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Free to Choose Friday, Revisited (Part 5)

     With the Presidential election but six weeks away, this is a good time to revisit Milton Friedman’s ten-part Free to Choose each Friday before the election as a reminder of why politically good sounding policies are often bad economics.      The fifth episode: … Continue reading

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The New Right Is The Old Left

     “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” seems to be the route to political success now sought be the new ascendant Right.   ‘Twould seem that “fighting like the Left” does means adopting many of their positions, if not the … Continue reading

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Free to Choose Friday, Revisited (Part 4)

     With the Presidential election but seven weeks away, this is a good time to revisit Milton Friedman’s ten-part Free to Choose each Friday before the election as a reminder of why politically good sounding policies are often bad economics.      The fourth episode: … Continue reading

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Welcoming Wolves Into The Flock

     The Republican Party has been rather welcoming to overly enthusiastic converts to the party, being so starved for love and validation that any and all are celebrated and raised on a pedestal.      This happened recently when a Democratic state Senator … Continue reading

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Free to Choose Friday, Revisited (Part 3)

     With the Presidential election but eight weeks away, this is a good time to revisit Milton Friedman’s ten-part Free to Choose each Friday before the election as a reminder of why politically good sounding policies are often bad economics.      The third episode: … Continue reading

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Free to Choose Friday, Revisited (Part 2)

     With the Presidential election but nine weeks away, this is a good time to revisit Milton Friedman’s ten-part Free to Choose each Friday before the election as a reminder of why politically good sounding policies are often bad economics.      The second episode: … Continue reading

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The New Know Nothings

     The Native American Party, later just the American Party, was a nativist political party during the middle of the 19th Century that arose against waves of immigrants coming into America that threatened to replace (and indeed largely succeeded in replacing) … Continue reading

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Free to Choose Friday, Revisited (Part 1)

     With the Presidential election but ten weeks away, this is a good time to revisit Milton Friedman’s ten-part Free to Choose each Friday before the election as a reminder of why politically good sounding policies are often bad economics.      The first episode: The … Continue reading

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The Mostly Peaceful Political Trap

     “Owning the Libs”, particularly online, has become the primary weapon of political warfare, particularly with the chronically online. What was once high meme culture and sophisticated in its own faux-juvenile way has devolved into sick burns where political success is … Continue reading

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Glaciers Are Politicians Too

     There is a certain obsession with the “Nature Rights” crowd with making objects morally equivalent to humans. They’ve done this with lagoons, lakes, moons, swamps, rivers, and mountains.   Now, not only are glaciers like people too, they can even … Continue reading

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