The Twitter Left is replacing the Left over Left
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What if the food supply was privatised?
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Pharmaceutical Regulation: A Matter of Life and Death | Sam Peltzman
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What is television for – facts, confirmation or infotainment?
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Is Growth of Government Inevitable? | Sam Peltzman video
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Murray Rothbard on classical and modern international law and statesmanship
11 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
Thatcher on the fall of communism
10 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
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500 years of generations, and their Moniker
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Reagan at Brandenburg gate
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When Boris Yeltsin went on a 20 minute unscheduled grocery shopping visit in Clear Lake, Texas 1989
10 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in liberalism Tags: fall of communism, fall of the Berlin wall, The Great Fact
…a Yeltsin biographer later wrote that on the plane ride to Yeltsin’s next destination, Miami, he was despondent. He couldn’t stop thinking about the plentiful food at the grocery store and what his countrymen had to subsist on in Russia.
In Yeltsin’s own autobiography, he wrote about the experience at Randall’s, which shattered his view of communism, according to pundits.
Two years later, he left the Communist Party and began making reforms to turn the economic tide in Russia. You can blame those frozen Jell-O Pudding pops.
“When I saw those shelves crammed with hundreds, thousands of cans, cartons and goods of every possible sort, for the first time I felt quite frankly sick with despair for the Soviet people,” Yeltsin wrote. “That such a potentially super-rich country as ours has been brought to a state of such poverty! It is terrible to think of it.”
via When Boris Yeltsin went grocery shopping in Clear Lake – The Texican.
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