Dumbest Generation Getting Dumber

Walter E. Williams  2009-06-03  Syndicated  Comments Off

The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international comparison of 15-year-olds conducted by The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that measures applied learning and...

This Craziness Will End

Christopher Westley  2009-06-02  Syndicated  Comments Off

When President Obama claims that "economists agree" or "economists endorse" his crazed plan for trillion-dollar budget deficits for the next several years, he is referring to a select group of perhaps 100 well-entrenched Keynesian and Chicago school academics who are paid well to fashion theory that benefits the state. This episode is their last hurrah. FULL ARTICLE

Picture of the Day

Andrew Roth  2009-06-02  Syndicated  Comments Off

From 4-Block World. The cited Pravda article is here.

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theCL: We can't wish this away. The government is methodically breaking down America's capitalist society, and replacing it with Marxism.
What is it we're all arguing about again?

Letters from Russia with Love

theCL  2009-06-02  Activism, Socialism  Comments Off

Um ... is anyone actually paying attention out there?

"We the people" have a genuine problem on our hands.  When the primary publication of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republic starts publishing editorials about the fall of the United States ... it's time to wake-up!

American capitalism gone with a whimper

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing

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Story of American Revisionism

theCL  2009-06-01  History, Mises  Comments Off

The Story of American Revisionism
This story, excerpted from "Why American History Is Not What They Say" by Jeff Riggenbach, will be posted in 5 individual posts, courtesy of the Mises Institute and their Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States license.

I. The Birth of American Revisionism and the Rise of Harry Elmer Barnes

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"Parson Weems' Fable" Grant Wood's 1939 painting illustrating Parson Weems telling the story of George Washington's honesty

The six volumes of Gore Vidal's "American Chronicle" series, which depicts the history of the United States from ...