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Don’t be afraid!
Of anarcho-capitalism, that is. In today’s Freeman essay, David Hebert argues that many people misunderstand how anarcho-capitalism really would work, if only we could get government out of the way.…
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880–1956)
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Max Borders on Obamacare
In his latest column for The Freeman, Max Borders compares the regulators who have given us Obamacare to Ptolemaic astronomers. Intrigued? Read the piece. Obamacare is putting the nation through…
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What a prognostication!
“As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of…
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Boudreaux quotes Mencken on bureaucrats
H. L Mencken saw clearly what so many people cannot when it comes to government — that the people in charge have their own agendas that have little or nothing…
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Benevolent Dictators Save Citizens from Selves
Holidays can be good, because government tends to sleep. Holidays can be bad because government can take advantage of the average Joe’s presumption that it will be sleeping. The day…
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Goldberg says it’s time for young people to do their part
Jonah Goldberg‘s latest column at National Review Online sends a message to all the young adults who have delivered such unquestioning support of President Obama. [T]he president pandered to you…
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Some common sense about — horrors! — outsourcing
Barton Hinkle of the Richmond Times injects some common sense into the political screaming about outsourcing in this piece. Everyone, he shows, is “guilty” of outsourcing. That happens when people…
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Borders praises Boudreaux’s new book
The latest installment of Max Borders‘ Ideas Matter update features a promotion for George Mason economist Donald Boudreaux‘s new book, Hypocrites & Half-Wits. You want to work your ultra-liberal friends…
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Timeless wisdom
The president?s administration is a ?puerile amalgam of exploded imbecilities, many of them in flat contradiction of the rest? which proposes to ?lift the burden of debt by encouraging fools…
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I’m grateful for this summary of THE SPEECH
I admit it — I just hate listening to political crud. A speech by Obama or a root canal: that’s a coin toss. Last night I watched some excellent tennis…
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And Britney Spears seeks the virgin mantle
That’s more likely to happen than this (Reuters): Obama seeks fiscal responsibility mantle WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama sought on Tuesday to show he was serious about…
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Dissent on global warming in Britain
Here is an excellent piece in the Telegraph on the increasing evidence that global warming has been just another of those Menckenian hobgoblins. A taste: “quasi-religious incantations masquerading as science…