Thoughts

Save Bradley. The soldier who leaked the video to Wikileaks? Sorry. No dice. People die in war: People kill intentionally in war. All sorts of people die by accident in

The NYT posted an article today titled The Economics of Libertarianism, Revealed. And the usual NYT crowd followed with critical comments. Which is useful. Because we get to see what

Regarding Tech and Storage, and the idea of ‘finite content’ as an allegory to the ‘end of history’: Humans are notoriously victims of boiling-the-frog biases: they cannot sense long term

Another silly season: A sure sign of recession or recovery? Divorces and breakups. Yet another animal spirit, cognitive dissonance, epistemic failure from our inability to isolate environmental signals. People breaking

An End To Nato, “Mike DiBaggio” from The Paleolibertarian Digest There was once a time when the US hated piracy so much they went to war over it, but that

Mariam Melikadze at Adamsmith.org references the movie 28 Days in order to criticize irrational and premature regulation. “And so, much like of the opening scenes of an apocalyptic movie, science

Mark Thoma suggests that the government should both use Tax Cuts and Spending to improve an economy. Which is a pretty common sentiment among economists. Nothing new there. He is

Germany Moves East Germany and Russia are now more politically aligned because they are now economically aligned. Europe will have: 1) the German-Russian block, which will reclaim the eastern block

Stratfor has released an article today that suggests that German and Russia have more to offer each other than does the rest of Europe. Russia has intelligent labor, and resources,

Entitled “Payback Time”, this NYT article by Steven Erlanger states that “Crisis Imperils Liberal Benefits Long Expected by Europeans” I’d like to clarify this argument a bit with the following

THE NYT IS AN ORGANIZED CRIME SYNDICATE Why is the NYT an Organized Crime Syndicate? Because the NYT has committed as much journalistic fraud, at a greater scale, as any

Latvia is often cited as an example for Greece as it undergoes a brutal internal devaluation while keeping its currency pegged to the euro….. Yes, that’s right: the oh-so-virtuous Baltics

Over on Economists View, where the left seems to hang on like dirty ruffians intent on downgrading the local bar, Mark Thoma posts a misleading article: “About That Mediterranean Work

In taking a survey on liberal and conservative morality, I came across a question that asked me to define morality, and gave it an answer that I thought I would

Joseph Postell of the Heritage Foundation, whom I admire, posts an article in today’s Washington Times entitled Constitutional Decline. Keeping the tradition of picking on your friends, because it’s simply

Arnold Kling continues one of his themes by writing on one of my favorite topics, “The Churches Of Government”, where he laments the overlaps and conflicts between different conservative and

The right is very angry right now, even more angry than the early Clinton years. And they are only going to get more agitated. De -masculinizing the military was Clinton’s

Mark, over on CARPE DIEM quotes Mises, who said: The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and

Default, Devaluation, Or What? Is there anything more to say about Greece? Actually, I think so. Krugman goes on to comment on the loveliness of more debt. Why? Because debt

Think of how much easier the job of government is, when instead of seeking competitive increases in production, it seeks redistribution and reduced unemployment. The first requires that you have