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Hey, remember that blue flu that was going to sweep through America, kill millions, and require martial law and central planning of just about everything? I’m guessing that most everyone has forgotten about it. What a country! The president makes a hysterical speech calling for central planning, billions are spent on preparation and “cures,” the

Here is a guy who says that copyright should be defended on the grounds that it is socialistic.

Here is a fascinating account of how a journalist for a socialist newspaper ended up taking a class in economics—and learning more about the way the world works than he expected to. Austrians will note that most of his criticisms apply not to Austrian theory but to a narrow brand of Chicago-style theorizing. Still, one can expect that the writer

Let’s say a City Council set out to improve the community. D oes banning Wal-Mart supercenters, as San Diego has done , contribute to the goal? After all, if the community opposed such stores, they would go out of business. If the community supports them, they would thrive. So there is a test to discern what is good and what is not good for the

Elisabeth Tamedly (Lenches), author of this wonderful treatise that we just posted, also contributed an interesting piece found here . She writes: Church leaders often call on their flocks to live a life of service to God “regardless of cost.” This exhortation flies straight in the face of economic thinking — and reality. Believers, to be sure,

Here is my review of Brian Patrick Mitchell’s 8 Ways to Run the Country: A New and Revealing Look at Left and Right .

How is it possible that Nancy Pelosi’s own district would be excluded in the new minimum wage law ? That seems too brazen to be true. But I guess that could be said about a lot of things. (Thanks

The U.S. subsidizes ethanol. Corn prices go up. The new prices hit Mexicans hard. T he prez slaps on price controls and threatens speculators .

Gapminder . But the data are too incomplete to reveal much about competing economic systems. Unless I’m using it incorrectly...

The Heritage Foundation offers one of those site polls designed to keep you tooling around, and this one I thought was interesting. Do liberals exaggerate threat to civil liberties from security measures like the Terrorist Surveillance Program? Yes. Security programs like the TSP protect the nation and keep civil liberties intact. No. The TSP and