Thursday, January 17
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Jeremy Horpedahl is the guest editor today. |
Jim Davies describes what work in a free market would be like.
NSA
Must Examine All Internet Traffic to Prevent Cyber 9/11
“The
nation's top spy, Michael McConnell, thinks the threat of cyberarmageddon! is
so great that the
Ex-Lawmaker
Charged in Terror Conspiracy
Is anyone really surprised?
How to 'Fix' Politics? Reduce the Power of the President
“I
don't know how you change the election laws to make things any different. The
great paradox of politics is that the set of skills and talents it takes to
win a campaign are decidedly different than the set of skills and talents it
takes to govern. Perhaps the better solution is to tackle the other end of the
problem: We need to make it so there's less at stake—so it matters less who
wins the presidency, which party controls the Congress, or who's sleeping in
the governor's mansion.”
What to Expect When You’re Free Trading
“Even if you’ve just lost your job, there’s something fundamentally churlish about blaming the very phenomenon that’s elevated you above the subsistence level since the day you were born. If the world owes you compensation for enduring the downside of trade, what do you owe the world for enjoying the upside?”
Worldwide,
Liberty Declined in 2007
“Home Depot and Target certainly don't suffer from the same image, and the fact that those with means avoid Wal-Mart while the penurious take advantage of the low prices offered there, means that Wal-Mart has become irrelevant and contemptible to those who write columns or sit on planning commissions or pontificate on matters of labor and economics. Essentially, Wal-Mart is associated with tacky poor people, while the middle and upper classes can reserve for themselves the more respectable environs of other retailers.”
Amazon Fined for Free Shipping in France
Whenever
you get frustrated with
DNA Evidence Clears Convicted Rapist After 11 Years in Prison
And then, he sits in jail for 2 more years, because the file got misplaced.
Recreational Drugs Far Less Likely to Kill You Than Prescribed Drugs
“While approximately 10,000 per year die from the effects of illegal drugs, an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that an estimated 106,000 hospitalized patients die each year from drugs which, by medical standards, are properly prescribed and properly administered. More than two million suffer serious side effects.” The title is not exactly accurate, since they are comparing total deaths instead of death rates. Still, very interesting.
Alcohol Impairs Driving More Than Marijuana
This study is a few years old, but along the same line as the above story. Also, see Paul Armentano’s survey of the relevant literature.
'Do You Have N------ in the Building?'
“‘You
don't have a warrant,’ Jordan, a mortgage collector, told the officer. At
that, an officer allegedly told another officer: ‘I will pull this black
b----- down the stairs’.”
Ron Paul, Dr. No-body, Beats Rudy and Fred – Again
Poor Rudy!
Mitt Romney Defends Himself Against Allegations of Tolerance
Satire.
Not
satire (or, maybe it is).
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