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Video: Beyond Hypocrisy
Penn Jillette says that the President’s oh-so-cool chortling over his past drug use has an element of class warfare:
I think he is right. But it is worth noting three things:
1. President Obama does more than “condone” the federal drug war, he has actively upped it, carrying on George W. Bush’s breach of promise not to trump state’s medical marijuana laws.
2. This is not a new phenomenon. Both Clinton and Bush Jr. were guilty of the same offense, if not quite so egregiously.
3. It is possible to agree with Penn without echoing his rather vulgar speech.
Not all capitalisms are created equal:
I prefer the term “free market” to the word “capitalism” because it emphasizes a system that is “free” rather than one feature of it, capital. Capital is a critical aspect of every economic system. But freedom is something we can add to our current mess to bring not only more wealth, but a more feasible order. And sense of justice.
Kudos to Annette Meeks at the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota for highlighting crony capitalism.
Brian Doherty, author of a new book on Ron Paul, talks about Ron Paul’s transpartisan political movement:
A very concise and yet broad view of what the congressman from Texas has been up to, what he believes, and his significance in contemporary political debate.
This is stylish, provocative, and … worth thinking about:
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Video: Don’t crucify me, EPA dude
Strained analogy or “giving away the game”?
This video, brought to public attention by Sen. James Inhofe, has received no small amount of attention:
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Video: Randy Barnett on the Obamacare Case
This is fascinating:
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Video: Class Warfare
The president’s recent attack on the Paul Ryan budget elicited no small amount of commentary and debate.
It’s fascinating to watch Cato’s Dan Mitchell “defend” the Ryan budget, while maintaining that it doesn’t really cut anything. The PBS host and his opposing talking head don’t seem to know what to do when someone speaks truth instead of blindly cheering for the Red Team or the Blue.
And yet it’s Dan Mitchell who gets tarred with the dread epithet “ideological.”
Question of the day: Do you laugh or cry?
J. Neil Schulman proudly notes his vindication. A CNN Audio Engineer confirms his analysis of the recorded conversations Mr. Zimmerman had with the police. It was widely ballyhooed that Zimmerman had used a racial epithet (starting with a “c”) to describe Trayvon Martin. Instead, he was complaining of the weather:
This case (though not this aspect of it) was most recently discussed here yesterday.
Guy Kawasaki worked for Steve Jobs twice in his career, serving as an “evangelist” for Macintosh computers, among other things. So the lessons he learned from the revolutionary Mr. Jobs are worth thinking about. One of his lessons is skepticism (to put it nicely) about the opinions of “experts.” There are a lot of experts out there, and often they are wrong — or, at any rate, right only for a subset of cases. If you have an exceptional vision, exceptional drive, or simply one exceptional notion, you may want to just ignore the naysayers amongst professional know-it-alls. (This echoes a theme I floated earlier this week.)
Oh, and if you are not familiar with the talks given at TED conferences, check out ted.com.