So it turns out that VA Tech killer shouldn’t have owned a gun, according to federal law. Conclusion: criminals don’t care about law, so gun laws don’t disarm them. They only render the innocent helpless. Well, the NYT has a different conclusion : gun laws and mental-illness laws need to be centralized and more strictly
Somehow I doubt that Sheryl Crow is going to make much headway with her suggestion that people limit the amount of toilet paper they use, in order to save tress. Why is it that these environmentalists can never think their way to the next logical step? If you are concerned that there be more trees, the best means is to boost the consumer demand
MAN Financial chief economist Dr Frank Shostak has a warning for investors. The Reserve Bank’s monetary policy is “out of control” and that means inflation is heading up, interest rates are set to rise and the share market is only being supported by excessive money supply. He believes the Reserve Bank uses incorrect definitions of inflation and
Maybe I’m the only person in the world who hasn’t seen this, but who can’t be completely riveted by this interview with Ayn Rand? What a remarkable woman -- so much truth and yet much truth gone mad, one might say -- and what a phenomenon. Thanks to youtube you can get a sense of what the whole thing was
Finally, the private sector figures out how to move people around from home to work in buses : $0, wireless internet, leather seats, and more. Looking at the failure of mass transit in the past, one might be led to believe that individual cars are the only market solution. But this Google experiment shows that the problem isn’t the means of
For some unknown reason, some of Wilhelm Röpke’s best work has long been out of print, including his 1959 book International Order and Economic Integration (maybe the title alone killed the book!). In any case, in prepping the volume for online availability, I can’t resist quoting this passionate statement about how the early generation of
According to the NYT : “Despite the military’s ban on all alcoholic beverages [in Iraq and Afghanistan] — and strict Islamic prohibitions against drinking and drug use — liquor is cheap and ever easier to find for soldiers looking to self-medicate the effects of combat stress, depression or the frustrations of extended deployments, said military
There was a time when we had no viable means to get crocodile and antelope meat, and you could forget about a Yakburger. Now there’s exoticmeats.com
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