I attended a “Tax Day rally” today (Tuesday the 17th) here in Pensacola, Florida, sponsored by the local FairTax people. What was I, one who has written against the FairTax here, here, here, here, and here, doing at a FairTax rally? I received an e-mail from the “Community Coordinator for Americans for Fair Taxation” here in Pensacola.
I remember Mama. She was a shopper along with her other talents. And since baby sitters were beyond the means of middle class families of her era, she took the 6 year old who was to become me, along. Clinging to her discounted skirts, I caught the shopping bug. It was a life-long infection. I grabbed many a bargain in my career, but mainly I specialized in groceries; you know, two for one chicken pot pies, 99 cent round steak.
This results of this international study reported in Slate--namely, that men and women work the same number of hours per day--did not surprise me nearly as much as the off-handed remark that men spend most of their leisure time watching television. Guys! That’s pathetic. Also interesting is that women work less in rich countries than poor countries.
Much is heard these days of the distinction between human rights and property rights, and many who claim to champion the one turn with scorn upon any defender of the other. They fail to see that property rights, far from being in conflict, are in fact the most basic of all human rights.
We now have a libertarian benchmark to apply to the difficult problem of water ownership.
It was Columbine-plus at Virginia Tech (NYT story), as the police proved themselves to be totally useless or worse. They interviewed suspects, secured the perimeter, ordered everyone not to move, and meanwhile and for two hours, apparently, the killer roamed free and started his rampage against forcibly unarmed students unguarded by forcibly unarmed teachers and administrators.
When the U.S. government initially brought an antitrust case against Microsoft in 1998 at the behest of competitors Netscape and Sun, beltway types marvelled that Microsoft did not even have a lobbyist in DC. Somehow this technology company had become a huge corporation without playing the usual political game. Well, Microsoft has matured. (I’ve been trying to figure out the odd usage of “matured” by statist political pundits.
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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
