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Big Business in Politics
Rome set the example to modern Germany of making war profitable. In the half-century following the fall of Carthage, fifty million dollars in tribute and plunder drained into Rome. This sum gave a great opportunity to energetic men. FULL ARTICLE by H.J. Haskell ... »
New Book on Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian Tradition
Routledge has just published a new book of mine with the title, Political Economy, Public Policy and Monetary Economics: Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian Tradition. It is available from Amazon in Great Britain. And it may be pre-ordered from Amazon in the United States for February delivery. Ludwig von Mises, was one of the most... »
Slate Liberal David Plotz Praises the US Military ‘Killing Machines’
It’s no wonder that Obama sounds no different than George W. Bush on war: the left are just as warlike as the right. Example: On the December 11 Slate Political Gabfest, the hosts discuss B. Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech, including his remarks that we should honor American soldiers “not as makers of war,... »
The Left Fell into the Climate Morass
Instead of working against war and the police state, instincts were diverted to the preposterous cause of creating a statist system for global thermometer management. FULL ARTICLE by Lew Rockwell Click here to read the entire article… Technorati Tags: article, Climate, Instincts, Lew Rockwell, Morass, police, Police State, statist... »
Peace Prize WInner Says: My Wars are Just
The Just War doctrine was hammered out some 1600 years ago with the idea of restraining states. But there is a problem: states end up grading their own tests for what constitutes a just or unjust war. No surprise at the results: the state always finds that it own wars are just. In any... »
