Andrew Mitchell

Throughout my ethics class’s viewing of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, I was caught off guard by just how poor the case for human-caused global warming really is. Assuming every claim Gore makes in...

Recently, several commentators have condemned price gouging in New Orleans as if they were reporting an inherently unjust practice that no reasonable person would accept. So, once again, writes Angelo Mike, it needs explaining why price gouging is not only not bad, but is essential to the welfare of everyone involved. Without it, people don’t get the essential goods they need after disasters. Free markets here are humane and necessary.

Lou Dobbs is not a fresh voice of opposition to the government, writes Angelo Mike. He does not offer us anything more than centuries old, antiquated notions of mercantilist policies of protection, which plunder the many consumers in order to protect his favorite class of people. He supports the very policies of destructionism, economic nationalism, and protectionism which create more and more economic crises, for which the tax payers need to be shaken down again and again to foot the bill and subsidize those pet industries which guys like him like.