Sunday, December 18, 2011

Tragi-Comic Article on the Once-Golden State

California is almost certainly well-past the tipping-point of economic destruction.

The mere fact that this article is taken as serious journalism by anyone in the state pretty-much confirms this.

"California's dark days of budget deficits and severe spending cuts may be nearing an end."

Bwahahaha! I don't know what's funnier -- the fact that they think that there have already been significant budget cuts, or the fact that they think that hugely draconian cuts can be avoided in the future.


Horribly Evil!


NEW YORK (AP) — A woman burned to death in the elevator of her Brooklyn apartment building Saturday after a man ambushed her, sprayed her with liquid and set her afire with a Molotov cocktail, police said.

Read it all here.

Thank G-d that NYC has the strictest gun-control laws in the nation. It makes us FEEL safer.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Another Good Man




I can attest that Clarence Thomas is a warm, down-to-earth, personable man. The first question he asked me, when I told him that I taught economics, was whether I was familiar with the work of Ludwig von Mises. When I replied that I had earned my doctorate under Hans Sennholz, who had earned his under Mises, we were off to the races.

Read it all here.

Monday, October 3, 2011

I like his Economics but...

...Ron Paul is crazy on foreign-policy issues.


On this one, I am firmly on the side of the President. What are we supposed to do with guys like al-Awlaki, parachute-in a state-trooper to arrest him?

Read it all here.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Death is Too Good for these Evil Men

These men are the evil incarnate:









See: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/09/26/teenage-victim-in-connecticut-home-invasion-took-several-minutes-to-die/?intcmp=obnetwork#ixzz1Z7M37psu for details.

Our legal system forces us to expend huge amounts of resources on trying them. Yet, the outcome if (hopefully) foregone.

This trial is another prolonged round of torture for the family of the victims. What could be a better, more expedient, and (most important of all) more just solution?