Saturday, July 30, 2011

TGIF: The New Fed

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“Things are seldom what they seem.” –W.S. Gilbert, “H.M.S. Pinafore” Nowhere is this more true than in government – which means we have to w...

Op-Ed: “Shared Sacrifice”: Obama's Demagoguery

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The most offensive claim made during the debt-ceiling controversy is that there’s a moral equivalence between cutting government spending an...
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Default ... or Renege?

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Via Don Boudreaux, Roger Garrison notes that one cannot choose to default. As he wrote to Boudreaux: You mention, though, that the governme...
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I've Figured It Out

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The bond rating is a gauge of taxpayer docility. Published with Blogger-droid v1.7.4
Thursday, July 28, 2011

How I Feel about the Government's Debt

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From the incomparable Lysander Spooner: This business of lending blood-money is one of the most thoroughly sordid, cold-blooded, and crimina...
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Monday, July 25, 2011

More on the Debt Crisis

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A government that is too big to fail is too big .
Saturday, July 23, 2011

The Debt Controversy

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Here are a couple of things I published yesterday on the debt controversy: TGIF: Bondholders and Victims Op-Ed: The Debt-Limit Crisis
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Greatest Commercial Ever?

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I can't resist sharing this classic Coca Cola commercial. It brings a tear to my eye. Watch the men's faces closely. The spot says s...
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Bryan Caplan on Pacifism

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I highly recommend listening to Bryan Caplan's debate with Ilya Somin on the question of pacifism (i.e., opposition to war, not oppositi...
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Sunday, July 10, 2011

Two More Things

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TGIF: About that Debt Limit Op-ed: Don't Support the Troops -- Bring Them Home
Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Some Things I Never Posted

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TGIF: Default in the Future Op-ed: The Isolationist Red Herring Enjoy!
Friday, July 01, 2011

Cory Maye Update

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This just in from Radley Balko on Facebook regarding Cory Maye : Wonderful news from Mississippi: Cory Maye was offered, and accepted, a ma...
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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Good for New York!

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I’ll say it again. Good for New York!
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Friday, June 24, 2011

TGIF: Of Malice and Straw Men

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We libertarians must be onto something. Why else would critics work so hard to construct straw men to demolish rather than contending with o...

Op-Ed: The Unchanging Imperial Paradigm

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Despite President Obama’s trumpeted force drawdown in Afghanistan, by the end of next summer more than twice as many U.S. troops will be fig...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

TGIF: Obama's Economics Lesson

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President Obama apparently thinks that until the latest recession, no business realized it might reduce its workforce by substituting machin...
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Op-Ed: Obama's War Is Peace

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President Obama demonstrates his utter contempt for the American people — and the law — when he says the War Powers Resolution does not appl...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Killing Them Softly

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The White House says the Libya intervention is not subject to the War Powers Resolution because what the U.S. government is doing there -- ...
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Sunday, June 12, 2011

TGIF: Affording It All

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People who don’t understand — or who don’t care about — economics say funny things. Well, they would be funny if they weren’t so damaging wh...

Op-Ed: The Media Distract the Public from War

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If one is to judge by the tone of the television commentators, America must be deep in a crisis. Long stretches of cable time are devoted t...
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