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Passports Were a “Temporary” War Measure

We recently had our passports renewed and the over all process was extremely efficient. There was one problem. There was some wear on one my photos so I was told I had damaged Government property and had to file a Police Report before a new passport would be issued. What!... Read more →

No, Fidel Castro Didn't Improve Health Care or Education in Cuba

Cuba has made less educational and health care progress than most Latin American countries over the last 60 years, data show. by Hans Bader Originally posted at FEE.org. Read it here... On CBS’s 60 Minutes, Senator Bernie Sanders recently praised the achievements of communist Cuba. An interviewer asked him about... Read more →

Is Capitalism Sustainable? with Professor Michael Munger

Professor Michael Munger draws from the public choice discipline to evaluate capitalism, socialism, and democracy, and attempts to answer the question: is capitalism sustainable? This lecture took place on February 5, 2020 at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and was hosted by the UCCS Center for the Study of... Read more →

Bryan Caplan On Open Borders

George Mason economist and recreational controversialist Bryan Caplan has teamed up with artist Zach Weinersmith of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal fame for one of the most ambitious crossovers in nerd history. The result of their partnership is a surprisingly readable visual case for open borders, in which a cartoon Caplan... Read more →

In memoriam: Mr. Vincent M. Higgs 1936 - 2020

Uncle Vincent was laid to rest yesterday at Trinity Methodist Church and I was honoured to deliver The Eulogy. He was a fabulous gentleman and I trust my tribute below provides a glimpse of the impact he had on my life and that of so many others. Tribute to Uncle... Read more →

Minimum Wage Folly

Mr. Editor, I refer to recent talk of increasing the minimum wage. The idea of a mandated minimum wage is for the lowest paid members of society to, at least, ensure that they can keep up with the ever-increasing costs of living. It is not intended to lift a small... Read more →

How Welfare States Make Us Less Civilized

by Per Bylund Read original article at Mises.org by clicking here... Throughout history, the state has justified itself on the grounds that it is necessary to protect us from others whose habits and beliefs — we are meant to believe — are dangerous. For millennia, this fiction was easy to... Read more →

US and Swedish Taxes Are the Same in Reducing Inequality

It’s become a sort of conventional wisdom that the United States is a very bad country because of income inequality. Saturday, February 1, 2020 by Zilvinas Silenas Read the original article at FEE.org by clicking here... It’s become a sort of conventional wisdom that the United States is a very... Read more →