Lies of Aug 16, non-exhaustive. I’ve got a number of members of my Cabinet who are here. All of them do outstanding work day in, day out. So I couldn’t be prouder of them. First of all, this guy you should be a little familiar with because he used to be the governor of this great state — Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. (Applause.) Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.

Welcome to my world, Mark. More from Levin: “I think they want to be kingmakers; I think that if they’re not involved in making these decisions — imposing them on the rest of us — they’d just as soon be on the outside throwing bricks at the White House, at Obama, where they can raise money and empower themselves. But I honestly am starting to believe that they’d rather Obama

Today’s lies, Minnesota Aug 15. Obviously America has gone through extraordinary challenges over the last two and a half years. We’ve gone through the worst recession since the Great Depression, dating all the way back to 2007, 2008. This is a lie, the key lie of the 2012 campaign. The proximate cause of this recession was progressive housing policy, lending and investment died at the prospect and then the reality

You fucked up, you trusted us! CNS: The White House economic adviser who determined in 2009 that if President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill were passed unemployment would not go above 8 percent, now says he was wrong and that he does not think unemployment will go below 8 percent before the end of 2012–the last year of the four-year term Obama won in 2008. Jared Bernstein, the former chief economist

Not sure if it’s because I’m feeling wistful, or just miss all my 80s hair. Either way.

Time to put JHo and BH in the octagon and see what happens. Yesterday was the day of the gold bugs. Today, we denationalize money. Wendy Milling, RCM: The euro is under attack by political forces seeking self-preservation against the economic parasitism required to sustain it, and the dollar is failing through controlled but untenable devaluation. Whenever a human system fails, competing factions rush in to have their replacement solution

Remember all my once-upon-a-time crazy talk about the aims and methods of transnational progressivism? Well, now. Bill Wilson, ALG: Only now, nearly four years into the economic maelstrom of the financial crisis, do we see the real cost: national independence and sovereignty. It isn’t our money the Masters of the Universe want. It’s not land or other hard assets they crave. It’s our freedom they want, and the freedom of