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Off Again

I’ve just booked my tickets for my next trip to Iraq. I’ll report on it after the fact (and in a manner compatible with respecting the security needs of the…

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What Is This Going to Do to the Court Battle?

CHIEF JUSTICE REHNQUIST DIES….

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A Story of Idiocy in New Oreleans

Unless We’re Ordered Not To…. Don Boudreaux has the full story at Cafe Hayek. It’s definitely worth reading. And weeping.

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Another Excellent Analysis and Proposal by John Tierney

Party’s Over…. John Tierney has, as always, smart things to say about the ongoing disaster in New Orleans: “Ben Franklin Had the Right Idea for New Orleans.” (Requires simple New…

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A Globaliza��?���§��?���£o ��?���© Fabulosa!

Thanks to the good offices of AndrÃ?Â??Ã?Â?Ã?© Azevedo Alves, my little essay Globalization is Grrrreat! is now available in Portuguese on the Portuguese classical liberal website Causa Liberal: A GlobalizaÃ?Â??Ã?Â?Ã?§Ã?Â??Ã?Â?Ã?£o…

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Great Excitement in Iceland!

Egill SkallagrÃ?Â??Ã?Â?Ã?­msson, as Depicted in a 17th Century Manuscript I got an email today from Professor Jesse Byock, probably the world’s leading scholar of Norse culture (and author of the…

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It’s Hard to Know What to Say about New Orleans

Looting in New Orleans So here are some useful remarks and links from Reason.com’s “Hit and Run.” (And, yes, I have sent an additional donation to Mercy Corps, my favorite…

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It’s Hard to Know What to Say about New Orleans

Looting in New Orleans So here are some useful remarks and links from Reason.com’s “Hit and Run.” (And, yes, I have sent an additional donation to Mercy Corps, my favorite…

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The Poor Germans

Jürgen Trittin There is a German expression, “Trottel,” that seems to capture the essence of German Environmental Minister Jürgen Trittin, who suggested that George Bush was to blame for Hurricane…

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Liberty on the Web

The Language of Liberty As the Constant The Cato Institute’s Liberty on the Web program: regularly updated websites in four languages. (The Arabic site is at the moment less dynamic…

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