The Heroic Professor Nesson
The recent issue of IP Law & Business has a fascinating Q&A with
Krugman Redefines Treason
Paul Krugman, never one to hold back on comments, now has declared that anyone who doe s not believe as he does on global warming is guilty of “treason against the planet.” Lest a reader think I am exaggerating, here is what he wrote:
And as I watched the deniers make their arguments, I couldn’t help thinking that I was watching a form of treason — treason against the planet.
The Education of Barack Obama
What do we really know about Barack Obama, the throwback to the 1930s who truly hearts the ever expanding state?
Well, we learned from Barack Obama himself that he’d been mentored in high school by the communist poet Frank Marshall Davis, he’d sought out Marxist professors at college, he’d spent his off-hours attending socialist conferences and listening to the leftist sermons of a “liberation” preacher, and he’d eventually enlisted as a foot soldier in Saul Alinsky’s army.
Mathematics Versus Economic Logic
Hitler’s Intellectual Property?
The (immortal) German state of Bavaria, it seems, claims and exercises ownership rights in respect of Adolf Hitler’s bestseller, Mein Kampf. Sixty-four years after the author’s death, this article in Haaretz recounts the prosecution in Poland of an entrepreneur who got 20,000 copies printed up, presumably in Polish.
Just what market it encountered in the first country the Nazis counquered in World War II (proper) isn’t mentioned.
Hoppe’s Phoenix is Coming....
I noted previously (Update: The Prophetic Dr. Hoppe on the Rise of the Phoenix) Professor Hoppe’s prediction years ago of the inexorable move to a single, worldwide fiat currency. It’s coming. As reported here, “The dollar dropped after China’s central bank reiterated a call for a worldwide currency.”
Krugman’s Rearguard Apologists
As most readers will know, a collection of damning quotes has surfaced recently, exposing Paul Krugman, the doyen of the economic Left, as having been completely backward on the most material economic event in our generation: the housing bubble. My recent article on the subject, “Krugman’s Intellectual Waterloo,” has elicited some pretty heated rearguard apologetics
Tilting at Green Windmills
I don’t recall
I am certain that everyone watching Bernanke’s testimony on Capitol Hill is as concerned for Chairman Bernanke’s health as I am. It seems that our reluctant savior has a very severe case of Alzheimer’s. Thus far the substance of Dr. Bernanke’s testimony can be summarized by his most frequent quote “I do not recollect.” No one really expects this Congressional hearing to have any substantive consequences for Chairman Bernanke. However, there is a danger that Dr. Bernanke’s detractors might use his terrible illness as an excuse for removing him from office.
Endangering Lives to Protect Government Cartels
Some French tourists “mistakenly” got into an “unlicensed” taxi after arriving at JFK Airport, so New York police chased the van for several miles, putting the lives of everyone in danger before the driver crashed the van. The AP dispatch makes it sound as though the police were heroes and the van driver was a villain:
