March, 2012 // Posts published in March, 2012
Austrian Economics, Laissez-Faire, and Consumer Primacy
In the first chapter of Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School, Ralph Raico considers the connection between Austrian economics and laissez-faire. For the most part, the early Austrian economists Menger and Bohm-Bawerk, stuck to pure theory, and did not venture much into advocacy. Just how liberal they were is a fascinating question that Raico probes ...
Congratulations Dr Kraus !
Wladimir Kraus, a former Rowley Fellow at the Mises Institute, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “Essays on Reisman’s Net Consumption Theory of Profit and Interest” yesterday at the University of Aix-Marseille in southern France. Dr Kraus probably wrote the first PhD dissertation ever on George Reisman’s important treatise Capitalism (1996). He highlighted and developed many theoretical and ...
Milk Man Faces Multiple Felony Charges for Food Crimes!
After destroying Rawesome Foods (which is being physically deconstructed right now), the Ventura County Health Department is now targeting other raw milk distribution centers in California. As Gumpert writes:
Memo: FBI can “suspend the law to impinge on the freedom of others”, since “we are our own counsel”
wired.com | Mar 28, 2012 By Spencer Ackerman and Noah Shachtman The FBI once taught its agents that they can “bend or suspend the law” as they wiretap suspects. But the bureau says it didn’t really mean it, and has … Continue reading →
Silence and self-rule: Brooklyn’s widespread Jewish Orthodox child abuse cover-up
Two years ago, Brooklyn rabbi Baruch Lebovits was sentenced to jail for his repeated abuse of a 16-year-old. Photograph: New York Daily News/Getty Images Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox rabbis claim they are co-operating with authorities over child sex abuse. But victims say … Continue reading →
Drunk TSA officers charged with trashing hotel room, firing gun out the window
Miami Beach police say two Transportation Security Administration officers partied a little too hard Tuesday night, trashed their South Beach hotel room, then picked up a semi-automatic handgun and shot six rounds out the window. Miami Herald | Mar 29, … Continue reading →
Russians outraged as more police officers charged with torturing, sodomizing detainees
A police officers looks at a woman who calls herself a relative of police abuse sufferer outside the headquarters of the Investigative Committee’s local department in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, on March 21, 2012, as she tries to lodge … Continue reading →
US anti-terrorism law curbs free speech, allows US military to arrest civilians anywhere in the world and detain them without trial
Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir said she fears she could be arrested for her association with WikiLeaks. Photograph: Halldor Kolbeins/AFP/Getty Images Controversy over NDAA centres on loose definition of key words, such as who are ‘associated forces’ of named terrorist groups … Continue reading →
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