The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. – F.A. Hayek
Posted in Constitution, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Apr 28th, 2012
Last month the Obama Administration pushed to impose tariffs on solar panels that come from China. So apparently the folks in this Administration actually do think that some other things are more important than Global Warming. Solving the greatest crisis humanity has ever seen is only important if Americans do it, I suppose. Let’s go [...]
Posted in Constitution on Apr 5th, 2012
There was a time in America when a vast majority of the trains were powered by coal. The engines were rather simple, essentially giant steam engines with a boiler attached. The boiler was fed by regularly shoveling coal into them. The person on the train who shoveled the coal was known as a “boilermaker.’ Now [...]
Posted in Constitution, Government Gone Wild, Institutions on Mar 23rd, 2012
I was going to post a story a friend who runs a local manufacturing company just shared with me about the absurd experience with the EPA he had in his past. It was too depressing, plus I don’t think I can share it without giving away names … I am rewriting it as a piece [...]
Posted in Constitution on Feb 17th, 2012
In Federalist #33 Alexander Hamilton writes in order to assure us that the federal government would not become the monstrosity that it has become today. When Hamilton thinks of himself as a federalist, and as he supported the creation of a national bank in order to improve the credit position of the US government, he [...]
Posted in Classical Liberalism, Constitution, Government Thuggery on Oct 4th, 2011
Just imagine how a “free-market” police and court system would destroy our rights! They’d probably impose ghastly rules on us like, “if a crime occurs on your property, the corporation can seize the property as if the property itself were a criminal.” And then when seized, it will not compensate you, the innocent owner, and [...]
Posted in Constitution, Government Gone Wild on Dec 14th, 2010
Radley Balko asks an honest question. I’ve never received an honest answer about this in my life. Certainly not from the folks teaching me in college. In response to the state of Virginia not using the Commerce Clause to justify anything and everything imaginable, he asks and offers: If your answer is no, that is, [...]
Posted in Constitution, Government Gone Wild on Oct 14th, 2010
Via Coyote via Radley Balko, I repost the entire thing: A century of Progressive attacks on the Constitution have come to this. I am just going to quote Radley Balko in full: ….a federal judge has just ruled that the federal government can force me to purchase a product from a private company, under the [...]
Posted in Constitution on Sep 17th, 2010
You might think I am a huge fan of the U.S. Constitution, or of the idea of constitutions in general. That would not be a very good characterization of me at all. Why? To put it most succinctly,those who idealize the constitutional restraints that are imposed on governments (in the name of promoting the rule [...]
Posted in Constitution, Government Gone Wild on Mar 21st, 2010
You thought I was talking about the health “care” power play? Heck no. Let’s have a very brief lesson on the constitution. Here is what Article I, Section II, Clause 3 says in its entirety: Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to [...]
Posted in Constitution on Nov 18th, 2009
Didn’t we fight a war 200+ years ago to rid ourselves of this sort of thing? 56 years and 320 days in the Senate. Impressive. That probably also means he has stolen more money from Americans than anyone in the history of the Republic. I am sure he’ll be proud to have that on his [...]
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