Jane Galt has a post on gay marriage that everybody should read. While she doesn’t argue against gay marriage per se, she does address some of the very commonly heard arguments in favor of gay marriage. She addresses them in a way that an economist, especially a conservative/libertarian leaning economist, can understand.
I would paste […]
Archive for April, 2005
Apr22nd2005
Things To Keep In Mind When Discussing Gay Marriage
Published by in Gay Marriage and General. 5 CommentsApr22nd2005
“Yes, the effort is dangerous and expensive, and it may not succeed. But isn’t it much wiser and braver to have tried, even if it only means setting the stage for others to carry on in the future? Isn’t the liberation of the world’s peoples one of the highest callings a nation can have? It’s […]
Apr21st2005
When An Economist Meets Liberal Censorship
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Academia, Economics and General. 0 CommentsWhat do you get when you mix a truth seeking economist and a utopian big ego liberal? Liberal censorship, that’s what!
Walter Block, professor of economics at Loyola University New Orleans, gives a tale of the two economists:
This is a tale of two economists, Larry Summers and Hans-Hermann Hoppe. They have much in common, […]
Apr21st2005
Che vs Pinochet?
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Chicanoism, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 6 CommentsWhile many would find it repulsive to see someone else wearing a Pinochet shirt, Fredrik Segerfeldt writes that if given the choice between Pinochet and Che, he would pick a Pinochet shirt.
He explains why:
Let us therefore look back at the legacy of the two men. Both Che and Pinochet are obviously murderers and in favour […]
Apr21st2005
“I think the point [President Bush’s in promoting Democracy in the middle east] rather is that democratic societies tend to be less aggressive militarily than authoritarian societies. The reason is that most people in any society have no taste for the risks and violence of war. Democracies may find themselves involved in defensive wars, […]
Apr20th2005
A Question To My Hispanic Readers Who Support A ‘Living Wage’
Published by in Economics, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Minimum Wage. 0 CommentsLast week at UCSD there was a union protest like the one held at Georgetown University a couple weeks ago. They were fighting for such things as a ‘living wage’ and a higher pay for janitors and service workers. As is often the case, several of the protesters were Hispanic. I wanted to talk […]
Apr20th2005
“What we must avoid, always and everywhere, is yielding to the temptation to regard some human lives, or the lives of human beings in certain conditions, as lebensunwerten Lebens, lives unworthy of life. Since the life of every human being has inherent worth and dignity, there is no valid category of lebensunwerten Lebens. Any society […]
Apr19th2005
Economics Debate: How Is The Economy Doing?
Published by in Debates, Economics and General. 0 CommentsThe Wall Street Journal has posted another economics debate. This time it is between John Irons and Arnold Kling, on the topic of how healthy is the U.S. economy, really? Are we on the edge of a recession or a boom? It is a must read for those interested in the state of our economy […]
Apr19th2005
What Government Can And Cannot Do To Help The Poor
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Economics, General, Poverty and Welfare. 1 CommentLarry Reed, president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, gave a speech at Grove City College on what government can and cannot do to help the poor.
Among other things, he said:
What Reagan instinctively knew, Bill Clinton finally admitted, and FDR had preached but didn’t practice, was that government poverty programs are themselves […]
Apr19th2005
“A study by a Swedish research organization, Timbro, compared the gross domestic products of the 15 European Union members with those of the 50 American states and the District of Columbia… After adjusting the figures for the different purchasing powers of the dollar and euro, the only European country whose economic output per person was […]
Apr18th2005
The Conservative Hispanic Familia?
Published by in General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 23 CommentsMy close friend, Tavares Forby, who also grew up in the same city I did, who went to the same colleges I did (undergrad, and now grad), and who works in the same field I do, just got his blog (which, again, was started around the same time as mine) accepted into the “The Conservative […]
Apr18th2005
“The aim of marriage and its raison d’etre is to (1) civilize men and (2) protect women. That’s it….Inside every woman there is an arcadia of emotional weakness that requires defending. Inside every man, anger lies in wait, and it requires a lifelong quell. These are fundamental truths that are borne out every day in […]
Apr15th2005
The Ludwig Von Mises blog gives us an Austrian Theory Of Environmental Economics.
If you have problems with that link, try this one or this one.
Apr15th2005
Democrats voted 73 percent Against The Unborn Victims of Violence Act
This was a bill that would have punished someone like Scott Peterson with double murder if he kills the unborn child in the process of killing the mother. Who would deny such a basic law, afterall, most people would agree that Laci Petersons eight month […]
