At the GOP convention last night, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger engaged in the silly, but destructive nationalism that is standard at such events:

Down under, in Australia, it is often thought that we are a dry country. What if I was to tell you that we have more rainfall than the United States! As the legendary Aussie, agriculture designer, P.A.

In the Republican National convention, Arnold Schwarzenegger said that terrorism is worse than Socialism. Empirically, he is wrong. Between the Nazis, the USSR, and China, Socialism has been responsbible for hundreds of millions of murders. The number of murders committed by terrorists doesn’t even come anywhere near that.

People have different opinions about liquor (just like they have different opinions about porn). The economics of well-intentioned prohibitionism, though, are inviolable: in an effort to make the state’s highways safer by placing liquor control agents in state liquor stores on Opening weekend, the state of Alabama has merely given 19 year old binge drinkers different incentives at the margin. Fewer underage purchases, yes.

Here is an unapologetic defense of the Luddites: they were right before their time, says the Christian Science Monitor. In this news article, not a single dissenting voice is quoted against the claim that “automation” is destroying jobs and leaving everyone worse off. Not a word is given about the implication of the case against machines: that jobs should consist of people doing things that can be done better and more cheaply otherwise, i.e.

My neighborhood, West University Place, is a small, self-contained little island of a city within Houston. It’s only about 2 square miles; but it’s fairly densely packed, about 10,000 families. Unlike Houston proper, West U has zoning. And most of its residents like it this way including, I confess, yours truly. A recently passed ordinance (sec.

“He who espouses the institution of slavery,” wrote Mises in Liberalism, “never stops to reflect that he himself could be a slave.” This quotion comes to mind when slogging through the very long essay by David Brooks (”How to Reinvent the G.O.P.”) in the NYTimes Magazine, which ends with a stirring call for the government to rob late teens of critical years that could otherwise be used for productive endeavors in order that they c