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Now…What Creates the Incentives for Such Violence? The Drugs, or the Drug Laws?

BBC: “Mexico man ‘dissolved 300 bodies’” The 300 corpses were said to belong to murdered rivals of Mexican drug kingpin Teodoro Garcia Simental, who is battling for control over drug…

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Um…Interesting Hypothesis….I’ll Get Back to You on That….

Pravda.Ru: Barack Obama takes office as Republicans’ scapegoat In Russian: ?????? ????? ???????? ????????? ????????

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Technology to the Rescue (Combined with Good Judgement)

From the Wall Street Journal: “Backup System Helped Pilot Control Jet” Another example of the growth of wealth that most people don’t notice, or don’t consider a part of being…

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Hyperinflation Tourism

From my friend Rejoice Ngwenya in Zimbabwe: Greetings, my friends! What is it like to live [and hopefully NOT die!] in an economy whose currency denominations are calibrated in trillions?…

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Freiheit Wohl Verstanden

See below for German version (and English, French, and Portuguese).

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The Rarely Seen Cost of War

It is very hard to watch the clip through to the end. The television journalists are in tears. Would that the political leaders of Palestine and Israel would have to…

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Freedom Rightly Understood..Freiheit Wohl Verstanden

I received the printed version the other day of the German edition of my essay “Freedom Rightly Understood,” the address I gave before the 60th meeting of the Liberal International…

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While Zimbabwe Is Dying

Mrs Mugabe assaults our photographer outside her luxury Hong Kong hotel Kleptocracy in Action. Grace Mugabe, 43, known as the First Shopper of Zimbabwe, flew into a rage when she…

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The Kind of Wealth that’s Almost Always Overlooked

It’s very (very) rare for non-events to be news. Usually, the only thing that is news is what happened, not what didn’t happen. Here’s an image of something that “happened”:…

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