Filling in for Rush Limbaugh the other day, Walter Williams spent quite a bit of time advocating the principle of state nullification of unconstitutional federal laws. I’m told a caller plugged my book Nullification , which Williams has endorsed . The write-up at the Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor, includes this strange passage: “Nullification is… Read More
Is It All Right to Say “Um” or “Uh”?
You are not a failure as a public speaker if you use an occasional “um” or “uh.” But that doesn’t mean people who urge you to avoid them as much as you can are stupid or nit-pickers. Most people with limited experience in public speaking have no… Read More
Potpourri
In this nice little discussion, I talk about our post-Paul future, left-libertarianism, the Atlas Shrugged movie, the Supreme Court, Obamacare, and more.
Pez Dispensers and Presidential Idolatry
The Atlantic has a pretty good article about the presidential Pez dispensers that have recently come onto the market. The article quotes my friend Kevin Gutzman, who gets it pretty much right. Here’s the context: Not everyone in academia is smitten, however. “Although I’m a Madison biographer, I’m… Read More
Is Austrian Economics ‘Unscientific’?
Of course not. Each discipline has a method appropriate to its nature. Here, Professor Jeffrey Herbener explains and defends the method of Austrian economics.
My Snappy Comeback to Facebook Spammers
Once in a while I receive private messages via my Facebook page from accounts that appear to be owned by 18-year-old women, but which are obviously fake. Normal people ignore these messages and move on. Sometimes I can’t do that. I have to reply. So the other day… Read More
The Tolkien Professor
The great Jason Jewell of Faulkner University alerted me some time ago to The Tolkien Professor , a site run by Washington College’s Corey Olsen and filled with wonderful resources for Tolkien lovers. Definitely worth a look.
North’s First Law of Bureaucracy
“Some bureaucrat will eventually enforce the letter of the law to the point of absurdity.” Case in point: this week a man was killed in a highway accident by a drunk driver. The blood from his injured body stained the highway. The state’s highway department sent a $50 blood-removal bill to the man’s grieving mother, plus the towing and storage… Read More
This Is How You Do a Radio Interview
Brion McClanahan, author of The Founding Fathers’ Guide to the Constitution and, most recently, Forgotten Conservatives in American History , talked to Mike Church today about Obamacare, the Constitution, nullification, and more. (Brion teaches U.S. history with me at LibertyClassroom.com , and in addition to his knowledge of the Constitution is an expert on the middle period of… Read More
You Asked for It
People have been asking me to take the resource pages I include with some of my YouTube videos and make them all available on one convenient page. I’ve finally done it. More to come. But here they are .
