The Mortgage Bankers Association is selling their building in Washington DC for $41.3 million, which sounds like a lot, except the trade group bought the building for $79 million in 2007 with the help of a $75 million loan from...
Douglas French
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A few weeks ago, Ron Paul introduced one of the Downsize DC Agenda bills.
Read more »Human Action now has a new cover, 3.0 one might say. In any case, it is very sleek and good looking, with an astonishing price of $35. The associated products such as the Study Guide and Audio will conform in...
Jeffrey Tucker
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Two new articles published today in Libertarian Papers, vol. 2 (2010): 1. "Moundsville Penitentiary Reconsidered: Second Thoughts on Hyperreality at a Small Town Prison Tour", by Allen Mendenhall Abstract: In 2007, I toured Moundsville Penitentiary, a tourist spectacle that was...
Stephan Kinsella
http://www.StephanKinsella.com
Defending himself against the charge that he is soft on
terrorism, especially in his handling of detainees/suspects,
President Obama accidentally tells
the truth:
The most important thing for the public to understand is we're
not handling any of these cases any different than the Bush
administration handled them all through 9/11.
My favorite 2008 Libertarian Party vice presidential nominee is
back with another
searing indictment of his
former Columbia classmate, with an oddsmaking twist.
Excerpt:
Now that progressive economic thought has its
first real foothold in Washington since the 1970s, many
long-marginalized ideas are being dusted off for real-world
testing. And as Matt Welch notes in our March issue, those ideas
now face the bracing slap of reality.
These were the most read Reason.com columns last week:
Presidential Promises and Pretenses: Obama's contribution to
the "deficit of trust," by Jacob
Sullum (2/3)
Trial by
Ordeal: The surprising accuracy of the Dark Ages' trial by fire
rituals, by Radley
Balko (2/1)
The Wall Street Journal’s Jess Bravin reports that the
much-rumored retirements of both Justice John Paul Stevens and
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has sparked an internal debate among
Democrats:
Democrats gearing up for a possible Supreme Court vacancy are
divided over whether President Barack Obama should appoint a
prominent liberal voice while their party still commands a large
Senate majority, or go with someone less likely to stoke Republican
opposition....
Isn't there a way we could tap into people's philanthropic side without doing something intrinsically useless, like having a bunch of fourth graders walk around the school parking lot eight times? FULL ARTICLE by Robert Murphy...
Mises Daily
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Former Republican Gov. Gary Johnson was the top elected official
in New Mexico from 1994 through 2002. He took office after beating
a primary opponent backed by the Republican party and won election
twice in a state that has two-to-one Democratic advantage in
registration.
Ron Paul participated in a short but quite good interview with Bankrate.com in its “Fame and Fortune” series. With one answer Paul sums up the health care debacle.
Bankrate: What do you think of the health care reform package?
Reason's Nick Gillespie appeared
last night on Bill Moyers Journal, debating the Citizens United
Ruling, campaign finance, free speech, and congressional corruption
with Harvard's Lawrence Lessig.
Video of the segment, a full transcript, and related links
(including one to Lessig's recent Nation cover story on
the need for a Constitutional amendment to address
perceptions of legislative corruption) are available by
clicking on the image below.
By David BoazCharles Krauthammer writes about “liberal expressions of disdain for the intelligence and emotional maturity of the electorate” and the conceit that “Liberals act in the public interest, while conservatives think only of power, elections, self-aggrandizement and self-interest.” He has plenty of contemporary examples, but he also recalls one from a few years ago:
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