Libertarian Christmas!
Kathleen
… and Barack
Obama set the date.
Today the Fed’l
gov’t will shut down operations at midnight unless Reid, Boehner,
& Obama come to agreement on the budget by the
end...
Sweatshop derangement
Kathleen
At Cornell, there is a large
part of campus which actively rails against free trade. No, they
are not explicitly protectionist, rather they believe that people
in the Third World have the option to have jobs outside of
sweatshops that will provide them with a comfortable standard of
living. Opportunities that...
Signs of victory!
Kathleen
Libertarians who are involved
with the Free State
Project always seem incredibly optimistic that they can reform
the legislative practices in New Hampshire within our
lifetime.
To someone jaded by the
political process in the northeast (like yours truly), this sounds
naïve at best. Sure a liberty activist can move to
New...
More fluff than a pillow.
Kathleen
According to
Yahoo (and verified by a simple google search) the official US
Gov’t's White House presidential biography series online is about
as hard-hitting as an infant:
“The...
Supreme Court upholds private ed. tax credits
Kathleen
As of a
few hours ago…
“The U.S. Supreme Court put new limits on the power of citizens to challenge government programs as unconstitutionally promoting religion, upholding an Arizona tax credit aimed at helping cover private-school tuition costs.The justices, voting 5-4, today said opponents lacked “standing” to challenge the 14-year-old program,...
Tucker on Teens
Kathleen
One of my favorite bloggers,
Jeffrey Tucker, has an awesome article over at Mises.org about what
is at stake amidst the teen jobs
crisis (only about 14 % of teens aged 17 have
jobs):
And so fewer and fewer people know anything about the workplace. They will sit in desks and run...
Germans in Libya
Kathleen
My friend Steven is studying
abroad in Berlin. In the past few weeks, Germany has been
noticeably absent from the Libyan dilemma and Steve gives a pretty
good explanation as to why:
“Germans
are actually a...
A historical double-standard
Kathleen
City Journal‘s Claire
Berlinski has written a great article about the disinterest around
Pavel
Stroilov’s 50,000 unpublished, untranslated, top-secret Kremlin
documents dating
from the close of the Cold War.
journalists [have] initially shown interest in the documents, only to [say] later that their editors have declared the story insignificant. In advance of...
The Review has a banner week
Kathleen
The Cornell Review began
the week after Spring Break with esteemed Cornell alum, Keith
Olbermann, stomping
on a copy of February’s publication and calling
most conservatives stupid.
So while the week started
rough, today the Review team distributed a parody of our
resident lefty-newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun. The
Cornell Daily...
The Politics of Beauty
Kathleen
Over at Mises.org, Ben O’Neill
has a great post about “discrimination”
in the modeling industry. Recently, a model of Indian-descent
in Australia tried to make the case that she was being unfairly
discriminated on the basis of her race.
“One might feel a bit sorry for Ms. Rajandran. One might, that...
Olbermann vs. The Conservative Voice on Campus
Kathleen
Last night, Keith Olbermann
addressed his alma mater in a lecture auditorium. I wasn’t in
attendance for two reasons: 1. I still felt nauseous from seeing
him the day be...
The Swiss cheese of newspapers
it has oh-so many holes. Find
out how to circumvent
The New York Times’s pretend pay wall (then subscribe to a
good newspaper,
won’t you?). – KM<...
The French Connection
Kathleen McCaffrey
—
Anne Applebaum, one
of my favorite writers, posted a really fascinating article in
Slate last night. Applebaum explores the motives
of Sarkozy’s Libya campaign:
The man who introduced Sarkozy to the Benghazi rebels is none other than Bernard-Henri Lévy, a pop philosopher so French that I can’t think of an...
Syrian update
Kathleen McCaffrey
As I have mentioned before, my friend
Jonathan is studying in Syria — one of the few American
students there. His latest blog entry, dated the 23rd of March,
offers tremendous insight. Since his blog is probably being monitored, I’ve
chosen to copy/paste his latest entry:
I’ve scrupulously avoided politics in...
Competitive government isn’t just about tax havens
I’m a huge fan of the Seasteading Institute, Charter Cities, etc. etc.
because I believe there is very little bad that can come from
competition between government. In fact, I believe that — if these
measures are successful — bureaucracies around the world will
adjust their services accordingly. Is it hopeful?...
