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Archive for January, 2008
Repeal of the Corn Laws
Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in corn laws, free trade | No Comments »
Progressive Vision tells me that on this day in 1849 the Corn Laws were abolished in the United Kingdom. The culmination of a great campaign by the Anti-Corn Law League led ... Read more..“Ethics isn’t everything. Bring back the Clintons.”
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 Posted in US predential race 2008, hilary clinton | No Comments »
Hillary Clinton seems to be embracing the dubious ethics which have dogged the Clintons for years. One of her campaign co-chairs is former judge Alcee Hastings. Hastings was impeached and removed ... Read more..Cluestick of the day
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 Posted in free speech, idiotic ideas | No Comments »
I'm donating a cluestick to Dr Rowan Williams for his suggestion that there should be new laws to protect religious sensibilities that would punish “thoughtless and cruel” styles of speaking. If such ... Read more..Some of the reasons I don’t care about a few chickens:
Thursday, January 24th, 2008 Posted in animal rights, huaman rights | 30 Comments »
Here, here or how about here. Spend a few minutes you can find abuses of power and of people all across the world, from the UK to Darfur. Frankly, I find the ... Read more..Quotation of the day:
Thursday, January 24th, 2008 Posted in mencken, quotations | 7 Comments »
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it. H.L. Mencken Of course, anyone claiming to be saving humanity would claim that they're the exception. Read more..70 years old and still rocking…
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Posted in daevid allen, gong, music | 3 Comments »
Daevid Allen, founding member of Soft Machine and driving force behind Gong reached 70 earlier in January. Thankfully he's still going strong. To celebrate here's some footage of Daevid with Gong back ... Read more..The best US 2008 add I’ve seen so far…
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Posted in US predential race 2008 | No Comments »
Read more..The Austro-Georgist Business Cycle
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Posted in austrianism, business cycle, economics, georgism, recession | 1 Comment »
One of the achievements of the Austrian school of economics is the analysis of the business cycle. Mises developed the initial theories and Hayek expanded upon them. However, the Austrian theory ... Read more..The destruction of Venezuela continues
Monday, January 21st, 2008 Posted in hugo chavez, ken livingstone, venezuela | 2 Comments »
Tim Worstall points outthis article. Price controls, forcing banks to lend at a negative interest rate, state theft of farms and banks... Not long until it all collapses now I'm afraid. All ... Read more..The myth of the ‘free market’
Monday, January 21st, 2008 Posted in economics, free market, laissez-faire, mises institute, myths | 9 Comments »
How often do you hear criticisms of the free market, claims that we are living in an era of laissez-faire, that markets rain supreme? Its something I come across frequently. Its lesser ... Read more..