George Mason University economist and author Russell Roberts, who blogs at the always interesting Cafe Hayek, sat down with reason.tv to talk about the nation's shakey economy and the government's bailout plan. Watch this six-minute interview to learn where the problems came from, why the bailout won't address them, and what sort of hurt we're in for over the next several weeks, months, and years. "The real cost of this," warns Roberts, "is that we have said to people, 'Risk taking is not as risky as it used to be.' That's a mistake. It's a horrible mistake and it will lead to a lower standard of living down the road because investment will be more cavalier and less prudent."
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/01/08/John_McCain_Myth_of_a_Maverick
Reason Magazine Editor-In-Chief Matt Welch offers a libertarian's critique of Arizona Senator and Republican Presidential candidate John McCain.
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John McCain is one of the most familiar figures in American politics, a figure with great appeal to many. However, his concrete governing philosophy and actual track record have been left unexamined. Matt Welch's new book McCain: The Myth of a Maverick gives a flesh-and-bones political portrait of a man onto whom people project their own ideological fantasies. It is the first realistic assessment of what a John McCain presidency might look like.
Welch lays out the root cause of the senator's worldview: his personal transformation from underachieving youth to war hawk, in which he used the "higher power" of American nationalism to save his life and soul - Cato Institute
Matt Welch is editor in chief of Reason magazine.
From 2002 to 2006, Welch worked at Reason as an associate editor and media columnist. From 2002 to 2004, he also wrote a regular "Letter from California" column for Canada's National Post newspaper and contributed to the Online Journalism Review; WorkingForChange.com (for whom he covered Ralph Nader's 2000 presidential campaign); and the now-defunct Los Angeles tech/biz magazine Zone News.
Welch's work has appeared in The Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, Los Angeles Daily News, Orange County Register, LA Weekly, ESPN.com, Salon.com, Wired, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Daily Star of Beirut, and dozens of other publications.
Before 1998, Welch lived for eight years in Central Europe, where he co-founded the region's first post-communist English-language newspaper, Prognosis, worked as UPI's Slovakia correspondent and managed the Budapest Business Journal.
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/10/29/Niall_Ferguson_After_the_Bush_Doct
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Harvard University historian Niall Ferguson offers a conservative's critique of U.S. foreign policy under the Bush Administration.
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Niall Ferguson discusses "After the Bush Doctrine: What Next for American Foreign Policy?" This event was part of the Hoover Institution's Fall Retreat 2007.
Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
He is a regular contributor to television and radio on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2003 he wrote and presented a six-part history of the British Empire for Channel 4, the UK terrestrial broadcaster. The accompanying book, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (Basic), was a bestseller in both Britain and the United States. The sequel, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, was published in 2004 by Penguin. His latest book is The War of the World, a global history of the Second World War, which was published to critical acclaim in September 2006. He is currently completing a biography of Siegmund Warburg and has recently begun researching a life of Henry Kissinger.
A prolific commentator on contemporary politics and economics, Niall Ferguson writes and reviews regularly for the British and American press. He is a contributing editor for the Financial Times. In 2004 Time magazine named him as one of the world's hundred most influential people.
This particularly intriguing dramatic comedy by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy tells the story of Fiona and Dom (played by F. Gordon and D. Abel) a couple very much in love and with a common passion: latin dances. Their lives though are suddenly shaken by a car accident...
Last 10 minutes of Barack Obama's speech in Milwaukee on 2/16 where he responds to Hillary Clinton's recent criticism he is all talk - and good speeches don't necessarily produce results.
In his weekly opinion piece, "60 Minutes" contributor Andy Rooney blasts the world of modern art, which he envisions as pretentious especially when displayed in large, public places.
John Stossel Interviews Ron Paul on Iraq, U.S. Intervention 2007.12.05
original location: http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=3978940&page
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This video explains how I discovered F-Cup Cookies, what they are, and what I think of them.
Please visit: http://www.youtube.com/user/mynamejt for episodes of JT's J-treats (the show that inspired this video).
The infamous 1973 recording sessions at the Chateau D'Herouville, near Paris, were never completed due to ill-health, technical and production problems, and the sudden decision of the band to return to the U.K. from temporary and ill-advised tax exile.
Rather than continue with the Chateau Tapes, Jethro Tull decided to begin again with a virtually new work which quickly became the more down-beat and controversial "A Passion Play".
Here the piece "Critique Oblique", first version of the same-named part in "A Passion Play". Pictures from rare Super-8 video with Jethro Tull backstage 1974, thanks to TullTapes (youtube.com/user/TullTapes) for original video (modified by me).
Walter Pall - Tree critique - Pinus mugo
8-9. March 2008. - ?Days of bonsai in Vitturi castle" - Kastel, CROATIA
Second international bonsai convention in the region of the south-east Europe, organized by Dalmatian bonsai club gathered bonsai enthusiasts from Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Monte Negro, Macedonia ...
