“IF SOMETHING cannot go on for ever, it will stop,” Herb Stein once observed caustically. The American economist’s aphorism has proved apt of late—as applicable to Hosni Mubarak’s regime as it was to America’s rising property prices. Could it apply to the growth of the state?
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Daily Archives: 30 April 2011
Obama’s ancestry
I’ve ignored most of the noise about Obama’s past as just another red herring, however this video is extremely interesting. Start at 0:45.
* His parents never really seemed to be married. There’s no evidence of his parents ever even living together.
* His parents were communists and marxists with big chips on their shoulders. They met in a Russian language class.
* His father fathered children with four different women. He was still married to his Kenyan wife when fathered Barack.