Religious and Ethnic Complexities in Iraq
Christopher Westley’s article is solidly libertarian. But I should like to indicate here, some of the very real complexities of Iraq.
A Man, a Plan, a Flop
In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State. By Charles Murray. The AEI Press, 2006. Xv + 214 pgs.
Charles Murray, by his own account, should not have written In Our Hands. He identifies a genuine problem; but he himself shows that his plan to solve it is either useless or inferior to a better plan.
New Orleans to return stolen guns
According to the SAF, the City of New Orleans will return the guns that were stolen by the police following Katrina. You would think that since they were *gasp* taken at gunpoint, that they would be nice and make the process as easy as possible. But no:
The Rationale of the Mises Institute
[Here is a short talk I delivered a few days ago]
To give a short talk on the work of the Mises Institute is like giving a short talk on the history of Europe or a two-minute introduction to the social sciences or a brief overview of the philosophy of mind. It is impossible to cover every point, so I would like to just sketch the rationale and overarching purpose.
Our raison d’etre consists of three main parts.
The Taxman cometh after iTunes
Cnet story here quotes Lew Rockwell.
Hope you don’t like your DVR
If so, expect your fees to rise, with TiVo’s recent $74 million patent lawsuit victory, sure to be leveraged against cable TV companies who offer TiVo-like DVRs. (The award might actually be tripled, because the jury found the infringement was “willful.”)
The Actual Nature of Offshoring and of Our Balance of Trade Deficits
Few issues are more frequently commented on than the shifting of American manufacturing to locations outsides the United States, in order to take advantage of lower foreign wage rates, particularly in Asia. This shifting is what is meant by “offshoring.” With equal or greater frequency lamentations are heard concerning the United States’ chronic excess of imports over exports, i.e., its so-called “unfavorable” balance of trade.
Here’s an example that will help to put both matters in proper perspective.
Where There’s Smoke, You Don’t Have to Be
Ninos Malek argues that you do not have to breathe in any second-hand smoke while you are eating, drinking, socializing, or gambling. You can go elsewhere.
Hazlitt on 100% Gold
I suppose that I wasn’t entirely aware of how hard-core Henry Hazlitt was on the gold question until re-reading The Inflation Crisis and How to Resolve it:
WSJ Article “Climate of Fear”
Prof. Richard Lindzen, a genuine climate expert from MIT, has written a very valuable op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal describing the role of government funding and media hype in discussions of global warming. The article can be accessed here. The article appeared yesterday, April 12, 2006.
