This entry is based on a post at the Mises blog. The post is about Libertarian Lite Charles Murray, who has written a new book exclaiming the glories of a negative income tax. A book promo apparently states: “This is the Plan, a radical new approach to social policy that defies any partisan label. Murray [...]

Finally, I have my new website up. It is here. There may still be some rough edges, but those will be ironed out during the course of the next week. I am off to California for a bit, where I am sworn to be offline 100% (hehe), then back home to trim up the new [...]

There are a legion of stories of the demise of accounting in corporate America running around out there–loose and undaunted, and perhaps somewhat exaggerated. As one corporate accounting bungle after another makes its way to the top of the headlines, they report on them as if detailing out a home brewing recipe. Accounting snafus are [...]

One thing that 9/11 accomplished was to take the Police State out from behind closed doors and stick it Right In Your Face, where you can’t possibly miss it. Local police departments, at least in the various suburbs where I live, are erecting–on the basis of theft from homeowners–these overly massive, ornamental, hideous buildings to [...]

Things I’m reading now: – Paul Fussel’s BAD: Or, the Dumbing Down of America – Joyce Cary’s Power in Men – The Divine Right of Kings by John Neville Figgis – George Mowry’s The Twenties: Fords, Flappers, and Fanatics Paul Fussel’s “bad” is not nearly as dumb as it seems. Fussell–who has an essay included [...]

Brad, over at Wendy McElroy’s pad, pens some thoughts on retirement. I never cease to discuss this topic with folks. Retirement. People in their 30s and 40s, who put $50 a week in their 401k accounts, actually believe that this will get them to retirement at 65, or worse, they think 60. They listen to [...]

Now imagine this: a self-expressed libertarian is making a movie. He is told “he may not use the agency’s name “or any of the Department’s official visual identities” in the script for his film, Lady Magdalene.” The “department” referenced is the Department of Homeland Security, by the way. So what’s the point? The story goes [...]

It’s sad that the wonderful George Koether did not make it to 100. Here is the Mises Institute obit. Indeed, one of the great Austro-libertarian gentlemen of all time. I had the pleasure of knowing George, who was a Detroiter. The great thing about him is that each time he attended a Mises Institute event–where [...]

The State is never done with prying into our personal lives and dictating the who, what, where, when, and why of our individual existence. On the LewRockwell.com blog, Norm Singleton comments on the Ronald Bailey article at Reason. Essentially, the story is that the New York City health departement is monitoring the blood sugar tests [...]

“No other state has a tax like this and neither should Michigan,” Van Woerkom said. “Most other states have prospered in recent years while Michigan remains mired in some of the worst unemployment and job-creation rates.” This relates to Michigan’s unpropitious tax known as the Single Business Tax. The SBT, as it is known, is [...]