System has fallen and it can’t get up : The BCS means well. All it really wants to do is arrange a No. 1 vs. No. 2 national championship game. But how can you trust a “system” that does more makeovers than the Queer Eye guys? Hardly a year goes by that the BCS doesn’t go under the knife for a nip and tuck. This season, it was the introduction of
This from Mike Davis: Cries of price gouging in for the oil industry from Democrats such as Chuck Schumer are nothing new. Now it seems that Republicans are jumping on the band wagon. Last week, after Exxon Mobil (XOM) published record quarterly profits of $9.9 billion, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist called for hearings to see whether a
Hey, the commies are attacking Mises ! But the article has all the expected confusions, like conflating public and private bureaucracy. Some stuff here is actually quite right: “In spite of the move away from public ownership and toward private ownership, governments around the world have continued to take taxpayers’ money and essentially use it
I have a question for blog readers. Is there any interest in a complete one-volume set of the Libertarian Forum (1969-1984), totaling some 1900 pages? The idea would be to make it hardbound, but it would be pricey ($100 or so). Is something that would be of
One reason I like writing techy articles —and genuine geeks should freely scoff at my comparative ignorance of these issues—is that people send in great links to stuff I didn’t know about. So just now someone sent me to what looks like a great and free antivirus solution for home use (aside from AVG , which is great too): AVAST
So says “ The Uneasy Case for Higher Gasoline Taxes “ by Ian Parry in the Milken Review . The idea is that taxes on gasoline as such only leads people to buy smaller cars with better gas mileage, whereas what we really need is far less driving as such. Less driving will reduce our foreign dependence on oil (implicit protectionism here), make wars
The Washington Post reports on the Call to Service campaign: “Worried that too many young Americans are turned off by the idea of working in government, Congress has provided $600,000 for a research project to develop strategies to raise interest among college students in federal service.” Note that this is not actually recruitment. This is
The annual flu frenzy is on, and all its attendent vaccination hysterias, and this year the mania is stepped up by the media’s frothing over the coming pandemic “ bird flu “—a threat that has hoax written all over it. Well, writing in the British Medical Journal , Peter Doshi explains all the many ways in which the CDC and government PR people
I’m looking at the new issue of Chronicles , which features a happy kid using a plough pulled by some oxen, and behind him stands an old corner store but in the back of the supposedly idyllic scene is that dreadful menace Wal-Mart shown in black and white. Wal-Mart! Why, the store intends to take that kid from behind that plough and plunk him
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