The Mises Institute has finally published the long-awaited new edition of Richard Cantillon’s Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Général (Essay on Economic Theory).1 Finished sometime between 1730 and 1734, the Essai was only finally published in French man

Government employees in Kabul were beaten by member’s of the Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security when they lined up at the Kabul Bank to withdraw their salaries.

And the biggest outrage? “This is shameful that these simple police officers are beating up more high-ranking officers,” said Abdul Hanan, a policeman who had come to collect his $450 monthly salary.

Artist and anti-copyright innovator Nina Paley, creator of Sita Sings the Blues, has posted an edited video with excerpts of her talk “Sita Sings the Blues: a Free Culture Success Story” at The Next H.O.P.E. (Hackers On Planet Earth) conference, July 16 2010 in New York City.

According to a recent article at The Wall Street journal,

“Regulators’ appetite for calorie counts is about to extend beyond restaurants to thousands of other places that offer food, including airplanes, movie theaters and convenience stores”

Convenience Stores? As if proper labeling will help consumers choose between glazed donuts, chocolate glazed donuts or bagels with cream cheese at 6:00 am in the morning.

The intellectual odyssey that laid the foundations for Western civilization began in classical Greece. Unfortunately, Greek thinkers failed in their attempt to grasp the essential principles of the spontaneous market order and of the dynamic process of social cooperation which surrounded them.

Well, it finally happened in my own community. That stupid Bush-era law that rations pseudoephedrine, the ingredient that makes Mucinex and Sudafed work to unstuff the nose, has finally landed someone in the slammer for 20 years. Tanna Nacole Jarrell is 31 years old and she will likely be in jail for 20 years — essentially wrecking her life. The judge said that she is a very very bad woman.