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- Former U.S. senator says "legal fictions" justify ... - Courier-Journal
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- The Silver Lining of Financial Bubbles and Crashes - Associated Content
| Former U.S. senator says "legal fictions" justify ... - Courier-Journal Posted: 16 Apr 2010 07:23 PM PDT The United States is becoming a welfare state and creating "legal fictions" to justify practices like abortion, former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum said at a press conference Friday afternoon. Santorum, a longtime pro-life advocate, came to Louisville to speak at the Right to Life of Louisville's 40th anniversary dinner at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Santorum said he wants to energize the pro-life movement in Louisville and elsewhere. "It is the core issue of our time. It is the great moral issue of the day," he said while meeting with reporters before the dinner. "Our country will never be the country it should be — it'll never be the country it has always aspired to be if we do not protect the innocent lives of the children in the womb." Santorum, who said he is "kicking around the idea" of running for president in 2012, also criticized the Obama administration, saying its political agenda threatens the country's values. He singled out health-care reform and economic stimulus spending, saying they have led to increased government control. "One of the things I think is being lost is the moral dimension of all this," Santorum said. The government under Obama is creating new rights, such as the right to health care, that are moving the U.S. farther away from its founding values and leading to more government control of citizens' lives, he said. Santorum said rights such as the right to health care and the right to same-sex marriage are not "God Given rights" and instead represent one group of people exercising its will over another. "To me that's a very disconcerting movement in this country," he said. Santorum served as a U.S. representative and then senator for Pennsylvania from 1990 to 2007 before being defeated for re-election. He now serves as chairman of America's Foundation, a conservative political action committee. Santorum praised the work done by Right to Life of Louisville, which began even before the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortions. "Without this movement, there would be no public officials standing up and fighting this battle," Santorum said. Margie Montgomery, executive director of Right to Life of Louisville, said it was an honor to have Santorum speak at the dinner. She called him "one of the leaders in the pro-life movement." Reporter Sean Rose can be reached at (502) 582-4199. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | |
| REVIEW ROUNDUP: Nightmare Alley Opens at the Geffen ... - TheaterMania.com Posted: 23 Apr 2010 08:38 AM PDT
Jonathan Brielle's musical Nightmare Alley, starring James Barbour, opened last night at the Geffen Playhouse. Gilbert Cates has directed the production, which is scheduled to continue through May 13. | Based on the eponymous novel by William Lindsay Gresham, the musical is set against the shadowy world of the traveling carnivals and tented churches that dominated the Dust Bowl era. Barbour stars as Stan Carlisle, the con turned carnie and back again, who falls in love with the dark darling of the traveling carnival. The cast also includes Melody Buitu (Tarot Lady), Larry Cedar (Pete/Sheriff/Addie Peabody), Sarah Glendening (Molly), Michael McCarty (Clem/ Ezra Grimble), Mary Gordan Murray (Zeena/ Dr. Lilith Ritter), Anise E. Ritchie (Tarot Lady), Leslie Stevens (Tarot Lady), and Alet Taylor (Tarot Lady). The creative team includes Gerald Sternbach (music director), John Arnone (set), Christina Haatainen Jones (costumes), Daniel Ionazzi (lighting), and Brian Hsieh (sound). The reviews are in and critics are finding promise, if not satisfaction, with the show. Among the reviews are: Los Angeles Times ----- "Despite the show's unevenness, its final image -- creepy and inevitable -- suggests the diabolical vibe Brielle wants to access. Geffen favorite Ricky Jay was in the house on opening night. One only wishes that this master magician's signature qualities -- the ability to weave a spellbinding tale out of thin air, a sense of the unexpected, old-school gravitas -- were more on view inside Nightmare's carnival tent." Orange County Register ----- "And not all of Brielle's songs and dialogue are as sharp as they should be. He needs a trusted associate to lend a hand with his heavy creative load, which includes book, music and lyrics. The songs could also benefit from a larger ensemble than the sometimes thin-sounding quintet conducted by Gerald Sternbach." Variety For more information, visit www.geffenplayhouse.com.
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| The Silver Lining of Financial Bubbles and Crashes - Associated Content Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:25 AM PDT After Every Financial Bubble Pops the Rationalists and Re-rationalists Appear Just as the Panic Mongers Appear as the Financial Bubble Over Extends It's Limits. Capitalism Has the Natural Ability to Correct It's Imbalances AutomaticallyEvery time the markets crash or the banks go bush in a financial panic the worst gets recorded by historians while most of the good that results is ignored. Free Markets not only have self correcting abilities they tend to be doing positive good even at their ugliest moments. Most financial panics crashes and failures automatically result in economic redistribution without any government tyranny required. Many historic financial dislocations exclusively tend to harm the rich and the privileged more than any other segments of society and the fallout can and does prove to be beneficial to others who are not party to the losses. Little is written in history of the beneficiaries of the chaotic coll ape of the south seas bubble or the tulip craze. Just as there were losers there were also winner. A lot of the philosophy of too big to fail and government resolution after modern day financial catastrophes is about keeping the privileged in power even after they prove themselves inadequate. Benefits of the 1929 crash and bank failures however seem to be lacking examples but that was a more catastrophic crash than many with financial failures that proceed the US in Europe and government intent on fixing the problem with higher taxes and protectionism. Still the Great Depression did net many positive winners. In the US, Joseph Kennedy, a short seller came out of the panic and depression more than whole as one example. In Europe the financial collapse was a boon to various political powers and fascist leaders unfortunately. Capitalism proved itself resilient during the depression because stock market prices did collapse as did real estate prices but every thing eventually did restore itself and purchasing power with unencumbered assets (without debt) did adjust for deflation in terms of purchasing power just as they can with inflation. That is a simplified view but the best financial crashes panics and collapses were yet to come after the 1930s. One of the worst crashes was the market depression due to inflation between 1960 and 1980 when Stock prices seemed to be going up when they were really loosing massive purchasing power due to inflation on a compound basis. Politicians all took credit for rising stock market prices during those not so wonderful period so stock market growth and the public was generally too dumb to know they were being fooled. The incredible rise of Warren Buffet as one of the world's richest business men was grounded in knowing that the stock market was depressed in value when most people had the illusion that it was rising in value because of inflation and seemingly high interest rates that somehow seemed to counter act the inflationary surge. Even that slow motion inflation driven market crash had winners when history seems to record mostly losers.Economic equilibrium is one of the great fictions of fantasy writers and philosophers. The fact of the mater is that economic progress is achieved not because there is equilibrium but because of percisely the opposite. Relative scarce resources is always what drives economic activity. People work hard to achieve the means of either getting their share of these scarce resources or are motivated to try and increase the supply of these resources because the scarcity creates a profit potential. People who question the love affair with capitalism usually don't question their own right to hoard resources for their own benefit and they don't usually take food out of their own mouth's and share it because intuitively they know that if they truly shared it with everyone having needs they themselves would starve to death. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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