Author: Curt Doolittle

I love my country. The world is a better place because of the American Constitution. And the evidence is clear that everyone has been better off having been an English colony than a French one. But the colonists declared independence largely to escape paying the costs incurred by England in protecting the colonies during the Seven Years War. Which was at the very least, an unjust avoidance of responsibility by the colonists. Personally, I would prefer we had remained a colony. And I would still prefer a King or Queen to a president. History is a better thing to admire than politicians, and the evidence appears to suggest that monarchs were far better governors that our elected representatives have been. Despite the comforting untruths we tell ourselves. I still like the fireworks. 🙂

http://www.capitalismv3.com/?page_id=1145Took the BBC survey. I’ve read 44 of 100 BBC Novels. Unfortunately there are Lots of complaints about that list since it was published. Politically weighted. Female weighted. (Where is Heinlein? or Cormack McCarthy? Advice and Consent? Bonfire of the Vanities? Atlas Shrugged? How much Jane Eyre should any list contain?). But it’s a list.

I’ll pimp my own book list:

http://www.capitalismv3.com/?p=3124Paul Krugman does it yet again. Sigh.

http://www.capitalismv3.com/?p=3119The left’s hollow fantasy in a Center Right Society.

http://www.capitalismv3.com/?p=3112The only people that think about Marxism any longer are silly people in the liberal arts who are so invested in the Marxian fantasy that they cannot change even if they wanted to, and simply haven’t died off yet. Marxism, like the French Rationalism that Marx took his inspiration from, is anti-empirical: contrary to the evidence. It’s too bad that the French and Marx failed to understand that English Liberalism w

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/sources_assault_case_against_apart_9p7wWKT0k7qa8X2Qwt8lZITurns out the Maid was an experienced con artist.

http://nihcm.org/images/stories/NIHCM-CostBrief-Email.pdf5% of the US population spends 50% of healthcare dollars. 50% of the US population spends only 3% of healthcare dollars.

Keynesian Stagnationism is diametrically opposed to Creative Destruction. We cannot forecast the future. But we can choose to allow ourselves to build it. The western social technologies of competition, science, the rule of law, consumerism, and the work ethic are just that – technologies for constant reorganization. And the reason we could develop those technologies was Fraternalism:Aristocracy.

Priceless Insights: Amanda’s favorite horse trainer. While teaching a Dressage maneuver, where the horse gets lazy: “It’s essentially a Catholic sport. Make the horse feel guilty.”

http://www.capitalismv3.com/?p=3081The origins of conservatism