Month: January 2010
At the Range
I took off a few hours from my work today for something a little different. I went out to the Blue Ridge Arsenal shooting range today with a reporter from…
Our Case for the Right to Bear Arms Argued Today
The outstanding lawyer Alan Gura, who won the case before the Supreme Court that struck down the ban on ownership of firearms in the District of Columbia today argued our…
Dirty Harry
From XKCD.com HT: Bill Goodwin
A Victory for Freedom of Speech!
“Free Speech for All,” by John Samples and Ilya Shapiro
“Energy Independence”….
John Stossel on Energy Independence
Falling Poverty
“Although world population has increased by about 80% over this time (World Bank 2009), the number of people below the $1 a day poverty line has shrunk by nearly 64%,…
“This situation bears an eerie resemblance to the employment situation during the Great Depression”….
Robert Higgs in Investor’s Business Daily: “The Disappearing Private-Sector Jobs“
A Delight to Behold
I have just received the PDF of the Dari (the Persian spoken in Afghanistan) version of the book Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity, by…
A Libertarian Take on One Year of Obama
David Boaz on NPR.org: “For This Libertarian, Obama’s First Year Looks Grim“