If you haven’t subscribed to the Journal of Libertarian Studies because you thought the price of $29.95 was too high then consider this: the ad in the December 1976 issue of The Libertarian Forum advertising the new JLS to be published beginning in 1977 says that the price is $20. That is only a $9.95 increase in almost 30 years.

The Quiet American (2002)

Slate prints a blistering attack on the absurd Department of Homeland Security and its predictable uselessness. (via Agitator)

Today’s NRO-column from John Tamny is probably the most error-filled since at least Paul Krugman’s Toyota column. First he claims that somehow the west have become dramatically less socialist than it was in the 1940s. Somehow he seems to have missed the fact that in every western country since then the welfare state have been greatly expanded.

6. Price Gouging

Price gouging -- charging higher prices under emergency conditions -- evokes strong emotional responses that are understandable but terribly wrong-headed.

Knowing we have a number of students in New Orleans, mostly Dr. Block’s students at Loyola who might be in need of assistance at this time, I have some information. I am a graduate student in economics here at the University of Kentucky now. UK is offering tuition, fee, and other waivers for students who have been displaced and might wish to enroll here.

Apropos Lew’s article today, Newsview: Politicians Failed Storm Victims:

Alexis de Tocqueville, born 200 years ago in Paris, traveled in America and wrote about the country in his famous book, Democracy in America. He is widely recognized as a most astute observer of American democracy. It is worth considering one of his points at this particular time because it seems to have been overly pessimistic.He wrote that,