Or so we casually assume.  This piece , linked today on the LRC blog, argues otherwise.  The book it cites numerous times, Terence Kealey’s The Economic Laws of Scientific Research , is a stunning revisionist work on the effects (and necessity, or otherwise) of government science funding, one of those things everyone knows…
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“There is no longer any excuse for Catholics to defend Von Mises,” says Dale Ahlquist, who goes on to recommend a book by a real estate agent as an appropriate classroom text in economics.  We are indeed to be spared nothing. Poor Otto von Habsburg, Crown…
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I know I’m late to this, but how interesting.  An Internet entrepreneur in her 90s teaches people today how to prepare the kinds of meals they ate during the Depression.  Below is one example, though she has many other videos.  She also has a book,…
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Sick of that one?  Me too.  Here’s the quick note I sent someone who asked Professor Walter Block this very thing. “I cover this in detail in my forthcoming (February 7) book Rollback .  For now, I’d ask your friends for specific examples of deregulation that…
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This is fantastic: jurors in Missoula refused en masse to convict anyone of possessing trivial amounts of marijuana.  That’s a good start.  Now let’s start doing the same when it comes to lots of other issues.  Jury nullification is an essential tool of a free people, as a great many wise…
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Here’s my clip from the FOX Business Network the other day.

Political science professor Jeff Taylor, who says he identifies more with the left than the right, really digs Nullification , which he recently reviewed .  Had the left not degenerated into knee-jerk nationalism and thought control — now citizen, are you proposing something your betters have not approved…
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Tomorrow (Tuesday) night, a special episode of Freedom Watch on the FOX Business Network (8pm ET) will spend an hour on the evils of central banking.  I don’t know all of the guests, but three of them are Ron Paul, John Papola (of “Fear the Boom and Bust” fame), and me.  Tune…
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Here’s the video of the Glenn Beck program from Thursday.  My segment begins at 8:47, right after the interview with Ron Paul.

Media Matters, the left-wing thought-control site that received a $1 million donation from George Soros, is apparently up in arms that I said on Glenn Beck tonight that bankruptcy may turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to America.  I assumed sentient beings…
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