Friday, April 25, 2008

The Wisdom of Ringo

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"Everything the government touches turns to crap." --Ringo Starr
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Monday, April 14, 2008

Why No Republican Should Ever Be Elected President

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Well, one reason why. Given how the media, encouraged by the politicians, see the political spectrum, any Republican administration will be ...
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Sunday, April 06, 2008

O Goody! Another Reason to Go to War!

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"Henceforth, should any danger threaten your people, America and the NATO alliance will stand with you, and no one will be able to take...
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Saturday, April 05, 2008

Newest Scribblings

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I get nervous when presidential candidates -- or their surrogates -- take up subjects that are clearly none of their business. A...
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Friday, April 04, 2008

Starting the Invasion off Right

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Unsurprisingly, the U.S. invasion of Iraq began with a bombing that killed innocents, children included. Jacob Hornberger of The Future of F...
Thursday, April 03, 2008

Herbert Spencer, Social Darwinist?

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Charles Johnson brings to our attention a revealing quotation from Herbert Spencer. For more click on "Herbert Spencer Anti-Defamation ...
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008

A Key to the Mortgage Debacle

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From Arnold Kling at EconLog : In the case of mortgage markets, the internal contradictions of regulatory policy are more of a problem than ...
Sunday, March 30, 2008

Hillary the Embellisher

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Sen. Clinton clearly lied about being under fire in Bosnia. But even if things happened exactly as she said (several times), so what? That w...
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Friday, March 28, 2008

RFK Jr., Left Libertarian?

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You show me a polluter and I'll show you a subsidy. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the ma...
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Bailout Hypocrisy

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Thud . That was the sound of the other shoe dropping. In response to severe problems in the credit markets, thanks to years of government ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Why the Peaceful Majority of Muslims Are Not Irrelevant

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A few years ago, FrontPageMag.com columnist Paul Marek wrote an article titled “ Why the Peaceful Majority Is Irrelevant ”. His thesis was t...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Only Americans Count

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The U.S. death toll in Iraq hit 4,000. You'd think there were no Iraqis or Iraqi casualties in Iraq.
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Friday, March 21, 2008

Private Protection

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I had the pleasure yesterday of attending a lecture by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, long-time libertarian writer/activist and a professor of econo...
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Was Rev. Wright Right?

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Yes and no. Most of the particulars that I heard Barack Obama's former preacher, Jeremiah Wright, cite -- the government's atomic b...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Who Said This?

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"Many of his policies did not work as intended but in the end FDR deserves great credit for having the courage to abandon failed paradi...
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Monday, March 17, 2008

(State) Capitalism in Action

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From today's Wall Street Journal : Pushed to the brink of collapse by the mortgage crisis, Bear Stearns Cos. agreed -- after prodding by...
Sunday, March 16, 2008

Privatized Profits, Socialized Losses

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The Federal Reserve's decision to underwrite the bailout of Bear Stearns, the giant investment bank that's in deep trouble because o...
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Saturday, March 15, 2008

Latest Writings

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I've been reading the news about soon-to-be-ex-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer with mixed feelings. Yes, mixed. On the one hand, there i...
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Friday, March 14, 2008

Iraq and Afghanistan Aren't the Only Occupied Countries

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I'm increasingly of the mind that the critical difference between radical libertarians -- or voluntarists, or market anarchists -- and e...
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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Casualties in Iraq

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A survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press finds that only 28 percent of Americans know that U.S. fatalities in Iraq a...
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