My old friend Ernie Hancock and I had a rowdy time this morn on his Freedoms Phoenix Radio Show. Ernie kindly asked for a summary of Public Policy Hooligan and I specified that most of the book does not involve people trying to stab me. Ernie asked about the scandal in my old hometown, Front […]
My old hometown Front Royal made the front page of the Washington Post website today. There’s a scandal in the Economic Development Authority (EDA) – a busload of folks got indicted – lots of embezzlement charges flying around. EDA’s tend to be political slush funds and have been motherlodes of scandal forever. One news report […]
Here’s a piece spun off from my 1999 book, Freedom in Chains. In 2007, New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich was writing a piece on czars, called me up and asked if I was still a libertarian. I burst out laughing – but his question was understandable inside the Beltway. From his article: “‘I don’t […]
Was doing a Google search today and surprised to see my 1985/1990 New York Times oped on Bankrupt Environmentalism listed as one of the first responses in the New York Times search engine on environmentalism. I thought everybody had forgotten about that particular heresy. (The piece originally appeared in 1985, thanks to editor Robert Semple, […]
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