Martin C. Winer

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Here are the links for Ron Paul’s speech from his Rally for the Republic:
(1/3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGONDUxUxc4
(2/3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbzdOFhDydc
(3/3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPO9mPCqG70
I’m 100% behind his commitment to restore the power over issuing money back to the government.  His monetary policy is a breath of fresh air with promises to eliminate income tax and abolish the Federal Reserve.
As for his policy of non-interventionism, [...]

http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/massey.html
The 2008 Massey Lecture – Payback by Margaret Atwood is available for listening via streaming.
Atwood deals with the moral and social aspects of debt and finance.  This timely lecture series is both thought provoking and insightful.
Interesting Quote:
(From Lecture 3)
“Put a miller, a weaver, and a tailor in a bag, and shake them, the first that [...]

Being foreclosed on?  No worries if you follow the example of Jerome Daly, a lawyer and political activist of sorts, who successfully had his mortgage declared null and void. 
In order for a mortgage agreement to be legal, the bank must put up legal ‘consideration’.  That’s a fancy lawyer word for ‘money’ or some such other [...]

News of the latest diatribe against Orthodox Judaism crossed my computer screen recently.  In his first book, R. D. Gold’s “Bondage of the Mind” attempts to lay out solid counter proofs against the supposed moral authority of the Orthodox.  In my 34th year of life this isn’t the first attempt I’ve seen nor is it [...]

I never thought that I’d see Walmart as the victim of anything — indeed I see them as the root of most things retail and evil — but this story gave me a moment of pause:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/injured-woman-wins-wal-mart-saga/
Deborah Shank, a Walmart employee was tragically injured in a car accident. Her medical expenses were covered by the [...]