What just happened in that mall in Kenya? I know that shouldn’t be such a difficult question. But for a lot of people it apparently is because they just can’t grasp that ideas matter. Click here to read the rest.
What is government for? Where does it get its powers? What can’t it do? Such questions are often scorned as “academic” by the brisk pragmatists who rush about the corridors of power concocting hare-brained schemes to offend and annoy the public at great cost. But unless you answer them, correctly, your policies and statements are likely to be terribly confused. Click here to read the rest.
Do we finally get an apology on global warming science? The alarmists have not only been wrong. Many of them have been unspeakably rude. And normally when that happens, you say sorry. Click here to read the rest.
With his feeble performance over Syria, even former allies are starting to question Barack Obama’s leadership. Not me. To borrow an insult from Calvin and Hobbes, before I can question it I have to locate it. Click here to read the rest.
It’s about time to put Henry Hazlitt in your pipe and smoke it. Click here to read the rest.
In Victorian times they knew what to do when some jungle potentate committed atrocities: Send a gunboat. It worked but, we now realize, was presumptuous, even arrogant. So, in these enlightened multicultural times, we react to Syrian human rights abuses by … um… sending a gunboat. Click here to read the rest.
Oh great. Last March the Quebec government adopted expensive new rules for seniors’ residences that are driving them out of business and leaving their elderly customers out of luck. And the clever politicians and bureaucrats never saw it coming. Click here to read the rest.