Category: U.S. Politics

The Bear’s Lair: Labor’s supply/demand imbalance

The Consumer Price Index and weekly earnings figures published Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed a disquieting trend: while consumer prices in the year to July 2005 increased by 3.2 percent, average weekly earnings increased by only 2.7 percent over the preceding year.  In spite of solid economic growth, the average U.S. worker has become worse off.

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Posted by karlmagnus on Monday, August 22, 2005 at 09:12 AM in Economics & Finance,  Immigration,  U.S. Politics
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The joke that is American border control

“New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson declared a state of emergency Friday in four counties along the Mexican border.  The declaration said the region “has been devastated by the ravages and terror of human smuggling, drug smuggling, kidnapping, murder, destruction of property and the death of livestock. ... “[It] is in an extreme state of disrepair and is inadequately funded or safeguarded to protect the lives and property of New Mexican citizens.”  New Mexico shares 180 miles of border with the Mexican state of Chihuahua. “The situation is out of hand,” Richardson said Friday night on CNN’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” noting that one 54-mile stretch is particularly bad…. In announcing the state of emergency, Richardson—a Democrat who served in President Clinton’s Cabinet—criticized the “total inaction and lack of resources from the federal government and Congress” in helping protect his state’s residents along the border.  “There’s very little response from the Border Patrol,” he said on CNN. “They’re doing a good job, but they don’t have the resources.”

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Posted by jonjayray on Thursday, August 18, 2005 at 03:39 AM in U.S. Politics
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To Destroy the Republican Party

Only one of Washington’s finest fellators could report a “civil war” is looming in the Republican Party, yet such newsprint has been seen lately. These reports bellow about an angry ‘base’ within the party. How laughable such talk of civil war is when one understands what is the Republican Party: a cabal of America’s debt merchants, militarists, and media manipulators, and as such, it has no ‘base’ other than the lemming herd it shepherds across the American landscape to whatever fate the “party” chooses.

Still, immigration is a festering sore and the ruling cabal is searching for any cure – short of stopping immigration and securing the border. If White Nationalists (for lack of a better term) were better organized they could surely create panic within the lemming herd, perhaps even dividing the herd and destroying the Republican Party.

I am fully convinced the political class is unable to respond to the immigration crises, or any other serious problem.  In the 1850s sectional, trade, and slavery controversies tore apart the Whig party, creating the Republican Party, which then led to a Second War for Independence in 1860. The immigration crisis, accompanied by its demographic trends and language conflicts contains the potential to destroy the Republicans in the same fashion, which might create enough strife, that we, – our people - might be able to secede or establish some sort independence from the Washington cabal.

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Posted by leslie on Saturday, August 13, 2005 at 12:12 PM in U.S. Politics
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The Bear’s Lair: The jobs aren’t coming back

University of Chicago Professor Steven Davis, at an American Enterprise Institute seminar Wednesday, presented an examination of the Bureau of Labor Statistics figures on job creation and destruction.  Most interesting was a difference between the early 1990s recession and recovery and that following 2000: In the early 1990s there was a temporary increase in the rate of job destruction while after 2000 the rate of new job creation dropped sharply and stayed down. This may indicate a structural problem, bad news indeed for the U.S. economy.

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Posted by karlmagnus on Monday, August 1, 2005 at 09:39 AM in Economics & Finance,  U.S. Politics
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The time to fight

I begin this post with a request to the reader.  Please read this LA Times article carefully and in full.

OK, now … I’m certainly not surprised that the anti-white, pro-immigration, far-left Republican George W. Bush is continuing with his open borders/amnesty plan.  Nor am I surprised by the ad hominem attacks on guys like Tancredo and his supporters; eg, “close-minded”, “prurient”, etc. (how about us calling Bush, Armey, etc. genocidal traitors?)

What is mildly surprising is that these guys are giving advance warning of their upcoming political/propaganda blitz.  Very well.  We have been warned.  What are we going to do about it?

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Posted by JW Holliday on Monday, July 25, 2005 at 05:49 AM in U.S. Politics
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The Bear’s Lair: Career advice for the Worthingtons

“Don’t put your daughter on the stage, Mrs. Worthington” caroled Noel Coward in an inspired 1947 piece of career advice. The McKinsey Global Institute study “The Emerging Global Labor Market” presented at the Institute for International Economics Wednesday by the Institute’s Director Diana Farrell leads unquestionably to new advice for the Worthington family (if they are citizens of the United States or another rich country): Don’t put your daughter in engineering school, either.

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Posted by karlmagnus on Monday, July 18, 2005 at 09:42 AM in Economics & Finance,  Immigration,  U.S. Politics
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The Obscured Meaning of the Karl Rove Soap Opera

The American press corps is assaulting the White House. Recently, they were down right nasty and persistent during a press conference with White House spokesmouth Scott McClellan. Yet, in the end it was a game personal destruction, one-upmanship and ‘gotcha!’, politics of an imperial court.

Forgotten is the cause of the uproar: the fixing of intelligence to justify war in Iraq. Here is what the press won’t report and the American people seemingly don’t want to know: Karl Rove (allegedly) leaked the name of Valerie Plame, a CIA agent, perhaps for revenge against Ambassador Joseph Wilson. Wilson, just after the Iraq attack wrote an editorial deflating the Bush Administration’s claims that Saddam had attempted to purchase uranium from Niger. Valerie Plame is the wife of Joseph Wilson. BTW, Wilson was right and Bush was wrong.

It is quite possible Karl Rove – a.k.a. Bush’s Brain, Boy Genius, and Turd Blossom - will be fired, fined, or jailed all without the American public realizing the cause of the affair.

Posted by leslie on Thursday, July 14, 2005 at 12:40 PM in U.S. Politics
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Tomorrow belongs to the GOP

Migration from liberal bastions in the Northeast and Midwest to the Sun Belt states will boost Republican electoral strength in the coming decade, making it tougher than ever for Democrats to win the presidency without carrying states in the South or Southwest.  The Census Bureau’s latest projection of population shifts, the first in eight years, shows a dramatic movement from the North to Southern and Western states over the next 30 years. The study points to a political movement as well.

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Posted by jonjayray on Tuesday, July 12, 2005 at 09:31 PM in U.S. Politics
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The Bear’s Lair: The real Supreme Court issue

Discussion following Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s retirement has centered on her potential successor’s views on abortion and wrongful imprisonment, the two areas in which the Angry Left is most hostile to the George W. Bush administration. Yet in reality there is a much more crucial question from the right: what is that successor’s view on private property rights? As the Court’s recent Kelo v. New London decision showed, those rights are by no means secure.

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Posted by karlmagnus on Monday, July 11, 2005 at 10:16 AM in Economics & Finance,  Law & Order,  U.S. Politics
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The Bear’s Lair: The gangster corporate culture

Richard Scrushy walked scot fee from the near collapse of Health South, while Dennis Kozlowski of Tyco, Bernie Ebbers of WorldCom and John Rigas of Adelphia have received or will receive prison sentences of well over a decade for their crimes.  1990’s Business’s combination of lack of ethical scruples, excessive rewards and excessive penalties for failure somewhat randomly imposed remind me of a pervious historic environment: the Chicago of Al Capone. Was Scarface Al a key to the 1920’s prosperity?

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Posted by karlmagnus on Monday, July 4, 2005 at 10:15 AM in Economics & Finance,  Law & Order,  U.S. Politics
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Today, the death, not the birth, of the Republic ought to be observed

Thoughts on July 4, 1776: American Independence Day

Bitter it is to discover your country is a fossil, and a new creature wears its living skin. A Cyclops now wraps itself in the Republic’s flag, and to this monster we owe our contempt, not allegiance.

Yet the monster is cunning

They vowed to standardize food-safety and pesticide regulations, and efforts to prevent a global flu pandemic. …vowed to develop a strategy to combat counterfeiting and piracy by the end of next year; create more regulatory consistency and further integrate their automobile and steel industries. The threats we face require seamless cooperation that extends beyond our borders.

and unscrupulous,

“We’ve also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical and biological weapons across broad areas. We’re concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using these UAVs for missions targeting the United States.”

and allied with the gullible.

”I’m in a different Southern Baptist church almost every week, maybe two or three in a week—they say “Please, tell the president and Mrs. Bush that we’re praying for them, and how much we support them and how much we’re praying for their safety and for his wisdom and guidance.”

In exchange for our liberty the Cyclops is fattening us for slaughter. Most, just as Homer knew, meekly accept their enslavement; even worse the young have known only the siren song of equality, multiculturalism, and Western hatred, i.e. self-hatred. It is their lives that are shipwrecked upon the rocky shore, unable to defend their civilization. Just as Ulysses drove a red-hot beam into the eye of the Cyclops, we too must blind our foe. If we refuse to fight our extinction awaits, a death in an unmarked grave.

- Euripides

Posted by leslie on Monday, July 4, 2005 at 12:23 AM in U.S. Politics
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Black & white in the GOP

The NYT ran an article article (reg) yesterday on the current Republican enthusiasm for black candidates who could help the them break Democratic domination among black voters in several key states.

You’ve got a Democratic Party which I think has repeatedly demonstrated that it assumes it will win the African-American vote, but doesn’t work for that vote,” Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said. “It takes African-Americans for granted. And I think folks in the African-American community see that. There is a real opportunity here for the Republican Party.

Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee

Well, Mr. Mehlman, let’s turn this around.  What if we say that the GOP takes white votes for granted, and that perhaps the Republicans need to work to appeal to whites?

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Posted by JW Holliday on Saturday, July 2, 2005 at 09:28 AM in U.S. Politics
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The Bear’s Lair: The immortal Smoot

The late unlamented Senator Reed Smoot (R.-UT) was spiritually in full flow at the New America Foundation’s Forum on America’s Economic Future Wednesday, as Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell, ex-Senator Tom Daschle (D.-SD) and Senators Richard Durbin (D.-IL) and Byron Dorgan (D.-ND) competed as to who could say the nastiest things about China.  Presumably trade policy is not covered by the “hate speech” laws these gentlemen favor, but any luckless Chinese exporter present must have felt like an African American from the old South who’d wandered into a Ku Klux Klan convention.

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Posted by karlmagnus on Monday, June 27, 2005 at 09:25 AM in Economics & Finance,  U.S. Politics,  World Affairs
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America turns on Bush over Iraq

Reality must hit home, eventually.

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Posted by Phil Peterson on Saturday, June 25, 2005 at 05:16 AM in U.S. Politics
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Sneeze in your sleeve.  It’s only a pandemic.

Once again, we are being warned of an impending flu pandemic.  Current estimates are that even a moderate pandemic strain could kill half-a-million Americans.

Last year’s American flu vaccine shortfall – which was merely the latest and worst in a series of such shortages – proves that the same American government that can spend hundreds of billons of dollars on the Neocon’s Iraq disaster is unwilling to take seriously the health of the populace.  Of course, the government did interfere with vaccine distribution, to make sure that “high-risk” groups got their shots – “high risk” being old farts who vote in elections.  Young children, meanwhile, are deprived of vaccine in favor of the geritol set.

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Posted by JW Holliday on Friday, June 24, 2005 at 06:38 PM in U.S. Politics
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Another Reason to Secede: The Wal-Mart Enabling Act

Yesterday the tyrants on the US Supreme court ruled (Kelo v. City of New London) private property can be siezed for and delivered to commercial interests, if deemed a ‘public good’.  Nothing is secure from government meddling anymore, not the family, the currency, or the very home itself.

Declare the Washington Tyrants null and void, before they do it to you! We have no reason to stay in this nutty union anymore, nothing is secure from the tyranny.

Thomas Fleming, sums it up well enough:

The once free citizens of the United States are now to be subject of every government jurisdiction that can be bribed by a developer. The power of money, which has de facto controlled-for over a hundred years-our government, will now de jure dictate the terms on which we own our own homes and small businesses.

Posted by leslie on Friday, June 24, 2005 at 09:14 AM in U.S. Politics
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Insanity: American Style

The border is leaking 3 million illegals each year, personal bankruptcies are at historic highs, as are the merchandise trade deficit and federal debt. Additionally the military is fighting an urban guerrilla war in Iraq, and Afghanistan is turning nasty again.

So, what are the elected officials doing? Posted by leslie on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 at 05:12 PM in U.S. Politics
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The Bear’s Lair: Wall Street’s coming hangover

Signs have multiplied recently that all is not well in the overworked, overpaid world of Wall Street.  The Chairman of Morgan Stanley has been forced out, quarterly earnings are coming in generally down, and both JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup have been zapped with $2 billion legal settlements for misguided corporate finance work. Are these apparently independent signals random noise or the clucking of chickens coming home to roost?

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Posted by karlmagnus on Monday, June 20, 2005 at 07:55 AM in Economics & Finance,  U.S. Politics,  World Affairs
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The Bear’s Lair: Three billion new friends

“Three billion new capitalists,” a new book by Clyde Prestowitz, head of the Economic Strategy Institute, highlights the potential rewards and dangers to the U.S. economy inherent in the full emergence of India and China’s 2.5 billion people (and the former Soviet bloc’s 500 million) onto the world’s economic stage. Old patterns are dissolving, old rules are no longer valid, but the new patterns and new rules to deal with them remain shrouded in mist.

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Posted by karlmagnus on Monday, June 13, 2005 at 09:00 AM in Economics & Finance,  Globalisation,  U.S. Politics
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Local Story of Interest

“The court has stripped the Legislature of its authority…”
—Rep. Frank Miller, R-Independence, KS.

Each year the Kansas State Legislature allocates money to local school districts (institutions of secular state worship). This year, however, the state supreme court repeatedly nullified this responsibility of the elected representatives. Finally after several previous usurpations of legislative sovereignty the court ordered the legislature to increase school funding by $285 million by July 1, and extending that amount to as much as $568 million next year. The court says the legislature hasn’t been “fair” in treating its citizens “equally” in these matters. Readers of MR know exactly what is meant by these words “fair” and “equal” : it means whatever Ceasar wants it to mean!

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Posted by leslie on Saturday, June 11, 2005 at 07:53 PM in U.S. Politics
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That Day is Coming - Prepare

But know this, that if the householder had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into.

Matthew 24:42

Whether Humpty Dumpty was pushed or fell on his own accord we ought not to feel any loyalty to the regime when it cracks;  the regime that shackles our children with debt, confiscates our wealth, spies on our communications, and is transforming the majority race and culture into a despised minority:  Hispanic Population In U.S. Soars.

I’m not one to confuse the City of Man with the City of God, yet wanting the destruction of the tyranny in Washington is surely not sinful. Verily the day shall come when the Tyranny stumbles, and we must be prepared for that day, which shall surely come as “a thief in the night”.

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Posted by leslie on Thursday, June 9, 2005 at 05:54 PM in U.S. Politics
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The Bear’s Lair: Removing the stooges

Richard Fischer, president of the Dallas Fed, caused rejoicing in the markets and doubtless several thousand more speculative house purchases Tuesday by suggesting that the Fed’s tightening cycle was “in its eighth inning.”  One is again forced to conclude that central bank policy in a democratic fiat money system inevitably tends towards inflation and the looting of middle class savings, and to wonder whether removing the power of the Fed’s stooges might do any good.

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Posted by karlmagnus on Monday, June 6, 2005 at 12:36 PM in Economics & Finance,  U.S. Politics
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Grunt of the day

The United States is a country that promotes freedom around the world
Chimpoleon, 31st May, 2005

To which I reply: how about promoting some freedom here and here and here and here?

And then, of course, there is La Belle France, where M. Le Pen and Brigitte Bardot are constantly in trouble for their pesky speech.  And let’s not leave the heroic Peoples’ Republic of Kanada out of this.

So when is his Chimpiness going to “promote freedom” in those Western nations that prohibit free expression on issues of race, immigration, religion, culture and the demographic future of nations?

Say, do you suppose that the Chimp’s understanding of freedom doesn’t go any deeper than getting to vote for someone like him every four years?

Posted by JW Holliday on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 at 03:56 PM in U.S. Politics
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The Bear’s Lair: Housing’s froth and bubble

Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan referred this week to “froth” in the U.S. housing market; others have debated whether it is a “bubble” at least on the two coasts.  Whether froth or bubble, the secular rise in house prices over the last 5 years has made long term changes in American life, most of them for the worse.

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Posted by karlmagnus on Monday, May 30, 2005 at 09:55 AM in Economics & Finance,  Social Sciences,  U.S. Politics
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Dead Yankee Day

Tomorrow is Memorial Day in the united states, a pseudo-religious holiday in which the State’s war dead are officially honored by those who did not fight. As an antidote to the liturgical pomp emanating from the Washington tyranny I offer this bit of Southern doggerel:

I hates the Yankee nation
And everything they do,
I hates the Declaration
Of Independence, too;
I hates the “Glorious Union,”
‘Tis dripping with our blood.
I hates their striped banner,
I fit it all I could.

Courtesy of Little Geneva: Do something productive this weekend, like blowing your nose in the stars and stripes.

Posted by leslie on Sunday, May 29, 2005 at 11:10 AM in U.S. Politics
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