected to rise, pushing home prices lower

Fiat Money: Explained in less than 4 minutes

My old suggestion that public offices be filled by drawing lots, as a jury box is filled, was probably more intelligent than I suspected. It has been criticized on

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