Here is a very cheeky piece from William F. Buckley from the Old Freedom, August 1954, in which is presents a choice that “conservatives” face. On the one side are those who don’t want the Cold War because they value liberty at home and because socialism ultimately eats itself without outside help. On the other side are those who believe that power should be used to liberate communist countries. WFB at this point doesn’t actually say which he favors but look at what he realizes about the position he came to endorse:

Paul Krugman has a recent post, giving two reasons why the free market cannot cure health care. As should be no surprise to a Mises.org reader, Krugman is quite wrong.Drawing from a classic article by Kenneth Arrow, Krugman gives two main reasons that health care is something that cannot be left to a free market.

Lilburne’s recent article quotes Bernanke, on housing prices:

One of the many myths today receiving retrospective support from today’s servants of power is that adherence to the gold standard caused the economy in countries that did so in the 1930s to recover more slowly from the Depression.

As has become the current pattern, the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause keeps providing fodder for the courts.

      A mentor of mine, Clarence Carson, published a book in the 1970s entitled The War on the Poor. He took his title from Lyndon Johnson’s so-called “war on poverty.” Carson noted that actual wars are waged against real people rather than circumstances, and that if the government were engaged in a war it must be against some identifiable group of people. In his book, he identified the poor as that group by analyzing the economic impact of the various policies that Johnson pursued.