Liberty Magazine‘s October issue has two very powerful, provocative pieces on immigration, by Stephen Cox and Bruce Ramsey. Cox’s especially presents an unusually forthright, honest, and open libertarian case against unlimited immigration.
Via Scotland: sometimes the simplest arguments for taking away freedom are the scariest:
Ever wonder where Tang and Teflon came from? If you guessed that some lab operated by NASA pulled the necessary levers and turned the dials, you guessed wrong. See, Urban Legends of NASA: What They Did Not Invent
In case you don’t know, Hooters is an Atlanta-based saloon chain that purveys cold beer; and hires pretty girls to bring it to your table. It’s a Southern chain - based in steamy Atlanta - so these girls are sensibly dressed, for comfort. Less is better, you might say.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Steven Milloy has just published another great column. In “Green CEOs Bad for Business,” Milloy singles out the two worst corporate executives in the here and now: Bill Ford - who was just dumped, this week, as Ford’s CEO - and John Browne of BP. Both Browne and Ford actually despise the products they churn out. Or rather, they play to the environmentalists while they publicly denounce their respective companies and the market roles they play.
A new crisis may be brewing, even though until very recently it appears to have been known only to very few people, possibly just to a single New York Times reporter and her editors. But on September 1, it was made public knowledge, when the Times published the story on its front page. Here is the gist of the Times’ report:
John Tierney of The New York Times has finally found the economic miracle that is Estonia and has the intestinal fortitude to discuss it in the “paper of record” in an op-ed piece from September 5th:
