The American Bar Association’s (ABA) Texas Capital Punishment Assessment Team recently reviewed the Texas death penalty system to find what surprises no one — it’s an expensive program that is run poorly and makes mistakes. The analysis, led by legal experts and former elected officials across the ideological spectrum, found that Texas relies on outdated, unscientific, and unreliable methods to prove guilt.
Toshio Murata, Ludwig von Mises’s only student form Japan, turned 90 this month. Here he is in Misesian attire with Marc Abela, organizer of the “Mises Meetings” in Japan.
As Bob Higgs has tirelessly reminded us, regime uncertainty -- doubt about the security of person and property -- retards investment and delays recovery from economic downturns. FDR’s constantly changing economic policies help explain why it took the US so long to recover from the Great Depression, and the inconsistent bailout, subsidy, and regulatory regimes of the Bush and Obama Administrations continue to harm the economy today.
Judge Napolitano discusses one way the federal government destroys prosperity.
The Daily Mail reports that Saudi Arabia has severed diplomatic ties with the United States over the US’s refusal to bomb Syria. The Saudis continue to be one of the primary sources of pressure on the US government to attack Syria. This is not the first time the Saudis have pressured the US to attack one of the Saudi regime’s enemies.
