The utopia at the end of history will be… awkward at best.
Friends, below you will find the meeting minutes for our rousing discussion on the draft. Cheers all around for all the bloviating! My apologies for any misspelled names.
510 Meeting called to order. Awkward introductions:
Matt notes that he has never started introductions before and doing so now was awkward;
Jimmy recounts that at a party at FSU […]
It’s Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love this holiday for the time you get to spend at home watching football, eating great food, and celebrating the American experience.
I am thankful for Starfleet, the Federation, and the blessings of liberty. What are you thankful for?
I am nearing completion of a short policy brief paper due Wednesday in my Economics of Education class. While attempting to cut out some beautiful prose because I was over the word limit, I found a useful editing technique I’d like to pass on: the Sentence Graveyard.
It begins with an empty Word file. Since every […]
Although I have made an effort to not go too far in my public comments about Cindy Sheehan, since surely we can understand the void in her life as well as the pain and anger– she is doing her level best to undermine the security of the entire world at this point and it’s time […]
Over the years, I have been drawn into at least two debates about the power of the Governor General in Commonwealth countries, usually with one of the authors on this blog. I always say “there’s some episode in Australia where the Governor General exercises some serious power” but never cite a year, a name, or […]
It’s been a long time since my last post. Anyway, this is the article I wrote for the Florida Frontier advocating the FairTax. Sammy is writing the CON side. Let me know what you think:
What do drug dealers and pimps have in common? Besides their craft being illegal, they don’t pay taxes, and they’re not […]
Milton Friedman died today at the age of 94. May he rest in peace.
Vake recently forwarded us an article criticizing mathematics in economic analysis. At UES we have often discussed this topic, and I thought it would be nice to continue that discussion here.
Anderson begins by rightly stating that just because most economists use mathematics, that doesn’t make it the best approach. Although, since most economists use mathematics, […]
I hope this continues Matt’s long road to the Republican Party. As Matt, and even Monocrat, have begun to realize is that as much as we would like to have a party unto our own, the Republican Party is the best, feasible option. All others are wastes of your time or just plainly harmful to […]
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