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David Collum: Year in Review
I have previously flagged David Collum’s annual review in this blog. I have just finished reading his review for 2015, which I am now distributing to you. Collum’s review is subtitled “scenic vistas from mount stupid” and it is dedicated … Continue reading
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Not So Fast, Donald
I was all torqued up to write a post with the above title, when I read an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal by Karl Rove entitled “The Donald Doesn’t Have a Lock – Yet.” It made all of … Continue reading
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To Be or Not to Be: The UK Referendum
The big news over the weekend in the United Kingdom (UK) is that, after having secured some kind of deal from his European Union (EU) partners, Prime Minister David Cameron has called for an “in-out” referendum on EU membership to be … Continue reading
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South Carolina
The South Carolina primary, scheduled for this Saturday, is shaping up to be a pivotal event in the GOP nomination. There is a very good chance that this vote will produce the winnowing of the field that will mark the … Continue reading
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Greatest BloombergView Article Ever [1]
Megan McArdle, whom I have previously described as the lonely libertarian over at BloombergView, has produced probably the best article ever to appear in this medium, which is pretty much relentlessly left-wing. (So left-wing, in fact, that it makes me … Continue reading
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Young Turkeys Do Vote for Thanksgiving
The Economist has recently run a special report on the young, concluding that the roughly 1.8 billion people in the world between the ages of 15 to 30 are an “oppressed minority.” The report identified a number of policies that … Continue reading
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Greetings From The Road
I am currently on vacation, so this will be a brief post, mostly with some recommended reading/listening. Milo Yiannopoulos I first encountered this guy when I read “Sexbots: Why Women Should Panic,” which is one of the most hilariously incendiary … Continue reading
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Donald Trump: Crony Capitalist Par Excellence
The Wall Street Journal has just run a lengthy, front-page article entitled “Trump and His Debts: A Narrow Escape.” The article makes clear that Trump is a crony capitalist par excellence. It’s a well-known fact that Trump was in deep … Continue reading
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Land Use and Misuse: Crony Capitalism Goes Local
In his New Year message, David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, promised to tackle the “moral outrage” of the UK’s housing crisis which is pricing “hard-working young people” out of the market. Hopefully, this will be the … Continue reading
ISIS (Part Three)
In the first two parts of this series we talked about the “forward defence” and the “defend the border” strategies for responding to ISIS terrorism. Today, we will talk about the last alternative to emerge from the presidential candidates, which … Continue reading
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