Author: James Hanley

American Manufacturing and Employment

In another thread I argued that U.S. manufacturing output was not in decline.  Not to be pushy, but just to back up my claim with data, here is a chart from Bureau of Economic...

Wednesday’s Words of Wisdom

“When we come to Machiavelli we reach the spirit of the Renaissance, and begin to find law itself questioned…And true enough there soon came the State, as a sort of anti-Christ, to wage war...

Who Pays for Anonymous Protests?

In all of Anonymous’s chest-thumping about the DDOS attack on Visa, did any of them pause to think about the effect on mom and pop shops that may have lost sales because they couldn’t...

No, You Can’t Call Your Strip Club the NY Pubic Library

No, You Can’t Call Your Strip Club the NY Pubic Library

My brother recently gave me an early Christmas present by pointing out one of those ridiculous government regulations I so love to mock. In New York, a 2006 law gives the State Education Department...