Thursday, January 8
Cheryl Cline is the guest editor today.
Column by Jim Davies.
Police
May Soon Use Pain Guns That Heat Skin With Microwaves
Universal
Healthcare and the Waistline Police
As Paul Hsieh writes, intrusive regulation is just “one of the greatly underappreciated dangers” of universal healthcare.
A
heavily cartooned book makes an introduction to anarchism more palatable.
Anarchist
blogs conveniently aggregated.
A
Presumption Against Violence
John
Schwenkler writes,“[I]t’s hard for
me to take seriously the claim that a genuinely Christian view of war could be
anything but radical in its rejection of violence as anything other than a
very, very last resort.”
What
Kind of Security Will This Barbarism Bring Israel?
“If
you get your news from an American television network, no matter how horrible
you think what’s happening in
Teen
Birth Rates Up in 26 States
“[T]he
the new state-by-state data gives credence to the idea that the downturn in
birth rates is over.”
Dennis
Perrin on a now-familiar twist of language:
“Qassam rockets with variable range and destructive capabilities:
‘extremist.’ F-16s, helicopter gunships, tanks, bunker busters and white
phosphorus -- democratic.”
“After Lehman failed and 'credit markets froze' in the second half of September 2008, many people proclaimed that a second Great Depression would unfold. In hindsight, we readily see that at least one of the purported pathways to depression was never followed.”
Blogger
John Petrie finds it easier to discuss anarchocapitalism on the internet with
strangers than to converse about it openly with friends, let alone female
ones.
Bryan
Caplan can’t find any libertarian girls either:
“[B]eing male has roughly as much effect on economic beliefs as 1.7
steps on a 6-point educational scale.”
Kent
McManigal says: “Passing
‘laws’ that require me to use your transportation is not ‘doing it
better.’ If you get your friends in government to do so ‘for the common
good,’ and then make us run the disarmament gauntlet to get on board, I will
personally do all I can to undermine you and your transportation monopoly.”
Is the Death Penalty a Dying Breed?
2008 saw fewer state executions.
Obama
Wants 600,000 More Federal Bureaucrats
“[Obama]
says he wants to create three million new jobs, eighty percent of them in the
private sector. I'm no math genius, but 20 percent of three million works out
to be 600,000 new bureaucrats to harass the American people.”
Foreign
Policy Magazine ranks the think tanks.
Police
State Killing Caught on Tape
Cancer
and Statistical Illusion
Tyler
Cowen on the deadly diseases cancer and “economicitis.”
Jonas
Lehrer, Thoreauvian.
Apple’s
New iTunes Pricing and DRM-Free Songs: The
Results of Competition
Donated
Kidney Is Center of Divorce Dispute
“A
Terror
Experts Warn Next 9/11 Could Fall On Different Date
A photo blog.