Accusing Obama of Keynesiasm or socialism or crony-capitalism as the rest of us Obama critics are doing is damning enough.

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Ironically, if Castro's ploy worked and the embargo were lifted, it seems quite likely that the effect would be precisely the kinds of capitalism that John Paul II most legitimately criticizes -- the crony capitalism or klepto-capitalism practiced by authoritarian regimes of the Left and the Right.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Traditionally, says Jan McMillen, a gaming-industry expert at the University of Western Australia, Asia has either prohibited betting, or doled out exclusive privileges to well-connected crony capitalists.

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Like, for example, whether or not anti-carbon regulatory obstructionism based upon flawed science and crony politics will continue to escalate energy costs, kill jobs, and sabotage success-proven free market competition.

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The real puzzle is to explain the exceptions: why crony capitalism has flourished in parts of fast-growing Asia or Kremlin banditry in Russia.

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