News roundup

I haven't posted much this week, but I've been saving a number of news stories throughout the week that I found interesting. Without...

What's wrong with this picture

Yesterday, I received my Social Security statement in the mail. It looks something like this . I just assume that the country will be bankru...

Just... hold on a second

I came across a number of weird/wacky news stories this morning, and since I didn't really feel like writing very much, I was going to j...

Free speech, alive and well

I noticed the 'crawl' along the bottom of the TV screen this morning mention that NPR had fired Juan Williams over some comments tha...

The first amendment says what?

I usually try to stay away from the low hanging fruit of the day in and day out political machinations and mud slinging that make up the U.S...

Government bailout turns a profit

According to Bloomberg news : The U.S. government’s bailout of financial firms through the Troubled Asset Relief Program provided taxpayers ...

Men are not angels

For those who didn't pick up on the title of this post, it is a reference to a post from last week entitled " If Men Were Angels ...

Follow the money, part 1

I mentioned to my dad recently that money is the best way to determine what people really believe; he kind of chuckled at the notion. I made...

If Men Were Angels

There was, what I considered to be, a truly outstanding article over on the Mises Daily this morning about the "disaster" that w...

City gets up on its high horse

This morning I caught a story about a proposed jewelery/pawn shop trying to open in downtown Oceanside. A plan to open an upscale pawn shop...

The state just can't win

I'm not sure how to feel about this : The state [of California] announced Monday it is selling 24 government office buildings — includin...

Government serves its own interest

Last month, a federal district court judge struck down the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy as unconstitutio...

Empire and its imminent demise

Glenn Greenwald writes today that the U.S is a collapsing empire . As evidence, he points to a number of surveys and studies showing the rap...

If you don't vote, you might (still) be a statist

While eating lunch the other day, a friend of mine mentioned that he had intended to comment on one of my recent posts , or in his words, ...

The arrival of the total state will not be televised

Yesterday, a federal judge in Michigan handed down a ruling upholding the new health care law. Here is an excerpt: There is a rational basi...

Unintended consequences revisited

Last week I wrote about how some people were actually going to lose their health insurance coverage as a result of the new health care law....

If you vote, you're a statist

I began reading a book called Moral Politics last night. (It can be found on Google Books, here .) I plowed through the first two chapters ...

Currency wars

I hear a lot on the radio and in the news lately about the U.S. and other central banks' grumbling about China's refusal to let its ...

Moral Politics

A friend recently suggested that I read the book Moral Politics . In preparation for reading, I typed " moral politics " into Goog...

Fire protection and the free market

Earlier this week, fire fighters in Obion County, Tennessee let a man's house burn to the ground because he hadn't paid his annual ...