A Roundtable of Heated Rhetoric on the UAE/Port Controversy
Rantings of an Egyptian Sandmonkey has a selection of comments on the controversy over the management of U.S. port facilities, followed by his own insightful comments.
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Satisfaction for Every Taste
Matisyahu Thank G-d for C-pit-lism, which allows such flourishing of different forms of art. We now have Hasidic Reggae. I’m looking forward to Hasidic Hip Hop next! (Matisyahu’s website here.)
TV ‘n Kidz: No Worrz
I’m not a TV viewer (it’s on in another room so I can hear the news and when something alarming comes on, I go around the corner to see the…
TV ‘n Kidz: No Worrz
I’m not a TV viewer (it’s on in another room so I can hear the news and when something alarming comes on, I go around the corner to see the…
Lobbying: A Remarkable Rate of Return
According to reporter Jeffrey H. Birnbaum in the Washington Post (February 14, 2006, “Clients’ Rewards Keep K Street Lobbyists Thriving“), Annual fees paid to registered lobbyists reached $2.1 billion in…
A Libertarian Ode to Coffee
True Love I really, really, really love good coffee. Not watery, traditional American Maxwell House coffee (or, as it was referred to in the move Bagdad CafÃ?Â??Ã?Â?Ã?©, “nur braunes Wasser!”),…
MacAttack!
According to Reuters, the first computer worm designed to attack Apple Computer’s Mac OSX operating system has been detected. Yet another reason why hackers and designers of worms, trojan horses,…
Books for Iraqi University Libraries
As a part of the Cato Institute’s Jack Byrne Iniative for Middle East Liberty, my colleagues and I have been buying lots and lots and lots of books to send…
Excellent New Book from Richard Epstein
I had the pleasure of reading successive versions of the manuscript for Richard Epstein‘s little gem of a book, How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution, and yesterday I saw the fireworks…
Legal Tinder Laws?
Posecution for Murder: Exhibit A Imagine being prosecuted for a magic trick in which you “burn” a bank note and then produce it, intact and unburned. According to the BBC,…