Monthly Archive: January 2011
Thursday Links
Some conservative groups plan to boycott CPAC over a gay conservative group’s co-sponsorship Rand Paul unveils $500 billion in cuts Katherine Mangu-Ward on education reform and the State of the Union address Peter Boettke on behavioral public choice and institutional political economy A look at the Institute for Justice Edward...
“Free market” ≠ “pro-business”
Art Carden has a fantastic blog on Forbes from last September that I missed until today discussing the false equivalence of “free market” with “pro-business.” The entire article is worth reading, but the essence is in Carden’s quotation from The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley: I hold no brief for...
What is Conservatism? edited by Frank S. Meyer
I finished What is Conservatism?, a collection of 13 essays edited by Frank S. Meyer, a volume demonstrating the fusion (and fission) of the conservative/libertarian alliance in the early 1960s. Excluding essays by Stanley Parry and Stefan T. Possony, time is well-spent pouring through the book and analyzing its arguments....
Libertopia and Ralph Nader videos
A couple videos today. The first is a clip from Libertopia, ” a documentary that examines the people of the Free State Project— ordinary citizens attempting to reclaim a voice against big government which they believe shares neither their priorities nor their interests. Primarily libertarian leaning, and often considered radicals in...
Counter-counter response about Arizona
Jesse Pyle wrote a counter-response to my response of his letter Thursday. While I would prefer not to write a counter-counter response in The Post, as the utility would be small and it’d annoy rather than spark interest, I feel I should make a few passing comments. His letter lacked...
Harry Browne on government power
Harry Browne also has a great radio show, the archive of which is available on any torrent client.
Did “extreme rhetoric” cause the Arizona shooting?
This is a letter I wrote to the Post (the newspaper at Ohio University) in response to a letter today: As I began to read Jesse Pyle’s letter to the editor yesterday concerning the recent Arizona shooting, I had hope. Unfortunately, they were crushed within seconds. Mr. Pyle asserts...
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