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The Fairest Keynesian in the Land

When I look upon my mirror and ask it to name me the fairest Keynesian in the land, he says Mecha Lekka Hi Mecha Hiney Ho. But when prompted again, he says it’s Karl Smith. For example, in a recent post Karl put a picture of Ron Paul’s End the Fed and then said this: […]

Murphy and Friedman Support Palin!

All I mean is, David Friedman has pooh-poohed those going nuts over Palin’s Paul Revere remarks, just like I did. Friedman makes a point that I thought too at the time, but I didn’t dwell on it because the whole thing is so silly. Yet since Friedman is getting beaten up in his comments, I […]

Is Coercion Inevitable?

I came across this interesting clip from a Western journalist interviewing a Soviet physicist in the 1960s. The part that caught my attention: It amuses me when I go abroad for conferences and hear my American colleagues prattle on about the “scientific method.” I don’t doubt their sincerity. They genuinely believe that the “best science” […]

“I Walked Downstairs, Wiser”

I can’t remember the exact line, but I’m referring to Ralphie in A Christmas Story after he decodes the commercial for Ovaltine. (Incidentally, the best argument against democracy I have come across is that this movie gets only 8.1 out of 10.) In an earlier post I was aghast at the Orwellian behavior of Fox […]

Maybe There Is Such Thing as Bad Publicity

This is why I wrote my post about Arizona. Folks, those of you who are an-caps in the crowd, you have to realize that the people at ThinkProgress are salivating at the quotes this guy is giving them. He is to them, what those nutjob environmental commercials were to Glenn Beck. (And you see the […]

How Paternalistic Should a Parent Be?

In church today the pastor–who is a super right-winger–derided the San Francisco ban on Happy Meals. Although I can’t recall him ever discussing it, somehow I don’t think my pastor objects to those same wacky Californians banning people from consuming marijuana. Assuming I’m right, then, my pastor actually doesn’t have a problem with the principle […]