Jacqueline Passey posts this rather tame item on the whole Washingtonienne scandal, and all of a sudden the commenters (far and away male) go off the rails on a crazy train.
Okay, sure, we can have a debate about the relative merits of exchanging money directly for sex, but it really just doesn’t seem like that […]
I’m tired of talking about Social Security, so I’m not going to do it for awhile at least. Mainly, I’m 100% certain that I will pay taxes my whole life and never see a cent, so it’s hardly worth talking about.
What I have been thinking about a lot lately is the duty […]
Due to rather major life-stress for me at the moment. My grandfather, who is dear to me and the closest thing I have to a hero, is fairly ill at the moment. I am very worried about him. Additionally, my girlfriend has a tumor that may or may not be breast cancer. […]
Or that’s mostly the point, anyway. Hattip to Mark Thoma, whose post pointed me to the article, but Professor Thoma misunderstands part of Boaz’s point. The libertarian argument against too much economic intervention is that economic liberty is inextricably tied to personal liberty. If we allow the government to intervene beyond what […]
Newsweek, a publication I’ve largely ignored for years, has published a false story about US forces at Gitmo “desecrating the Koran”. As expected, it has blown up. And understandably so, such inaccuracy is dangerous. Doubly so with respect to US endevours abroad. I’m sure the guys at Powerline are going nuts.
As […]
Don Boudreaux, whose department I hope to one day be smart enough to study in, has yet another post about investor nationality and the current account. He’s been making this point for a pretty long time, but it does bear repeating.
The current account is in deficit when foreign consumption of US goods […]
Don Boudreaux has the right idea about schools over at Cafe Hayek, unfortunately we’ll never get the government out of schools. Why? Because as long as there are elected officials, “support” for education will be the same thing as “dollars of government money thrown” at education. Given that goverschooling is here to […]
Kansas wants to do this:
The hearings in Topeka, scheduled to last several days, are focusing on two proposals. The first recommends that students continue to be taught the theory of evolution because it is key to understanding biology. The other proposes that Kansas alter the definition of science, not limiting it to theories based on […]
The apartment complex I moved into here in San Antonio is brand new. So new that parts of it are still being built, the gates don’t work, and there’s dust everywhere. If you try to pull my complex up on Google Maps, it shows as a vacant lot (meaning that the google maps […]
That is, others like me. There’s a lot of talk about Social Security these days, how to “save it”, how to reform it, how to make sure enough AARP members die off at a high enough rate as to reduce their lobbying power…. In any case, I think it’s pretty fair to assume […]
