The Unbroken Window

The Mormons have it.  I first heard about it from this excellent tome.

Read Full Post »

With so much recent focus on the perils of economic inequality, Sheldon Richman reminds us where class conflict really comes from:
As long as government is in the wealth-transfer business, class conflict will persist. Class in this sense is an important tool of political analysis. It’s time that advocates of individual liberty and free markets reclaimed [...]

Read Full Post »

In 2002, a five-year-old boy patented a method of swinging on a swing.
More here.

Read Full Post »

The US Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision, rejected the claims of rancher Harvey Robbins who was suing government employees who trashed his property during a dispute over access to a road leading to a National Forest over his property.
As I read it, this decision is worse than the Kelo case in that:

The government no longer [...]

Read Full Post »

“Men harasas women precisely because they are not discriminating between men and women.”
From the Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature.

Read Full Post »

Henry George pointed out:
Here is a difference between the animal and the man. Both the jay-hawk and the man eat chickens, but the more jay-hawks the fewer chickens, while the more men the more chickens. Both the seal and the man eat salmon, but when a seal takes a salmon there is a salmon the [...]

Read Full Post »

Is any publicity about the plight of Africa good publicity? And just what good do celebrities do for its cause?
 Here is William Easterly in the LA Times:
It’s a dark and scary picture of a helpless, backward continent that’s being offered up to TV watchers and coffee drinkers. But in fact, the real Africa is quite [...]

Read Full Post »

Last year, the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) in New York City had to turn away nearly 30,000 applications for summer jobs, mostly black and Latino kids.
Why? The Wall Street Journal Reports:
“The higher state minimum wage that went into effect in 2005,” writes author David Jason Fischer, “added to the challenge of funding SYEP by [...]

Read Full Post »

This is sad.
 Can citizens go after governments for price gouging?

Read Full Post »