Your Papers!!!!
I’m on the Amtrak train to New York, where we were informed that we could be forced to provide identification, searched, refused access to the train, etc., etc. Here’s Amtrak’s…
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A Test Case in Turkey
Some news about my friend Atilla Yayla: “Turkey: Academic Freedom Curtailed”
Russell Roberts on the Unreliability of Political Promises
Take Politicians’ Promises With a Pound of Salt, a National Public Radio commentary by Russell Roberts
Another Lamp of Liberty in the Works
The Azeri Lamp of Liberty (Azadliq Ciragi), a project the Cato Institute’s Center for Promotion of Human Rights and the Azeri Free Minds Association, will be ready in early March….
A New World Map
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What a Novel Principle; Turning Power Over to Your Brother
Fidel Castro announces retirement The National Assembly is widely expected to elect 76-year-old Raul Castro as his successor, although analysts say there is speculation about a possible generational jump with…
The Car I Want….
The Smart Cabriolet … easy to park and good gas mileage.
Cat Shots from my Blackberry Pearl Camera
Wolly taking a rest on my arm Tiggy helping me with chores
Diminished Expectations for Politics
Tyler Cowen in today’s New York Times, “Itâ??s an Election, Not a Revolution” Rather than being cynics, we should be realists. Democracy is reasonably good at some things: pushing scoundrels…
Let’s See If They Can Create Both a “Free Country” and a Country of Freedom
Kosovo MPs proclaim independence The fact that the EU will be running things from afar gives little cause for hope that the Kosovars will generate their own independent judiciary and…