Monthly Archives: October 2016

Archive of posts published in the specified Month

The True Function of the Corporate Income Tax

From Holman Jenkins at The WSJ, Harmonize this Eurocrats,  What about the undoubted problem of companies like Apple shielding their globally earned profits behind a small country’s friendly tax regime? There’s a remarkably sanitary solution: Get rid of the corporate

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Misunderstanding Money

from Steve Forbes at Forbes Magazine,  Reckoning for Biggest Wrecker of U.S. Economy: Economies aren’t machines that can be calibrated, like automobiles. They are billions of people making decisions numerous times a day. The idea that central planners, whether they’re

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Media Irony

What if Donald Trump wins? And we realize that the triumph was largely due to the outsized and relatively free media coverage he got early on…… Because he drew such large audiences that it enhanced the profits of the very

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Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds

  If a doctor of oncology treats a thousand patients, but five hundred of them die, is he still a good doctor? If a preacher saves a thousand souls but one hundred end up in hell is he still a

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When Central Planning Becomes Irrelevant

Kevin Williamson at National Review addresses the zero sum thinking in The New New Malthusians: excerpt: But the internal-combustion engine may be going dodo nonetheless. Mike Fox, executive director of Gasoline & Automotive Services Dealers of America — i.e., the boss

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Guidance Letters

Yuval Levin recently wrote TheFractured Republic, an intelligent look at the state of political discontent, and a recommended read.  He recently wrote Hillary Is an Embodiment of the Left’s Disdain for Democracy with coauthor Ramesh Ponnuru in National Review. He examines three

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Why Hillary is Not 50 Points Ahead

From Bret Stephens at The Wall Street Journal, The Apology of Donald Drump:  (Stephen’s fictitious DT speech) So spare me the sensitivity lectures. Spare me the business lectures, too. Those tax returns someone stole and the New York Times published?

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The Illusion of Political Power

from Richard Fernandez at PJ Media, The End of the Memory Hole One of the most puzzling aspects of current events is the contrast between the ever increasing size of government and its paradoxical helplessness. It gets bigger and more impotent

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The New Trusts

from The Great Regression in The National Review by Victor Davis Hanson As a result of liberal hyper-wealth, the new trusts are given veritable media and political passes on their embrace of practices once seen as illiberal and self-serving, like excessive electronic

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Politiphobes

From The Atlantic, How American Politics Went Insane by Jonathan Rauch Using polls and focus groups, Hibbing and Theiss-Morse found that between 25 and 40 percent of Americans (depending on how one measures) have a severely distorted view of how government and

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