The Unbroken Window

From a conversation between Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, Buffett remarks:
what if you had three percent or something like that of the corporate income tax totally devoted to a fund that would be administered by some representatives of corporate America to be used in intelligent ways for the long-term benefit of society, This group-who think […]

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There is a bill on the floor of the house in Mississippi to “prohibit certain food establishments from serving food to any person who is obese, based on criteria proscribed by the state department of health.”
This nonsense makes the work of Mayor Bloomberg seem harmless. What should I rail on here? Should it be the […]

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The Massachusetts legislature is considering a ban on parents spanking their children. Who actually wants children to be physically abused? This is another case of some bloviating buffoon making a pronouncement which makes him seem like a caring, responsible legislator. The reality is quite the opposite. The cost of doing this is virtually zero to […]

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I cannot speak to the truth of this story, but it reminds me of a great piece by John Stossel when describing natural gas to a lay audience in a segment about risk. I think you can see that video here …
 

Ban DHMO?
A 14-year-old junior high school student, Nathan Zahner, of Eagle Rock Junior High […]

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Government Created the Charity Gap
This was run on Friday, April 13 in the Wall Street Journal
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
Dear Editor:
Sheryl Sandburg puzzles why such a small percentage of charitable giving is ultimately directed at the poor, despite people’s stated intentions to do so (“ The Charity Gap ”, April 4, 2007). Her ommission of […]

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When Being Right Does Not Make Me Want to Gloat
First they came for the liquor …
Then they came for the drugs …
Then they came for the cigarettes …
Then they came for the hamburgers …
Now they are after the aluminum bats. Are they kidding me?
Does it matter that many of us warned about the slippery slope? […]

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“The greatest tyranny has the smallest beginnings. From precedents overlooked, from remonstrances despised, from grievances treated with ridicule, from powerless men oppressed with impunity and overbrearing men tolerated with complacence, springs the tyrannical usage which generations of wise and good men may hereafter perceive and lament and resist in vain.”
- London Times editorial (1846)
Massachusetts […]

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