An interesting article on News.com this morning: Court ponders website blocking law . Among other things it has Pennsylvania saying that the fallout from its censorship laws do not affect a “SIGNIFICANT amount of LEGITIMATE speech.” What they are really saying is: so what if a little free speech is eliminated so long as we get the big target with
Here’s an insightful, short commentary on the state of the environment: we may not be sowing the seeds of our own doom, but the very thought of it is enough to grab headlines (and loads of taxpayer cash). Naturally, the environmental crisis (which doesn’t exist) requires massive government intervention (which won’t help) since “environmental
Murray N. Rothbard, economist, historian, and philosopher, died nine years ago today. In the years since his death, unpublished books and articles have appeared, his writings are selling ever more and being distributed ever more widely, and the influence of the ideas to which he dedicated his life is growing, thanks to the institution of the
The Chicago Tribune runs an AP story stating how the US Labor Department is suggesting ways around its newest overtime rules. Quoting the article: “Among the options: Cut workers’ hourly wages and add the overtime to EQUAL the original salary, or raise salaries to the new $22,100 annual threshold, making them ineligible. The department says it is
Thomas E. Woods, Jr., on Money and Morality: The Christian Moral Tradition and the Best Monetary Regime (courtesy of Chris Dominguez): The economic difficulties of the past several years in the United States have led more and more people to take an active interest in monetary policy and in the Federal Reserve System. Many possess an inchoate
In this post , K. Chris Caldwell discussed a censorship law which forces ISP’s to block access to IP addresses because a website under that domain may contain child-pornography. This blocks access to thousands of unrelated websites, which are separate domains under the same IP address. Pensylvania attempted to justify this, saying that
Henry Ford, whose ancestors were small-parcel, Irish farmers, was quite the landowner. According to Ford R. Bryan, author of Beyond the Model T: The Other Adventures of Henry Ford , Ford’s tally of Mother Earth included 26,000 acres of property in southern Michigan for farm and hydroelectric use; 400,000 acres of timber and iron mining land in
Having for years been subjected to the urban myth that Mises favored operas subsidies, I’m particularly interested in the point Gary North makes here : Should classical music be an exception to the principle of consumer sovereignty? Maybe you have heard the story that Ludwig von Mises once said that he favored privatizing everything except the
Regarding Jeffrey Tucker´s comment on the argument from Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen that national IQ:s are correlated with their level of prosperity, they do not “overlook” economic freedom as a factor behind growth. They say explicitly in their book that the reason why some high-IQ countries, like China, North Korea and Russia, are poor is
Here is my review (in German) of Hoppe’s Myth of National Defense , which appeared Monday, January 5, 2004, in Frankfurter Allgermeine Zeitung .
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