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Fort Hood gunman Major Nidal Hasan had being trying to leave 'anti-Muslim' Army

The US Army psychiatrist who shot 13 people at America’s biggest base had being trying to leave the military for six months and had complained of anti-Muslim discrimination from comrades, his family told The Times today. Major Nidal Hasan, opened ...

From JAMES HIDER, AL-BIREH, WEST BANK, AND PHILIPPE NAUGHTON, Times Online,  6 Nov 2009

Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift: What Tocqueville Teaches Today

Editor's Note: The following exchange is adapted from a public conversation among Paul Rahe (Hillsdale College), James Ceaser (University of Virginia), and Thomas West (University of Dallas) that took place at The Heritage Foundation on April 16, 2009, ...

From PAUL RAHE, JAMES CEASER, AND THOMAS WEST, The Heritage Foundation,  2 Sep 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Theodore Roosevelt,  Barack Obama,  Antonin Scalia,  George W. Bush

Gold and Swine Flu Economics

The irony of the emergence of a Swine Flu pandemic amidst an economic contraction brought on by glutinous gorging on credit and real estate in the United Casinos of America is surely not lost on barbed minds. The insistence by the World Health ...

From JAMES WEST, ETF Investor,  3 May 2009
Related Topics: World Health Organization,  Wikipedia,  Richard Nixon

Will These Airlines Face Bankruptcy in 2009?

Deepening economic strife is starting to erode financial viability in many industries. Foremost among them is the airline industry, according to Giovanni Bisignani, CEO of the International Air Transport Association. He indicated that 2009 was shaping ...

From JAMES WEST, ETF Investor,  19 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Air Canada,  NYSE,  Southwest Airlines,  United Airlines,  American Airlines

Global Meltdown, Part III

This is the point at which the global economy falls the rest of the way off of the cliff. The false hope raised by the illusion of decisive action on the part of the Obama administration is giving way to Democratic party in-fighting and an increasing ...

From JAMES WEST, ETF Investor,  31 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress

U.S. Government Move Will Push Russia and China Toward Economic Matrimony

So its happened at last. All pretense of sanity has been summarily discarded in favor of the perpetual feedback loop. The Fed is now purchasing its own currency, kiting checks to itself in a flagrant display of Orwellian-esque doublespeak. The fact ...

From JAMES WEST, ETF Investor,  20 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  European Union

World War III: U.S. vs. China?

It took the onset of World War II to lift the world out of the Great Depression that began in 1929. Ignore the historical hyperbole that claim Roosevelt’s “New Deal” had anything to do with it. It was war, plain and simple, that galvanized the U.S. ...

From JAMES WEST, Seeking Alpha,  12 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Federal Reserve,  The Pentagon,  Saddam Hussein,  Barack Obama,  Hu Jintao

Why I'm Buying Queenston Mining

QNMNF.PK) is a deal I've followed for years. It's seen its ups and downs, but it is, in my opinion, about to permanently transform itself into a gold mining force to be reckoned with. The reason for that conviction is its emerging ability to do deals ...

From JAMES WEST, Seeking Alpha,  22 Feb 2009
Related Topics: INCO LTD,  Cadillac

How Gold Is Being Driven by a $4 Trillion Hallucination

Wednesday morning, the United States Treasury Department issued a press release that constituted the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee’s (TBAC) report to the Secretary of the Treasury. TBAC membership is derived from senior members of the ...

From JAMES WEST, ETF Investor,  5 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Congressional Budget Office,  Barack Obama

Kinross Gold Picks Riverside for Discovery Potential

The day after Kinross Gold (KGC) announced a "bought deal" financing for $360 million with UBS Securities Canada, Riverside Resources Inc. ((TSX.V:RRI)) announced that it had entered into a "Precious Metals Exploration Alliance" with Kinross. The ...

From JAMES WEST, Seeking Alpha,  4 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Teck Cominco Ltd,  Rio Tinto Plc

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