Implications of Gaddafi’s Gory End
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 25th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Implications of Gaddafi’s Gory End
Bernard-Henri Levy, Newsweek
Those Images of his corpse. That face, still alive but bloodied, hounded, and taunted. That bare head—suddenly and oddly bare! We were used to seeing him in turbans, and there was something poignant in the denuding that renders this criminal strangely pitiable.You can say that the man was a monster. You can replay again and again the scenes that for eight months have haunted the friends of free Libya—the images of mass executions, torture, the hangings of April 7, the prisoners who were sort of buried alive until released from their prisons by the…
Illinois Is Losing the Hearts and Minds of Job-Creators
The Big Banks Give Capitalism a Bad Name
Tim Carney, DC Examiner
Liberal protesters “occupying” Wall Street hate the big banks, which they see as the engine of capitalism. But conservatives ought to hate the big banks because they are the enemies of capitalism.Three events last week cemented how the bailed-out subsidy sucklers of Wall Street continue to profit, not from the free exchange and risk-taking that embodies the market, but from cronyism and offloading their risk onto the taxpayer.
