The View from Abroad

Hard hitting commentary from an American living overseas

Kenn Jacobine

Kenn Jacobine
Bio
Kenn Jacobine is an international educator currently teaching History for the American School of Doha, Qatar. He has also taught at international schools in Ecuador, Mali, and Zambia. His political transformation took place over the course of many years. Starting out naively as a big state liberal, he became a Reagan Republican in 1982. Disillusionment set in with the realization that small government rhetoric rarely translated into limited government actions. On Christmas day 1992, he became a libertarian. In 1994, Kenn ran for the State Senate in Pennsylvania on the Libertarian Party ticket garnering 5 percent of the vote. He has been active in freedom causes ever since.

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Salon.com
March 25, 2012 02:15PM
“Oscar, Thanks for reading and your comments. I think only time will tell how wrong Krugman is and how correct Austrians are. You can't say you haven't…”
About: Keynesians are Clueless
March 02, 2012 08:35AM
“Baltimore here is the thing: if the rest of their military is antiquated and broken down what makes you think they have the ability to build nuclear de…”
About: Just Who is a Threat to Whom?
February 10, 2012 02:02PM
“Bob, The inflationary policies of the Federal Reserve is what devastates the working poor. Since 1914 the dollar has lost over 95 percent of its value.…”
About: Romney Does Dislike the Working Poor
February 10, 2012 01:08PM
“Even if a business needs one more employee they may not hire him/her if paying them $7.25 an hour is not economically worth it. Additionally, as Romne…”
About: Romney Does Dislike the Working Poor
February 10, 2012 08:27AM
“Paul, You are talking in absolutes. Of course there are times when cheaper products lack quality and therefore strong demand from consumers. But the o…”
About: Romney Does Dislike the Working Poor
February 09, 2012 11:43PM
“Paul, I still haven't heard you disprove the economic principle that says the higher the price of something the less buyers there are, the lower the pri…”
About: Romney Does Dislike the Working Poor
February 09, 2012 03:33PM
“Larry is absolutely correct. The problem with you statists Paul is that you are always trying to change proven economic laws. How prices affect suppl…”
About: Romney Does Dislike the Working Poor
February 09, 2012 02:34PM
“Paul is the one who should get the Nobel Prize for economics. After all, he knows about as much about economics as Obama knows about making peace and…”
About: Romney Does Dislike the Working Poor
February 09, 2012 06:23AM
“Isn't the guaranteed minimum income welfare? I mean how many failed social schemes do you statists want to impose before you realize these schemes do…”
About: Romney Does Dislike the Working Poor
January 14, 2012 09:15AM
“Courage and the belief that right will overcome injustice.”
About: Ron Paul is Nibbling at Romney’s Heels
December 22, 2011 07:49PM
“Given that our military budget is exponentially more than the next closest country, you would think it is a no-brainer to cut at least a hundred billio…”
About: We Can’t Afford the Payroll Tax Cut Extension
December 22, 2011 04:53AM
“Froggy, Where does the federal government get the money to loan to the states?”
About: We Can’t Afford the Payroll Tax Cut Extension
December 22, 2011 04:53AM
“Froggy, Where does the federal government get the money to loan to the states?”
About: We Can’t Afford the Payroll Tax Cut Extension
November 30, 2011 01:03PM
“I was a liberal at one point in my life, then a conservative, but I came to the conclusion that there must be something else out there. I came to that…”
About: Washington Should Follow Laissez-Faire
November 30, 2011 09:57AM
“Your analysis is a joke. I think you are concerned about Ron Paul's rise in the polls and feel the need to rewrite history. Greenspan is a libertaria…”
About: Washington Should Follow Laissez-Faire
November 29, 2011 10:24PM
“Paul, Libertari ans had nothing to do with the crisis and you know it. The only libertarian in government during all that time was Ron Paul and he's bee…”
About: Washington Should Follow Laissez-Faire
November 29, 2011 11:31AM
“The fact is that conservatives are really liberals who con the American people with their campaign rhetoric to get elected. Reagan was the biggest spe…”
About: A Conservative Solution to Conservative Solutions
November 02, 2011 02:18PM
“It is amazing how most Republicans fall over each other out Israeling each other. This is the reason our foreign policy is so messed up - Jewish folks…”
About: Romney’s Foreign Policy would be Disastrous for America
October 26, 2011 12:46PM
“From Bloomberg September 24, 2008 MARIA BARTIROMO "Mr. President, in 1999 you signed a bill essentially rolling back Glass-Steagall and deregulating…”
About: The Gold Standard would Prevent Economic Bubbles
October 25, 2011 11:35PM
“If the production of gold needed to increase to meet the demand for it the market would respond and mining companies would increase production. For th…”
About: The Gold Standard would Prevent Economic Bubbles
October 25, 2011 01:16PM
“Paul, You oversimplify the issue. As Dr. Skousen points out we were not operating on the classical gold standard leading up to and during the GD. Read…”
About: The Gold Standard would Prevent Economic Bubbles
October 09, 2011 01:09PM
“Well, living in the Middle East I may be on their list already.”
About: Why was al-Awlaki Denied His Constitutional Rights as an Ame
September 26, 2011 09:39AM
“So you think it is alright for government to pick and choose winners in industry?”
About: Is the Solyndra Affair an Impeachable Offense?
September 21, 2011 11:32PM
“Well said Tommy and Larry. The thing that is incredible for me is that so called progressives want to ignore the fact that Fed policy hurts those spec…”
About: A Return to the Gold Standard is a Must
September 13, 2011 09:43AM
“I was responding to Ben by referring to national socialism not socialism. National socialism does not destroy private ownership of the means of produc…”
About: Revisionism is Alive and Well
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