Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
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 […]
Posted in Government Thuggery, History, Welfare State, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Aug 31st, 2011
Here begins the presentation of a cornucopia of less well-know acts committed by the “greatest” Presidents in American history. To get us started, here is President Bush’s unconstitutional assault on limited executive power and the privacy of American citizens: This organization (the influential Friends of Democracy) won the gushing plaudits of the ever-gushing Mrs. President. […]
Posted in Government Thuggery on Jul 29th, 2011
These are the same guys that enforce every other “law” – including your precious tax laws, health care laws, environmental laws, and the like. Be sure to watch the video. Police and government brutality on the streets, in prisons, and god-knows where else is the civil rights issue of our time. Yet it receives scant […]
Posted in Government Thuggery, Institutions, Paternalism on Jul 26th, 2011
Just finished up Tim Harford’s terrific book, Adapt (Hayekians would especially like its discussion of complexity and knowledge). Here is a nice quote: I recently visited the UK Treasury to discover that officials were waxing lyrical about nudging through “choice editing.” When you say, “choice editing,” I asked, does that mean, “banning things?” The sheepish […]
Posted in Government Thuggery on Jul 24th, 2011
That’s what happens when we all learn touchy-feely feel good math in public schools: I should blast you in the mouth right now….I’m close to caving in your head….I tell you what I should have done. As soon as I saw your gun, I should have taken two steps back, pulled my Glock 40, and […]