Quote of the Day
The man who has no imagination has no wings.Muhammad Ali
Guest Quotation for the Day
People who are disappointed with Barack Obama have no right to be. It is they whom others have a right to be disappointed with. Instead of taking their role as citizens seriously, they chose to vote on the basis of racial symbolism, glib rhetoric and wishful thinking. - Thomas SowellPro-Liberty Thought of the Day
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| Via Libertarian Republic |
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| War--what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.... |
Chart of the Day: The Moral Hazard Bubble
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| Via Voluntary Virtues Network |
Remy's Back: "God Bless the Government"
I don't think I've previously embedded this NSA spoof...
Conan Examines Hillary Clinton's Alleged Health Issues
Hillary Clinton On How To Win Friends and Influence People
Hillary has been known to hurl a book at the back of the head of one agent driving her in the Presidential limo accusing him of eavesdropping, forget her p’s and q’s by never thanking her protectors and lob profanity-laced orders when she just wanted the agents to carry her bags – a job not on agents’ ‘to do’ list. ‘Stay the f**k away from me! Just f*****g do as I say!!!’ she is quoted as saying to an agent who refused to carry her luggage in the book Unlimited Access by FBI agent Gary Aldridge.Get a Life: Anti-Lemonade Fascists
This was a PROTEST, cops.... Isn't it good to know that the way to attract a swarm of cops in DC is a nonviolent protest selling lemonade at a nominal price to kids... Why don't you go after lawmakers running Ponzi scheme senior entitlement scams, parasitic lobbyists, capitalists and other special interests, looking to feed off legal plunder of taxpayers, current and future?
The Real War on Women
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Facebook Corner
(responding to an anti-immigrant rant to a Reason discussion of immigrant soccer players
Listen, this is a low-life xenophobic troll. Don't dignify his fearmongering smears...We have a broken immigration system that has retarded economic growth since the 1920's. Fascist busybodies think they have the right to interfere with worker migration and family reunification...
(LFC). The NYT thinks that war is necessary for technological innovation. Apparently they've never read Bastiat. (JA) http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/14/upshot/the-lack-of-major-wars-may-be-hurting-economic-growth.html?_r=0
What's surprising here is that Tyler Cowen is a first-class economics professor at George Mason, probably the best free market program in America, a well-known blogger (Marginal Revolution) and polymath whom has a generally libertarian perspective. He is not ideological. Still, this piece puzzles me; it seems to reinforce some of the Statist rationalizations, the efficacy of central planning and common resources. But do we really need what I might call a global broken window fallacy or unrealistic goal setting to rekindle the economy?
(Drudge Report). POLL: Obama as unpopular as Bush...
Both accumulated massive deficits, grew the bureaucracy and regulatory empire, have violated our civil liberties ineffectively intervened in the economy, and expanded our meddling in international affairs none of our business. The rating sounds about right.
(Cato Institute). "The headlines from the last few weeks clearly illustrate the need to reform this massive system, but the Senate’s rushed plan would dramatically increase veterans’ health care spending without tackling needed fundamental reforms."
The problem is that the vets are not getting timely care. If there were enough doctors, they would. Cato complains that this is not the problem. Firing clerks will produce more doctors. Right. More raw meat? So tell is number one research organization ... what did your research come up with? Pay for soldiers but not the medicsl service to fix them and take care of their kids when they are hurt or are killed? They promised to die for you. What is your promise to them. We take care of our own? Or not?
Typical Statist response. Your underlying assumption is that the same monopoly responsible for causing the problem will solve it. You have no faith in the markets, in spontaneous order. Instead of expanding the ineffectual bureaucracy with money we don't have, we should find a mechanism of opening medical service competition for providers with veteran feedback and objective outcomes (time, effectiveness, efficiency, etc.) explicitly factored into reimbursement.
(Ron Paul). Update from Ron: "Despite the FDA reversal of its decision to ban the process of aging cheese on wooden boards, the fact that the administration can issue this type of ban in the first place is detrimental to our economy." #savethecheese
I KNEW the anti-GMO crackpots would find their way into this thread. The point is, we should not be criminalizing nutritious foods, many of which (e.g., raw milk products) have been safely consumed for centuries....
(Sen. Lee). Our criminal justice system has evolved to the point where its financial and social costs are too high to be sustainable.
Let's start with decriminalizing victimless crime, in particular the War on Drugs, unauthorized workers, etc.
(Drudge Report). PENTAGON SENDS WARSHIP TO GULF
This is IRAQ's problem, not ours!
Political Cartoon
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| Courtesy of Gary Varvel via IPI |
Eddie Money, "Take Me Home Tonight"
