Eric Scheske

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Wednesday

Those Crazy Greeks! Musings: Government has an impact on society, which is why you want to limit government. Due to human cupidity, it's impossible to imagine any expansive government that doesn't have an adverse effect on society and culture. In America, I believe democracy has shortened

Wednesday

Lewis the Libertarian Every so often, you see an article that makes you drool. That happened to me last weekend with an article that I found at Lew Rockwell: C.S. Lewis the Libertarian [http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2846]. As a younger man, I read a

Thursday

Rothfus So I'm working late last night. It's 6:00 and my line starts ringing. I typically don't pick up, since you never know who you might get (yes, I hide behind my secretary), but for some reason, I felt like gambling. The guy

Nine Days with Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Cash for Souls "Facing the choice of cash or liberty human beings will always choose the former because it spells safety." How else can you explain the popularity of Social Security and Medicare? I give up the liberty to dispose of my income (.765 7.65 cents of

No Internet Thursday

My Charter internet connection is down yet again. It must've gotten too hot outside, thereby frying the connection. Who knows. So anyway, I'm a bit hamstrung this morning. Just this significant observation: > nearly half of the US households paid no federal income tax last year

Monday

The Vines Keep Growing Why Big Government Sucks, Exhibit 1,293,011: One FTC proposal to save the journalism industry would "Allow news organizations to agree jointly on a mechanism to require news aggregators and others to pay for the use of online content, perhaps through the use of

Wednesday

Still no Charter Internet connection. Someone must've sneezed real hard on the system. Just this for today: An unbelievable 30-second clip from Nancy Pelosi about health care reform [http://www.huckpac.com/?Fuseaction=Blogs.View&Blog_id=3086]. It's "unbelievable" because, though I

Wednesday

Miscellany Blurb from Drudge [http://www.drudgereport.com/]: "During first 36 days of Katrina, Bush made 7 visits to Gulf Coast. . . So far on Day 36 of BP oil leak, Obama has made 1 visit to disaster area." The president doesn't need to go to a

Tuesday

Chartering a New Course? One of the best new ideas I've heard recently: Charter cities [http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/04/romer_on_charte.html]. You find a host country, acquire some land, set your city limits . . . and set your own rules. If you make good rules,

Wednesday

Miscellany We talk about the "cradle to grave" welfare state, but I've applied that toward life's underclass, those who get free lunches K-12, food coupons and welfare, Medicaid, etc. Mark Steyn points out that we are getting there for all classes by pushing back