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Yandle on the Tragedy of the Commons and Environmental Regulation by TokyoTom

The Library of Economics and Liberty has just posted a new hour+ podcast featuring Bruce Yandle. http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/10/yandle_on_the_t.html " Bruce Yandle of Clemson University and George Mason University's Mercatus Center...
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Ron Paul introduces Bruce Fein's bill to check Constitutional abuses by President by TokyoTom

[This is a re-post, as the first was difficult to read due to formatting problems.] American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007 (Introduced in House), http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.3835 : 110th CONGRESS, 1st Session H. R. 3835 To restore the...
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Can Enviros Manage Land? Give ANWR to the Nature Conservancy! by TokyoTom

The NYT has an interesting article up on Nature Conservancy's extensive holdings in the Adirondacks: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/nyregion/29adirondacks.html?ei=5087&em=&en=8d6ce0f734fb4852&ex=1193889600&pagewanted=all Nothing...
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Climate science: a Fundamentalist/creation science approach (update) by TokyoTom

For convenience of reference, I`ve excerpted from the long "Malthus and Mein Kampf" thread ( http://blog.mises.org/archives/007152.asp ) those portions of the exchange of posts I and others had with Fundamentalist that relate to creation science...
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Get behind Ron Paul`s American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007! by TokyoTom

Ron Paul introduced this bill (H.R. 3835) in the House of Representatives on October 15: American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007 (Introduced in House) HR 3835 IH 110th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3835 To restore the Constitution's checks and balances and...
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Francis Fukuyama hates America, by TokyoTom

and is now fervently praying that the Lilliputians tie down Gulliver, NOW. His latest post concludes: "America’s founding fathers were motivated by a similar belief that unchecked power, even when democratically legitimated, could be dangerous, which...
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Climate science: a Fundamentalist/creation science approach by TokyoTom

<blockquote>[Sorry about this mess. I was able to get the formatting to work here: http://mises.com/blogs/tokyotom/archive/2007/10/30/climate-science-a-fundamentalist-creation-science-approach-update.aspx ]</blockquote> For convenience of...
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Tribal pigheadedness: RedState bans Ron Paul supporters by TokyoTom

"The simplest way to explain the behavior of RedState [in banning Ron Paul supporters] is to assume that it doesn`t want to be controlled by a cabal of its enemies" (to misquote Thomas ;)). [The above and following are from a post I made with...
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GeoEngineering - More on How to Cool the Globe by TokyoTom

More on geo-engineering at the NYT by climate scientist Ken Caldeira: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/opinion/24caldiera.html?th&emc=th I will visit later the question of whether this is something that should be investigated.
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Ron Paul on the environment and energy by TokyoTom

1. There is an excellent interview of Dr. Ron Paul now up at Grist, the environmental news and commentary site, that explores some of his views on environmental and energy issues. I am with him in principle but think he has underestimated the seriousness...
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Fighting over the wheel of government by TokyoTom

[update below] Fundamentalist states on an interesting thread : "Most Americans are outright socialists; the rest are socialist sympathizers. They believe that only the government can save them from capitalists." In response, I raised the following...
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Sophomoric optimism? by TokyoTom

Jon Bostwick agrees on another post that "Man is clever but not wise ("homo sapiens" is a misnomer)", but further comments (emphasis added): "True. But humanity is wise. Men create cultures, economies and law. "Man's...
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Ron Bailey of Reason congratulates Al Gore by TokyoTom

[updated] A great new post by libertarian Ron Bailey of Reason here: Congratulations to Al Gore But be wary of the man's proposed solutions for global warming. Ronald Bailey | October 12, 2007 http://www.reason.com/news/show/122960.html 1. Here are...
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Boycott China and India? by TokyoTom

"Advanced democracies export their problems to emerging economies, thus shoving the whole problem neatly under the carpet. If the west really believed in being good global citizens we would (just for starters) refuse to trade with China and India...
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Using the State to solve common resource problems? by TokyoTom

 

 

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