2023.02.23 Video Podcast: The topics of the day
Your chance to listen to me chatter about everything from America’s broken sexuality to Ukraine to lots of stuff in between.
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Tag: Milton Friedman
History, Holidays & Observances – November 16
A look at some of the history, holidays & observances on November 16 Holidays and Observances on November 16 Celebration of an icon of the Catholic Church in Lithuania, a near 400 year old artwork, Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn, canonically crowned by the Church in 1927 as
Continue readingMilton Friedman & The Rise of Socialism (Updated)
Socialism should be in the dust-bin of history. Instead, it is embraced by Democrats, many of whom have no understanding of it’s reality. The history of the world, since 1792, has been a competition to see which will win out — the Enlightenment ideals of the American Revolution, or the
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Bookworm Beat 7/31/2018 — a “world is going crazy” wrap-up
The world is indeed going crazy — but mixed in with the Left’s bad stuff, this Bookworm Beat also has things that are both interesting and good. We need to take federal funds out of America’s colleges and universities. Exhibit A for this proposal is a long, long, utterly fascinating
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Different takes on the Trump effect on the media and #NeverTrumpers
A romance novel explains why Trump is destroying the media and a Jewish survival doctrine provides a road map for conservatives who want to win. These are strange times and I sometimes have a strange brain. That may explain why, in the days since the Alabama election, when I read
Continue readingFound it on Facebook — the “Leftists always get it wrong” edition, part 3
It’s time for another installment in my “Leftists always get it wrong” series. (See Part 1 and Part 2.) Here is the typically wrongheaded poster I want to challenge today: Without diving into the details, there are two central flaws with this poster that negate everything it advocates: It assumes
Continue readingFound it on Facebook — the “Leftists always get it wrong” edition, part 2
Having gone on at some length to demolish a single Leftist sentence riddled with lies, it’s time for me to tackle the next Leftist poster that I found on Facebook. I think this one will do for my next effort at exposing the rank dishonesty hiding behind some of those
Continue reading[VIDEO] Milton Friedman on laws creating criminals and corruption
Milton Friedman was a genius. There is no other way to describe him. Far too late in life, I’m finally reading Free to Choose: A Personal Statement, a book that is timeless. The Soviet Union, which is one of the main economic foils he discusses in his book, may be
Continue reading[VIDEO] Milton Friedman on immigration today versus one hundred years ago
Kudos to JK Brown for finding this Milton Friedman lecture in which he discusses the way in which the welfare state affects immigration. Europe might want to watch this video. The immigration discussion starts at about nine and a half minutes into the lecture:
Continue readingThursday afternoon round-up and Open Thread
I really need to get a more innovative and exciting name for these round-ups, a name that will convey just how exciting these round-ups are. I find writing posts easy and naming them hard. Perhaps you guys have a witty suggestion. I envision something along the lines of “The [Clever Name]
Continue readingWill Obama’s failure to create genuine wealth finally end Keynesian economics?
Many of Obama’s most educated supporters believe in him because they believe in Keynesian economics. Central to that belief is the theory that government itself can be an economic engine. If people aren’t working, have them work for the government or at least have the government fund their ostensibly “private
Continue readingLet’s do the time warp again — Progressives keep urging those failed economic policies
The Huffington Post is one of the ugliest websites I’ve ever seen. I’m not talking about content (although I’ll get to that), but about its layout. The left-most column (and that turns out to be a very clever pun on my part) actually has some visual stability, insofar as it
Continue readingEnacting useless regulations in order to force the transfer of wealth from rich to poor
There’s a famous story about Milton Friedman’s response when confronted with make-work projects: While traveling by car during one of his many overseas travels, Professor Milton Friedman spotted scores of road builders moving earth with shovels instead of modern machinery. When he asked why powerful equipment wasn’t used instead of
Continue readingMilton Friedman, wise and witty
John Hawkins has pulled together some excellent Milton Friedman quotations. I’m embarrassed to admit that, growing up in my Left wing, liberal arts enclave, I’d never heard of Friedman. I wonder if early exposure to his ideas (and his charm) would have lifted me out of the darkness sooner. My
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