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 Central Planning, Government Gone Wild, Government Thuggery on May 1st, 2012
On this much celebrated day around the world, I repost my mourning for the hundreds of millions that have been brutally tortured, maimed, and murdered in the name of “the social good” and “brotherhood.” Shame on them. In the language of my postmodern critics – this certainly too was a social construction in the most [...]
Posted in Government Thuggery on Mar 26th, 2012
April 24th is the day that Armenians use to commemorate a despicable and horrific genocide that was perpetrated on their people by the Turks. I couldn’t wait a month to commemorate it. More on the sick particulars of that below. But I wanted to bring this remembrance up and coin a new fallacy that I [...]
Posted in Government Thuggery on Mar 19th, 2012
I pretty much dislike TV. But a colleague recently encouraged me to watch the Wire and I will never regret making that investment. Here is an application of what one learns via Warren Meyer: Everything I Need To Know About The Effect of Metrics on Police Behavior I Learned from The Wire March 16, 2012, [...]
Posted in Environment, Government Thuggery, ethical foundations on Mar 19th, 2012
One reason I now distinguish between “E”nvironmentalism and “e”nvironmentalism is that there has been a sea change in attitudes in the environmental community over the past three decades. When I was a Boy Scout and when I first started joining hiking clubs some 20 years ago much of the literature I read was closely dedicated [...]
Posted in Economic Illiteracy, Government Gone Wild, Government Thuggery, Paternalism on Feb 17th, 2012
I just saw this via Alex Tabarrok: The Hill: Six House Democrats, led by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), want to set up a “Reasonable Profits Board” to control gas profits. The Democrats, worried about higher gas prices, want to set up a board that would apply a “windfall profit tax” as high as 100 percent [...]
Posted in Government Thuggery on Jan 21st, 2012
Remember those bumper stickers? Does anyone, particularly those sporting those bumper stickers care to remember this: Roosevelt fed the hysteria by claiming that he possessed a “secret map” showing Nazi plans to conquer South and Central America, as well as secret documents proving that Hitler planned to supplant all existing religions with a Nazi Church. [...]
Posted in Government Thuggery, History on Jan 15th, 2012
Another gem from Ralph Raico’s Great Wars and Great Leaders: Roosevelt, who always viewed any criticism of himself as a perversion of true democracy, was outraged. The President of the United States wrote a personal letter to a managing editor declaring that Flynn, “should be barred hereafter from the columns of any presentable daily paper, [...]
Posted in Government Thuggery on Nov 22nd, 2011
Land of the free.
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 Employment, Government Thuggery on Sep 27th, 2011
My thoughtful lefty friends regularly try to convince me when I suggest that the current Administrative is not exactly “business-friendly” that I am perhaps being too harsh… and whenever I am about to soften a bit and hear more of their arguments, along comes a story like this: The job creation bill that President Obama sent [...]
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