“ Cain opens 20-point lead on closest rival… ” “ FINANCIAL CRISIS ‘WORST WORLD HAS EVER FACED’… ” So we are possibly looking at the worst financial crisis the world has ever faced, and Republicans are dying to elect a man who, one week before the financial implosion, gave the economy a clean bill of health . How, pray tell, is a man this inept going to… Read More
Archives for October 2011
Freedom Book Club: Woods/Polner Is Book of the Month
Thanks to the Freedom Book Club for choosing We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now (Basic Books, 2008), which I edited with Murray Polner, as this month’s book of the month! Here I am discussing the book:
Upcoming Appearances: Houston and Jacksonville
On October 14 I’ll be speaking at the Streettalk Advisors X-Factor Investment Conference in Houston. Details here . On October 22 I’ll be speaking at Nullify Now, Jacksonville (Florida). Details here . Use coupon code LIBERTY for $5 general admission!
Smackdown of the Proposed Millionaire Tax
“Obama Is Wrecking Our Country” Is Too Optimistic
I wish I could share the optimism of the zillions of people who write, on Facebook and elsewhere, that Obama is destroying our country — as if there’s a huge array of people waiting in the wings to save it. I’d say the whole establishment… Read More
On Talking to Conservatives
Once upon a time I was a fairly conventional conservative. That experience has made it possible for me to speak to conservatives with an ear to their concerns and in a way that has borne some fruit in bringing people to a more consistently anti-state… Read More
“Social Justice” Strikes Again
Matt Miller, a reader of this blog, has just alerted me to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Faithful Citizenship page . There we are introduced to things like The Candy Game , a “social justice” and “fairness” learning game. We read items like: Social Justice. Changing unjust rules, such… Read More
Bruce Bartlett: Won’t Somebody Please Love Me?
Poor Bruce Bartlett. He’s spent his career trying to be loved, and it just ain’t happening. First he was a Ron Paulian. Then he realized his career would be better served by jumping on the supply-side train. Then he ditched that to jump onto (yes)… Read More
A Real Person Running for President
A student reporter at Iowa State gets a chance to see Ron Paul up close: That Ron Paul’s supporters love him is obvious. I’ve met many congressmen before. I’ve been to a senator’s birthday party and even rubbed elbows with two presidents. So I’ve had… Read More
A Harvard Professor and His Clueless Tweet
Harvard’s Dani Rodrik tweets : “Friedman famously used the pencil as an example of the virtues of markets. A socialist/interventionist country (CHN) runs that industry now.” For one thing, it was Leonard Read, not Friedman, who deserves credit for the pencil example. Much more importantly, Rodrik… Read More