Ned Danison, unedited

Probably as an outcome of our affluent age, our preferred course of action in dealing with a problem is to skip the subtleties and specifics and throw money at it. Everything comes down to money, we say, so we might as well just put a dollar amount on a problem and get it over with. [...]

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Here is a politician saying something of substance, something verifiably true. What do the media think is most remarkable about what she has to say? She doesn’t look at the camera.

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I posted a comment on Language Log a few days ago, and it appears it’s been removed. That’s okay, I’ll just make the point here. One way or the other, it amounts to less than a germ on a flea on a dead cat in the middle of nowhere. I have said this several times [...]

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It’s time again to re-post something by one of my favorite economists, George Mason University’s Don Boudreaux: Deeply Deficient Trade Thinking Posted: 20 Jan 2011 11:38 AM PST Here’s a letter to a Chinese news agency: Editor, English.Xinhuanet.com Dear Editor: I want to jab a chopstick into my eye when I read that “China is [...]

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Please forgive me for beating a dead horse — and while you’re at it, forgive me for the metaphor, as I don’t mean to incite violence toward animals, dead or alive — but I’m going to chime in here on an issue that is already too amply documented from every conceivable angle. The Internet is [...]

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Every now and then I read something that I wish I woulda said. Very often the person who says it is Don Boudreaux. That’s because he’s smarter than me. Here it is: Posted: 12 Nov 2010 07:31 AM PST Here’s a letter to the New York Times: Calling for a “national greatness agenda,” David Brooks [...]

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From George Will, “A Recoil Against Liberalism“: The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what is being done on their behalf, what is being done is not properly ambitious. If it is comprehensible to its intended beneficiaries, it is the work [...]

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I have been meaning to say something about the Tea Party movement, but have refrained. I guessed if I waited long enough, someone would say what I want to say, only say it better. Here it is, from The Economist: “in how many other countries would a powerful populist movement demand less of government, rather [...]

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I will give my vote to the yahoo who promises to do the least if elected. Not the other yahoo. [Post-election note: Most of my yahoos won.]

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