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
Yosemite is Beautiful The Jungfrau is Beautiful Yosemite is a National Park owned by the all of the citizens of the USA. The Jungfrau* area is mostly privately owned land apparently with relatively go...Read More
While traveling on the lifts and trains in Switzerland we met some young men who were base jumpers. It is a sport in which you jump off a cliff and free fall for a few seconds then release a parachu...Read More
America: Where moms get a day and sharks get a week. We are in Switzerland and so are missing the famous Sierra Madre 4th of July Parade. What a great country we live in. BTW July 4th is no longer my ...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
“If I win the Nobel Peace Prize, you will know that I have failed.” Tony Blair speaking at the commencement of his Arab/Israeli diplomatic mission as quoted by Jay Nordlinger in his new bo...Read More