Feb 24, 2003 | Dollars & Crosses
From the NY Daily News:Kid Rock won't be joining the music industry's anti-war movement. "Why is everybody trying to stop the war? George Bush ain't been saying, 'You all, make s-y records.' Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whisky and wine. [Musicians] ought to stay out of it." But it doesn't take much nudging to hear the Kid's policy analysis. "We got to kill that mother-[bleeper] Saddam," he says. "Slit his throat. Kill him and the guy in North Korea." Are some women and children going to die? "Yeah. But is doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help." [February 24, 2003]
Feb 24, 2003 | Dollars & Crosses
A brief quote from the February 24th edition of Richard Salsman's InterMarket Forecaster:[I]t is somewhat bizarre that economists, Fed officials and commentators in the financial media have been worrying about 'deflation' (a rise in the purchasing power of a currency) in recent years and months. Not only is deflation non-existent -- but if it did exist it would be bullish for equity performance. The bearish results seen in world stock markets since early 2000 have been due, in part, to an acceleration in inflation -- not to 'deflation.' The first sign of higher inflation came with the rise in the dollar-gold price that began in September 1999. That decline in the dollar versus gold was followed by a persistent rise in broad commodity prices...
Feb 24, 2003 | Dollars & Crosses
Back in the 1980s the Left had the pretense of being pro-individual rights. They pushed for boycotts of apartheid South Africa, for example, to end the racist government. I contend that their motivation had nothing to do with individual rights (which they called "human rights"), but no matter. Right now we are facing one of the most brutal, literally fascist dictators on earth, and what is the Left's position? No war with Iraq.
I just came back from the Grammy's. The altitude of my nosebleed seats wasn't enough to be safe from the anti-war shrapnel. The Left is showing it's colors well now. They don't give a damn about "human rights" abuses: if they did they would be screaming for us to "do something" to stop fascist Sadam.
They don't give a damn about a population living in terror, political prisoners being tortured, children being slaughtered to extract confessions from parents. The reality is the the Left values no individual human life. They value, instead, floating abstractions like "peace," "love for your brother," and "getting along." For the sake of those slogans, who cares if people die. That, dear readers, is the truth about the Left.--Feb 23, 2003 | Dollars & Crosses
From today's Guardian:The French president, Jacques Chirac, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to avoid a US-led war against Iraq, it emerged yesterday. The news came as Mr. Chirac was preparing, amid protests in Paris, to welcome the Zimbabwean [dictator], Robert Mugabe, and other controversial leaders to a two-day summit of African heads of state due to start today.
It also follows uproar in eastern Europe after he told former communist states hoping to join the EU that they had been "infantile" and "reckless" to support the US on Iraq. For someone who before his re-election nine months ago was widely seen as a charming chancer who had achieved nothing of note in a 40-year career and would be in prison were he not in the Elys¿e palace, Mr Chirac's return to the world arena has been spectacular.
[...] one western diplomat warned: "He's overplaying his hand. "The outburst against eastern Europe and the red carpet for Mugabe could lead people to doubt the sincerity of his stance on Iraq. Faced with such apparent double standards, you could legitimately start questioning his real motives."
Let's see he criticizes Bush for attempting to overthrow a dictator, and welcomes Robert Mugabe who follows in Saddam's footsteps. Given his actions, can Chirac's motives be any less clear? For more on Chirac's good friend Mugabe see Zimbabwe's Mugabe: Another Left-Wing Icon Turns Murderous.
Feb 22, 2003 | Dollars & Crosses
The leftist founders of Ben & Jerry's ice cream have an ad on TV in which they say that invading Iraq will cost too much money, which could instead be used on socialist programs here. No doubt B&J have noticed that Iraq is socialist, and what they're really saying is that instead of invading Iraq we should be more like Iraq.Feb 21, 2003 | Dollars & Crosses
An article in the New York Sun today mentions a 1995 statement by Sen. Joe Lieberman in which he opposed affirmative action (found online at the New York Times' site):
Affirmative action is dividing us in ways its creators could never have intended because most Americans who do support equal opportunity and are not biased don't think it is fair to discriminate against some Americans as a way to make up for historic discrimination against other Americans. For after all, if you discriminate in favor of one group on the basis of race, you thereby discriminate against another group on the basis of race. [New York Times, 2/8/00]
Sounds good. But then, by August 2000 Lieberman was running for vice president and was quoted by CNN as saying "I have supported affirmative action, I do support affirmative action and I will support affirmative action." [Issues2000.org]