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Sean Hannity vs. Pat Buchanan

The realpolitik-ish von Pepe sends me this awesome exchange: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Make sure you watch to the end when Hannity plays the Hitler card.

Evaluating the Iranian Nuclear Threat

I am a professional economist, not a military strategist or historian. Nonetheless, I think I can offer some perspective on typical arguments for U.S. government military action. Consider the following excerpt from a NYT article by Chris Hedges, titled, “Iran May Be Able to Build an Atomic Bomb in 5 Years, U.S. and Israeli Officials […]

Taxes Are Theft?

…he asked innocently. I am guessing I will have more to say on this topic, but here’s the first swing. Notice this part where I point out something ironic in Sumner’s discussion of Hiroshima: It’s also interesting that we can use Sumner’s rhetorical device against him. Notice in the beginning of his passage, he says […]

Krugman the Shill

[UPDATE: I keep forgetting that not everyone grew up in a household that had succumbed to the British invasion. I didn’t write the Krugman tribute song from scratch; I parodied this Buckingham’s classic. I love it when Krugman’s fans tell me my song “sucks,” apparently thinking I wrote the whole thing. They need to realize […]

McCarthy on Secession

Dan keeps surprising me. Here’s his article responding to libertarians who had hoped Scotland would secede. I have neither the time nor the knowledge of history to do anything more than drop my jaw at this line: “Successful Southern secession would have entailed results even more illiberal than the outbreak of the Civil War, which […]