It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favour of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
– H. L. Mencken
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Freedom is not feeling like an outcast in the face of mainstream consensus. – Adriana Lukas at the Apeldoorn conference in the Hague June 3rd, 2007 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
 Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies – Groucho Marx May 29th, 2007 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
It seemed to me that on one side you had representatives of a fanatical cult trying to foist its views on the rest of the world and on the other… the Church of Scientology. Truly, they deserve one another. May 17th, 2007 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
“Vote Blue” the Tories say, “Go Green” – Sean Gabb. To see him on 18 Doughty Street discussing the Resignation of Tony Blair, go here. May 14th, 2007 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
That [Sarkozy] appears clueless as to the functional benefits of speculation is not surprising – politicians are generally clueless. It’s his idea that a bunch of politicians could ‘reinforce the morality’ of anything I find truly gobsmacking! A mob of used car salesmen would do a better job… – Commenter Sean May 9th, 2007 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
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Is using perfectly legal methods of minimising tax right? The answer is no. – Andrew Pendleton, a senior campaigner at Christian Aid April 29th, 2007 | 25 comments - (Comments are closed)
April 24th, 2007 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
The threat posed by humans to the natural environment is nothing compared to the threat to humans posed by global environmental policy – Fred L. Smith April 17th, 2007 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
It felt like a lion being savaged by Christians – Madsen Pirie, when asked how it felt to be the only one in a room offering strongly dissenting opinions from the usual statist consensus. April 14th, 2007 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
Tyler Cowen notes an unsavoury fact about the Chinese economic miracle:
Cowen lifted the above quote from an interesting article that details how the regime in Beijing controls economic data coming out of the Middle Kingdom, which helps to prompt foreign investors to keep funding the great confidence trick that is the modern Chinese economy. The family connections of China’s super-rich and captains of industry must be considered alongside rosy economic statistics provided that expound China’s development. These filial links between the commanding heights of China’s supposedly private sector and its government betray the fact that China Inc. is the unholy alliance of a dictatorial regime and the application of corrupted ‘free’ market ideals. Such an arrangement will fail in due course, and will probably fail spectacularly since it has come this far. April 13th, 2007 | 21 comments - (Comments are closed)
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