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The Results of the EU’s Brilliant Campaign Against Microsoft

A Great Success? Thanks to the European Union’s Competition Commissioner, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish consumers will soon be able to buy a less useful version of Windows XP….

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The Results of the EU’s Brilliant Campaign Against Microsoft

A Great Success? Thanks to the European Union’s Competition Commissioner, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish consumers will soon be able to buy a less useful version of Windows XP….

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Excellent George Will Analysis of the Kelo Decision

Five For Theft Writing in the Washington Post (requires simple registration) today, George Will argued against the “Damaging Deference” the Court showed to elected political bodies. It offered a strong…

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Excellent George Will Analysis of the Kelo Decision

Five For Theft Writing in the Washington Post (requires simple registration) today, George Will argued against the “Damaging Deference” the Court showed to elected political bodies. It offered a strong…

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A Blow to Justice

Suzanne and Matt Dery’s Home Will Be Taken from Them to Benefit a Private Developer The decision by the Supreme Court in the case of Kelo v. New London is…

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The Standard of Reasonableness

Gil Milbauer shares his interesting thoughts at A Reasonable Man.

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The Unthinkable Has Happened

Train from Interlaken to Grindelwald This is shocking. Unimaginable. (I’ve taken the train pictured; nice ride and it used to be … reliable.)

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EuroFears

Maybe Some of that Diversity Is Leading to a Bit of Disunity Steven Pearlstein, business columnist for the Washington Post (requires simple registration), has an excellent column today on how…

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Value for Money?

According to Reuters, “We believe this represents a value-for-money monarchy,” said Alan Reid, the “Keeper of the Privy Purse” who looks after the queen’s finances. As a tourism attraction, that…

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The Spread of Ideas Across Borders

Idea Casting I’m preparing for my lectures at the University of Denver on “Globalization and Poverty.” In doing so, I’ve been thinking of how the free movement of information is…

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