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Regrets, I Have a Few…

…and since it’s late / now I’ll list them. OK Bob Wenzel says that if you have bad news, you should dump it late on a Friday when nobody will notice. So here goes: * Bill Woolsey is right that I skipped a step in my Bernanke bashing. Ever since people started saying, “Of course […]

Hypocrisy Check

I don’t have any particular people in mind–otherwise I would have busted them–but I bet there are lots of people, both on the (conventional) left and right, who have had a different attitude to leaks during the Climategate and WikiLeaks discussions. In other words, I bet there are lots of left-wingers who were outraged at […]

WikiLeaks / Amazon Bask

Hey kids, I am working on a response to Justin Raimondo’s love letter. Can someone help me out with the timeline of events? For example, I am pretty sure that right-wingers were calling on people to boycott Amazon for hosting WikiLeaks, before Lieberman got involved. Can someone help me out with that? (E.g. link to […]

David : Goliath :: Lincoln : Davis?!

I was listening to some “light” commentary on NPR concerning a guy Miller who apparently yet again didn’t make it into the Baseball Hall of Fame. I tuned in during the middle of the monologue, so I didn’t catch the guy’s full name. I gathered he wasn’t a player–or at least, not a player of […]

The Best Quote From “The Untouchables”

I have to say, the movie was not as good as I was hoping, with such a cast and topic. But I definitely loved the following exchange: Malone: OK, pal, why the mahaska? Why are you carrying the gun? Ness: I’m a treasury officer. Malone: Alright. Just remember what we talked about now. [Malone walks […]

Jeff Tucker, Pioneer

I have noticed more and more that Mises.org is gaining real street cred (and even Street cred). I think it’s partly the general resurgence in interest in the Austrian School, but I also think it’s that the Internet is becoming a more accepted source of information. (It used to be a derogatory thing to say, […]

I Predict Gerald Celente Won’t Be Invited Back to Fox & Friends…

Holy cow, he doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to the TSA (HT2 LRC):

Frank Zappa versus Bryan Caplan

Whatever the post title suggested to you, I promise the actual post will fail to live up to your hopes… Recently Bryan wrote a post with the implausible title, “Why T.V. is Great for the Family,” which I reproduce in full: Yesterday my baby acquired a valuable life skill: He learned how to watch television. […]