It is important to remember that Hoppe’s economic concepts are thoroughly Misesian, in that they are grounded in a priori logic. If the premises are true and the logical mechanisms that use those premises are correctly put into place, then the conclusion a priori is true as well. The reason that this is important is because Hoppe was reaching an academic conclusion, not expressing a statement of belief in opposition to homosexual behavior. if Hoppe continues to fight this unjust action by the UNLV administration, he will win in court.

Via Accounting Today, WebCPA asks: What’s the difference between Enron and the United States government? As I blogged recently, the federal government cannot get an unqualified audit, so therefore, we do not know that the financial statements of the U.S. government are fairly stated in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

It is difficult to know where to begin this “letter”. For the past several days, most of us have harshly criticized the disgusting display of political correctness and spinelessness at the UNLV. However, I would like to take an opportunity to thank you for everything that you mean to the Austrian and libertarian community, and for everything that you mean to me. The lectures that you have given are excellent in quality of both content and presentation.

A little digging reveals that the American public health profession’s academic journals seem to be filled with articles on time preference and all kinds of diseases and ailments. I know that the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, which is the top school in the field, requires a course or two in economics. Here’s one article:

“Obesity and the Rate of Time Preference,” by Joh Komlos (Univ. of Munich), Patricia Smith (Univ. of Michigan), and Barry Gogin (Univ. of Michigan).

Virgin has cure for bad dates:

For all those who have followed the Hoppe controversy, it is a good time to listen to his complete lecture on “Time Preference and Its Implications“ delivered at the Mises University. It is thorough, brilliant, innovative, and even funny: clearly a danger to conventional ways of thinking. Here are many more Hoppe lectures.

There’s something strange about this article in the Washington Times, linked by FEE this morning. It has the promising title of “Tax Burden Shift Seen as Lopsided” and it does complain that the rich are paying too much: good point. But the substance of the quotes from DC conservatives is not that the rich are overpaying but rather that the poor are underpaying.

Professor, ACLU may sue UNLV, from The Rebel Yell. This is a particularly instructive--and scary--article. Finally, the name of the student who accused Hoppe, Michael Knight, is revealed. Some of his comments are really a sad statement on the egalitarian, entitlement mentality of today’s brainwashed crop of sniveling, totalitarian-minded students.

Then there was the client who approached Manhattan CPA Marc Albaum about a very personal tax matter. “He had made some money being a sperm donor and wanted to know if he could take a depletion allowance,” Albaum recalls.