Economics in One Lesson XII: “Stabilizing” Commodities

From “On the Other Hand” by the western Canadian Frontier Centre for Public Policy: They still make fun of Newfies. The short discussion of how Canadian agriculture works with regards to “stabilizing” commodities makes it a lot more palatable.  Without US politics around a discussion of how product prices change, it makes it easier to [...]

The Failed Record of DOE Capital Investing

From American Spectator: We’re heard a lot about Bain Capital and how it throws people out of work in order to enrich investors, but how about the record of DOE Capital, which has compiled a fantastic record of defrauding investors while benefiting cronies and insiders? DOE Capital is a Washington-based investment operation that looks for [...]

James McMurtry’s Memorial Day

I find that the song makes the point in a solid way – when confronted with a long weekend story juxtaposed with a chorus of “let’s remember our fallen heroes“.

On Women In Combat: Part 3 – More About Rangers Going Co-ed

Via Weaponsman: It was clear that nobody’s opinion was being solicited. The message came from the Chief of Staff of the Army, and the order seems to have come from echelons above him: Ranger School will admit women within a few months. And the women will pass, whatever it takes. Female officers have complained that [...]

Paul Krugman, Keynesian Idiot: Part 4

Previously: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Kyle Smith has a great piece at the New York Post ripping Paul Krugman’s latest book: “End This Depression Now!  We Need An Extraterrestrial Invasion!”  Well, the first part of that is the book title.  Really, it rips much of Krugman’s idiotic Keynesian philosophy, one that Krugman is [...]

Economics in One Lesson XI: How the Price System Works

From “On the Other Hand” by the western Canadian Frontier Centre for Public Policy: So Canadian they know the trailer park boys.

Economics in One Lesson X: “Saving the ‘X’ Industry

From “On the Other Hand” by the western Canadian Frontier Centre for Public Policy: So Canadian they know Zap Rowsdower. – Each one of these videos encapsulates the respective chapters of Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson quite well.  It’s an excellent series, especially because it is from a Canadian point of view.  As the outsider [...]

Brett Kimberlin and Free Speech

Long story short, Brett Kimberlin is a terrorist.  Patterico/Liberty Chick has the story here.  Kimberlin set bombs in the 1970s to distract from a criminal case child molestation case that was going after him. [Kimberlin] spent nearly 17 years in prison after being convicted of launching a week-long bombing spree that terrorized the residents of [...]

Economics in One Lesson IX: “Who’s ‘protected’ by Tariffs?

From “On the Other Hand” by the western Canadian Frontier Centre for Public Policy: So Canadian they had to decide if they wanted to be fishing guides or mounties when they grew up.

Byron York and Birth Certificates: Wrong About the Law he Tells People to Read

Byron York posted this smug piece about how birthers should read nationality law concerning Obama’s citizenship.  He makes the point that even if Obama were born in Kenya and not Hawaii, it still wouldn’t matter, because he’d be a US citizen through his parentage according to nationality law anyway. First, there are people born inside [...]