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  • Caravan Contradictions

    Caravan Contradictions0

    A “caravan”—the euphemism for a current foot-army of more than 10,000 Central Americans—of would-be border crossers has now passed into Mexico. The marchers promise they will continue 1,000 miles and more northward to the U.S. border, despite warnings from President Trump that as unauthorized immigrants they will be turned away. No one has yet explained how,

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  • Car Seats as Contraceptives

    Car Seats as Contraceptives0

    Seat belts save lives. Child safety seats save lives. These statements seem blindingly obvious. But everything has a cost. Two American economists recently studied the social effects of mandating child safety seats from 1973. They concluded, counterintuitively, that the conventional wisdom is both right and wrong. They estimate that these popular laws prevented only 57

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  • Capitalism’s Biggest Enemies Are Capitalists

    Capitalism’s Biggest Enemies Are Capitalists0

    For most of human history, mankind’s standard of living remained perilously close to a bare subsistence level. Then, a few hundred years ago, capitalism brought with it the Industrial Revolution that has generated unprecedented economic progress. Capitalism is by far the most effective anti-poverty program in the world’s history. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, economic

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  • Capitalism: Who Are The Real Beneficiaries?

    Capitalism: Who Are The Real Beneficiaries?0

    In Milton and Rose Friedman’s classic book Free to Choose: A Personal Statement they made the following point (this quote was featured on my recent Milton Friedman birthday post): Industrial progress, mechanical improvement, all of the great wonders of the modern era have meant relatively little to the wealthy. The rich in Ancient Greece would

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  • Canning is Getting Popular Again

    Canning is Getting Popular Again0

    When I was a little girl, I remember spending a number of summer days sitting and watching my mother load scores of garden tomatoes into jars and plop them into a steaming canner. Later, I would hear her banter with an older neighbor, “I have 30 quarts so far, Bob! How many do you have?”

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  • Candy Carson and the ‘Woke’ Media Project

    Candy Carson and the ‘Woke’ Media Project0

    In 2015 Michelle Malkin wrote a column, praising the wife of distinguished neurosurgeon and later Trump Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson. Malkin appropriately designated her subject as the “anti-Michelle Obama.” Her description encapsulates some of the merits of Candy Carson, who graduated from Yale with a triple major in music, psychology, and pre-med,

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