January 31, 2008
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January 30, 2008
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Pickings today is a Clinton free zone. We will return to beating them up tomorrow.
Imprimis from Hillsdale College is first today with Mark Steyn. He writes comparing the Canadian economy to ours.
I WAS A bit stunned to be asked to speak on the Canadian economy. “What happened?†I wondered. [...]
January 28, 2008
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January 27, 2008
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The Billary Section is opened up by Corner posts from VDH and Lisa Shiffren.
VDH: … If anything, Clinton, in single-handed fashion, has exposed the facade of the modern liberal two-step: with worry in South Carolina that African-American firsters might outnumber feminist tribalists, suddenly he is complaining that people might actually [...]
January 24, 2008
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January 23, 2008
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Division of Labour starts us off with quotes from Milton Friedman, Adam Smith, and Will Rogers. They’re all related. It’s cool.
Power Line posts on the NY Times bogus attempt to smear American soldiers.
… In Fayetteville, North Carolina, the local paper was intrigued by the Times’ claims and decided to [...]
January 22, 2008
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Market turmoil suggests a well-timed WaPo op-ed on the dreaded R word - Recession.
When Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle branded economics the “dismal science” in 1849, he gave it a name that would stick. (Some theorize that he picked on economists since, like most Scots back then, Carlyle had never [...]
January 21, 2008
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Bill Kristol - Enough with the Reagan nostalgia.
Conservative editorialists, radio hosts, and bloggers are unhappy. They don’t like the Republican presidential field, and many of them have been heaping opprobrium on the various GOP candidates with astonishing vigor.
For example: John McCain–with a lifetime American Conservative Union rating of 82.3–is [...]
January 20, 2008
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Anna Schwartz who, with Milton Friedman, co-authored the seminal A Monetary History of the United States was interviewed by the London Daily Telegraph.
As rebukes go in the close-knit world of central banking, few hurt as much as the scathing indictment of US Federal Reserve policy by Professor Anna Schwartz. [...]
January 17, 2008
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David Warren on Ezra Levant and Canada’s Human Rights Commissions.
… Though appalled, I am not myself surprised by the nature of the cases now being brought before Canada’s “human rights” commissions, with a view to extinguishing free speech in Canada. I have seen this coming for decades, and have [...]
