Now This Car Sounds Cool
BBC: “Car harnesses fighter jet technology” Bravo to Ford for not taking government money! This is a far better approach: actually make a quality product and sell it to people…
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People’s Democracy in Action
New York Times: “Cuban Court Upholds 2-Year Sentence for Protester” A Cuban appeals court upheld a two-year prison sentence for ”public dangerousness” against a man who became an Internet celebrity…
Let’s Unpack the Prez’s Speech…
Obama speaks: “You see, our predecessors understood that government could not, and should not, solve every problem. They understood that there are instances when the gains in security from government…
Freedom Communications
Peggy Lowe’s piece from the Orange County Register on “Libertarians worry about losing Register op-ed page,” including part of my quote: Tom G. Palmer, a senior fellow at the Cato…
The Silence
BBC: “Venezuela rivals march in Caracas” Opponents were also angry at the government for shutting dozens of radio stations last month. More were expected to be shut, Infrastructure Minister Diosdado…
Krugman’s Concession
In his piece in the New York Times: “How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?” (On my flight yesterday I read the shorter version in the International Herald Tribune; this…
Back in DC with Adam Smith
I got in from a pretty exhausting set of flights from Odessa to Kyiv to Paris to Washington and am enjoying a long anticipated reunion with my girls Wolly and…
Don’t Waste Your Money on “Inglourious Basterds”
I didn’t know much about the theme, but I liked “Pulp Fiction” and I was in France, so I thought, “Hey, let’s go and see Inglorious Basterds.” It was not…
What Is Wrong With This Article?
CNN: “Muslim teen fears for life after changing religion” Rifqa Bary, 17, ran away from her family in Columbus, Ohio, in July and took refuge …. The teenager claims her…
Freedom Communications
I’ve long been associated with Freedom Communications and, while in Europe, was interviewed by a reporter on the bankruptcy of that great enterprise. I learned some time ago that newspapers…