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On federally underwritten idiot insurance

December 30, 2005

Aside from the certain moral hazard presented by Federally underwritten anything, Tim Kern has delivered some powerful insight into the consequences of Nanny-Statism over at Mises.org today. And although his analysis is in response to FEMA’s fumbling of the Katrina/Rita relief efforts, the problems he describes can be ascribed to just about any sort […]

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Amtrak: An efficient use of subsidy!

December 29, 2005

Someone needs to introduce Amtrak to Arthur Laffer.
I think Kip Esq. may have previously touched on the subject of Amtrak, or some other regional rail-transit system and the gross amount of subsidies they absorb. They’re like subsidy sponges, really, and they keep sucking and sucking. Anyways, I’m in the process of planning my […]

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On opportunity cost, and the politics of pull

December 24, 2005

One question that often comes up is why the government seems to do such a lousy job protecting people? why it has been virtually hamstrung by special interest groups? I’ve had lengthy *drunken* discussions with my roommate, who is a law student, and one of the smarter people I know, and he, like many […]

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Dick Cheney Wipes Ass with Constitution

December 20, 2005

Breaking news: Dick [ed. note: I had mistakenly referred to VP as “John,” obviously, I was so enraged that I couldn’t think straight] Cheney shits fascist propaganda, proceeds to wipe his ass with constitution.
La Loi — Pervertie! Bastiat would’ve said, for those of you who don’t read French, that the law has […]

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Bloviate This, Bill O’Reilly:

December 16, 2005

The “Christmas” shopping season now begins around Halloween. Between Halloween and New Year’s, we also celbrate Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, and probably a bunch of other stuff that I don’t even know about. Most of us don’t celebrate all of them. Some of us don’t celebrate any of them. This year’s […]

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playing with fire(power) re: Cory Maye

December 13, 2005

I’m sure there are mountains of precedent that will suggest that someone breaking into your house forcefully in the middle of the night is a threat, prima facie. Despite the fact that most criminals don’t want to harm you (they just want your pearls, your xBox, your TiVo, etc.), because some of them do, […]

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Cory Maye, and the dangerous precedent of No-Knock raids

December 11, 2005

I don’t know a lot of the specifics about Cory Maye’s case, but I’ve been following it of late, via the Agitator. Aside from the distinct possibility of serving a warrant erroneously (which can obviously lead to similar consequences), the Agitator brings up some very good ancilliary questions:
And therein lies the problem with hyper-militarized, […]

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