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R.C. Sproul on Monarchy

At Sunday school (where they study the Bible before the actual worship service) we watched a 23 or so minute video from R.C. Sproul on monarchy in the Bible. (I think this is the link to it, but it’s $2.) Libertarian Christians like to show not only atheists but also neoconservative Christians just how much […]

Murphy at St. Vincent College

This coming Monday evening. Details here.

“Fed on Trial”

C-SPAN has posted the footage from FreedomFest in Vegas this past July. If you’re bored, at least check out 12:20 when Kennedy hugs me. Bucket list item, check.

Contra Krugman Is Here

With the first three episodes. Subscribe on Stitcher or whatever you crazy kids do…

Steve Landsburg Passes the Torch

Steve has a very touching and interesting tribute to Don (now Deirdre) McCloskey, who taught him price theory at Chicago. Steve explains that it was McCloskey who was responsible for drawing him away from pure math and into economics, with an almost religious fervor. (That’s my term, but you’ll see that Steve uses language like […]

Mises, 134 Years Young

From my hagiographical piece at the American Thinker: One of Mises’s earliest achievements was to bridge the two fields we now call microeconomics and macroeconomics.Originally, the classical economists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had embraced variants of a labor theory of value in their teachings. Then, during the so-called Marginal Revolution of the 1870s, […]

Trolling, Trolling, Trolling Down the River

Largely because I’m technologically impaired, I don’t follow a large number of blogs. So even if I zing a certain blogger regularly, he should feel flattered. In that light, I offer the following two items: ==> I was mostly being a smart aleck when I pointed out that Scott Sumner was being Krugman-esque when he […]

Jesus and Old Testament Prophesies

What outsiders may not realize is that the Old Testament really does contain passages that remarkably foreshadow Jesus’ ministry. As Jesus Himself says in Luke 24: 44 Then He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were […]