I believe in the free speech that liberals used to believe in, the economic freedom that conservatives used to believe in, and the personal freedom that America used to believe in.
Once again, John Stossel had an excellent show on Fox Business Network this past week. This time, he spent the hour discussing free trade and did a very good job of dismantling the protectionist arguments against this. He even took on Lou Dobbs !
Watch, and enjoy.
Part One:
Remainder below the fold:
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You might not be aware of it, but you just became part of the European Union’s bailout of Greece and other floundering economies:
WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve late Sunday opened a program to ship U.S. dollars to Europe in a move to head off a broader financial crisis on the continent.
Other central banks, including the [...]
This should make for interesting television.
Tonight at 8pm EST, C-Span will simulcast the final debate among the candidates for the GOP nomination for Senate in Kentucky. The frontrunners, of course, are Rand Paul and Trey Greyson.
You can watch on C-Span, or via the online live stream
Another one of the great ones is gone:
Lena Horne, who was the first black performer to be signed to a long-term contract by a major Hollywood studio and who went on to achieve international fame as a singer, died on Sunday night at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York. She was 92 and [...]
Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson spoke in Charlottesville, last Monday at an event that I was unfortunately unable to attend, but here’s video of an appearance he made that day on a local C-Ville radio station:
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A little baseball history yesterday:
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Dallas Braden definitely owns the mound now.
Braden pitched the 19th perfect game in major league history on Sunday, shutting down the majors’ hottest team and leading the Oakland Athletics to a 4-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays.
Braden threw his arms in the air after Gabe Kapler [...]
Starting tomorrow, I will be joining the excellent stable of writer’s over at James Joyner’s Outside The Beltway. It’s a real honor for me because, along with Instapundit and Vodkapundit, Outside The Beltway was one of the blogs that I started reading on a regular basis back in 2003 or so, and one of the [...]
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