I deny any predictability in politics, but there are many hurdles on the way to enacting any new Federal gun control laws:

1. Economics: we have enough guns to arm each American citizen, resident alien, and illegal immigrant. Confiscation without compensation is politically impossible, whereas confiscation with compensation would be economically ( Read more... )

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Nos femmes prennent tout notre argent pour rester avec nous, tandis que nos putes en prennent un peu pour nous quitter. Lesquelles font donc la meilleure affaire?


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“The creatures see of flood and field,
And those that travel on the wind!
With them no strife can last; they live
    In peace, and peace of mind.

“For why?-because the good old rule
Sufficeth them, the simple plan,
That they should take, who have the power,
    And they should keep who can“A lesson that is quickly learned ( Read more... )

Japanese apparently have some of the least active sex lives, a finding that tantalizes economists and sociologists. […] “Wealth is the best contraceptive,” says Nicholas Smith, director of equity research at MF Global in Tokyo, who has long studied the supposed correlation between procreation and economic growth. “There is a well-known correlation ( Read more... )

A problem for libertariansFollowing Aristotle and Aquinas, it is customary to distinguish commutative justice, which deals with the relations that arise between individuals, between individuals and groups, and between groups that comprise any given community, from distributive justice, which deals with the overarching relation of that community as ( Read more... )

All appropriations and transfers of conventionally valued goods or services, be they consensual or coerced, are essentially self-regarding as regards their cost, but essentially other-regarding as regards their value. For consumable goods, the relevant distinction between their consumption and socially warranted dominium arises from Deuteronomy 23: ( Read more... )

1. Thomas Hobbes: “In the nature of man we find three principal causes of quarrel: first, competition; secondly, diffidence; thirdly, glory ( Read more... )

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        ECONOMIC POSSIBILITIES FOR OUR GRANDCHILDREN (1930)                        I ( Read more... )