March, 2012 // Posts published in March, 2012
Child witnesses to Afghan massacre say Robert Bales was not alone
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, pictured here at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California in August 2011, has been charged with 17 counts of murder in the deaths of 17 Afghan villagers. Spc. Ryan Hallock/Dvids/ Handout / … Continue reading →
Governor demands report on state trooper tickets quota competition
An e-mail from police Lieutenant Anthony Schirillo urging troopers to hand out more tickets. Photo: Contributed / CT ctpost.com | Mar 30, 2012 by Ken Dixon HARTFORD — State Police said Friday that a barracks commander’s attempt to inspire his … Continue reading →
Trucker With Traveling Torture Chamber Admits to More Murders
Serial killer Robert B. Rhoades pleaded guilty this week to murdering Patricia Candace Walsh and her newlywed husband, Scott Zyskowski, in 1990. Illinois Department of Corrections courant.com | Mar 30, 2012 By CHRISTINA NG A Texas trucker who kept a … Continue reading →
Department of Defense outlines Skynet and Terminator development
geek.com | Mar 30, 2012 By: Matthew Humphries Technology is taking an ever larger role in the systems we rely on every day. The military is not immune to this, and in fact helps push forward innovation if it benefits … Continue reading →
Why Can’t We Deleverage Gradually?
The richest and most successful Keynesian on Wall St has summarized his current policy advice succinctly and elegantly. The Fed should monetize all kinds of debt in order to keep the nominal economic growth rate north of the nominal interest rate. In this way, necessary deleveraging can take place gradually and less painfully. This ...
Antiwar.com Newsletter | March 30, 2012 | Free the Slaves, Stop the Wars
Antiwar.com Newsletter | March 30, 2012 IN THIS ISSUE Scott Horton to speak in Austin Top news Opinion and analysis Events Free the Slaves, Stop the Wars, End the State Friday March 30 Antiwar Radio’s Scott Horton will speak on the warfare state at Brave New Books, 1904 Guadalupe St., Austin, Texas, from 6:30 to ...
Coercion Is Your Friend?
As kids, many of us baby boomers were often told by well meaning adults, “The policeman is your friend.” In the era of (relative) political innocence prior to the Vietnam War and Watrergate, these adults could be forgiven their surpassing naiveté. But now “mere libertarian” (his term) economist Dan Klein goes these adults one better and counsels us: ...
Whose Afraid of Sticky Prices?
Retailer J.C. Penney just announced a new pricing policy that will make its prices more rigid and other retailers are moving in that direction. Can depression and mass unemployment be far behind? The linchpin of all varieties of Keynesian economics is the assumption that prices and wage rates are rigid and do not respond to changes ...
Malinvestment in Malinvestments
Ben Bernanke is starting to get his way. Matt Wirz writes for The Wall Street Journal that companies with junk credit ratings are bellying up to the debt trough like no other time in history. The first quarter of 2012 will go down as the most active for junk bond issuance since 1980 when Thomson ...
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