Some people are just neurotically sceptical. But even they won’t deny what is before their eyes. Is there anyone who seriously questions the fact that Saddam Hussein is dead? That’s the way to do things these days. Don’t launch a bloody, decade defining series of wars and then refuse to release photos of a dead body, or better still display the actual body, because you’re worried it’ll upset people. Shoot the ****** in the head on camera then release it on youtube.
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It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment. – Christopher Hitchens, as seen in this excellent article about the great man, written by Martin Amis April 26th, 2011 | 20 comments - (Comments are closed)
 It’s kind of jumbled, but putting together what the Democrats are saying now and what actually happened in the past, I gather that their economic “plan” is to somehow organize another bubble so that some people will make a lot of money and then tax the hell out of these people, which will then eliminate the deficit and also pay for all their programs, present and future. – commenter “Hagar” here April 23rd, 2011 | 19 comments - (Comments are closed)
Gordon Brown as the next head of the IMF? What a splendid idea – at least as long as Charlie Sheen is not available. April 19th, 2011 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
“If any place should be concerned with a robot takeover, it is the red-light district.” – PW Singer, Wired For War, page 419. April 15th, 2011 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
“My vision is of a new form of Dynamic Equilibrium economics (DEe) which will, while being steady in scale, still be thoroughly dynamic and require business to be as enterprising, creative and innovative as ever. As growth at a macro-scale is dethroned, so too will the focus of business innovation shift to a Flourishing Enterprise model of business in which companies and markets focus on objectives based on maximising societal flourishing and units of wellbeing delivered per unit planet input.” – Jules Peck, a trustee of the New Economics Foundation and a fellow of ResPublica April 13th, 2011 | 19 comments - (Comments are closed)
“If the Victorians turned up off our shores and threatened me with a gold standard, 7% taxes, property rights, free trade, the right to bear arms, the restitution of double jeopardy, free association, and the right to remain silent, while at the same time guaranteeing the repeal of civil forfeiture and detention without trial, etc., etc., etc., I would welcome them with open arms.” – Samizdata commenter, John W responding to a point about the supposed evils wrought by the UK on other parts of the world. April 12th, 2011 | 25 comments - (Comments are closed)
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“Liberal democracy is not about “paying a fair share” based on the exigencies of the moment and the vagaries of public opinion. If it were, Parliament would be little more than a trading floor where the freedoms of minorities were bartered away for temporary fixes and periodic bond repayments. True liberal democracy was and still should be about protecting and preserving freedom, equality in liberty and equality before the law – even when it is not, financially or politically, in our best interests to do so.” PJ Byrne, over at the Adam Smith Institute blog. Alas, “true liberal democracy” is hard to achieve, given the strong urge by politicians to persuade one group of electors to rob another group, or indeed, even to rob themselves. March 24th, 2011 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
“More and more, this society feels like a tacit civil war between the state, with its armies of employees, and the few of us still left who are not involved with it in some way, whether in making up the rules or implementing them. No shots are fired, but it is a conflict nonetheless.” March 23rd, 2011 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
“When Hollywood shows you an earthquake, an eruption, or a towering inferno, you see mass panic, stampeding crowds, maybe a looting spree. When sociologists study real-life disasters, they see calm, resourceful people evacuating buildings, rescuing strangers, and cooperating nonviolently.” – Jesse Walker, on how Japanese people are responding to the terrible events to have hit that country over the past week. (H/T, Instapundit). March 18th, 2011 | 23 comments - (Comments are closed)
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