Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Excusing Polanski

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It is truly sickening to see Hollywood types make excuses for Roman Polanski, the slimeball director who drugged and boozed up a 13-year-old...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Here We Go Again

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I saw a television commercial today in which a lending company urged people to refinance their homes. It made a special appeal to those who ...
Saturday, September 26, 2009

Take It Off the Table

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...the military option, that is.

The Art of Politics

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Politics: the art of seducing people to cooperate in their own exploitation.

TGIF: Bastiat in Poland

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Last week I mentioned that I traveled to Warsaw, Poland, to participate in the Liberty Weekend Devoted to the Life and Legacy of Frédéric Ba...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

October Freeman

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The October Freeman is now online. Contributors include Jim Powell on government incompetence, Kevin Carson on intellectual property, Jame...
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Sunday, September 20, 2009

TGIF: Monsieur Bastiat, Call Your Office

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Tomorrow [i.e., yesterday] I’ll lecture at the Liberty Weekend Dedicated to Fr é d é ric Bastiat, sponsored by the Polish-American Foundati...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

A Modest Health-Care Proposal

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Enough dithering! President Obama says it’s time to act on health care. I agree. Read the rest of my latest FFF op-ed here .
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Friday, September 11, 2009

Let's Hear It for One-Party Autocracy

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One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can a...
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TGIF - ObamaCare: Status Quo on Steroids

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Let’s begin by noting that the so-called health-insurance companies deserve little sympathy. As they exist today, they are very much creatur...

Ten Lessons from 9/11

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1. Killing one or many innocents, regardless of one's grievances, is monstrous. This elementary principle would seem to apply to George ...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Forcing Insurance Companies to Cover Preexisting Conditions Is Immoral

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The Christian Science Monitor today published my op-ed on the fundamental dishonesty of President Obama’s healthcare proposals. Read “Forci...
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Obama Speech

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Predictable crap. How many times does it have to be demolished? It was nothing but theater. The objective was to get good reviews from the p...

Obama's Message to Kids

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From Barack Obama's speech to schoolchildren , which even many conservatives praised: And even when you're struggling, even when yo...
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Friday, September 04, 2009

Health-Care “Reformers” Duck the Hard Questions

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Advocates of what is called health-care “reform” must lack confidence in their case. Were they sure that more government control of medicine...
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TGIF: From 1944 to Nineteen Eighty-Four

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I’m inclined to think of George Orwell and F. A. Hayek at the same time. Both showed great courage in writing the truth, undaunted by the co...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

Kennedy Op-ed in Star-Tribune

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My latest Future of Freedom Foundation op-ed, on Ted Kennedy, was published by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune here .
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Friday, August 28, 2009

TGIF: Proposers versus Producers

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Why do people who really make us better off get nowhere near the attention when they die that prominent national politicians get? The rest o...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Bye, Teddy

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We knew ye all too well and liked little of what we saw. You stayed around far too long, spending our money and finding ways to run our live...
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Friday, August 21, 2009

Obama's Health-Insurance Cartel

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President Obama and other advocates of nationalized health insurance have tried a variety of sales pitches, which indicates their difficult...
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