Scottish oil strikes

As we reported previously, a strike seems to be on the cards at an oil refinery in Scotland. The dispute is over the rights of new employees to the current pension system.
True to form, the Times of London reported news of the possible strike in the business section, once again proving that natural resources mean [...]

Funding the student right in Venezuela

I’m not going to give my own commentary on this one, my friend at borev.net says it all

Those oddball free marketeers from the Cato Institute just made a funny mistake and offered a “freedom” prize to a 23-year-old Serbian-trained Marigold Revolutionary Venezuelan adolescent, simultaneously violating their own non-interventionist policies, undermining a proud six-year tradition of [...]

Reverend Wright is a great man! Listen to the full context of the sermon!

Let’s not throw mud at this man.
The truth is he speaks the truth in the prophetic tradition we find the Bible. Rightly he is named Jeremiah.
I don’t know much about a personal God, but I do know that some religious leaders call us to a higher moral standard. A few believe [...]

Why the US is totally screwed!

Ben Stein is an intelligent man (albeit a right-wing fool). He has undergraduate degree from Columbia in Economics and a law degree from Yale. So you’d think that he’d have an enlightened view on many subjects.
Remember, I said he was a right-wing fool.
And that means he has decided to waste his intellect and break all [...]

This Week’s Documentary: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

I live in a country where you can’t say anything nice about Hugo Chavez, “the dictator” of Venezuela. He’s so dictatorial that he allows his people to recall him at any time, and he allowed his people to reject his socialist reforms by the ballot. Some dictator!
Bush and the CIA tried overthrow Chavez, using the [...]