Forgive this very silly blog on Austrian cuisine, but I couldn’t resist a link (thanks to Ian Padovan) to this report on “the new Cuisines of Austria and The Danube.” “Gently Heated Salmon, With a Julienne of Styrian Wurzelgemuse and chive-horseradish sauce” sounds like just the thing to have while reading in the Austrian Library .
As I blogged here , the Gaurdian writes that Gen. Richard Myers , chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “disclosed that the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, with about 2,200 Marines aboard the USS Peleliu, went ashore in southern Iraq to assist a campaign to halt the smuggling of oil and fuel. The anti-smuggling effort, called ‘Operation
The Donald Rumsfeld memo as leaked for MSBNC is a remarkable document. Here we have the Secretary of Defense admitting that he doesn’t know if the US governnment is winning or losing the war on terror, and, more pointedly, admitting that “we lack the metrics” to know. ”Is our current situation such that ‘the harder we work, the behinder we
Interesting correspondence on my piece here . “You write: ‘It is believed that we would rather be taxed to have bureaucrats defend us.’ This belief of mine collapsed with the WTC on Sept. 11. For all the incompetence of the Federal bureaucracy, I always imagined that they could at least defend us. When they couldn’t keep their own
Here is a .gif file of the Rumsfeld Memo , which implicitely admits the futility and waste of the war on terror, and, even more implictely, the myth of national defense as provided by socialist
“It’s academic conference season again, and thousands of papers will be read badly by scholars to sleepy fellow scholars.” Some advice from William Germano , courtesty of Arts and Letters Daily.
The “trampled shopper” story that was used to smear Wal-Mart, Christmas shopping, and commerce itself is a fake. The woman who claimed to have been run over and left in the dust by shoppers anxious for a bargain is a professional victim , with 16 injury claims, 9 of them against Wal-Mart. (Courtesy of Drudge) Hey, George Will and all the others
Robert Barro and Rachel McCleary on the connection . (Courtesy of Arts & Letters Daily)
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.
