“Give us all your liberties, and we will keep you safe.” – Intentions of the United States Congress under the USA PATRIOT Act, 2001-2010
Originally published February 28, 2010 at http://towneforcongress.com/economy/patriot-act-backdoor-extension-passes-congress-1
[Thanks to LS for preparing the below video.]
A thinker’s journey is never done. But at this stage in mine, to me it seems evident that the thought of Ludwig von Mises is, thus far, the apogee of man’s age-old quest for soundness of thought. In the blog posts that follow, I will put that impression to the test in reflections on the history of “big ideas”, viewed through the lens of Mises’ thought.Join the discussion and post a comment
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In the 1960s, Ludwig von Mises lectured often on money and inflation. Bettina Bien Greaves was there taking shorthand. She has been working to transcribe them. The results are fascinating. The book will be printed when we have the chance, but you can examine the results online now.Ms. Greaves explains:
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Climategate and
glaciergate
have set off a firestorm of criticism against the
less-than-transparent Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change.
Bowing to public pressure, the IPCC is now seeking an independent
review of it procedures by the InterAcademy Council. The IAC is the
umbrella organization for various national academies of science
from countries around the world.
Someone on this blog alerted us to the fact that Human Action is priced at $20 in the printed catalog, clearly a typo. What can we do but comply? Meanwhile, the staff here will continue to point fingers at each other.Join the discussion and post a comment
Read more »James Otteson speaks on Karl Marx v. Adam Smith at the 2010 FEE Homeschool Debate Tournament (HT: James Otteson).The Classical Liberal Tradition: Marx v. Smith from FEE on Vimeo.Join the discussion and post a comment
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There seems to be growing optimism among some
Republicans that if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finagles the votes
to pass Obamacare, the GOP triumphantly will sweep into power and
immediately repeal it. Don't count on it, writes David
Harsanyi. View this article.
By Tad DeHavenLast week, after Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) said that holders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s debt shouldn’t be expected to be treated the same as holders of U.S. government debt, the U.S. Treasury took the “unusual” step of reiterating its commitment to back Fannie and Freddie’s debt.
If ever there was case against allowing a few hundred men and women to micromanage the economy, this is it.
Over the last few weeks, the White House and its
supporters have been pushing hard on the idea that health care
reform really is fiscal responsible, mostly in hopes of winning
over wavering moderate Democrats in the House.
When we think of the libertarian tradition, we tend naturally to think of political philosophers and economists of the past. But one part of the libertarian tradition belongs to novelists and other fiction writers. FULL ARTICLE by Jeff RiggenbachJoin the discussion and post a comment
Read more »Via Instapundit comes this
link to an excellent Economist debate between one-time Obama "green
jobs" czar nominee Van Jones and Andy Morriss on whether the
government should push green jobs like drug dealers supposedly
push pot on grammar-school playgrounds.
Morriss says no way in a convincing opening statement.
Snippets:
In her latest Forbes column, Reason Foundation Senior
Analyst Shikha Dalmia notes: "Pushing ObamaCare was an astonishing
misjudgment, the domestic policy equivalent of President Bush
launching a full-scale preemptive strike against Iran after
embroiling the country in Iraq and Afghanistan. But why don't
progressives get that this is terrible economic timing?"
"We allow the insurance
industry to run wild in this country," President Obama declared on
Monday. "We can't have a system that works better for the insurance
companies than it does for the American people." Despite this
rhetoric, Senior Editor Jacob Sullum argues, Obama’s plan to tame
health insurers would boost their business, protect them from
competition, and guarantee their profits, all at the expense of
consumers and taxpayers. It is therefore not surprising, Sullum
says, that the insurance companies are happy to be
domesticated.
by John Browne, Senior Market Strategist, Euro Pacific Capital
Productive, private-sector jobs – the lifeblood of a sound economy – are under assault by politicians in the United States and Western Europe, who have unwittingly taken a number of steps that make future job losses a foregone conclusion.
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