Will the TSA Be Always With Us?
It’s hard to know which Bush policies will most immortalize this administration. But Lew Rockwell votes for Bush’s disastrous decision to nationalize airline security.
Review of the Mises Circle
The Orange County Register provides an editorial review of the Mises Institute confererence last weekend in Costa Mesa:
When Demand Outstrips Supply
A British high school student seems to be writing other “Harry Potter” books, including one with 90 chapters (”Meetings in the Tower”) that has become an underground classic. It seems to be formatted as a “quiz,” possibly to avoid copyright trouble (but others have put it into .doc and sent it around). HP-starved teens just can’t wait for the real author to finish the next one; they want HP and want it now!
A Libertarian Message From the Department of Homeland Security
A fascinating report by Jeff Porten in TidBITS on the 16th Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference. An amusing bit comes with his description of a speech given by Stewart Baker, Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Homeland Security:
Stockpiling Gas
AOL News (AP) reports on a market solution to rising gas prices: buy gas now and store it for later. That’s right; create your own strategic oil reserve!
One lucky prospector is tapping the 99 cents a gallon gas that he has stored in his private reserve. What a deal! What a solution!
The market always creates solutions for economic issues. Saving gas is the perfect hedge investment for those looking to offset rising fuel prices.
Consumer Reports beats the EPA
Via Yahoo News:
The government has been keeping a secret about automobiles under wraps for the past 30 years. And when it comes to testing cars, Consumer Reports leaves no stone unturned, no lug nut loose.
Dental Socialism in Britain: Tragedy and Farce
Many in Britain, writes Lew Rockwell, no longer have any choice: they have to pull out their own teeth.
George Roche RIP
George Charles Roche, III, president of Hillsdale College from 1971 to 1999, has died at the age of 71. A magnetic speaker and extraordinary fundraiser, he purchased, from Ludwig von Mises’s widow, Mises’s personal library, and established a lecture series in his honor. Dr. Roche was the author of a biography of Frederic Bastiat and several other books; his PhD history dissertation from the University of Colorado took a sympathetic look at the antiwar Old Right.
Bolivian Gas Nationalization OK According to The New York Times
A truly Orwellian op-ed piece in The New York Times of May 6, says of Bolivia’s nationalization of the natural gas industry in its territory:
Hayek’s Birthday!
May 8 marks the 1899 birth of Friedrich Hayek. Though best known as an economist, he was acclaimed for contributions in many fields. Nobel Prize winners and others have lauded him as the 20th century’s outstanding economist, social scientist, and political philosopher. Peter Boettke named him “probably the most prodigious classical liberal scholar of the 20th century.”
