I got this cartoon from Joe S. It appeared in the Chicago Tribune on 4/21/1934. It is a dire warning about the dangers of the socialist path the Roosevelt administration was advocating but in the 75...Read More
Employers dread the “Employee Free Choice Act.” They say it will make it possible to coerce workers into publicly checking a card for a union because it eliminates the need for a secret ...Read More
The book Kings of Capital and Knights of Labor Was printed in 1886. The Preface begins: What are these three dangers? They might sound familiar: “Political Corruption in our legislatures and...Read More
Why do people think that it is egregious that a woman chose to have 14 children? They don’t. What they are angry about is that they have to pay for her bad behavior. Obviously part of her ...Read More
In the Spring time when you plant you can predict a bumper crop. In the Summer working in the field you can daydream about bounty But in the Autumn when the crops come in the truth will be known. For ...Read More
Most of what you hear about the economy is negative so this entry is to remind you that it is not as bad as the news media makes it out to be. And that one persons problem is another persons opportu...Read More
In 1945 at the end of WWII England’s economy was going into a tailspin. Soldiers were returning home without jobs, unemployment was rising and shortages of basic commodities were everywhere. ...Read More
Last week Hamas increased rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza and the Israeli airforce retaliated massively. Why? It might be one of those random events that Taleb write about in The Black Swan or it...Read More
UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh is a libertarian. He had this to say about education: “I think that government funding for K-12 education is probably a good idea. At the same time, it’...Read More
Jason Gonella a writer for California Freedom a Libertarian newspaper wrote a list of what he thought libertarians should do “now that the socialist and reluctant warmonger has beaten the warmon...Read More