Monthly Archives: April 2015

Archive of posts published in the specified Month

Political Ageism

Byron York writes in The Washington Examiner Why is the 2016 Democratic field so old? excerpts: In 2008, Democrats had a 47 year-old candidate who mesmerized the party and ran away with the votes of Americans aged 18 to 29.

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Political Bud Lite

Don Boudreaux writes in Cafe Hayek Insipidness Guaranteed Excerpt: It’s intriguing that the people who most self-righteously criticize the likes of McDonald’s, Anheuser-Busch, pop rock, and builders of ‘cookie-cutter’ houses for being bland and failing to experiment with the Bold

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A Hillary Reality Check

From Don Boudreaux in Cafe Hayek, Why Is This Politician Taken Seriously? Excerpt: So here’s a simple mental experiment.  Suppose you’re on the board of a successful corporation and the President & CEO of that corporation is about to retire.

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ACA Flim Flam

From The Wall Street Journal Cliff Asness writes In Praising ObamaCare, They Bury It Excerpts: That more people would be insured was never in dispute. If you mandate that people buy something, penalize them if they don’t and give it

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Evil is Not the Problem

from The National Review Online Kevin Williamson writes Black Hats and White Hats Excerpts: In popular culture, it is a commonplace that we could have cures for AIDS or cancer if not for the greed of doctors and pharmaceutical companies,

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Rubio’s Announcement

Can anyone show me any speech from Hillary that comes close to this. A Latin Kennedy

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Taxes and Income

from Mark Perry at Carpe Diem

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Idle Assets and other Economic Thoughts

I wonder if there is such a thing as idle assets.  If one wishes to sit on his money for years because the costs and risks of deploying it are too high is that any different from a land owner

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An Aura of Earned Success

Unlike the grandees of Wall Street or the energy industry, the tech Oligarchs have so far experienced relatively little of the criticism commonly directed at Wall Street or energy executives for their huge compensation levels. They, it appears, are different

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A Different Kind of Bridge

A certain amount of public spending is necessary to perform essential government functions. A certain amount of public works—of streets and roads and bridges and tunnels, of armories and navy yards, of buildings to house legislatures, police and fire departments—is

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The True AGW Consensus

Matt Ridley writes My life as a climate lukewarmer- The polarisation of the climate debate has gone too far in his blog, The Rational Optimist. Excerpts: What sealed my apostasy from climate alarm was the extraordinary history of the famous “hockey stick” graph,

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