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* Here is a trailer for a novel (The Eagle Has Crashed) where the author had hired me to review his economic projections. * David R. Henderson brings our attention to a truly shocking op ed by Stanley Fish regarding the alleged double standard on the Bill Maher / Rush Limbaugh / using-naughty-words-to-describe-women issue. * […]

Mises Gives Fodder to Conspiracy Theorists

I talk with plenty of people who think a small group of bankers basically run the world–and the odd thing is, I can’t really see a flaw in their argument. (Of course, given my religious views, I would take it one step further.) In that context, check out this passage I just ran across in […]

Megan McArdle on the Heartland Institute / Peter Gleick Affair

Wow this is pretty interesting. I kept hearing allusions to “fakegate” and leaked/stolen documents from the Heartland Institute during the last week, but I was too busy to really read up on it. Well today I spent a good hour catching up, and holy cow there are some interesting twists and turns. As the Dude […]

My Cynicism Runneth Over

I remember one time I shocked the astounded von Pepe by telling him I thought Ted Kennedy was brilliant. The danger of fisticuffs eventually subsided when I clarified that I meant Ted Kennedy was really good at playing the political game, in anticipating what would sell with the voters, etc. I mean really, Ted Kennedy […]

Skullduggery in Maine

If you haven’t really been paying attention to the allegations of vote fraud in Maine, you really need to watch this whole thing. (HT2 LRC) It starts out a bit slow in the beginning but then it gets pretty good. For rank-and-file Republicans, I have a question for you: Isn’t it weird how your side […]

Who Will Watch Freedom Now?

I have been at an insurance conference since Wednesday night and haven’t had time to look into this much, but anyway Fox has canceled Judge Napolitano’s show FreedomWatch. Lew Rockwell gives contact information if you want to tell someone at Fox your feelings about this move. Does anyone have objective ratings information? Obviously many of […]

How the Private Bankers Are Using the Financial Crisis to Reshape World Government

How’s that for a neutral title? If you are willing to play this in the background, there are a few decent jokes sprinkled throughout.

Follow-Up on Labor versus Investment Taxes

Steve Landsburg thinks he’s got Mate in One in the comments of my previous post, so before he declares victory let me write this follow-up post. To set the context (again), I am dissatisfied when Steve (talking about Mitt Romney) uses a thought experiment to conclude, “people with investment income bear a higher tax burden, […]