"Another Tragedy in August: the Bronx Massacre"

(Images courtesy of the New York Times and The NY Daily News)

I want to be the first one to dub this the Bronx Massacre of the Fenway. I'm still high off of last night's sweep. This is the only variety of imperialism I openly support.

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Let it rock: Yanks sweep aside Sox yankees.com: News:

By Bryan Hoch / MLB.com
08/10/09 1:41 AM ET

NEW YORK -- The Yankees have waited all season for their new palace to rock like home, echoing with the concrete-rippling thunder that used to make the experience so intimidating for opponents across the street.

They glanced into the triple-decked wonder this weekend and could agree: the energy is back. Johnny Damon and Mark Teixeira pumped the volume with back-to-back eighth inning home runs as the Yankees rallied for a 5-2 win and an emotional four-game sweep of the Red Sox.
As Teixeira watched his go-ahead shot off Daniel Bard soar high into the night sky, he carried his bat down to first base, casting it aside when the drive stayed fair. The fourth sellout crowd of the weekend erupted into a frenzy, serenading the falling Red Sox with chants of 'Sweep! Sweep!'
'That's Yankee Stadium for you,' Teixeira said. 'This place hasn't been around as much as the old one, but I remember being a part of a few games as a visitor. It felt like the place was shaking. It was kind of that feeling tonight.'"

"Cars.gov"

I remember cracking the following joke last November with some people that supported FDR's New Deal and the nanny state in general. "Don't be surprised if one day the government actually starts paying us with our own tax dollars to cash in our cars and bail out General Motors". I was obviously wrong, we didn't bailout General Motors, we basically nationalized it. Excuse me, I mean the Federal government partially nationalized. Much in the same way we have partial abortions, and partial pregnancies. In doing some research for an article I'm writing on the lunacy behind this "Cash for Clunkers" program, I came across cars.gov, which for moral reasons, I won't hyperlink you to. I found that Glenn Beck can provide a better explanation as to why you shouldn't head there:

Now I know what thoughts are flowing through your mind's canal. The same thing hit me after I saw this and started reminiscing into yesteryear. With conservatives like Jonah Goldberg, who needs crazy libertarians like Ron Paul, Nick Gillespie and Gene Callahan defending freedom from the intrusiveness of the Federal government! Yee-haw!

Who ever said libertarians like Murray N. Rothbard and Albert Jay Nock and Henry Hazlitt were the great enemies of the State must have been laced with some variety of a psychedelic intoxicant because supporting the abolition of the Federal Reserve is just "irrational".

So is this.

Stay free, America. More than just the world is watching.

"Hilarious - Reader comments at The New York Sun"

As a final note, I'd like to express Klein's perspective and the mass of people that share her views with the following comment that commented on Cowen's review. It sums up the distorted, tunneled vision that many people that align themselves with democratic socialism adhere to. Setting that aside, I feel you'll be "shocked" for another reason:

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"Hilarious - Reader comments at The New York Sun: "Reader comment on:
Shock Jock

Submitted by Uncle Milty, Feb 12, 2008 15:40

"Crediting 'free markets' for the growth of freedom and modernity is like crediting 'religion' for women's liberation. Feudalism is the logical outcome of free markets, as we've seen throughout history. The only way to insure REAL free markets is to deny all inheritance windfalls, so that men and women really are created equal, and all acquired wealth in life is earned not given by birthright. Until then, the ingnoble free markets will continue to be slave markets, despite the wet dreams of economists."

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I know exactly what you're thinking. How could he mispell "ingnoble"?

"Sign of the Apocalypse - 9.7.2009"

So, this is a neat little feature I've added: Sign of the Apocalypse.

Actually, all of these posts are signs that the day of reckoning is coming.

Sometime this morning I was skimming across my usual daily blog roll and I tumbled upon a link that brought me to another link that eventually drifted my interested into Tyler Cowen and Naomi Klein. The two individuals eventually colluded and I ended up googling them, actually, I "binged" them. I came across a neat book review (which you should absolutely consider reading) our said economist wrote about Naomi Klein's book, "Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism".

Now I've read the majority of her book, and so I concur with the majority of Professor Cowen's dissection. Nonetheless, Naomi is the result of baffering leftist bias completely eroding factual evidence. She completely dismisses causal laws and has very little understanding of economics or intellectual history. Professor of Economics, Art Carden of Rhodes College is currently has a working paper that treats her entire book and the excessive inaccuracies that dampen it. Hence, I found Professor Cowen's remarks on Stiglitz remarks to be extremely well placed.

"Rand Paul in the Big Apple"

A few pictures from Webster Hall this past Wednesday night:

I was at the NYC fundraiser for Rand Paul, this past Wednesday night. He's in New York right now visiting national cable studios like Fox and CNN, announcing his candidacy for Senate in the state of Kentucky. President of EuroPacific Capital and YouTube phenom Peter Schiff and Adam Kokesh were also there, hinting at their future runs for public office. Congressman Scott Garett of NJ, a close friend of Congressman Ron Paul and ally in the House, also gave a quick speech.

"A New Hope: The Inaugural Post"

I've decided to start blogging again, but this time, for real. I've had many stints at online blogging and journals. I tried it a few times on MySpace during my time as a reformed Commie/quasi-socialist Democrat. I also had failed attempts at Fictionpress during the Dan Brown era, on Xanga, in my post-Pinko, free-minded months, and on Facebook "Notes" applications galore. None of them were met with any sort of consistency or success.

Right now is a peak time for me to begin writing, especially when so many things are happening, and all of the converging simultaneously. For example, we have terrible movies being produced, a baseball club in the Bronx that seems to never lose games and an energetic federal, state and local government that has never been so meddlesome than ever before in the history of the United States.

Personally, my credentials are that I've participated in Mises University and have completed a 1/4 of economics and philosophy interdisciplinary major at Columbia University. I'm also a decent day trader, with a family background in it, and so I have financial commentary to offer in the respect.

This is the day where I make my stand, and hopefully this time it will be a more consistent one. I'm working on two articles for my friends at the Ludwig von Mises Institute right now, which will be up on the main site in a matter of weeks and/or, and a new blog, jointly-run site is coming out really soon with a few fellow comrades from New York City, that share as close a scope into society as I've ever met. I attended Mises University last week, and it was great. Please consider attending it next year.

The next few months will be an experiment, but hey, so is life, right? Comment.

"A Response to the Obama Administration"

A Libertarian Response to the Obama Administration

J. David Fernández & the Columbia University Libertarians

“If Washington were serious about honest tax relief in this country, we'd see an effort to reduce our national debt by returning to responsible fiscal policies.”

That was Senator Barack Obama addressing the U.S. Senate in 2006. If only he could apply that advice to his existing actions as head honcho in Washington D.C. The fiscal irresponsibility with which Obama and the federal government are currently operating is beyond belief. Our present national debt is a staggering fiscal nightmare, over $11 trillion. That means every American including every school child, owes approximately $37,000 of U.S. debt. We are running a bigger-than-gigantic-government budget at the same time as a large tax break, continuing the same behavior Bush was vilified for. An increase in spending and reduction of taxes? It’s possible when the government borrows money from China and walks over to the elephant in the room, the Federal Reserve. The former is coming to an end and the latter is at the root cause of our economic calamity today.

Obama appears to be neither pragmatic nor ideological, but an adept player in the traditional political game. There aren’t substantial differences between elected Republicans and Democrats; besides a few singular exceptions, both agree on higher levels of government spending and foreign action abroad. Both reserve the right to seize assets and power away from citizens, and use it as they—not the people—see fit. Both break their own promises, and violate principles they claim to hold for the sake of winning elections and staying in office. When bailout programs like TARP, miserably fail at their intended purpose, instead of getting abolished, it receives more funding. With political parties like ours, unabashed “liberalism” has been around way before 2009.

And where are tax dollars flowing to? They’ve become life support to bankrupt corporations, insolvent automobile companies, the pockets of crony CEO’s and a volley of make-work programs to come. The Obama campaign ran on a platform that prided the now popular monikers of “yes we can,” “change” and “hope.” However, the first few months of Obama’s administration have already proven to be alike to the previous one. Spending hasn’t decreased from the reckless levels of the Bush administration; it has gone up, astronomically! Our military interventionism hasn’t decreased; and by all signs it will continue to shoot upwards with a perpetual foreign policy overseas, with over 20,000 U.S. Marines shipped out to Afghanistan in the next six months and military spending is projected to increase by next year. It’s nice to see the anti-war vote was well cast. Additionally, there is no dialogue over fiscal or monetary policy issues like the Federal Reserve and significant plans to reduce overall spending.

An economist once wrote to me saying, “Like Rodney Dangerfield, libertarians get no respect.” He’s right. That’s due to the fact that libertarianism is an ethical philosophy that believes in liberty across the board with the smallest degree of government necessary. Hence, libertarianism is neither right nor left wing, and so there isn’t much of a distinction between Obama and Bush. We should call Obama, Bush and other Republicrats and “liberals” by their actual name: Socialists.