KA-POW! #19 - Barnes

This week's “Kick-Ass Post O’th’ Week” (KA-POW) goes to Harry Elmer Barnes for “Revisionism and the Historical Blackout” :

The First World War and American intervention therein marked an ominous turning point in the history of the United States and of the world. Those who can remember "the good old days" before 1914 inevitably look back to those times with a very definite and justifiable feeling of nostalgia. There was no income tax before 1913, and that levied in the early days after the amendment was adopted was little more than nominal. All kinds of taxes were relatively low. We had only a token national debt of around a billion dollars, which could have been paid off in a year without causing even a ripple in national finance. ...

“Whispering Meadow”

It was remarkable how such a forbidding edifice...

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KA-POW! #18 - Wollstein

This week's “Kick-Ass Post O’th’ Week” (KA-POW) goes to Jarret B. Wollstein for “The Nature and Morality of Government” :

Despite the lofty pretensions of most governments, the fact remains that they, like any other group of men, are nothing more than a collection of individuals. The "rights of a government," like the rights of any other association of men, can be morally no different than the rights of the men who comprise it. All that which is immoral for men acting individually is equally immoral for men acting in association. There is nothing a government can morally do, which individuals by themselves cannot morally do. The group is ethically no different from the individual.

"Boop-Oop-a-Doop"

Betty Boop, virginal vixen of the silver screen...

...West End Blues."

...music video

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KA-POW! #17 - Chodorov

This week's “Kick-Ass Post O’th’ Week” (KA-POW) goes to Frank Chodorov for “The Profit of Reform” :

When we reduce the abstraction "political power" to its operational reality, to the way it actually works, we see how it feeds on reform. Every proposal to improve man's lot by political measures calls for the enactment of a law or an official edict. The law presupposes that some people are not doing what they ought to do or are doing something that ought not to be done. Hence, the purpose of the law is to regulate human behavior. The very premise of the law is that violation or evasion will ensue from its enactment, that it will not be self-enforcing; therefore, the heart of the law is a punishment clause. No law is worth the paper it is printed on without such a clause, and no law has any effect unless it is implemented with a corps of enforcers. Therein lies the secret of the accumulation and perpetuation of political power.

KA-POW! #16 - Bonner

This week's “Kick-Ass Post O’th’ Week” (KA-POW) goes to Bill Bonner for “Government Spending Economic Theory” :

Yesterday, we went on at some length as to why government jobs weren’t the same as private sector jobs. Since they’re never put to the test of the market, you never know whether they are worth having, let alone saving. Do they add to the sum of human wealth and happiness…or do they subtract from it? No one knows for sure.

But here’s the strange and remarkable thing; modern economists actually would prefer jobs that are NOT worth doing.

"Geezer Wii-zer"

Does your GEEZER just sit there moping...

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‘Little Jazz’ and the Meaning of Life

WKCR-FM just aired its forty-third annual Roy Eldridge Birthday Broadcast...

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