Recent content by Jason T

Last time the Europeans ingratiated Obama like this they got him to hand over $108B to the IMF for the Eastern European bailouts. I wonder what they will want Obama to spend our money on in Copenhagen....

Anyone happen to have anything from Benjamin Franklin explaining his view/definition of the phrase general welfare? From what I gather, it was Franklin who put the term in his proposed Articles for the Articles of Confederation, a revised version some of his articles featuring the term ended up...

Please post Supreme Court cases interpreting the general welfare clause. I can only find one: United States v. Butler (1936.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Butler "The clause confers a power separate and distinct from those later enumerated [,] is not restricted in meaning by...

I'm not sure if this is an idea people had or not. To my knowledge, this has never been introduced in congress. Anyways. Republicans and libertarians (correctly) point out that it's silly to have your insurance tethered to your employer, and that individuals should be able to purchase the...

The early civil rights movement wasn't nearly as politicized as it is now. Many of the leaders of the early civil rights movement (1860s-1930s) were (what we'd consider) libertarians, and believed the constitution to their advantage. It wasn't until the 1960s that the civil rights movement...

Here is a clip talking about Bernanke and HR 1207 on The Real News network, a very progressive media organization. YouTube - Did Bernanke save the world? The man in this clip supports the audit and dislikes the giveaways to big banks, however... He thinks the problem is that the FED hasn't...

Instead of encouraging him to run for office I think we should encourage Fox to give him his own show on Fox News so he can convert some neocons. Anyone know how his ratings were the times he filled in for Beck?

Here's something I find odd about libertarians: No matter whether or not if someone is e a moderate or pure libertarian, they feel they have to defend the purist view. For example, Milton Friedman was a moderate libertarian, yet often defended the purist view. I guess this was for a...

Rand Paul tones things down more than Ron. Maybe that's what Beck was talking about, since Beck's main problem with Ron is that he wanted to change too many things. Rand also speaks of contract and lobbying reforms that I haven't heard from Ron. Rand, overall, is able to communicate in a more...

Jim DeMint and Paul Ryan have both proposed allowing people to buy any type of insurance they want through their HSA, and giving employer tax parity to individual HSAs. Basically, if you wanted standard insurance in addition to your HSA coverage, you could take that money out of your HSA...

He needs to go on Freedom watch.

I don't think what he said was meant to be negative at all. And honestly, Ron does kind of look like Gandolf (with less hair.)

It's worse than that actually. Earlier in the show, she said that the "right wing" inciting hatred through disinformation is going to lead to violence and the right wing media is going to need to be ready to apologize. But apparently if a union guy beats up a person against this plan after...

YouTube - Rachel Maddow it's not euthnasia Fast forward to 2:04 She show clips of republicans being beat up by democrats while saying that republicans have gone crazy.

Agree/disagree?