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.
Thomas Woods, senior fellow in history, has won the Templeton Enterprise Award for his book The Church and the Market (Lexington, 2005). More news here. The prize is $50,000.
As detailed here, no expensive and ill-used, Western aid, no high tech inputs, no government planning, no Malthusian doom — just a simple tale of human ingenuity, incentivised by the small matter of better property rights, overcoming an ecological disaster.
Which political parties have led the United States into its deadliest wars?
See 231 years of history in 90 seconds on a map of the world (flash).
Maps of War also provides a quick look at:
From the Free New York and Lew Rockwell Blogs:
“Ron Paul has accepted an invitation to participate in the first national presidential debate in New Hampshire on Wednesday, April 4. It will be hosted by Wolf Blitzer and will be carried on CNN TV, radio, and cnn.com from 7-9 p.m. EST. (Thanks to Johnny Kramer.)”
Menger’s path-breaking Principles of Economics, published in 1871 and newly published by the Mises Institute with an introduction by Peter G. Klein, not only introduced the concept of marginal analysis, it presented a radically new approach to economic analysis, one that still forms the core of the Austrian theory of value and price. Menger favored an approach that was deductive, teleological, and, in a fundamental sense, humanistic. Menger was primarily interested in explaining the real-world actions of real people, not in creating artificial, stylized representations of reality. Economics, for Menger, is the study of purposeful human choice, the relationship between means and ends.
Or so argues Michael Crichton, in Patenting Life, a NY Times editorial (thanks to Isaac Bergman for link). Excerpts:
Czech President Vaclav Klaus - according to a report posted on Drudge - actually came out and told the Environmentalist Emperor he really ought to put some clothes on. Bravo!
President of Czech Republic Calls Man-Made Global Warming a ‘Myth’ - Questions Gore’s Sanity
Mon Feb 12 2007 09:10:09 ET
Czech president Vaclav Klaus has criticized the UN panel on global warming, claiming that it was a political authority without any scientific basis.
