Giving the lie once more to the canard that ALL scientists (at least, all those not in the pay of Big Oil) share the IPCC orthodoxy, here is a very impressive review of the case for a solar mechanism.Though a highly technical article, p99, et seq, are intelligible enough to a layman.
John H. Fund from The Wall Street Journal on the “good thing” that is the freedom to choose:
CARACAS, Venezuela, Feb. 16 — Faced with an accelerating inflation rate and shortages of basic foods like beef, chicken and milk, President Hugo Chávez has threatened to jail grocery store owners and nationalize their businesses if they violate the country’s expanding price controls.
Venezuela’s collectivist dictator Hugo Chávez is surprised by the fact that there are shortages in Venezuela.
It was mentioned on this blog the other day that I had the good fortune to win one of the Templeton Enterprise Awards earlier this week. Right now I’d like to speak on behalf of this program, since people who read this blog could well be producing the very kind of work that it seeks to honor. (People on this blog may also know of good books and articles to nominate.)
What a wacky world we live in. An issue called the minimum wage fascinates the Pols even more than the price of meatloaf and 3 in the Senate cafeteria. Newspaper headlines hammer home this crisis in remuneration — I mean the minimum wage, not the price of meatloaf.
Forget that only 3% of hourly workers make less than the current $5.25. Only 13% earn less than the projected $7.25.
Forget that these are temporary, step-up jobs that are soon left behind.
When I surfed into the Yahoo News web site Business section, I saw the headline “Bernanke challenged on inflation”.
The first thing to say about The Menace of the Herd (1943), now available in PDF and in Print on Demand, is that it is no longer $500 as it is on Amazon.
Second, it is not by “Francis Stuart Campbell” but rather Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn.
In the last edition of The Freeman, David Levin and Michele Boldrin argue that “innovation could thrive” without an IP regime. And they propose that an “open-source“ model can accomplish this feat. Two heads are better than one...
From The Boston Channel:
Feds To Court: Seize Tax Evader’s Property
Jury Says Couple Must Forfeit Property
“Federal prosecutors are asking a court to seize the property of two convicted tax evaders.
Prosecutors filed papers last week to begin taking the property. A jury last month told Elaine and Ed Brown they must forfeit at least $215,000 in property.
I admit that I have not heard this question—why does capitalism need to be defended?—in precisely that form. After the hardcover edition of my book In Defense of Advertising: Arguments from Reason, Ethical Egoism, and Laissez-Faire Capitalism was published, I did hear the question this way: Why does advertising need to be defended? As advertising is the point man and product of capitalism, the two questions are intimately related.The question about advertising initially surprised me.
