Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Government Gone Wild on Mar 20th, 2012
We should all know that of course. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that over the next 10 years the Buffet Tax would generate $47 billion. Let’s put that in perspective. First of all, that is the Committee’s estimate. I’ll bet someone a cup of coffee about how likely that estimate is to be on […]
Posted in Government Gone Wild, Paternalism on Mar 20th, 2012
And then they came for the … salt, fat and fiber eaten by the … homeless. Richter has been collecting food from places like the Ohav Zedek synagogue and bringing it to homeless shelters for more than 20 years, but recently his donation, including a “cholent” or carrot stew, was turned away because the Bloomberg […]
Posted in Extended Order, Methodology on Mar 20th, 2012
It required me to revisit the debates (actually, did they ever really have debates, or do we just debate their ideas today?) between the French Rationalist thinkers with the Scottish Evolutionary thinkers. The Scottish thinkers understood the value of tradition and urged us to be humble when it came to the following of rules, most […]
