Category Archives: politics

happy leap day

Posted on Friday, 2008 February 29 by Anton

If I were Pope Gregory’s advisor, I’d urge this: all months to have 30 days until the first (or last) of some month falls on a solstice or equinox; thereafter, alternate 30, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 30, … Continue reading →

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Court unpacking

Posted on Tuesday, 2008 January 15 by Anton

One occasionally hears that the upcoming election is especially important because the incoming President may have to fill umpty-leven vacancies on the Supreme Court. To remove this jackpot effect, I had the idea of letting the President appoint one member … Continue reading →

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I suspected as much

Posted on Monday, 2007 November 19 by Anton

Roderick Long (1993): How Government Solved the Health Care Crisis: Medical Insurance that Worked – Until Government “Fixed” It Hey, I’m a fictional character! Dr. Anton Sherwood, “an older man in a tweed suit”, appears in The Secret Hour by … Continue reading →

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military strategy for dummies

Posted on Saturday, 2007 November 03 by Anton

When they say “we’re fighting them in Iraq so that we don’t have to fight them at home,” what do they mean? I’m imagining wannabe-terrorists throughout the Moslem world moaning, “I’d like to go to the Great Satan and blow … Continue reading →

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sacrifice

Posted on Monday, 2007 October 01 by Anton

Assuming that the next President is unlikely to be a Republican, it occurs to me that the Republican establishment could give Ron Paul the nomination in order to let him, and by extension the noninterventionist cause, take the blame for … Continue reading →

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the horrors of anarchy

Posted on Wednesday, 2007 September 12 by Anton

Since Somalia’s state collapsed in 1991, life expectancy has increased by two years, vaccination rates have increased, deaths from measles have dropped by close to a third, telephones and radios have multiplied . . . I wish I’d said that: The golden … Continue reading →

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not from the inside

Posted on Thursday, 2007 September 06 by Anton

Mike Linksvayer has “One question for temporary dictator applicants”: What will you do to reduce the power of the presidency? Mike admits, I’m afraid I’d have a hard time providing a specific non-lame (and not pie-in-the-sky) answer myself, but what … Continue reading →

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