Month: September 2009
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Consider, Compare And Contrast
As companion to this brilliant must-read piece from Megan McArdle that lays out the libertarian philosophy on health care beautifully… But even after you get beyond that, the more “practical” considerations remain. If the government crowds out private health insurance for many people–a result that a number of analysts on both right and left think…
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We Are Running Out Of Peak Oil
Yes. It is true. We are temporarily running out of peak oil. A lot of new oil has been discovered. BP is British Petroleum. BP has reopened the debate on when the “peak oil” supply will be reached by announcing a big new discovery in the Gulf of Mexico which some believe could be as…
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same old “a harm for a harm” policy, with new defenders
Esquire Magazine has an interesting piece with the exciting (for me, at least) title of A Radical Solution to End the Drug War: Legalize Everything: One cop straight out of The Wire crunches the numbers with Esquire.com’s political columnist to discover that America’s prohibition of narcotics may be costing more lives than Mexico’s — and…
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Ann Boleyn is dead.
But maybe she’d feel it was worth it!In my previous comparison of Ted Kennedy to Henry VIII, I touched on how unaccountability — a feature of both traditional royal prerogative and Kennedy family prerogative — can be buttressed by populism: Ted Kennedy does remind me of Henry VIII in one important sense. Both men believed in their ultimate unaccountability, and neither really…