Monthly Archives: December 2014

Archive of posts published in the specified Month

Top Down Capitalism

A Review of Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev.  The review is by Karen Dawish for the Wall Street Journal. excerpts: This is not a state in transition, Mr. Pomerantsev argues, but a postmodern dictatorship that

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The Modern Source of Abusive Power

From The National Review George Will writes Government for the Strongest and Richest Intellectually undemanding progressives, excited by the likes of Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) — advocate of the downtrodden and the Export-Import Bank — have at last noticed

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Getting Beyond Race

In The National Review Kevin Williamson writes With Landrieu’s Loss, the End of an Epoch Excerpts: Naturally, this will be seized upon as an opportunity to proclaim the grapes sour: The Democrats, being intellectually dishonest, cling to the myth that

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Great Investment Advice

16 Rules for Investors to Live By by Morgan Housel in The Wall Street Journal. my 3 favorites: (all are worthy and valuable tips) Most bubbles begin with a rational idea that gets taken to an irrational extreme. Dot-com companies

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When Morality Meets Power

From National Review Matthew Continetti writes Liberalism is a Hoax. Excerpts: It is sometimes difficult to understand that, for the Left, racism and sexism and prejudice are not ethical categories but political ones. We are not merely talking about bad

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Boycotting Las Vegas

Apparently there is a problem in Las Vegas with cabbies intentionally taking long routes in order to overcharge.  This article explains  the various Rube Goldberg schemes the government has regulated to try and control this practice. As you would expect,

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Is Inequality a Problem?

University of Chicago economist John Cochrane has written one of the most unique and insightful perspectives on inequality in his blog, The Grumpy Economist.  Read Why and how we care about inequality in its entirety.  It is about 6 pages long.

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The Mask of Obamacare

Victor Davis Hanson writes in The National Review, Liberalism in Ruins Excerpts: Obamacare was, in the end, little more than a clumsy effort to take over the health-care system by redistributing resources from the supposedly too-well-off to the more noble

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Politically Useful Lives

from Kevin Williamson in National Review, Black Lives Matter Excerpt: The reality is this: Black men, especially young black men, die violent deaths at appalling rates in these United States. But they do not die very often at the hands

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A Lack Of Imagination

From Today’s American Thinker, my article Uber Libertarians Excerpt: There are similar commercial communities among iPhone users, Amazon customers, and other enterprises.  Such modern businesses scale up remarkably fast, creating huge commercial communities, quickly threatening the regulatory agencies, and empowering

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