Everyone, it is Earth Day.  I remember painting garbage cans and lids with peace signs as a Sophomore in high school in the early 1970s to celebrate this hallowed day–at least for the radical environmentalists.  Look, I support clean air and water–though not the eradication of CO2, which I breath out and trees and plants […]

Overcriminalization is in the Supreme Court news this week, according to Jonathan Keim, writing in the National Review Online in the April 19 issue.  Keim tells us that five cases to be heard by the Court thus week concern the issue of overcriminalization statutory law.  This issue is one I have followed since it came […]

Critics of capitalism or markets are not too difficult to find.  They come mainly from the ideological Left, but some also come from what appears to be a non-Leftist position of postmodernism.  I actually believe most postmoderns lean Left, some violently, but for now I will let that go.  Finally I have found a fairly […]

So asks Don Boudreaux over on Cafe Hayek.  And with very good reason.  You should read all of his post, the logic is impeccable if perhaps graphic. I share his post because it is a lament I had the other night while out walking the dog with my wife.  I wasn’t thinking of Mr. Boudreaux’s […]

Former Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve board joined the chorus of Wall Street cheerleaders saying the Fed can afford to be patient with raising interest rates earlier this week.  His rationale? Inflation as measured by the consumer price index or the Fed’s favored measure is very low: The so-called hawks, who have been calling […]

This blog may seem redundant, since I have published similar pieces before.  But from time to time I believe our readers need to see articulated the foundations for our positions.  I believe I represent the basic philosophical and theological position of my Berean colleagues, though they would most certainly be more concise. In the past […]

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) declared his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. What was a few weeks ago an empty field has now grown to three contenders, all first-term Senators. Of these, I think Rubio is the strongest. Let’s compare them quickly. Ted Cruz Elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012, and has Cuban […]

Hillary Clinton (D-NY, AR, IL) announced yesterday that she is running for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Clinton, of course, ran for the nomination in 2008 and finished behind Barack Obama. Just as then, she begins the contest as the presumptive nominee, but that guarantees nothing. She has very high name recognition, though she is […]

Republican Senator Rand Paul, from Kentucky, yesterday announced he is running for the GOP’s presidential nomination. Paul’s declaration, all at once, surprised no one, inspired supporters, and sprouted doubters. Unlike the other lightly experienced Senators–Ted Cruz, who announced recently, and Marco Rubio, who will announce soon–Paul is both weighted down and buoyed by association. His […]

It has been a long time since I have written anything on books I am reading.  I think I have a winner in a relatively new book by Joel Mokyr entitled The Enlightened Economy: Britain and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850, published by Penguin Books and Yale University in 2011 and 2009.  Now I know the […]