A couple weeks back my former student and friend Miles Collins asked if he wrote something, would I post it on my blog. I first encouraged him to start his own blog, but he said that he wouldn’t write enough to maintain one by himself. (Although I’m not sure his audience on an infrequently updated [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Here is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on people who oppose the Democrats’ health care bill: “If you think you’ve heard these same excuses before, you’re right. When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said slow down, it’s too early, let’s wait, things aren’t [...]
I’ve long suspected that all men are hell bound, and this pretty well seals it. There is a satirical effort under way in California to ban divorce. And why not? If people want to protect “traditional” marriage, that’s the way marriage has traditionally worked in the West. Watch an organ donor’s brain get sliced…for science. [...]
I finally got around to reading Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt, which is a libertarian classic that has stood the test of time. (First published in 1946, you can still find it almost any large bookstore, which is more than you can say for 99.99% of books on economics that old.) It really [...]
So the Dubai real estate boom is now imploding. People should have seen this coming once they stopped building all the artificial islands that resembled the globe. Still, it didn’t stop Citibank from investing in the economy. From the New York Times: The view was, and apparently still is, that if Dubai gets in trouble, [...]
In a truly bizarre incident, a sheriff’s deputy in Maricopa County, Arizona charged with defending the courtroom of Superior Court Judge Gary Donahoe stole confidential files from a defense attorney. This was a flagrant violation of attorney-client privilege, and Donahoe ordered the deputy, Adam Stoddard, to publicly apologize by this Monday. Now, the sheriff of [...]
