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Murphy Figures Out How to Highlight, Screen Capture, and Tweet Multiple Photos: Progressives Tremble

I was telling Alex Tabarrok on Twitter that we can’t help but use the third person sometimes; it just sounds better. Anyway, this 2013 article by Peter Suderman showcases how some of our progressive friends described the famous Oregon Medicaid experiment after Year 1 of the data came in–when it looked great for the program–versus […]

McEnroe Gets Served

For the upcoming issue of the Lara-Murphy Report, here is one of my blurbs about current events: SIDEBAR: McEnroe Gets Served Tennis Legend Gets Sucked Into PC Crosshairs. You may have heard about the public rift between tennis stars John McEnroe and Serena Williams. The innocent bystander may even have seen a headline and come […]

More Hatchet Jobbery From MacLean

David R. Henderson reports on another outrageous (and I use that term carefully) smearing of her opponents in Nancy MacLean’s book on Buchanan. First I’ll do the Buchanan one, and then I’ll showcase how she also smeared Rothbard (HT2 Roderick Long). Regarding Buchanan, here’s what MacLean wrote: Koch learned as a young adult, from his […]

Potpourri

==> If I said this post by Scott Sumner proves I am the Bobby Flay of economics blogging, would anybody get the reference? ==> Glenn Greenwald brings us up to speed on just how sloppy and dishonest CNN and the NYT have been in their reporting on Trump and Russia. If you have the time, […]

Fact Checking the Fact Checkers

Here’s my question: Are these people being dishonest or just dumb? In response to a guy in the comments saying he would think about giving up his private health insurance to go on Medicaid, I wanted to see what the disparity was in doctors accepting Medicaid vs. private insurance. (Answer: 69% vs. 85%, apparently.) But […]

Murphy Triple Play

I don’t have time to do the time-stamp stuff on these. But they are all awesome; download them for when you’re on a road trip or something. One hint: There’s a surprise at the beginning of the Contra Krugman episode. ==> Contra Krugman ep. 92: I am flying solo and bring Dan Mitchell on to […]

Potpourri

==> An interesting proposal for a mechanism to improve debates. ==> A market solution to dealing with food waste. (I donated $10 for what it’s worth.) ==> FEE has made the collected works of Leonard Read available. He’s not just the author of “I, Pencil.” ==> Yikes! Russ Roberts catches Nancy Maclean with some creative […]

Oren Cass on ObamaCare and Death Rates

Since it’s fashionable to claim that (partially) repealing the ACA will kill thousands/millions of people, these 8 minutes from Contra Krugman episode 76 are really critical. I’m also writing up something on this stuff.