Free Trade vs the World Bank
…free education to including college, it is management of our environment, it is (or was) the enlightenment, it is adaptation of knowledge for the betterment of living life. None of…
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Setting a Limit: Free Speech vs Eliminationism
There have been a number of ad-hoc limits proposed to Free Speech Absolutism in the past. For example “You can’t yell ‘Fire’ in a crowded theater” or “Your free speech…
Trump administration to restore $12 million for pro-democracy Radio Free Europe
Judge orders Trump administration to restore $12 million for pro-democracy Radio Free Europe, Associated Press The story A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to restore $12 million…
Free Speech in Broadcasting
…on what has taken place. As NPR writes, since his appointment by Pres. Tr_mp as “chair of the Federal Communications Commission; Brendan Carr has waged war against the free speech…
Housing Update
…considered almost risk-free because if the borrowers default, Fannie or Freddie will pay off the loans (assuming Fannie and Freddie remain solvent). Non-conforming loans go into pools known as private-label…
Oh, dear. Another loopy challenge to yet another ACA provision, this one concerning the Independent Payment Advisory Board.*
…ridiculous. But it does have the advantage of carrying with it the Madisonian Freedom/Liberty tag, a label that the Koch right confers upon anything it wishes, because that surely will…
The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead
No one would ever accuse Bernie Sanders of thinking small. The senator from Vermont and Democratic presidential candidate wants to transform one of the world’s most boisterous free-market economies into…
The Buchanan-MacLean Controversy
…although the strongly pro-free market stance of both Buchanan and Tullock can easily mislead people on this. Finally we have her misuse of the term “libertarian,” which is also a…
Voting by Mail and the Next Election Meltdown – A Prophecy
…you use a postage label purchased at a USPS customer service window or vending machine, the date on the label is the postmark. This is the USPS recommended way to…
Is There No Hope for “Muslim Social Democracy”?
Is There No Hope for “Muslim Social Democracy”? Probably not I am afraid. Indeed, this label is a recently cooked up one, to replace an earlier one that used “Islamist”…