badtux

Power, legitimacy and Orly Taitz

So Orly Taitz is throwing a conniption fit after the ruling against her. The problem is, there simply won’t be...

posted on: Feb 10, 2012 | author: badtux

So there’s protests. And the army fires on protesters. Why hasn’t the army deserted? Why does the army...

posted on: Feb 6, 2012 | author: badtux

The Austerians have been driving economic policy in Europe lately, cutting government budgets dramatically in order to...

posted on: Feb 2, 2012 | author: badtux

There has been a proposal floated to set a Fed inflation target tied to unemployment. The upside is that this could...

posted on: Jan 5, 2012 | author: badtux

One of the interesting things I note, looking through history, is that the end of empires corresponds with a huge...