Category Archives: Politics

Why Can’t I Make Ends Meet? (Redux)

By Malik Abdul Rasheed | September 28, 2009

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: In no way shape or form is this post endorsing the use of usury (interest) when terms like FED funds rate, credit, mortgage, stock market, investment, savings, loan, borrow, etc are used. This is merely an explanation of my fact finding mission on the different economic theories that have impacted the thinking of [...]

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Cultural Vehicles: Self Consciousness vs Channel Zero

By Malik Abdul Rasheed | April 28, 2009

PLEASE LISTEN TO THE SHORT LECTURE BY DR. AMOS WILSON IN THE AUDIO PLAYER BELOW BEFORE READING THE POST. THIS LECTURE IS SOMEWHAT OF A PREREQUISITE TO UNDERSTAND THE TOPIC OF THIS POST

I’ve been thinking about writing this blog post for a while now. I often break one of the biggest cardinal rules of blogging [...]

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What are Earmarks Anyway?

By Malik Abdul Rasheed | March 8, 2009

Embedded video from CNN Video

So this morning I was watching John King from CNN grill White House budget director Peter Orszag, on the earmarks in the Omnibus Spending bill. I was somewhat annoyed by John King’s relentless questioning of the earmarks and asking for the impossible, which was for Omnibus stimulus to have zero earmarks [...]

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