Bob Murphy

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Why You Can’t Really Keep Theological Views Confined to Sunday

Welp, in case you haven’t heard, one of the recent items to emerge from the rounds of WikiLeaks dumps is the claim that Hillary Clinton’s campaign people may be involved in Satanic rituals, such as “spirit cooking” and more sinister things involving children. In the interest of objectivity, I’ll let a completely skeptical New York […]

Tom Woods, Boss

If he didn’t believe in the NAP, Tom would be a made man at this point. Details at WoodsContest.com.

Video From the First Contra Cruise!!!

Yes, it deserves three exclamation points. For info on future Contra Cruises, go here.

Potpourri

==> Reminder, I’m in DC to give a talk at American University at 8pm on Tuesday. Details here. ==> Tom and I tackle Krugman’s latest. Krugman argues that climate change is more urgent than the federal debt, but we use the CBO and IPCC against him. I love quoting from “the consensus.” ==> This was […]

Moses Shall Be “Like God to Pharaoh”

During my Bible study session we came across this, in the book of Exodus: Chapter 6… 28 Now when the Lord spoke to Moses in Egypt, 29 he said to him, “I am the Lord. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I tell you.” 30 But Moses said to the Lord, “Since I speak with […]

A New Front in My War Against Scott Sumner

BTW for newcomers: The reason I attack Scott so much is that he writes on issues I care about. E.g. I don’t think Bryan Caplan is winning in his debate with Michael Huemer on why we can kill bugs (if we can), but I have little to say on such matters. On a carbon tax, […]

Obama: Health Insurance Premiums Could Fall By 3000 Percent

This happened years ago, but I missed it. Now this video is making the rounds for obvious reasons: So it’s funny that critics are calling this a “lie,” when it’s so much more than that. (I googled and apparently the White House said afterwards that Obama had misspoken, and meant to claim a $3,000 reduction […]

Washington State Carbon Tax Ballot Proposal Shows Why Right Should Reject a “Deal”

In my latest IER column, I quote from a very revealing Vox article. It is crystal clear that progressive Leftists–whether we’re talking the nerdy wonks or the activist boots on the ground–want nothing to do with a revenue-neutral carbon tax. I also try a different analogy to get people to see why these state-level carbon […]