The New York Times reminds us : “The Bush administration’s twin moves on Tuesday to ban the dietary supplement ephedra and the sale of meat from cows that appear to be sick on the way to the slaughterhouse underscores a simple White House maxim these days: with an election approaching, even a president who came to office assailing government
The Intellectual Conservative runs a brief piece on Frank Meyer’s In Defense of Freedom, quoting Rothbard, Brent Bozell, and Craig Schiller in response. (The author, Enrico Peppe, describes himself as a Fundamentalist-Georgist-Populist — talk about fusionism!)
Phil Roberts, _A Penny for the Governor, A Dollar for Uncle Sam: Income Taxation in Washington_. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. xii + 198 pp. $35 (cloth), ISBN: 0-295-98251-9. Reviewed for EH.NET by Terri A. Sexton, Department of Economics, California State University, Sacramento. During the past year, virtually every state has
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