Behold, a Pale Horse and its Rider’s Name Was Death

Paul Craig Roberts ^ | 05 August 2016 | Paul Craig Roberts

[Lorianne]

I just listened to Obama give Washington’s account of the situation with ISIL in Iraq and Syria.

In Obama’s account, Washington is defeating ISIL in Iraq, but Russia and Assad are defeating the Syrian people in Syria. Obama denounced Russia and the Syrian government—but not ISIL—as barbaric. The message was clear: Washington still intends to overthrow Assad and turn Syria into another Libya and another Iraq, formerly stable and prosperous countries where war now rages continually.

It sickens me to hear the President of the United States lie and construct a false reality, so I turned off the broadcast. I believe it was a press conference, and I am confident that no meaningful questions were asked.

[Nifster]

He worked in the Reagan admin but I wouldn’t credit him in that way. That is puffery on his part. Reagan and art later and Milton Friedman are the architects....

He has gone off the rails

[Arrian]

The French have been the spawn of virtually every religious heresy (Albigensianism, Jansenism; among many more) as well as secular heresy (Libertarianisn, Progressivism; etc.) inflicted on Europe since the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West. The principal driver was their Enlightenment, the handiwork of the likes of revolutionaries, among them, Diderot, Rousseau, St.Just and Voltaire.
Apparently you are oblivious to the historical record yet glibly call Rockwell a loon; who identified the problem and the culprits???
Try the Library. It’s the stone building w/the books on the shelves.

[Pelham]

“Puffery on his part”? So, somehow in your mind he invented the awards that both Reagan and the French granted him? That’s a good trick.

It’s obvious that recent economic history isn’t your strong suit. If you had followed the development of supply side arguments for tax reform that began in the 1970s you wouldn’t post such nonsense. Roberts was a major player in that debate and those who do know that history are well aware of that fact. And it wasn’t just Republicans in the House influenced by Roberts and his crew, it included Democrat Senators Russell Long and Lloyd Bentson, and it resulted in the major capital gains tax reduction signed by Jimmy Carter in 1978.

I assume that ‘art later’ is simply a misprint for Art Laffer. If so it’s especially ironic that you would list Laffer as an architect of Reagan’s program considering that he never worked for the Reagan administration while Roberts did, and when it comes to self-puffery no one in the world of economics comes close to Art Laffer.