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Gender and the New Commanding Heights
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Macroeconometrics: The Science of Hubris
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BRYAN CAPLAN
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The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
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Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
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The Theory of Time and Frittering
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Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
DAVID HENDERSON
August 9, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken", Part Two
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August 5, 2011
James Bovard on the Peace Corps
August 4, 2011
Summers Way Off on FDR and 1941
August 3, 2011
The "Amazon" Tax
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That's certainly the pull quote from Tyler's essay, but not the main point, which is pretty "new" in the anti-war rhetoric. There aren't just dollar costs to these wars, but opportunity costs as well. Back in September, 2001, a lot of us rationalized the rest of the decade by thinking, "What happens probably isn't going to be terribly pretty, but it's necessary." No serious person who advocated or supported these wars denied or ignored the opportunity costs. In fact, they seemed to be outweighed by letting the status quo of the September 10th world continue. Some of us have stuck with that rationalization, while some like Tyler have not.
Let's see... Let me guess.
The first article then went on to say that businessmen should invest in their businesses instead of in charity.
The second article recommended Giuliani for President.
That's not what happened?
Maybe you're just feeling a bit down in the dumps because the party you supported is such a grandiose gargantuan failure, coming apart at the seams. Bloated prescription drug program (with actual costs hidden from congress). Wasteful, unnecessary, incompetent war in Iraq. Taxes deferred to the future (any tax cut without attendent spending cut is not a tax cut--Friedman). Failure after failure after failure.
And don't forget: you said that the people of Israel should be more angry. It looks like the thinking people of the US, who now support the Democrats over the Republics, have taken your advice to heart.
There is something very perverse about someone who would prefer that people become lobbyists rather than volunteers who help the poor. And that is being generous. I rather think they are bad people -- if not evil (a bad person is someone who does bad because he doesn't know what the good is; an evil person knows what the good is, and does the bad anyway).
living wage...hhahahhahahahha.....living wage hahahahhahahahhaha
Dont like poverty, just legislate it away..............hahhahahahhahhahahah
the liberals are just as "faithful" as the conservatives.
dont like the projections for future global temperatures? dont worry, just legislate it away.....hahahahahhahahhaha