Those who expect the end of the world relatively soon should be kept as far away from public office as possible. They can keep their apocalypses to themselves.
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April 3rd, 2006 | 44 comments - (Comments are closed)
18th Century statesman and essayist Edmund Burke, arguably the greatest Irishman to have ever lived. I wonder if Tony Blair or Dave Cameron have heard of him, or read him? April 1st, 2006 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
Living in Europe is nice… but one thing is tax!!!! – An unidentified Chinese woman, overheard mid conversation while apparently flirting with a German man in an expat bar in Shanghai. March 31st, 2006 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
March 29th, 2006 | 43 comments - (Comments are closed)
I have always found Scotland fascinating. They take barley and water and create something more expensive than petrol March 28th, 2006 | 59 comments - (Comments are closed)
I think that the economics profession is showing a bit more interest in entrepreneurship, at least since the 1980s. The “Austrian” school that gave us the likes of von Mises, Ludwig Lachmann and Israel Kirzner, for instance, puts the entrepreneur pretty much front and centre of the economic picture. For sheer gusto in defending the entrepreneur, there is still to this day no better advocate in my view than George Gilder. March 27th, 2006 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
Communists for free expression are like vegetarians for veal. – Perry de Havilland, at Saturday’s march for free expression in London March 27th, 2006 | 75 comments - (Comments are closed)
“You will take possession by military force, of the printing establishments of the New York World and Journal of Commerce… and prohibit any further publication thereof… you are therefore commanded forthwith to arrest and imprison… the editors, proprietors and publishers of the aforesaid newspapers” Order from Abraham Lincoln to General John Dix, May 18, 1864. March 26th, 2006 | 56 comments - (Comments are closed)
“The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage”. This quotation was always attached to emails many of us used to get from Dr. Chris R. Tame, Libertarian Alliance founder, who died earlier this week. I find it a highly appropriate quotation. March 22nd, 2006 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
“If there is a businessman who has gone out of his mind and supports the left, I think he must have a lot of skeletons in his cupboard and a lot of things to ask forgiveness for.” – Silvio Berlusconi quoted in the Financial Times (via Open Europe‘s email list). March 20th, 2006 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
“This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.” Clint Eastwood. I wonder what particular country he had in mind. March 19th, 2006 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
I am writing this in the wee island of Malta, a country which has one of the largest church attendances per head of any country in the world, from what I understand. (The Maltese have churches with the same frequency as golf courses in Florida). And yet the good-natured folk of this island strike me as taking pretty much the sort of robust attitude to their faith as Sully mentions. (Why are you blogging and not on the beach, Ed?) And interestingly, his point applies just as forcefully to other, non-religious beliefs too. Humour can be a weapon but it is also a shield. March 18th, 2006 | 27 comments - (Comments are closed)
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