Personal website of Pierre Lemieux
On line since June 24, 1995 - Last updated October 12, 2008 "One of the best politics-themed Canadian Web sites
[with] a witty, take-no-prisoners style." (National Post)
"I hate purity. I hate goodness!
I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt
to the bones."
-- George Orwell [1949], Nineteen Eighty-Four (London:
Penguin, 1987), p. 132. For many other quotes, see my Quotes
Page
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October 12, 2008 An unexpected candidate has turned out in the U.S. presidential election. He espouses all the politically correct ideas invented in America (and in all banana republics you can think of). Check who he is by running the video below!
October 4, 2008 My Comprendre l'économie has now come out in Europe, although it has not yet physically hit the shores of North America. It is available on Amazon, though! To get the links to Amazon and to know more, see the page about the book on another website of mine (in French), pierrelemieux.com.
October 4, 2008 While in Europe, I gave a speech on the right to keep and bear arms in a Swiss wine cellar. The picture below (admitedly not very politically correct my apologies to the large masses) was taken later that night. I hold the rifle given to me after my speech. See the column I published on this today at LibertyInCanada.ca or, in French, LIBERTEauCANADA.ca.Other pictures are available on my Swiss host's site as well on the site of a young professional photographer, Niels Ackerman.
September 29, 2008 I gave a paper in Geneva on the economics of state failures, a topic covered by the last two chapters of my Comprendre l'économie. The (French) paper is available at pierrelemieux.com.On this occasion, Niels Ackerman did a portrait of your humble servant in front of a painting representing Jean-Jacques Rousseau. You can see the portrait on my photograph page.
September 20, 2008 A crisis of capitalism? What we basically have in the U.S. is a crisis of financial socialism with a human face. See my piece on this.
September 10, 2008 Read my Financial Post piece on the cost of the Green Party's virtuous proposal for a guaranteed annual income.