Alan Bock writes in the current issue of Liberty:
The tactic of the “general strike” to shut down a country was developed by radical socialist theorists, known as “syndicalists,” early in the last century. Now, oil company executives are using it against a putatively socialist president in Venezuela. Maybe what goes around really does come around.
Take a close look at sand. Amazing variety! — What has that in common with the International Association of Fake Universities? I got both links from JWalk.
“Just say slavery.” “Slavery it is, sir!”
Thomas DiLorenzo on the role of tariffs in the troubles of 1861.
. . . when the Republican Party gained power in the late 1850s the top item on its agenda was to increase the average tariff rate from 15% [in 1857] to 32% and then to over 47% [in May 1860]. . . .
Abraham Lincoln was a lifelong protectionist and . . . at the 1860 Republican Party convention . . . won the support of the Pennsylvania and New York delegations (the two largest) by convincing them that no other candidate was more devoted to protectionism than he was.
There’s more, and it’s rather better written than DiLorenzo’s own book.
Day By Day makes a change from Republican-bashing cartoons by, you guessed it, bashing Democrats.
But tastefully.
Hey hey! Today’s headline in The Daily Review (Hayward, California) is: Jurors find merit in nullification. As I said before, nullification is not the whole story in the case that prompted this; but it’s good to see it in the air, as it were. ( . . more . . )