Some Generalities on the Economy
Mark Thornton & Tom Woods discuss, for your lecture of the week:
Cracked.com on Teenagers
Or, studies every awkward teen should know, including the following: #5. No Sex Now = Greater Life Satisfaction Later #4. Shyness Has No Influence on Whether or Not You’re Single (But Does Make Your Brain Work Better) #3. Talking Is Overrated: Girls Talking Can Lead to Depression #2. Yes, Your Friends Have More Friends Than…
DetailsThe War on Drugs Is Immoral…
More immoral, many would argue, than doing the drugs to which it attempts to prevent access. As prisons fill up, the innocent die, and private property rights slowly erode, ask yourself: which is worse – a few people choosing to destroy themselves with bad choices or a government destroying our society to prevent just that?
“Nobody Wants to Take Your Guns”
If I had a dollar every time I heard the above statement in a conversation about gun control by a moderate liberal (read: pro-government, pro-violence extremist), I would be at least 15 dollars richer. It isn’t true: “A gun-control movement worthy of the name would insist that President Clinton move beyond his proposals for controls…
DetailsThe Minimum Wage Is Bad Policy
Your lecture of the week this week is Peter Schiff debating a mainstream economic policy analyst about the minimum wage. The way this woman sticks to her silly denials of scarcity is admirable in some senses, but shows somewhat clearly why the intellectual reality will never be won… Enjoy:
Sunday Song
OOPS…
OneRepublic – Counting Stars
Billy Currington – Perfect Day
I especially like all the pictures in this one. Obviously.
A Conspiracy, Or, Kevin Was Right
The causes and answers are shaking out of the crumbling economies of the world, and will continue to do so until what is left of our system decays to bring a true economy to fruition. It may take a century, but we are on our way. One recent evidentiary example of this is Matt Tiabbi’s…
DetailsOne View on NeoDarwinist Materialism…
from a prominent atheist, strikes me as the most logically consistent. This week on ToTheSource: Fact one: Thomas Nagel is an atheist. As he’s made clear on many occasions, he wants to be an atheist. As he said, famously, in The Last Word, “I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the…
DetailsIt Isn’t Islam
We are not being attacked because Islam hates our freedoms. The truth is, it is blowback, from our shananigans abroad. Taken from the mouths of terrorists (what a dumb word) themselves, Glenn Greenwald points out: Attempted “underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab upon pleading guilty: “I had an agreement with at least one person to attack…
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