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These Deaths Have Been Brought To You By The Number Eleven

By on November 11, 2008 1

Everything you need to know about Veterans Day – from Bill Anderson:

Flag Eagle! At 11 a.m. on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, 90 years ago today, the fighting on the Western Front stopped. What most people do not know is that because the generals wanted the 11-11-11 slot, there was another 11 on 11-11-1918: thousands of men, including my great uncle, Ralph Cowell, fell that day. Ralph was one of 320 Americans to lose his life before 11 a.m.

There needed to be no fighting that day. The Germans had agreed to pull back, and everyone was anxious for the fighting to end. But that was not good enough for the powers that be, who wanted to do something cute with the number 11.

Grade Inflation, Swedish Style

By on October 13, 2008 18

Let me go, you befuddled Keynesian! I'm a Rothbardian cat!The man who wrote this –

[T]he terror attack could even do some economic good. Now, all of a sudden, we need some new office buildings. … Rebuilding will generate at least some increase in business spending. (New York Times, September 14, 2001)

– thereby flunking the most basic lesson in economics, has just been awarded the Nobel prize in economics.

(Unsurprisingly, Krugman doesn’t understand Austrian business cycle theory either.)

What’s next – a Nobel prize in biology to a creationist?

I’m On the Pavement Thinking About the Government

By on October 12, 2008 9

According to his boss, the latest Guantanamo prosecutor to resign is a “disgruntled” employee who is making “groundless” criticisms of “very ethical and hardworking people.” The disgruntled employee himself says: “I’ve been a conformist my entire life, and to speak out against the injustice wrought upon our worst enemies entailed a weather shift in my worldview.”

If only there were some song lyric about weather that would be appropriate to quote here ….

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