by Parker Hudson | Oct 25, 2010
In our friend Fitz Allison’s insightful new book, Truth in an Age of Arrogance, I found a quote by someone I’d never heard of, Lord John Fletcher Moulton. I looked him up; he was a brilliant English mathematician and jurist at the beginning of the last century. The...
by Parker Hudson | Sep 29, 2010
5. Instead of “Cap and Trade”, in 2011 add a ten cent federal tax to each gallon of refined gasoline, and then increase that tax by five cents every year for the next twenty years. Use the funds to do energy research, to provide seed capital for viable alternatives,...
by Parker Hudson | Sep 25, 2010
For those of you who have studied F. A. Hayek for years, my recent epiphany (see earlier post) must seem almost laughable. Like a music historian who, after forty years in the field, suddenly discovers Tchaikovsky. Though written almost seventy years ago, The Road to...
by Parker Hudson | Sep 9, 2010
4. For 2011, every branch and department of government at every level, except Defense, will have to get by on ten percent less income, including salaries. Let the government’s skilled managers decide how to accomplish this reduction in each department at every level;...
by Parker Hudson | Sep 4, 2010
I have a different take on Russia and Russians than you might hear otherwise, and this experience leads me to a small suggestion which I often share with our children. Russians tend to be independent and entrepreneurial; they believe in faith, family, education,...
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