“The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both.” — Milton Friedman
Busybodies Minding Your Business
When those busybody jerks who were on student council in high school grow up, get rich, and win political office (sometimes in reverse order), this...
Childishness and Ignorance of Those Who Self-Rightously Thunder Against Business and Profit
A while back I posted The Profit Motive Versus the Political Motive If you liked that you’ll like this: Heather MacDonald’s Post-Christmas Economic Rant Here...
Americans That Get It: 38%–Those That Don’t: 30%
From Rasmussen: A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 30% of voters nationwide believe the $787-billion economic stimulus plan has helped the economy....
Is He Drunk or just Nuts?
This is all over the web so it might as well be here. Can there be any doubt that great big decisions that affect our...
The Unorganized Militia
Randy Barnett at The Volokh Conspiracy says: According to press reports, a passenger helped subdue the terrorist who was attempting to bring down Northwest #253....
Whole Foods Chairman John Mackey in the Crosshairs
Whole Foods CEO and Chairman John Mackey has been under attack for a long time by a liberal shareholder group that doesn’t like his style....
Hero On Delta Flight Didn’t Hesitate
“Suddenly, we hear a bang. It sounded like a firecracker went off,” said Jasper Schuringa, a film director who was traveling to the US to...
Climate Change Facts-What Do We Know?
If you are ever on the jury in a murder trial in which you hear conflicting evidence you’ll be very careful in reaching your decision...
The Gun Rights War
Excerpt from The Gun Rights War by Neal Knox, posted with permission: The Belgian Corporal by Neal Knox In the summer of 1955, I was...
What is the Difference Between Christmas and Chanukah?
After a two-year struggle to drive the Syrian-Greeks out of the area around Jerusalem, whose emperor Antiochus had decreed that henceforth Jews would worship Greek...