Month: July 2014

Should the Government Promote Commerce?

Megan McArdle is cheering on the demise of the Export-Import Bank on the premise that it will be a blow against “corporate welfare.” There seems to be a bipartisan consensus growing that the Department of Commerce...

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Running Ethically in Mississippi

Travis Childers, who served as a Democrat in Congress from May 13, 2008 to January 3, 2011, was never my kind of Democrat, but I am okay with that. I would not expect great things from him if he were to win a six-year term in...

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Israel Exacerbating Settler Violence with Gag Orders

Both Economy Minister Bennett and FM Liberman are inciting hatred and violence between Jews and Arabs. Last night, judeo-fascists were roaming the streets of Jerusalem chanting derogatory slogans against Arabs calling for their...

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Where to Build Obama’s Library?

I haven’t been paying a whole lot of attention to the bidding war to host President Obama’s post-tenure presidential library. I have wondered whether he would really consider forcing people to fly all the way to...

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Lunch Buffet

Wikipedia informs me that Ross Perot’s 1992 campaign song was Crazy by Patsy Cline, which is almost too good to be true. Here are some good World Cup-related links: The Eternal Cult of Zinedine Zidane Total Football and...

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