In this post, K. Chris Caldwell discussed a censorship law which forces ISP’s to block access to IP addresses because a website under that domain may contain child-pornography. This blocks access to thousands of unrelated websites, which are separate domains under the same IP address. Pensylvania attempted to justify this, saying that individuals could move their website urls to different IP addresses.

Henry Ford, whose ancestors were small-parcel, Irish farmers, was quite the landowner. According to Ford R.

“Military Keynesianism might get Bush reelected, but economists are starting to worry,” says Andrew Gumbel in The Independent.

One of the most common fear concerning free international trade is that jobs in high wage countries (like the US) will be lost to low wage countries (like Mexico). The way the argument usually goes is that workers in some places lack the political power or union organization to get higher wages. This assumes that employers can pay their workers more, but do not. Senator Chuck Schumer and Paul Craig Roberts  recently advanced this kind of reasoning.

This article by Niels Veldhuis is important because it examines whether the use of “poverty lines” to explain poverty is actually fair...and the implications are astounding. Poverty lines measure inequality not true poverty. A better way to measure it is by determining whether an individual has access to the basic necessities of life — such as food, clothing, shelter, etc.

Car and Driver’s Brock Yates slams SUV critics like Fox’s Bill O’Reilly who “insist America’s transportation needs can be met by everyone toddling around in tiny subcompacts consuming eyedroplets of gasoline (or better yet, hydrogen or yogurt or cowpies, or whatever is the energy source du jour).” On the contrary, Yates observes, millions of people buy sport-utility vehicles because, as he puts it, “they find their utility of value.” Recalling the

Lauchlan Chipman offers this primer on taxation, progressivity, and justice in Australia (cites Hayek).

Good blog here on how Mises, in 1944, anticipated the coming of the food and diet police.

This genius at cbsmarketwatch (he is a Dr.) is not concerned with the fall of the dollar because it “has gone nowhere against China’s currency.” Someone needs to clue the Dr. in that the Yuan is pegged to the dollar.

“The US economy is reflating fast. Too fast? Much depends on Asia, John Garnaut writes” in the Sydney Morning Herald.