Japanese Lessons (How to Build Even More Bridges to Nowhere)
New York Times: “ Japan’s Big-Works Stimulus Is Lesson for U.S. ” Japan’s rural areas have been paved over and filled in with roads, dams and other big infrastructure projects,…
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Common Sense on Trade: Defeat the “Stimulus Bill” and its “Buy American” Nonsense
Douglas Irwin in the New York Times: “If we buy American, no one else will“
Oh, No! Unbelievable! A Crisis!
CNN: “Phelps apologizes for ‘regrettable’ behavior” Of course, the US and A has now had three presidents in a row who have admitted that they took illegal drugs (one “didn’t…
Time Machine
Erich Honecker Berliner Morgenpost: “Verlassene DDR-Wohnung in Leipzig entdeckt” BBC: “Untouched East Germany flat found” Ah, for the DDR, the Deutsche Demokratische Republik, the German Democratic Republic…I have…such fond memories….
Mr. President, We Disagree….
“Notwithstanding reports that all economists are now Keynesians and that we all support a big increase in the burden of government, we do not believe that more government spending is…
Counter Terrorism Strategy
Slate: “Cozying Up to the New Guy: Libertarians are oddly hopeful about the Obama administration,” by Michael Newman
Justified?
BBC: “‘Phosphorus wounds’ alarm Gazans Sabah herself has suffered terrible burns on her arms, legs and torso and is considerable pain. “There was fire, and so much white smoke,” she…