Liberty
Apple Glorifies Replacing Real With Fake
John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist dissects a recent Apple advertisement. If nothing else, Apple’s horrible ad announcing the new iPad Pro has the virtue of being brutally honest. The…
Consumerism
Liberty
Barbie: The New Spokeswoman for Capitalism
Lately, my social media feeds have been full of Barbie-branded memes, AI-generated photos that you can put a picture of yourself and “become an instant Barbie,” and pink. Lots and…
Education
What the Left really thinks about school choice families
Consider this passage from Rob Schofield of N.C. Policy Watch: Think about it: School can be hard. You’re a parent with less-than-perfect recollections of your own school experience. The news…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
$240 Billion
Interesting piece in The Atlantic that contends it’s so easy to shop, and stuff is so inexpensive, that we’re becoming a nation of hoarders. In 2017, Americans spent $240 billion—twice…
Liberty
He doesn’t skip the ads
Theodore Dalrymple muses about unexpected attractions during a recent walk through the Geneva airport. Two of the advertisements, however, caught my attention. One appealed to rebellion, the other to daring.…
Liberty
Chapel Hill/Carrboro Schools Superintendent Nervous About Competition?
Throw competitive forces into the mix of virtually any industry or situation, and everybody involved steps up their game. That’s one of the reasons the school-choice reformers in the legislature…
Liberty
We’re Third-World, Might We Try for Fourth?
Now, we’ve really done it. Romanians are reaching out to Western North Carolina’s poor. As an act of corporate gifting, Only Fruit Bar donated $2500 to help dozens more children…
Liberty
Earth Scare
The proposed plan to get the City of Asheville’s residents to reduce landfilled waste by 50 percent by 2035 calls attention to the fact that the recession caused such a…
Liberty
Dear Santa, Please Bring Hot Wax and Liposuction
I saw this said “Free Market,” so I had to check it out. I must say, I don’t get it, except if Molton is trying to say freemarketeers are fat…
Health Care
themPod revisited
Not long ago I pointed out a rather glaring flaw in President Obama’s notion that he is building an “iPod government” through fiat: We like our iPods ultimately because it’s…
Liberty
The Great Devourer
The most valuable thought of the week came from a spam from JLF board member Dr. Carl Mumpower. He criticized pressures to make men perceive themselves as consumers instead of…
Liberty
My Predictions for the New Year
Well into the fourth year of the Great Recovery, I foresee: Cinnabon has created the Minibon and Cinnabon Bites. They will be among other innovators in developing quarter-inch-cube desserts. Theirs…