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I’ve always believed there should be a much larger congress, with the end of gerrymandering districts as well. I never realized that the proposed first amendment to the constitution actually would have called for a huge number of reps. Sadly it was only approved in the house and not by the senate. Here it is: […]

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In thinking about arguments that I have heard made against the NSA’s PRISM program (this program is basically the limitless power the NSA seems to be exercising in collecting an ungodly amount of information, without warrant, from all Americans’ use of the internet), a little conundrum came to mind. One of the things the NSA […]

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Alex Tabarrok has a post today supporting the idea of term limits. He, like me, seems to support them on the grounds that if you know the opposite party may soon be in office, that may soften your governing stand while in office. I want to believe this is what happens. But in a world […]

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Thought of the Day

No legal document can save a society from appointing its own slave masters if enough people are determined to do so. Laws alone are not enough. – Perry de Havilland HT: Samizdat

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Among the crowd of folks who don’t regularly employ the force of logic, reason and good argument is a good number of folks who view the appeal to logic and consistency as hegemonic, even tyrannically adhering to imagined authority. We can have a discussion one day about the merits of such a view, of which […]

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Did you know that the UK has no single constitutional document? I think what this helps us understand is the distinction between what Hayek called “Law” versus what Hayek called “Legislation.” Legislation can be loosely thought as something which has been consciously written down in a statutory manner by a legitimate elected body. But of […]

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I have these faint remembrances from time to time of things my mom and grandmothers used to say to us, “if everyone wants to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge …” Well, some lessons from our youth deserve to live on in posterity. Have you ever heard an argument that goes something like, “well, most Americans […]

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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 […]

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The Boilermaker Mandate

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 […]

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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 […]

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