With the anniversary of the WTO protest, the protesters once again descended on the city of Seattle. Like a troop of primates, they hooted, threw rocks and bottles of gasoline, even pelleted a police officer’s eye out. Those who weren’t dragged off, left, knuckles still trailing the pavement, and the debate not much more elevated. The WTO must, of
I have no reason to celebrate the transfer of more than one hundred Canadian newspapers, including half-ownership of the National Post , from Conrad Black’s Hollinger Inc. to Izzy Asper’s CanWest Global Communications Corp. Shortly after the CanWest media acquisition flurry, I was fired by the new owner of the Vancouver-based North Shore News ,
In a much-missed series of columns for the Ludwig von Mises Institute , Professor Walter Block mused about the hijacking of honest English words by “the forces of socialism, statism . . . and political correctness,” rendering them unfit for use by those outside this camp. Third-Way leaders in particular, like Gerhard Schroeder, Tony Blair, and
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