Maybe the authors of the Federalist Papers were liars. Maybe they were just engaged in political propaganda in order to shove through the Constitution. In secret, perhaps, they were plotting a Leviathan state with a president who can do all that the Bush administration claims he can, which pretty much amounts to whatever Bush wants to do.
The NY Times is reporting that billionaires Eli Broad and Bill Gates are “joining forces for a $60 million foray into politics in an effort to vault education high onto the agenda of the 2008 presidential race.†What appears to be an extension of their philanthropic activities is simply seed money for the next political solution to failing government schools; a solution that will end up pounding more of my tax dollars down the rat hole that is public education.
I was just astonished at fruit prices this morning at the local grocer. The clerk explained to me that all the prices of regionally grown fruit are going up up up, and it is likely to get worse. Why is this? We had a freeze in April. In April, in the Deep South! It seems that the entire peach and apple crops were wiped out, and people are in a panic about it all. Everyone gathered around the cash register agreed that we could use a bit more of this legendary “global warming.”
The Theory of Collective Bargaining, by William H. Hutt
The Economics of the Colour Bar, by William H. Hutt
Money and Man, by Elgin Groseclose
Although supporters of the market economy often have good reason for pessimism, it is important, especially in this age of globalization, not to lose sight of the genuine victories that the classical liberal tradition can boast.
This article makes the case for dilettantism.
This BusinessWeek story examines an action by Wal-Mart that is pro-consumer, pro-efficiency, pro-productivity, and pro-progress and somehow manages to present it as rapacious and damaging to everyone. How so? Well, you see, Wal-Mart cut the price of its 42 inch, flat panel television to less than $1,000. This might sound great. But, the story points out, it hurt the competition, hurt the bottom line of marginal stores, and infuriated the producers of the television.
The environmental movement has been doing its utmost to sabotage energy production since the 1960s, long before it was able to latch onto the prospect of global warming. Its opposition to atomic power has nothing to do with global warming, nor does its opposition to the construction of dams to provide hydro-electric power. Indeed, if global warming and the consumption of fossil fuels, which it alleges is the cause of global warming, were really its concern, it would be a leading advocate of atomic power and of the construction of new and additional dams to provide hydro-electric power.
