Category Archives: Politics

The Song of the Crickets and Cicadas

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Allen

I’m sitting on my back patio with my laptop untethered from its normal AC converter. I have one of those battery-sucking laptops that go from 100% capacity to 10% capacity in the time it takes to load up a website … Continue reading →

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And what’s with the mustaches?

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Allen

Pretty cool (in a definitely econ-geeky way) video about the difference between Keynesian and Austrian (Hayek) economics. I don’t think it will win any MTV awards, however.

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Unenlightened Liberals

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Allen

As I have noted on my Facebook page and in the pages of this website, I consider myself, by and large, to be a Classical Liberal (PDF). Others of this class of political thought are the Founding Fathers, Thomas Sowell … Continue reading →

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The Politician Gnomes

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Allen

Laura Hollis writes about Thomas Sowell’s eternal question: “And then what?” Thomas asks this question over and over in his book, Applied Economics Laura stresses that many of the same people who got us into this mess with sub-prime mortgage … Continue reading →

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We Just Lighting Up Their Lucky

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Allen

BatesLine has a great extended quote from probably one of the best Senators in Congress today, Tom Coburn: As a practicing physician, I compare where we are today to a physician who commits malpractice. We have a patient with cancer. … Continue reading →

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Authenticity and Forced Volunteerism

Posted on September 8, 2008 by Allen

As I may have alluded to earlier, I work with the Boy Scouts of America. Most of my activities lately has been constrained to mentoring Eagle candidates for our Troop, but the Anchoress highlights in a recent post what has … Continue reading →

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The Fallacy of ‘None of the Above’

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Allen

For a long time, I’ve said that I would like for all elections to have a ‘None of the Above’ choice. That way, if ‘None of the Above’ won, all of the candidates would be barred from running for office … Continue reading →

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