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Cato Institute has a rich tradition of research and publications on free markets. While critiquing governance, you need the facts to back you up. A report card works wonders. Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors: 2002 has a detailed evaluation on each and every governor in the US and grades them from A to […]

For the last few years, I’ve been a dormant member of Bureaucrash. Some info from their “about us” page.
Bureaucrash is an international network of activists of all political persuasions who believe that bloated, sprawling governments and the bureaucrats and politicians who control them ought to be mocked. Mercilessly.
Why? Because when governments grow, our freedom to […]

Hi this is Ravikiran here. I used to blog over at The Examined Life. But I’ve unilaterally decided to make this my home for now.
Why?
Well what happened was that yesterday in a fit of temporary insanity, I went and deleted a lot of files on my server. What I didn’t realise at […]

Councilman Is Shot to Death in City Hall
Just a thought. This kind of shoot-out is very easy to accomplish in the BMC. They have “security” and bag scanners, but it’s so easy to slip in. I have on numerous occasions walked in with metal in my pockets The detectors scream, but I pass through. No […]

Yes there is a difference. The anti globalisation Bidwais and Roys seem to think that promoting capitalism and globalisation simply means promoting businesses (especially corrupt businesses). Nothing could be farther from the truth. And being pro-market or pro-capitalism does not mean being pro-business–it means being pro-freedom. This recent article, part of the Economist’s “radical […]

Gene Callahan is someone whose opinion I respect a lot. The National Interest, his latest piece, is a must read. He writes regularly on libertarian issues, largely for LewRockwell.com.
. . . nations are not the sorts of entities that have interests, just like they don’t have crushes or daydreams or urges to go […]

Abheek Barman has an excellent piece on why even large groups can’t swing policy their way if there’s a strong lobby against it. He hones in onto a flaw in democracy (actually one of many) that is counterintuitive. One would expect the wishes of the “majority” to overcome the power of a small lobby in […]

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Thomas Sowell

This was the last entry on my old blog. I have imported all the entries into MT and shall selectively post from the […]