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The Old Republic Is Dead

If I were more computer-savvy I’d have my blog play the Empire theme music right now. Regardless of your views on the wisdom of invading Afghanistan and Iraq, of torturing POWs, etc., surely you can agree with me that we have definitively crossed “the line.” I probably put the line in a different ZIP code […]

Gremlin Blog Update

Sorry the blog has been acting funny the last couple of days. With the help of Doug Stuart, I think we solved the main problems. We basically restored the files in their state from two days ago, and after some hiccups that seems to be working. (I am going to try a similar thing, and […]

Paul Krugman, Pet of Big Government

That’s my latest post at the IER blog, in response to Krugman’s shrugging off of the Solyndra scandal. An excerpt: To repeat, the Solyndra scandal is not simply a matter of the federal government wasting money on bad business ideas—the government does that all the time. Rather, Solyndra is “special” because the government managed to […]

Funny Graphic on Ron Paul from MSNBC

[UPDATE below.] Someone who knows how the Intertubes work, please get a screenshot of this. Check out how the poll results are graphed here. Notice anything funny, that might set off a paranoid Ron Paul fan? (I’ll update this post if someone can get me the screen shot.) UPDATE: Thanks to Isaac for sending me […]

Did I Ever Predict Hyperinflation?

[Ironic UPDATE below.] One of the standard criticisms of guys like Peter Schiff (and lesser mortals such as me) is that we’ve been falsely calling for hyperinflation for a few years now. For example, Krugman repeatedly rips Schiff on this score, and links people to a Google search of “Peter Schiff hyperinflation 2009.” (Incidentally, I […]

Greenspan Might Be a Little Too Frank

As longtime readers know, I am fascinated by “conspiracy theories” and cannot rule out the possibility that there is a cabal of lizard people running the world. Anyway, if the cabal exists, I have to think they are upset at Alan Greenspan’s glibness in this interview. (HT2 EPJ) That’s always gotta be tough, when somebody […]

Yet More Evidence About Media Bias Against Ron Paul

The latest “Stop being so paranoid, Bob” argument on the Ron Paul stuff is that he doesn’t have a chance of winning, and so that’s why the media is ignoring him. Sorry kids, that might explain a few of your data points, but not all of them. Jon Stewart’s team assembles the damning clips (HT2 […]

Did the Establishment Steal the Iowa Straw Poll from Ron Paul?

Robert Wenzel over at EPJ has two videos that make things look very suspicious. First, check out the standard way they announced the results of the Iowa straw poll back in 2007 (just watch it starting at 1:00 and end it at 1:30 once you see the obvious pattern): OK, that’s standard stuff, right? You […]