Weekend Insights – Malice, Anarchism, Batman, and much more…
Welcome back to Weekend Insights, your LCI “President’s Corner” of miscellaneous articles, events, books, vids, and whatever else I’m thinking about…
Tag: humor
All Humor is Racist – That’s pretty funny
He who sits in the heavens laughs, The Lord holds them in derision. Psalm 2:4 Perhaps the best way to …
John Oliver Swings and Misses at Injustice
John Oliver’s HBO program “Last Week Tonight” has certainly made a name for itself the last couple of years, exposing the inconvenient truth with respect to a wide variety of issues –from America’s frightening infrastructure problems to the corrupt Miss America Pageant. Oliver often makes some great points and does the public a great service – in a very humorous manner of course. Recently, however, in exposing the practices of unscrupulous televangelists, he swung hard and missed – quite badly.
Flying Robots! Oh My!
And now for something completely different… The infamous creators of the Bed Intruder song, the Gregory Brothers, have released a …
Deck the Halls with Macro Follies
The inimitable EconStories gang, which includes the great John Papola, has just released their newest creation just in time for …
News of the Week: “You Didn’t Build That”
Recapping the interesting and significant events of the past week. This week, President Barack Obama told a crowd that if …
Vikings and Legalized Plunder, oh my!
What do Vikings have to do with government? Find out in this video… This video is brought to you by …
Hayek vs. Keynes: The Second Round!
Remember the Hayek-Keynes Rap from John Papola, Russ Roberts, and EconStories? Well, they have posted their second video on Youtube …
Another war?
Jon Stewart tells it like it is. Pardon the colorful language (it is bleeped out), but this is great.
Federal Government will bring sight to the blind
Reportedly heard in the House of Representatives, supported by many, surprising none. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of …
Jon Stewart Crushes Obama on Civil Liberties
This clip speaks for itself. Oh wait, I get it. He’s a Democrat stealing the thunder of Republican big-government programs. …
Sunday is Coming!
This video was too good not to post, so enjoy this great parody movie trailer… Now, to be clear, I …
Fear the Boom and Bust: Hayek vs. Keynes
For those of you who haven’t heard, this video has been circulating around libertarian circles like crazy the past week. …
Peter Schiff on the Daily Show
Our cynical-comic pseudo-friend Jon Stewart had the heroic Peter Schiff on the Daily Show yesterday evening, and I thought the …
5 out of 5 Chewbacca’s Agree: Ron Paul is the Man
5 out of 5 Chewbacca’s Agree: Ron Paul is the Man.
Sunday Article Linkage
Some Sunday reading for you A Look at the Jury System and Our Participation in It — Graham Dugas observes …
One Ring to Rule Them All
I just found a stupendous editorial cartoon, written by Terrence Nowicki, Jr. at This Is Historic Times: Awesome work, Terrence, …
What do you hate most about taxes?
“Tax season always begins on April 16th, and ends 365 days later.” “There are only two certainties in this life: …
If President Obama Twittered
For the uninitiated… Twitter is a nifty “micro-blogging” service where you are limited to no more than 140 characters to …
Peter Schiff at the Austrian Scholars Conference 2009
One of the highlights of the Austrian Scholars Conference last week was the Hazlitt Memorial Lecture, presented by Peter Schiff. …
Change Never Seemed So Similar
Jon Stewart of The Daily Show roasts Obama on his policy “change” in Iraq. He even compares statements from Obama …
Stimulation Nation
Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House. One is from Chicago, another is from Tennessee, and the third is from Minnesota…
Why Conservatives Should Love Obama
After the inaugural address, how can any self-respecting conservative not think Obama is fantastic! He has all the same answers …