Are you looking for economically sensible, pro-market ideas for protecting the environment and conserving resources (natural and industrial)? The new journal – Electronic Journal for Sustainable Development (EJSD) is the publication for you. These scholars definitely understand incentives and institutions – concepts (central to real sustainable development) that so often get lost in the ham-handed, [...]
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Battling Public Health Nazis in Britain
The fight for personal freedom and property rights has already been lost in much of the US and Europe. One rocker gives a two-fingered "up yours" to the draconian enclosed building regs. Pete Docherty’s second-hand smoke may have given as many as forty people lung cancer.
Canadacare here?
Make no mistake: the Left wants our system to be like Canada’s. Sally Pipes chronicles her story from Canadian healthcare to our (partially) private system. This part is money: "Government-run health care in Canada inevitably resolves into a dehumanizing system of triage, where the weak and the elderly are hastened to their fates by actuarial [...]
Burning Food, Expensive Beer
More evidence (hat tip, Inner Banks Eagle) of ethanol subsidies driving up the costs of food and drink. And beer! Not the beer! -MB
Bloggers & You: Checks on Sloppy Journalism
North Carolina, due to the Charlotte Observer and the News & Observer, gets much of its information from McClatchy. McClathy is one of the outlets cited for running more of the sloppy (read: fabricated) journalism coming from Iraq; in this case, the original source was the Associated Press. “20 Beheaded Bodies Were Found On The [...]
