Here's an article I read some months ago regarding Soros: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/12/soros-philanthropy/547247/ I'd like to see a source from Maddy though. Nope. If you're really interested (and I don't believe you are), there are a ton of sources on the internet that link...

Yeah I guess I'm not getting Maddy's (apparent, IMO) conflation of "The Left" (aka, the hard-left I take it?) with establishment deep-state corporatist interventionist war-hawks. The apparent idea that Antifa brick-thrower = Some namby-pamby leftist hippie = liberal school teacher = Hilla...

Significantly, all that interventionism involved the same short list of beneficiaries.

Moda, we've been here before and it didn't work out so well. So I'll just stick to my point, which is that you could trot out seven donkeys with stories to tell, and the majority of constitutional conservatives wouldn't care. They're not looking for moral stature; they got over that when they held t...

Maddy I really don't know where you are your getting your information from because I have a very different interpretation of reality. I think you've said that you were a fan of Alan Derschowitz. I've found his arguments to be hardly much more convincing than many Trump detractors... is there anyone...

Did you ever think you'd see a time when the repeal of the First Amendment was being seriously debated? That a small conglomerate of media and tech companies would be effectively controlling the content of public speech? That peaceful conservative speech would be routinely quelled by the threat of p...

I, for one, as glad that the majority of conservatives have gotten over their fixation on character. Not that I don't consider character important in a president, but the reality is that there's precious little character to be seen anywhere in public life these days, and the reality of what we're up...

I tend to be pretty skeptical when it comes to alternative remedies that purport to do earth-shattering things, but after a good deal of experimenting, I have the following earth-shattering anecdote to offer about an herbal by the name of Ashwaganda root. It's touted as being an "adaptogen"...

One of the greatest things about the free market approach is that it forces consumers to weight the value of the services they want against the value of competing goodies. Seems sensible enough: People are more likely to get what they want when they--not some arbitrary panel applying an arbitrary se...

Yeah. Once you reach a certain level of fame, for whatever reason, you can write a book or hit the "speakers circuit" and just rake it in for doing nothing other than bloviating. Except that nobody really cares about the book or the speech. It's simply a pretext for the quid pro quo that ...

Has there ever been a legit safe asset for a substantial length of time, in practical terms?

Perhaps a Steinway grand.

The merits of interventionism per se is an entirely different question than the merits of that special breed of interventionism that snubs the legitimate interests of the American people and that acts at the behest and for the benefit of transnational corporate interests.

Well if the "exorbitant sticker price" of healthcare is a fake price that nobody pays (not the insurer or the individual), then that can't be the source of the problem... right? That means that there's no real "giant cartel" because the prices used to accuse them of that are &qu...

I grazed back... where is this anecdote? Are you really saying that you think folks can regularly offer care providers 10% of their insurance-reimbursed rates with cash and they'll accept your offer? I regularly get 40 percent off the sticker price from an orthopedist for paying cash on the barrelh...

flyingpylon wrote: ↑Wed Aug 01, 2018 11:19 am Perhaps we should be asking why we allow the health care industry to operate like a giant cartel instead of debating the best way to pay their exorbitant prices.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

On the subject of magnesium. . . A friend recently mentioned that she had been soaking her feet in epsom salts and finding it an effective remedy for muscle cramps in her feet. My ears perked up because I've recently been plagued with intractable foot and leg cramps at night which have been noticeab...

With all this talk about how great and painless fasting is, I just had to point out today's top story on Brietbart, the headline of which reads, "'Westworld' star Evan Rachel Woods endures 24-hour hunger strike to protest border enforcement."

I surmise that he is arguing for more expansive intellectual property protections than the law currently affords? What is he proposing?

This article provides a good summation of the evidence behind the IG report's farcical finding of "no political bias." It's utterly astounding. https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/fbi-employee-fbi-attorney-russia-investigation-you-promised-trump The most surprising thing...

Judging from the findings of this study, these kids will not want the responsibility of taking care of their aging parents, which means that their inheritance is likely to be spent down on in-home assistance and/or long-term care.

Millennials expect to make it big some day, with more than half reporting that they believe they will eventually become millionaires, according to a new study. Despite having crushing student loans (20 percent never expect to pay them off), credit card and other debt, people born between 1982 and 2...

Desert, I agree with many of your observations about the demonization of opposing political viewpoints. However, political movements have lives of their own and have been repeatedly used by governments as instruments of control because the vast majority of people are more interested in identifying w...

Moda, I've never been anything but completely forthcoming about my social and political views. The implication that you've somehow "outed" me as a conservative is bizarre. Your complaint, in fact, is that you are tired of hearing my thoughts about modern liberalism. It seems that you're be...

The sad part, in my view, is that they've hoodwinked an entire generation of young people who are out there doing their bidding. And that the progressives who are old enough to know what's going on have traded their principles for a seat at the table. I'm old and am living the near-perfect life on a...

Moda, is it really necessary for you to characterize my views in such derogatory, simplistic terms? Is it possible that the consistency in my views concerning the modern social order and the evolution of political movements represents a principled stance as opposed to a mindless allegiance to a redn...