Monthly Archives: October 2014

Archive of posts published in the specified Month

Making Rulers Uncomfortable

One of my favorite blog postings this year is The Left is Too Smart to Fail by Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish.  Science is for Stupid People is equally worthy and an excellent companion piece to the first article. Excerpts: Science, the magic

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The Impact of Government Distrust

From Jeff Carter at Points and Figures, Ebola Helping the Market Break Excerpt: ISIS is on the march trying to erect a Muslim caliphate.  Putin is taking back the Soviet empire, brick by brick and biding his time.  Obama’s White

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Welcome to Civilization

From Rick Perry Speaks in London in The Washington Post by Jennifer Rubin Excerpt: The hatreds of unassimilated radicals only draw further attention to anti-Semitism in general.  It’s a familiar problem in a new time. In Europe it ranges as in

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Sensitivity to Contradiction

from The Global Warming Statistical Meltdown by Judith Curry in The Wall Street Journal Excerpts: Human-caused warming depends not only on increases in greenhouse gases but also on how “sensitive” the climate is to these increases. Climate sensitivity is defined

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Kovacevich on the Financial Crisis

Richard Kovacevich writes for Cato,  The Financial Crisis: Why The Conventional Wisdom is Wrong PDF file

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Shaming the Kennedy Legacy

from The National Review Larry Kudlow writes None Can Call it Treason excerpts: A couple of weeks ago at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, several hundred people went to their feet to applaud a speech delivered by David H. Koch.

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The Futility of Political Consensus

“The concepts of legitimacy and consent are the foundation of the moralistic view of politics, which converts government from a machine for doing things into a directorate for telling us what to do. This happens on the presumption that there

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The Rahn Curve

from Dan Mitchel at International Liberty, The Rahn Curve, the Laffer Curve, and Walter Williams excerpt: For the uninitiated, the Rahn Curve is the common-sense notion that some government is helpful for prosperous markets but too much government is harmful to economic performance.

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Doubling Down on Failure

From the Wall Street Journal, The President of Inequality- Policies promoting equality over growth have damaged both. excerpts: All of this is especially notable because it follows the most sustained policy focus on reducing inequality in decades. President Obama’s stimulus

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Keynes and Hayek Labels

Conrad Black writes Battle of the Cliches in The National Review excerpt: In economics, Keynes and Hayek have become simplistic labels, Keynes for spending out of recessions with deficit financing and Hayek for economic shrinkage of government. In fact, 75

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Sacrificing Quality for Access

from the WSJ Scott Atlas writes ObamaCare’s Anti-Innovation Effect Excerpts: Of the many unintended consequences of the Affordable Care Act, perhaps the least noticed is its threat to innovation. Although most discussions center on the law’s more immediate effects on

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iSocialism

One of my favorite blog postings this year is The Left is Too Smart to Fail by Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish.  Science is for Stupid People is equally worthy and an excellent companion piece to the first article. Excerpts:

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