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The bourgeois tyranny of the fully-abled
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A group of “leading conservative lawyers”—a phrase never confused with “U.S. Marines”—has produced an embarrassingly pompous letter denouncing Liz Cheney for demanding the names of attorneys at the Justice Department who formerly repres ...
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Happy Thursday thy sons!
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Reading some of the articles today (like in the NatPo at left) about V.P. Joe Biden’s humiliating failure in inspiring peace talks in the middle east between Israel and its haters, just by being there (because he certainly didn’t come a ...
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Mar 11, 2010
| Author: Don Boudreaux
| Source: Cafe Hayek
A headline in today’s Wall Street Journal reads “Obama Details Effort to Double Exports Over Five Years.”
Translation: “Obama Details Effort to Increase Corporate Welfare Over Five Years.”
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Mar 11, 2010
| Author: Don Boudreaux
| Source: Cafe Hayek
If you scroll down at this link, you’ll find a video of my colleague Walter Williams discussing the U.S. Census.
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Mar 11, 2010
| Author: Don Boudreaux
| Source: Cafe Hayek
Here’s a letter that I sent to the Washington Post:
George Will wisely warns against reason unreasonably applied (“As a progressive, Obama hews to the Wilsonian tradition,” March 11). Pres. Obama and his ilk are guided by an irrationa ...
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The Harper regime is putting forward a proposal to make it easier for police to conduct random, suspicionless searches of people's person by introducing legislation that would make it legal for police to randomly stop and compel drivers ...
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If your job was to manage an asset and, over the period of your supervision, that asset lost 94% of its value, you'd probably be looking for work right now. But that's not how government works. It's definitely not how...
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You are getting fleeced, you are getting fleeced... Leaked documents from Skills Development Scotland (SDS) blamed a “lack of coordination” and claimed the problem was “prevalent” across the country. But Mr Gray said told MSPs at First ...
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Justice Stephen Breyer was one of the four dissenting voices in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the landmark Supreme Court case ruling that the Second Amendment right to bear arms is an individual right, rather than a collective ...
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Work it, journalist! Perpetuate those myths like the one that all liberals and leftists are…. why they’re brilliant! Perhaps too intelligent, while at the same time describing all small and big-C conservatives and Republicans as dumb- ...
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Markets in everything
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Mar 11, 2010
| Author: Gerry Nicholls
| Source: Making Sense with Nicholls
This just in ... OK it may have been in for a while, but I just found about it.
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Mar 10, 2010
| Author: Jesse Kline
| Source: The Shotgun: The blog of the Western Standard
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Mar 10, 2010
| Author: David Friedman
| Source: Ideas
In a number of previous posts, I have described what I am looking for—a pocket computer/pda/internet appliance/phone. For those who share my hobby of window shopping gadgets, with at least some possibility of eventually buying one, here ...
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Mar 10, 2010
| Author: David Friedman
| Source: Ideas
One of the skills that colleges are looking for in their incoming students is the ability to write. Currently, they have two ways of judging it. One is the short essay that is part of the SAT writing exam, the other is the collection of ...
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Mar 10, 2010
| Author: Hugh MacIntyre
| Source: The Shotgun: The blog of the Western Standard
Nunavut is set to try and ban alcohol products that originate from an EU country. This is in retaliation of the EU ban on seal products. I have a few questions about this: 1. Do they expect this to hurt...
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Mar 10, 2010
| Author: David Friedman
| Source: Ideas
We spent last week visiting colleges that my son is thinking of applying to. The experience reinforced the impression I had earlier gotten from web pages—that what Harvard (and, mutatis mutandis, Vassar and ...) wants are students who d ...
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Mar 10, 2010
| Author: Hugh MacIntyre
| Source: Freedom Is My Nationality
Nunavut is set to try and ban alcohol products that originate from an EU country. This is in retaliation of the EU ban on seal products. I have a few questions about this:
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Mar 10, 2010
| Author: Russ Roberts
| Source: Cafe Hayek
In this post, I disagreed with Menzie Chinn and argued that CBO estimates of the impactof the stimulus are not estimates. Charles Steele writes in a comment:
CBO’s approach *is* an analysis of what stimulus actually did; such analysis ...
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Mar 10, 2010
| Author: Hugh MacIntyre
| Source: The Shotgun: The blog of the Western Standard
Ron Paul is an openly libertarian politician who supports the concept of free trade. Yet he has been on the record as being against NAFTA. In today’s National Post they are reporting that Ron Paul is part of a movement...
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Mar 10, 2010
| Author: Hugh MacIntyre
| Source: Freedom Is My Nationality
Ron Paul is an openly libertarian politician who supports the concept of free trade. Yet he has been on the record as being against NAFTA. In today’s National Post they are reporting that Ron Paul is part of a movement in Congress to ta ...
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Mar 10, 2010
| Author: Don Boudreaux
| Source: Cafe Hayek
Here’s the abstract of George Selgin’s excellent new article, “Central Banks as Sources of Financial Instability,” published in The Independent Review:
The present financial crisis shows how central banks can fuel the financial booms ...
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Mar 10, 2010
| Author: Don Boudreaux
| Source: Cafe Hayek
Writing in Investor’s Business Daily, Robert Higgs documents the fact that private investment is drying up in the U.S. – and he explains why. Here’s a key selection:
Unfortunately, while private investment is the engine of economic gr ...
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Mar 10, 2010
| Author: Hugh MacIntyre
| Source: The Shotgun: The blog of the Western Standard
I had been encouraged by the news that the government would take steps to stop the growth of the civil service, at least until the deficit was resolved. Yet it seems that my more natural pessimism would have been more...
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Mar 10, 2010
| Author: Hugh MacIntyre
| Source: Freedom Is My Nationality
I had been encouraged by the news that the government would take steps to stop the growth of the civil service, at least until the deficit was resolved. Yet it seems that my more natural pessimism would have been more appropriate.
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When people feel before they think: In interviews, however, two former senior commanders in the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) told the BBC that the vast majority of the money was stolen by rebels to buy weapons for their fig ...
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Like statist like son. Mike Layton is running for Toronto's City Council: If elected, Mike Layton would be continuing a family tradition of politics. His great-great grand-uncle was a father of confederation, his great-grandfather was a ...
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Mar 9, 2010
| Author: Don Boudreaux
| Source: Cafe Hayek
Here’s a letter that I sent to the Wall Street Journal:
Bret Stephens interprets Iraq’s recent democratic election as proof that western modernity, with all of its marvels and freedoms, is dawning in that country (“Iraqis Embrace Democ ...
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