Monthly Archives: December 2009

You know what? Despite everything: Happy New Year!

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Greg Swann

I wrote this last night in a comment to a post: The United States is being run as a kleptocracy, but instead of plundering the treasury and the accumulated wealth of the nation in behalf of a small criminal conspiracy, we rob from a rapidly-diminishing productive sector in behalf of a vast and ever-burgeoning population […] Continue reading →

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A canticle for Kathleen Sullivan

Posted on December 25, 2009 by Greg Swann

A canticle for Kathleen Sullivan A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story I got to the hospital after visiting hours, but the nurse led me to the room anyway. “There hasn’t been anyone,” she confided. I pursed my lips in grim acknowledgment. “That’s why I’m here.” Inside the room the patient looked like purple death. It was […] Continue reading →

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Looking for reasons to be cheerful this Christmas? Thanks to the free market, everything is better than it was when you were a kid

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Greg Swann

From Reason.TV: It’s worth thinking about as statists strive to destroy innovation in medicine (via Obamacare) and industry and transportation (via environmentalism). If it gratifies you to weep about how bad things are, compare the America of your youth to the police states of Communist Europe in that same epoch. Whatever complaints you might have […] Continue reading →

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