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House Vote Preserves Indefinite Detention Of Citizens

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 06.14.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House of Representatives voted again Thursday to allow the indefinite military detention of Americans, blocking an amendment th...

Blowing Billions on Nukes to Fight the (Long Dead) USSR

Jon Soltz | Posted 06.11.2013 | Politics
Jon Soltz

At a time when the budget is stretched to the breaking point because of poor decisions like the sequester, choices need to be made. If the choice is between taking care of our troops and veterans or protecting Europe from a ghost, it should be an easy choice to make.

Hillary Clinton Joins The Twittersphere

The Huffington Post | Gabrielle Dunkley | Posted 06.10.2013 | Politics

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has officially joined Twitter. Her official Twitter account, @HillaryClinton, was unlocked and ver...

Michael McAuliff

Gitmo, Indefinite Detention Battles Emerge Amid NSA Scandal

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 06.08.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- With the nation already alarmed over revelations of massive National Security Agency data collection, Congress is set to act next week o...

Michael McAuliff

Republican Says Atheist Chaplains Would Call Fallen Soldiers 'Worm Food'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 06.06.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- There are no atheists in foxholes, the saying goes. Republicans in Congress don't want them in the military chaplain corps, either. T...

Of Men and Mortals

Connor Ryan | Posted 06.04.2013 | Arts
Connor Ryan

It is truly ironic that the only way persons become immortal is through their own mortality. Men and women of past are considered great because of what they did while they were alive

Like a Bad Cough: Why Austerity Economics Lingers

Steven Conn | Posted 05.28.2013 | Business
Steven Conn

Despite the disgrace in which the case for austerity economics now resides, it is unlikely that politicians and policy-makers, either in Europe or in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives, will change course anytime soon.

An Exit Strategy From Detention at Guantanamo

Rep. Adam Smith | Posted 05.22.2013 | Politics
Rep. Adam Smith

The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay was never a good idea. It is an even worse idea now. Let's start the process to close GTMO now.

Pentagon Wants Millions To Maintain 'Inefficient' Facility

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 05.22.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President B...

Land Of Opportunity To Barren Wasteland

Robin Lewis | Posted 05.17.2013 | Business
Robin Lewis

Without the elements of trust and fairness, democracy and free market capitalism cannot work. And poll after consumer poll reveals that a greater percentage than not believes our government and the business and financial sectors are lacking both.

Land of Opportunity to Barren Wasteland, Part 2

Robin Lewis | Posted 05.01.2013 | Business
Robin Lewis

Capitalism's founder Adam Smith's "invisible hand" is indeed invisible to most of society. However, that invisible hand now belongs to big business, finance and government -- to whom it is very visible indeed.

Land of Opportunity to Barren Wasteland

Robin Lewis | Posted 04.26.2013 | Business
Robin Lewis

Think about three million empty, decaying and devalued houses following the leveraged-up mortgage crash of 2008. And what about the jobs lost, and spike in the number of people living below the poverty line?

This Tumblr Was Just Named Best Of The Year

The Huffington Post | Craig Kanalley | Posted 04.09.2013 | Technology

There are millions of Tumblrs. Billions of Tumblr posts. So what an honor it was for Stacy Lambe and Adam Smith when their "Texts From Hillary" Tum...

Fear, Security, Escape, and the Pursuit of Empire

Khalid Hanifi | Posted 04.22.2013 | GPS for the Soul
Khalid Hanifi

When Adam Smith wrote "the prosperity, ...the splendour, and ... the duration of the empire," in 1754 (the source of my song title, "The Splendor of E...

9 Reasons Republicans Love The Walking Dead

Paul Ollinger | Posted 02.05.2013 | Comedy
Paul Ollinger

Anyone who loves freedom recognizes AMC TV's zombie series The Walking Dead as an allegory for the demise of liberty after four more years under President Obama.

Why Can't Republicans Get Behind Capitalist Self-Interest?

N. E. Marsden | Posted 01.27.2013 | Politics
N. E. Marsden

I'm sick of all the palaver about Obama's so-called gifts to poor and middle-class voters. Republicans are free marketeers. Romney was virtually breastfed on Adam Smith. These people are supposed to understand capitalism. Didn't they ever hear of the invisible hand?

The Economics of Scraps: Why I May Vote for Mitt Romney (No, Seriously!)

David J. Dunn, PhD | Posted 12.24.2012 | Politics
David J. Dunn, PhD

Often, only a major crisis can make us abandon one set of beliefs and take up another. So maybe the only way to move past the economics of scraps is to make a full return to it, letting it lead us back to the precipice of 2008, and to step off into a new Great Depression.

Capitalism at the Crossroads

John Friedman | Posted 11.06.2012 | Business
John Friedman

I have never shied away from being a staunch believer in capitalism as an economic system. Not that capitalism is perfect. It is far from it, as evidenced by a myriad of environmental catastrophes, social ills and corrupt behavior.

Citizen's Book Club: Would Adam Smith Vote Obama?

Lex Paulson | Posted 09.05.2012 | Politics
Lex Paulson

Because nearly all of the economic debate between progressives and conservatives in 2012 -- reenacted ad nauseam in Congress, around water coolers, and on cable TV -- boils down to this question: Is the free market, left to itself, the greatest guarantor of human happiness?

Stewart: This Guy Is 'A D*ck'

Posted 08.08.2012 | Comedy

On Tuesday night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart had some choice words about how social media is playing into the Chick-Fil-A circus. It turns out the ...

The Bully and the Business Man

Monika Mitchell | Posted 10.03.2012 | Business
Monika Mitchell

How much human misery and suffering will it take before we finally come together as citizens and incorporate a higher moral ethic into the pursuit of profit once and for all?

My Lunch with Adam Smith

Floyd Elliot | Posted 09.30.2012 | Comedy
Floyd Elliot

When I got to the car, I saw a tidy red envelope on my windshield: a ticket. I checked: I still had half an hour on the parking time I'd bought. Freakin' Adam Smith.

Hands That Are Invisible

Craig K. Comstock | Posted 09.11.2012 | Business
Craig K. Comstock

While praising a "free market," they would thus learn to privatize the profits, and, with the help of people in government who shared their ideology or perhaps a little of their prosperity, or both, to socialize the losses -- to make the public pay for huge bad bets made by bankers.

Choose Your Intellectual Role Model

Nick Kolakowski | Posted 08.26.2012 | Home
Nick Kolakowski

For aspiring intellectuals, a role model proves all the pondering and toil can (against all odds) end in recognition, validation, and triumph.

New Allegations Against Embattled 'Minister For Murdoch'

AP | ROBERT BARR | Posted 07.24.2012 | Media

LONDON (AP) — A British minister in the hot seat for his alleged close ties to Rupert Murdoch's media empire did lobby Prime Minister David Cameron ...