I can do without the “America is the greatest nation in human history” stuff, which doesn’t sound like Ron Paul’s style at all, but here’s the kind of budget we’d be debating if our wise public servants actually wanted to address the debt and deficit problems.…
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The Mike Church Show , of course, on Sirius/XM Patriot (channel 125), 6-9am Monday through Friday.  Here’s Mike on the Iranian “terror plot,” and here he is on Elizabeth Warren’s rationale for partially expropriating wealthier people. UPDATE: The audio file of Mike talking about Iran is fixed.

No, says Professor Kevin Gutzman, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution (a great book, by the way).

Check out The Swedish Model Reassessed: Affluence Despite the Welfare State , available online for free.  There’s also a good chapter on the subject in Back on the Road to Serfdom , a book I edited that appeared earlier this year.

I filled in for Peter Schiff again today on the Peter Schiff Show ; my guests were Judge Andrew Napolitano and Professor C. Bradley Thompson. The Judge’s new book, which we discussed, is It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom . Brad Thompson’s book is  Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea .  Thompson has very interesting things to say about the…
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I’d like to see him wiggle out of this one.

Can free-market medicine really work?  Check out this brief presentation. (Thanks to the Mises blog .)

The alleged Iranian terror plot, which should have struck everyone immediately as a fake given that such a plot would play directly into the War Party’s hands, turns out to be a fake .  You can be sure the official version of events will unravel even…
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Trevor Schulz writes: I first developed an interest in economics about four years ago. The first economist I was introduced to and blindly began to follow was John K. Galbraith. I read several of his books and then slowly started to narrow my interest into…
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…and had the task of defending the free market economy, this is what I would say .