"He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys; he may look dumb but that's just a disguise; he's a mastermind in the ways of espionage." Charlie Daniels, "Uneasy Rider" state - TT`s Lost in Tokyo

Almost levelled, West Virginia: Crooked justice allows mountain-top removal practices to freely injure homes and health by TokyoTom

... with the federal government, state and union all firmly in the pocket of coal firms. This seems to be a classic case, on a huge scale, of the difficulties individual property owners and communities face when confronting clearly wrongful acts by large...

Not Climate Change Welfare, But Capitalism and Free Markets by TokyoTom

... is what poor countries need. So corrrectly argues Keith Lockitch of the Ayn Rand Institute , in a new article that responds to the agreement, by the delegates of industrialized nations at the December climate change conference in Bali, to activate...

Harold Bloom: "The Fall of America" by TokyoTom

There's a short but good interview here of Harold Bloom, Yale literature professor and cultural critic (update: NOT to be confused with the long late Allan Bloom, author of Closing of the American Mind; my bad!): http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture...
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Goering and Madison on War by TokyoTom

Having just stumbled across places where Lew Rockwell and others have done me the honor of posting three of my favorite quotes on war, I'd like to repeat those quotes here in the hope of increasing the likelihood that others might see them. My favorite...

War-profiteering and "Parasitic Imperialism" by TokyoTom

I posted the following in response to a piece by Glenn Greenwald: War-profiteering is simply more Treasury-raiding by elites - at our cost and our children's. An economics professor at Drake (Ismael Hossein-zadeh, an ethnic Kurd from Iran, by the...
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Francis Fukuyama hates America, by TokyoTom

and is now fervently praying that the Lilliputians tie down Gulliver, NOW. His latest post concludes: "America’s founding fathers were motivated by a similar belief that unchecked power, even when democratically legitimated, could be dangerous, which...
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Tribal pigheadedness: RedState bans Ron Paul supporters by TokyoTom

"The simplest way to explain the behavior of RedState [in banning Ron Paul supporters] is to assume that it doesn`t want to be controlled by a cabal of its enemies" (to misquote Thomas ;)). [The above and following are from a post I made with...
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Ron Paul on the environment and energy by TokyoTom

1. There is an excellent interview of Dr. Ron Paul now up at Grist, the environmental news and commentary site, that explores some of his views on environmental and energy issues. I am with him in principle but think he has underestimated the seriousness...
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Sophomoric optimism? by TokyoTom

Jon Bostwick agrees on another post that "Man is clever but not wise ("homo sapiens" is a misnomer)", but further comments (emphasis added): "True. But humanity is wise. Men create cultures, economies and law. "Man's...
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Using the State to solve common resource problems? by TokyoTom

How exactly do you transfer commons into private ownership in a fair way, even for easily divided up stuff like land? That's the trillion dollar question that someone asked me on a recent thread ( http://blog.mises.org/archives/007152.asp#comments...
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