Month: March 2014

Lew Rockwell – by Laurence M. Vance

David E. Settje, Faith and War: How Christians Debated the Cold and Vietnam Wars (NYU Press, 2011), xi + 233 pgs., hardcover, $36.

This informative book reminds us that the divide that has existed between Christians over the issues of war and militarism since World War II has usually been a theological one. I mean this in the sense that Christians with a more liberal theological outlook have generally disdained war and militarism even as their conservative Christian counterparts have generally supported these things. As a conservative Christian, I shake my head in amazement that so many of my brethren have been hoodwinked by the state to support its wars, its military, and its foreign policy, whether in the name of fighting communism or terrorism.   Continue reading “Christians and the Communist Boogeyman”

Port Clinton News Herald – by Kristina Smith

FREMONT — Three people are dead and an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper who was pinned between vehicles is in stable condition after a more than 50-vehicle pileup Wednesday on the Ohio Turnpike.

Those killed in the first crash zone – that involved approximately 16 vehicles – have been identified as Hannah Matheny, 20, of Parma, who was a passenger in a Ford Focus and Grzegorz A. Piwowarczyk, 42, of Palatine, Ill.,who was driving a commercial vehicle.   Continue reading “3 dead, trooper stable in turnpike pileup; 1 lane reopens”

Mises Daily – by Bryan Cheang

Herbert Spencer was born into a nineteenth-century world where the traditional logic of imperialism interacted with new developments like the Industrial Revolution, and new ideas like free trade and liberalism that emerged out of the Enlightenment of the previous century. The key to understanding Spencer’s importance is to realize that he was a radical proponent of laissez faire, individualism, natural rights, and capitalism. His call for the limitation of state power was so extensive that it included an individual’s right to “ignore the state,” that is, to “drop connection with the state — to relinquish protection and refuse paying toward its support.” These views were strongly articulated in his book Social Statics, considered by Murray Rothbard to be “the greatest single work of libertarian political philosophy ever written.”[1]   Continue reading “Herbert Spencer, Freedom, and Empire”

Bloomberg – by Greg Quinn

U.S. popular support for TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline is slipping, according to a Nanos Research Group poll.

The percentage of Americans who support or somewhat support the project fell to 62 percent in telephone polling through March 3, compared with 74 percent in April 2013, the Nanos data show. Those opposed to the project climbed to 18 percent of respondents, up from 14 percent, and people who were unsure doubled to 10 percent.   Continue reading “U.S. Keystone Pipeline Support Falls to 62% in Nanos Poll”

BBC News

NJ.com – by Seth Augenstein/The Star-Ledger

 

NEWARK — A gasoline tanker exploded on McCarter Highway early this morning and burned through thousands of gallons of gasoline, shutting the highway and interrupting statewide train service through Newark Penn Station, authorities said.

 

The tanker and a passenger car collided on the highway in the area of Murray Street around 1:30 a.m., said Sgt. Ronald Glover, a police spokesman.   Continue reading “Newark tanker truck explosion leads to traffic, train delays”

Industry Week – by Steve Minter

Government approval of pending applications for liquefied natural gas export terminals would help diversify energy sources for U.S. allies and provide hundreds of thousands of jobs in America, according to an American Petroleum Institute official.

“For the first time in generations, the United States is an energy superpower,” Erik Milito, API’s director of upstream and industry operations, told a press conference call. “And the world – especially Europe and countries like Russia, China, and India – is watching closely to see if American policymakers are ready to harness that power on the international stage.”   Continue reading “API: Energy ‘Superpower’ US Needs to Move Now on LNG Exports”

World Events and the Bible

(Source: The Hill) – The Obama administration on Tuesday said U.S. military drills in Eastern Europe “speak in a clear voice” to Russia, but that the White House still hopes for a diplomatic solution.

A U.S. Navy destroyer plans to take part in military exercises with Romanian and Bulgarian warships in the Black Sea, just across the water from the Crimean Peninsula. In Poland, U.S. fighter jets plan to participate in joint exercises.   Continue reading “White House: Russia Should Note US Military Exercises”

Wall Street Journal – by ANDY PASZTOR

U.S. investigators suspect that Malaysia Airlines 3786.KU -4.08% Flight 370 stayed in the air for about four hours past the time it reached its last confirmed location, according to two people familiar with the details, raising the possibility that the plane could have flown on for hundreds of additional miles under conditions that remain murky.

Aviation investigators and national security officials believe the plane flew for a total of five hours, based on data automatically downloaded and sent to the ground from the Boeing Co. BA +0.31% 777’s engines as part of a routine maintenance and monitoring program.   Continue reading “U.S. Investigators Suspect Missing Airplane Flew On for Hours”

CNN

Austin, Texas (CNN) — An intoxicated driver fleeing police plowed his car into a crowd at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, killing two people, authorities said early Thursday.

The man and woman killed were riding their light motorcycles, said Art Acevedo, chief of the Austin Police Department.

At least 23 others were hospitalized, some with multiple internal injuries.   Continue reading “2 killed when intoxicated driver plows car into crowd at SXSW, police say”

New York Post – by Michael Gray

A Manhattan trader was killed Tuesday morning by a speeding Long Island Rail Road commuter train, marking at least the seventh suicide of a financial professional this year.

Edmund (Eddie) Reilly, 47, a trader at Midtown’s Vertical Group, jumped in front of an LIRR train at 6 a.m. near the Syosset train station.

He was declared dead at the scene.   Continue reading “Trader kills self in finance world’s latest suicide”

Economy Watch

The largest U.S.-based companies are keeping nearly $1.95 trillion in profits in low-tax offshore accounts, according to the latest Bloomberg analysis, with tech companies such as Microsoft, Apple and IBM among the worst offenders.

Reviewing securities filings from 307 multinational corporations, Bloomberg found that the companies had added $206 billion to their stockpiles of offshore profits last year, an 11.8 percent increase from 2012.   Continue reading “US Companies Stashing $1.95 Trillion In Profits Overseas”