“The world for the most part is not run by reason. The power of the irrational is formidable.” Paul Johnson Historian in Forbes Magazine 8/20/2012...Read More
In Rothenburg, Bavaria we were surrounded by evidence of the beginnings of the city state. I wrote the other day about the consequences of compulsory taxes for defense. Another early function of g...Read More
About 1200 in Rothenburg, Bavaria (pronounced rotenberg) in order to build a city wall they levied a tax on all of the properties within the walls of the city. The tax was unusual for the time in th...Read More
So here is the math. Romney will probably get roughly the same number of votes as John McCain did in 2008 but he will win. And the reason is pretty simple. Many of the “enthusiasm voters&#...Read More
If you give the State the power to do something for you, you give it an exact equivalent power to do something to you. Albert Jay Nock The State of the Union, Essays in Social Criticism 1923...Read More
All farmers know that it is easy in the spring to predict a bumper crop. And in the summer as the fields grow to daydream about bounty. But in the autumn when the crops come in, the trut...Read More
The recent Secret Service scandal was discovered when a disagreement came to light about how much a Columbian prostitute wanted for her services. She wanted $800.00. The Secret Service agent offered $...Read More
Headline in the 5/14/12 WSJ: “Brown Says More Cuts Needed” Note to Governor Brown: “You can’t save your way to prosperity.” Instead ask yourself: What Would Texas Do?...Read More
Americans spend $14 surfing for every $1 they spend on presidential elections. Of course surfing is more fun and many would say more important. But maybe if we spent more on elections the results woul...Read More
I received an email yesterday from “The Consumer Watchdog Campaign.” They apparently want the government to impose price controls on health insurance in California. I was curious how t...Read More