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April 22, 2015
Historian Ralph Raico discusses Winston Churchill click here for full article

Drew was on public radio in LA. They interviewed him about his documentary that is being shown at the Newport Beach Film Festival

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My brother forwarded an article from the New York Times
Middle Class or So They Say

From my perspective,
thinking of aggregates of individuals as members of an economic class is unfortunate, and provides no benefits for making public policy decisions.

The discussion I was having with myself got me thinking about promoting a culture that guards others from the effects of your own dangerous activities.

If people believe it is bad to feel insecure, then they should not have children without buying an insurance policy that will keep their children from becoming economically insecure, and a burden on others. If they cannot afford such insurance, then they should not have children.

It should be part of our culture, that just as parents should vaccinate their kids to prevent illness, parents should have insurance to prevent economic catastrophes. If they are not willing or able to have their kids vaccinated or have insurance, then they should not have children.

Children can hurt people and property, and thus parents should either be self-insured or buy insurance to compensate other people who get harmed by children. If it is dangerous for children not to be vaccinated, the cost of insurance will be high. If it is not dangerous than the market will provide such liability insurance for next to nothing.

At http://fff.org/2015/04/01/constitution-bill-rights-failed-experiment/
Jacob Hornberger argues that the Constitution has done what it was designed to do. It is the vast majority of the American People that have failed by supporting the welfare/warefare state.

Excerpt:

So, why didn’t the Constitution and the Bill of Rights protect us from the getting a welfare-warfare state?

Consider a sea wall, one that is designed to protect a community from extremely high tides. It works for 100 years, keeping extremely large tides, including those caused by hurricanes, from reaching the community, which remains high and dry for a century.

But one day, a tsunami hits. The wave is so enormous that it easily overcomes the sea wall and inundates the community, destroying property and killing dozens of people.

Can we say that the sea wall failed? No, because the sea wall was never designed to withstand a tsunami. It was designed only to keep out high tides, which it succeeded in doing for 100 years.

Please thank Sharon Dulmage for alerting us to this flow chart. I have been using the process for years.

In a Fee article Sandy Ikdea writes about the virtues of competition he observed at the recent International Students for Liberty Conference
view article at FEE site

Jacob Hornberger wrote an essay that begins:

The controversy over North Korea’s supposed hacking of Sony in retaliation for The Interview actually goes a long way in showing the brilliance of our American ancestors who demanded the enactment of the Bill of Rights after the federal government was called into existence with the Constitution.

full article here