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A bird in Spain is sick. ( This seems to hold true)

They always go together , says this insightful editorial on the wacky left wing alternet.org. Now if they would just come around and oppose the welfare part of the welfare-warfare

If you pay an employee a fat salary, give him a prestigious title, and then pump up his package with perks like free mailing privileges, well, you feel like he owes you some work. Maybe you need to give him an occasional assignment. That’s why I wrote my Representative in Congress, Mr. “Bud” Cramer, to help me solve a bureaucratic conundrum. I

This fascinating story in the NYT tells of the proliferation of cellphones and how they are used to make life better. But how strange that the journalist was not even slightly curious about the companies and entrepreneurs who make this possible. I seem to recall that early on, the US refused to permit cellphones companies in and were seeking to

Kyle Wingfield’s wonderful article on the Mises Institute appears in the US edition of the Wall Street Journal today. For subscribers here is the link . And here is a link that is free (new) I would love to post a pdf of this thing that I’m looking at right now on my screen. But the WSJ wants to charge us $1,400 for a one-year posting. If we did

Many people have written to ask about the response to that WSJ article on the Mises Institute . The response has been fabulous, with thrilled supporters and happy students and faculty, not to mention blog links (such as this , this , this , and this ). Obviously, the Mises Institute has never sought this kind of attention. If it were an

The Financial Times announces the end of libertarianism as a political force. Evidence: the failure of soc-sec privatization, and individual health-care accounts. Problem: neither of these were really libertarian

The WashTimes has a piece on Bob Smither who is making life difficult for the Repubs and Dems in Texas. But what interests me is his quote machine at the bottom of the page. The code is here

The short-sightedness of the anti-smoking lobby is striking indeed. They are all going nuts about a new report showing that cigarette manufacturers seem to have increased the amount of nicotine in a smoke--which, if true, would make perfect sense. There are fewer and fewer opportunities to smoke. People have to leave their workplaces and go

This excellent roundup of American politics since 9/11 chronicles the biggest powergrab since the Great Depression. The final paragraph reminds us just how important the “history books” of the future are to current politicians. September 11th has turned the Bush presidency into a big deal. Before the aircraft struck, Mr Bush looked like a