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Looks like it. Some links: Spain May Not Be Uganda, But Will America Soon Be Argentina? European Money Market Industry Shutting Down As Goldman Closes MM Fund, Says In “Unchartered Territory” Guest Post: Border Controls Are Back In Europe EURUSD Slides To 2 Year Low As Reality Supercedes Hope RBS ‘Glitch’ Goes Airborne As Biggest…

For the Fourth of July, I drove to Marion, Ohio, to visit President Warren G. Harding’s home and museum. It is amazingly well put together, and they have almost all of the stuff that was there when he and his wife Florence (“Flossie“) lived there. Here’s the house from the rear, and you can see…

Commenter Neil and I were discussing the nature of our current problem and how it related to the problem of 1859. I pointed out that the problem back then was whether or not to keep slaves and our current problem is whether or not to be slaves. A whole different order of problem. Neil suggested…

Timothy Darymple is going off on one of his periodic screeds against hippies and their sponging off society to do their own thing. I don’t get why so many hate hippies. But OK. I’m fine with that. I suggest everyone do what I did after I got tired of hippie. Join an outlaw MC gang.…

Alex and Tyler raise some good points on the CT post about libertarianism and the workplace, which is probably getting way more attention than it merits. At the risk of exacerbating the problem above: the CTers’ basic argument is that the employee-employer relationship is asymmetrical. The simple counterargument is that asymmetrical relationships aren’t an excuse…

A man wants to chop off my head. In the spirit of compromise I allow as to how it might be OK if he slit my throat as it allows me to keep my head attached to my body. How is that for the spirit of compromise? Or would it just be better if I…

The central problem is this. There are many who want to be slaves. “Tell us what do do.” There are many fewer who want to be masters. “We will tell you what to do.” The fewest are those who wish to be neither masters nor slaves. “Do your own thing.” America was set up to…

Interesting factoid. In some places, sea birds trump fireworks on the Fourth of July: An Oregon town has reportedly canceled its annual fireworks show out of concern the Fourth of July pyrotechnics will scare sea birds roosting nearby. Town officials in Depoe Bay have announced the cancellation of the annual pre-Independence Day fireworks show on…

A Green Jobs Program spent $38.6 billion to create about 3,600 jobs. That is $10 million per job. I figure I could take that $10 million and create two jobs for $5 million and pocket the difference. That would have doubled the efficiency of the program. And I could become a 1%er. Of course a…

A friend over at another blog (you can find it if you know my haunts) asks a very serious question in a discussion about what to do about “the bankers”. How can they be reined in? This has been a rather dramatic change in your tone, has something happened to you in the last six…

Alex Jones has a secret conspiracy for you. Body bags and casket liners. It gets better and wouldn’t you know it the Jews are behind it. British news channel ITV has whitewashed the Olympics security scandal by failing to mention the explosive revelations of ‘Lee Hazledean’, an undercover journalist who infiltrated G4S, the world’s largest…

If you start in ordering humans about they will do the opposite (the spirit of rebellion) otherwise they will do as they damn well please.

Tyler Cowen unkindly (I’m sure he meant well!) directs my attention to something called Crooked Timber, which appears to be some sort of nuisance blog that enjoys making nonsensical claims about libertarianism: …we have to understand how little freedom workers enjoy at work. Unfreedom in the workplace can be broken down into three categories. 1.…

Not exactly to my astonishment, earlier I learned that Anderson Cooper was gay confirmed he was gay. How many millions of women are now clutching the curtains in shock and disappointment I do not know. Does that mean he’s going to run for President? I also learned that Justice Roberts was motivated by politics to,…

Not just demographically, but economically as well. “the downturn in the Eurozone manufacturing sector extended to an eleventh successive month. Production and new orders suffered further severe contractions, leading to the steepest job losses since January 2010.” And here is where Germany, which as noted earlier, is becoming isolated in its European bailout ambitions, should…

iSteve is discussing the subversion of our meritocratic tests (the SAT in this case) by preping schools. One wise guy who has it in for Jews discussed how they subverted the test and then let the cat out of the bag. Jewish scores on the SATs rose accordingly, as did Jewish admission to the prestigious…

Quick question. Is energy a commodity or is it morality? The reason I’m asking is because of the increasing mindset that what you do with energy is not your business — even if you pay for it just as you might pay for anything else. Why are they allowed to get away with this? Because…

With the law and men with guns we can perfect the world. You will note that I’m referring to most of my allies and all of my enemies. The difference between my allies and my enemies? Different laws.

A frequent argument advanced by public policy experts with degrees from the best Ivy League universities is that we (the little people they want to boss around) should be made to use public transportation — minus air-conditioning, of course. I think the public policy elitists should be made to use public transportation themselves. Detroit’s bedbug-infested…

This is the official beer of the Revolution. Print out the following (you can get 7 or so on a sheet) and pass it out every time you order a beer in public. “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom—go from us in peace. We…