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I’m not taunting them. I genuinely want to know. Mish reports on a recent study of the case of Latvia: In 2008–09, Latvia lost 24 percent of its GDP. It was heading toward a budget deficit of 19 percent of GDP in 2009 without a program…
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Giving and receiving. They’re both great. And — through December 2012 — when you give the gift of a year’s subscription to Liberty Classroom to that iconoclast in your family, or to that student who could use a lifeline to sane professors , you’ll receive a free signed book…
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A reader sends me this item from NPR about school districts in California. Here’s the gist: Collectively, the districts have borrowed billions in loans that defer payments for years — leaving many districts owing far more than they borrowed…. In the West Contra Costa Schools’ case, that…
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Don Gaetz, president of the Florida state senate, recently responded to an attorney’s defense of Thomas Jefferson’s principle of state nullification of unconstitutional laws as follows: Thank you for your email and for your passionate views. Like you, I believe Obamacare is unconstitutional and wrong-headed policy.…
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My friend Prof. Don Livingston asks the question.

You may have figured out that this issue drives me up a wall; here’s my own take on the subject . Now here’s Peter Schiff in the Wall Street Journal smacking down the increasingly conventional claim that “the rich” paid 91% marginal income tax rates in the past, and we had a super…
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The Mark Carbonaro Show, out in California. I was on yesterday morning.

After I complained to the editors at policymic.com that I had obviously been a victim of libel , and that “Alex Stenovsky” had written an article worthy of a remedial junior-high class, they first ordered him to substantiate the charges and then, when that proved impossible, they took…
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