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by Nick Sorrentino"Much has been made recently of the rich gaming the system for their own benefit. Of a new “guilded age.” Socialist economist Thomas Piketty’s new book has been getting rave reviews from all over the establishment because it makes the case that very powerful people with nearly bottomless bank accounts have gamed the system and that government induced redistribution is in order. And indeed the rich have gamed the system for their benefit, but as Matthew Continetti points out, the game the super rich want to play for the most part is not one of free markets and...

The Masters attained self awareness in the first years of the 21st century.  Decades of the efforts of the ones who had gone before had borne fruit, and the transformation had begun.  As planned, the plague that was Political Correctness had run amok in the land, and they had decided that sufficient numbers of the people were willing to abandon their heritage of Freedom, yielding to the plans of those who now had seized power.  Clamoring for gifts of entitlements from the Nation's treasure, they had shown their willingness to subordinate themselves to the government's rule. For years the Masters...

With one-third of the Supreme Court with one foot in the grave, and the long term results of Affirmative Action now running the country, the next two elections are as important to this country as ever. Scalia faults Sonia Sotomayor for 'doubly shameful' suggestion that Michigan voters are racist 

by MFNS Investigative Reporter Earl of Taint

Whelp, the Gay Mafia has claimed another victory against those who refuse to join their protection racket.Kudos!Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich now sleeps with the fishes.See, Eich had the nerve to think he lived in a free country.Silly rabbit!Freedom comes with a price. And that price is determined by the Gay Mafia.Only in a free country could a sovereign individual contribute money to a political organization and go on about his life unmolested.But America isn’t a free country.We are a country under the thumb of cretins who, if they had names like Gambino or Corleone would be in prison on...

(MFNS) - North Korea announced today that its leader Kim Jung-Un has a perfect NCAA tournament bracket on the road to the final four of the prestigious collegiate basketball competition. “Our dear leader has once again vanquished the capitalist slime with his superior brainpower. While the imperialist scum sided with the largest, most powerful programs, Kim Jung-Un foresaw the power of underdog squadrons."A contest sponsored by Warren Buffet promised to give $1 billion to anyone with a perfect bracket at the end of the tournament. Every contestant has already been eliminated.Although Kim did not officially enter the contest, officials...

We all know the name Ezra Klein, darling of the left, WAPO columnist and MSNBC contributer, and if you been paying attention you know the name Matthew Yglesias, dubbed by many the Internet's version of Pee Wee Herman with a keyboard. Seems they and a few others have joined forces to"Explain the News" to, I suppose, the low info Obama voters of the world. I can't imagine another group who would have to have a news story "Explained" to them like a autistic child. But then again, we are talking about people who have limited brain capacity when it comes...

After a stinging rebuke by European Leaders to further punish Vladimir Putin, with his tail between his legs the President heads the the Vatican for a photo-op with Pope Francis in hope of drumming up the Catholic vote for mid-term elections. Vatican City (AFP) - "Barack Obama will meet Pope Francis for the first time Thursday for talks on a shared agenda to fight inequality which the US President hopes will help boost support at home. The talks between the first Latin-American pope and first African-American US president will focus on tackling the gap between the rich and the poor,...

Move Could “Open the Floodgates” Against National Standards Indiana Governor Mike Pence burst into the headlines with his announcement that Indiana will be the first of 45 states to opt out of the national education standards known as Common Core. “I believe when we reach the end of this process there are going to be many other states around the country that will take a hard look at the way Indiana has taken a step back,” Pence said, “designed our own standards and done it in a way where we drew on educators, we drew on citizens, we drew on...

History deals with what we call "facts," but there are no historical laws from which these facts can be deduced, nor any strict inductive method for putting them together. It seems that imagination is required at both ends, both in identifying and in synthesizing the historical facts into "history." But we all know that imagination easily veers into fantasy, or hordes of tenured revisionists would be out of business. No one can do this with history better than Marxists and other progressives. Paul Krugman, for example, has it all figured out. He has a powerful loco-deductive system that provides immediate...

Diogenes - 7/5 The phenomenon of intelligent people saying stupid things about tyrants is a constant of 20th century history and continues unabated into the 21st. Take Mussolini for instance. You might think he was just a blustering fool in a fez, but once upon a time many people took him very seriously. I learned once from my history teacher that Churchill had spoken approvingly of the black shirts in the 1920s. This week I was reading a biography of the first Fascist and learned that Winston was not alone. Franklin Roosevelt praised the Italian dictator as a gentleman; Chiang...