When all costs are included, says a new study from Brown University .
Party in the CIA
Weird Al Yankovic has an anti-Establishment streak, it turns out. (Thanks to Zachary.)
Murphy Debate Challenge to Krugman Surpasses $100,000
Many of you know about economist Bob Murphy’s challenge to Paul Krugman to debate. If you don’t — and heck, even if you do — visit KrugmanDebate.com . Pledges for this event are now at over $104,000 . (Bob will update KrugmanDebate.com accordingly this weekend.) This means that if Krugman… Read More
Pope Francis: Two Views
Michael Brendan Dougherty writes: Liturgical traditionalists (myself included) can only be depressed by this election–it is almost the worst result possible for those of us who think the new liturgy lost the theological profundity and ritual beauty of the Tridentine Mass. Benedict’s liberation of the traditional Latin Mass… Read More
The New Pope
My wife and I just prayed our Rosary for Pope Francis, whose first greeting as pope I watched in the spectacularly mundane surroundings of a Goodyear, where I was having new tires put on my car. I don’t have any particular insight into the man,… Read More
All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars, Says Video
Someone sent me a video called “ All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars .” Within three minutes I had to turn it off. It begins with a fake quotation from Ben Franklin, arguing that the most important driving force of the American Revolution was the British prohibition on paper money in… Read More
LAPD: No New Truck for Women We Shot At
The newspaper delivery women whose truck was pierced by 102 bullet holes as they were being shot at by the police will not get a new truck , say the LA Police, who had originally promised them a new truck. The shooting was a case of “mistaken identity,” the department says,… Read More
Save Some Dough
Amazon has 86 copies of The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History for the special price of $7.98. Then it’s back to the regular price. Do not spend the rest of your life wondering what if. Go .
Pat Buchanan on Rand Paul
Ted Cruz Gets Top Slot at CPAC
Can’t wait to hear what former Rick Perry supporter Ted Cruz has to say about foreign policy — a small matter I am expected to overlook, according to an astonishingly large number of people in the “liberty movement.”