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A Government Propaganda Move That Makes "Operation Infinite Justice" Sound Sensitive

Taylor Conant passed this along. I don’t want to spoil it or steal Roderick Long’s thunder, since he had the best reaction. You will not believe what the Census Bureau came up with to encourage people to register.

"It Couldn’t Happen Here"

When Americans are shocked, shocked to wake up one day and realize they live in a police state, they really can’t say there were no signs. The below is apparently actually playing in a movie theater near you. (HT2LRC)

Final Thoughts On Boettke Et Al.’s Preferred Nomenclature

Whenever you get into Internet arguments it soon becomes apparent that your own comments sow confusion / hurt feelings / etc. because other people don’t understand where you are coming from. In my previous post regarding the decision of GMU’s Pete Boettke and the his co-bloggers to rename their site “Coordination Problem” instead of “The […]

Glenn Greenwald Reminds Us That Terrorism Wasn’t Invented on 9/11

Glenn Greenwald takes Jeffrey Weiss to task over perpetuating the stereotype that terrorism is a thing that Muslims do. Here’s what Weiss wrote that set off GG: And we’re still left with a terrible problem for a free and multicultural society: Even though 99.999 percent of Muslims abhor attacks on innocent civilians on moral and […]

Potpourri

* Carlos Lara passes along this WSJ article explaining that “Gold Is the New Tupperware.” * I heard a very moving story on NPR about WW2 conscientious objectors who ended up working in state mental institutions. The conditions were so awful that a few of them decided they had to do something, so they smuggled […]

Boettke Et Al. Engage in Product Differentiation

The blog formerly known as “The Austrian Economists” will henceforth be referenced by the symbol α. No no it is actually now “Coordination Problem,” and Boettke et al. ask you to update your blogroll accordingly. [Insert joke about coordination problem here.] In this post Boettke explains the decision: As of January 1, 2010, we are […]

GATA Sues Federal Reserve

While the rest of you are getting smashed, I’m standing sentry at the Purchasing Power Castle, looking for signs of maurading central bankers. On my watch, MercedesRules passes along this tidbit: GATA [Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee] today brought suit against the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, seeking a court order for disclosure of the central bank’s […]

Memorable Free Advice Posts from 2009

I was going to do a Top Ten but that would take too long. Browsing the archives, here are some that jumped out at me (asterisks mean I think it’s a double plus good post): Marianne Sierk Standup Obama Nominates a Socialist Coining a New Term for the Coming Economic Disaster Of Flat Taxes and […]