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
What’s Really Happening in China?
Mises Institute President Doug French, reviewing what looks to be an interesting new book on the subject, has this to say: Chinese economic growth has exploded on the shakiest of financial systems, Carl E. Walter and Fraser J.T. Howie point out in Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China’s Extraordinary Rise . The country’s central… Read More
Looting “the Rich” Is Juvenile and Wrong
Progressives swooned over Elizabeth Warren’s recent statement that wealthy people may be violently expropriated: There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your… Read More
About to Buy New Steven Wilson Album
Grace for Drowning . A pleasant surprise to see the new solo album from Porcupine Tree’s front man at #41 on Amazon.
Am I Expecting the President to Be a Fortune Teller?
Over on my Facebook fan page a reader writes, with regard to my most recent post on Herman Cain: “I don’t doubt anything you say, but I care more about a candidate’s policies than his ability to prognosticate. Cain is the only one talking loudly and clearly about the FAIR Tax… Read More
Thanks, Judge Napolitano
FOX News Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano has just released a new book, It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom . I’ll surely have more to say about it soon, but I was delighted to note, in the acknowledgments, this generous remark: “My ideological soul mates Lew Rockwell and Tom Woods… Read More
