The Unbroken Window

This is nothing to smile about. What’s next, no talking in airports?

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The politicians really cannot help themselves. Here is one from today: The president, after all, had taken great pains to explain that this is more than an American success story. Rather, it is Judge Sotomayor’s biography that uniquely qualifies her to sit on the nation’s highest bench — that gives her the “empathy” to rule [...]

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I happened to be reading each of these two pieces at the same time – eerily harmonious they are: Marty Feldstein and Marian Vallient on, “Can State Taxes Redistribute Income?” In it they say: The evidence presented in this paper supports the basic theoretical presumption that state and local governments cannot redistribute income. Since individuals [...]

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The brand of totalitarianism we are moving toward today is less “in your face” than we saw in the past (or what Hayek called “Hot Socialism”) – but it is tyrannical socialism nonetheless. For example, rather than the environmental engineers in the White House and Congress offering up a carbon tax to deal with global [...]

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A great deal of support for National Health Care is coming from a variety of interests that claim getting workers off of employer health plans and onto the government dole will improve the competitiveness of American firms. This is because it is argued that firms would have lower labor costs and would be able to [...]

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Of the 1.7 million Hybrids Toyota has sold worldwide to date, over 1.0 million of then have been purchased in the United States. I’d remind you that the US generates “only” about 25% of the world’s wealth and CO2 emissions.

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If one needs to find an issue where there is a clear dividing line between classical liberal thought and modern “conservative” thought, there are few better places to look than the military and warfare. Those on the left that listen to soundbites from Keith Olberman or get a thrice forwarded e-mail of a Paul Krugman [...]

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The University of Rochester held its commencement ceremony last weekend. The guest speaker of honor was Congresswoman Louise Slaughter who represents our local congressional district here in Western New York. I think the following will spare me from having to write a lengthy post: said Slaughter during her talk … (I am paraphrasing): “and violence [...]

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More videos this week!

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Coyote astutely points out: There is legislation pending in Congress to restrict the ability of lenders (e.g. credit card issuers) from changing rates on existing debt. They ask if it is fair for someone who took on a debt thinking it would be at 15% to suddenly find it is at 25%. But how are [...]

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