Monthly Archive: July 2012

Where is the equality?

The economic indicators as of late have been discouraging, so the winner of this year’s Presidential election is still very much in doubt. What has long been and remains clear, however, is that if Mitt Romney...

As a newly minted Ordinary Gentleman, I am required to introduce myself, although I’d like to believe that I’ve spent the last six months doing so in the both the guest posts that have...

So says our intrepid scientists at CERN. At some point I’ll have a guest post regarding the Higgs by a PhD candidate who works there. In the mean time, consider this an open physics/science...

The land was ours before we were the land’s. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people. She was ours In Massachusetts, in Virginia. But we were England’s,...

Most of you now have a pretty good idea of how I write, and what that implies for how the command center up top o’ my noggin operates. This is an example of why...

Back in 2004, NPR reported a story of an inventor, by the name of Steven Glass, who had spent the previous four years trying to get various circular saw manufacturers to put safety devices...

Figured there are plenty of tech/software savvy people around the League that could weigh in and give their thoughts on this recent ruling from the European Union’s Court of Justice:

by Sam Wilkinson A friend of mine has suddenly learned about the downside of love. I’m bad about knowing what to say in these situations, something that shouldn’t be true of two people who...

I’ve said several times that I understand the motivation for the individual mandate tax: It aims to solve an adverse selection problem in health insurance. If we didn’t have it, more healthy people would...

I got an email from Kazzy who explained to me that his hometown just *MIGHT* be the next big Libertarian thing…  

It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these. I’d like to do some site upgrades, maintenance, and something of a redesign/restructuring of the site, and that’s what this fund-raiser is all about....

I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that you’ve by now read Jan Crawford’s CBS blockbuster on Chief Justice Roberts’ decision to switch sides for the Obamacare ruling. If you haven’t, the...

More about taxes, penalties, and how to tell them apart. From the majority opinion by Chief Justice Roberts: [I]n Drexel Furniture, we focused on three practical characteristics of the so-called tax on employing child...

In the mid-nineteenth century, an upstate New Yorker and prophet by the name of William Miller founded his very own brand-new Protestant denomination. Like most prophets, Miller believed that he had a special and...