Tuesday, April 19, 2022

The corporate oligarchy and the regulatory clerisy against small business owners, the middle class and the working class.

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From  The working classes are a volcano waiting to erupt by Joel Kotkin.  The subheading is  Workers across the world are being squeezed fr...

When pagans conduct their pursuit of the perfectibility of man as they conceive him.

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From Christianity Survives Perversion and COVID by Conrad Black. The secularists have enjoyed such a long sequence of official victories, f...
Monday, April 18, 2022

Yet over somewhat longer periods they have probably never exercised so great an influence as they do today in those countries

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From Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics by F. A. Hayek.  The particular essay is The Intellectuals and Socialism , first publish...

Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learn’d.

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From  Shakespeare The World as Stage  by Bill Bryson.  Chapter 5 page 109. Shakespeare’s genius had to do not really with facts, but with am...

History

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#Sundaymood Adorable 4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian resting hippo. From a Middle Kingdom tomb at the necropolis of Dra’ Abu el-Naga’, Thebe...

An authoritarian wolf dressed in utopian sheep's clothing

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I enjoy arguments where I recognize that we share some common assumptions and/or goals but disagree on other fundamentals.  It is invigorati...

An Insight

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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. ...

Self-fulfilling policy blunders

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A line of thinking which seems evergreen, especially prevalent when considering government action, and particularly pertinent to the past tw...

I see wonderful things

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Because the world needs this.. pic.twitter.com/XleGFPxY4f — Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) March 20, 2022  

To know something, we must define it.

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There has been much enthusiasm in some Covid-affinity corners for the prevalence and seriousness of "long-Covid."  The claim is th...