By no means their best work, but a life-affirming instrumental all the same. Warm Sporran, by Jethro Tull.

Amazing, but true. Here’s the op-ed . (Thanks to Michael Maresco.) It’s not totally sound, but at least they understood the problems with the minimum wage. They wonder why liberals still support the minimum wage. For one thing, because they don’t fix it to the cost of living,…
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Check out the paper presentations at this year’s Austrian Student Scholars Conference, going on this weekend at Grove City College, and remember — these papers are being delivered by students.

I’m giving away signed books and free subscriptions to LibertyClassroom.com to people who come up with neat meme ideas I can use on my Facebook page . I need only the ideas, not the actual designs. Here’s the page with the details, which is also the page where you should submit your…
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You’d think this would disqualify him in the eyes of Republican voters, but then again these were people who thought Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich would make good presidents. (Thanks to Travis Holte.)

A left-liberal at AlterNet, where nationalism is taken for granted, hashes out some of the nuts-and-bolts questions that would be involved if the so-called red states were to pursue secession . Talk of secession is, of course, “pretty silly,” the author assures us. After all, everyone…
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Over at The American Conservative, editor Dan McCarthy — who opposes the Hagel filibuster — explains (without necessarily defending) the thinking behind Senator Paul’s decision to support that filibuster. Rand, he says, has positioned himself from the start as the opposite of the RINO, the guy…
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Well, 13 light-years away, but that’s closer than researchers thought. From a Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics press release : Using publicly available data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have found that six percent of red dwarf stars have habitable, Earth-sized planets. Since red…
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Yes, says Erik Angner , a professor at George Mason University. In The Road to Serfdom and The Constitution of Liberty , Angner correctly notes, Hayek indicated that there was no need to take a dogmatic position in opposition to government-furnished safety nets. On the other hand, Hayek probably was opposed to government takeovers of entire…
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