The Canadian state has, once again, resorted to murdering its own citizens to protect its vaunted monopoly over health care services and pharmaceuticals:
Cancer patients desperate enough to order cheaper, unlicensed versions of the drug thalidomide from Mexico now face another challenge to getting treatment: Federal authorities have reportedly begun seizing supplies of the life-extending medicine at the border.
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Alright, it's Rule 5 Sunday!
For the uninitiated, Rule 5 originates from R.S. McCain's "How to Get a Million Hits on Your Blog in Less Than a Year," which states:
A. Everybody loves a pretty girl -- It's not just guys who enjoy staring at pictures of hotties. If you've ever picked up Cosmo or Glamour, you realize that chicks enjoy looking at pretty girls, too. (NTTAWWT.) Maybe it's the vicious catty she-thinks-she's-all-that factor, or the schadenfreude of watching a human trainwreck like Britney Spears, but no one can
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As I was getting ready to prepare today's Rule 5 post, I came across a post on American Power, titled "Understanding Ideology." So I felt I'd jump in the discussion, because in all the mud-slinging and name-calling that has erupted (thanks to a couple of lunatic freaks), the little that's left of our political definitions, are quickly getting thrown out the window!
First, let's take a look at the following illustration (via conservative-resources.com):
More or less, this is the traditional left-right political scale. I know that many folks claim there's ...
I've been interested in the whole "intellectual property" issue for a long time, but only started digging into it about a year ago. As a kid, I owned a lot of records. You know, those big, black, plastic circles ... I got into music young, buying records by Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Kiss (hey, I was a kid) as early as the 2nd grade.
As my music collection grew, so did technology. It took a long time as a young teenager to not only keep up my music buying habit, but to replenish all my old albums with cassette tapes too. When I went to college my freshman year, CDs started hitting the stores. At first, there were ...
Well, technically, it's the Quote of Yesterday ...
Congresswoman Laura Richardson (D-CA) has a house in Sacramento's affluent Curtis Park area that she has simply abandoned. Residents in the neighborhood, worried about their property values, have taken it upon themselves to clean the place up, finding a dead bird inside the house, and rats breeding in the backyard.
The Quote of the Day comes from her next-door neighbor, John Bailey:
I wouldn't want anyone that irresponsible to represent me ... What I don't get is how she has the time to visit with Fidel Castro but doesn't have time for her own house. If you can't manage your own household, you probably shouldn't get involved in international affairs.
Yes, Congresswoman Laura Richardson, ...
This took place earlier in the week, but I wanted to get it posted anyways, because it's just more of the strange and dangerous path, a large percentage of the American population has embarked upon.
Newsweek Editor Evan Thomas, talking to MSNBC's Chris Matthews, said that Obama is "above the country ... above the world, he's sort of God."
H/T Chris Moody!
An "intense devotion to a particular person" is defined by Princeton University as a Cult of Personality. And according to the Library of Congress, a Cult of Peronality is:
A term coined by Nikita
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theCL: It's really amazing how much material the Ludwig von Mises Institute has made available, free, to anyone interested in learning. Papers, articles, books, videos, etc ... do yourself a favor and take advantage of what they have to offer!
QJAE Archive--Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 10, no. 4 (Winter 2007).
Articles:
Market Socialism and the Property Problem: Different Perspective of the Socialist Calculation Debate, by Mateusz Machaj.
Mathematics, Metaphors and Economic Visualisability, by Peter J. Phillips.
Fritz Machlup's Methodology ...
The federal test that is considered to be the nation's best measure of trends in reading and math proficiency has just reported the results of George W. Bush's famous law called No Child Left Behind. That law was subtitled "An Act to Close the Achievement Gap" between white students and minorities. Well, after eight years, we can now see the result. Both white students and minorities improved somewhat in reading scores, but the law did not close or even reduce the gap. Meanwhile, the Lexington Institute released a new report showing that workers' poor English skills are costing our economy $65 billion a year in lost wages. Over 11 million people ...
