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Here is a great video from a BBC show called The Joy of Stats which shows the changes of human health and wealth over the last 200 years. Like time-lapse photography of a flower, this video shows the beauty of what happens when you water humanity with a little bit of capitalism. The video does [...]

From Reason.com.

Here’s a nice video from the Institute for Justice about the absurd amount of hoops our government requires our entrepreneurs to jump through to start and run their businesses.

Last night’s elections could help define the Tea Party. Of the candidates backed by the Tea Party, those who stuck more to the “tallest pole” values of fiscal responsibility, limited government, and free markets won (Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, Marco Rubio, Mike Lee), while those who spent more time on issues like immigration, abortion, and [...]

A couple of recent stories reminded me of the time my brothers and I had a grape slushy stand when we were kids. The outcomes of these two stories are a little different than that of ours. While we were lucky enough to get a simple write-up in the local paper, these other children were [...]

Senator Jim DeMint hits a lot of nails on their respective heads in his Op-Ed at the Washington Post. But the most important point is about the principles of the soon-to-be incumbents. These men and women are coming to Washington to join the fight, not the club. Their principles are clear: free-enterprise economics, limited government [...]

The 19th of last month was Cost of Government Day. This is a variable date put out each year by the Americans for Tax Reform Foundation and the Center for Fiscal Accountability where they determine the day on which the average has worked enough to pay for his share of government imposed spending and regulatory burdens. [...]

I previously posted about something Charles Johnson said that had me worrying that he thought individual rights are granted by government, rather than being unalienable. Unfortunately, a recent post of his about the Kagan hearings exacerbates that concern. Let’s watch the subject of his post first, shall we, before looking at Johnson’s comments. The video [...]

George Will tells us that candidate nobody is not to be underestimated in this year’s election. The article is a profile of a candidate who may unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, but the point to take from it is that this is the time for “candidate nobody.” Or as I might call it, “candidate [...]

It’s a little late to say “let’s get some runs.”