The Golden Thread: A Word on the Presumption of Innocence

By Jeremy Gayed Essays 8 Comments »

Governor Blagojevich of Illinois is in a significant amount of trouble for allegedly attempting to sell President-Elect Obama’s vacant Senate seat.  Since the date of his indictment, the airwaves have been dominated by endless media stories speculating on the identity of various potential ‘buyers’ for the seat, as well as what other acts of corruption […]

In Defense of the Gold Standard

By Thomas Lyons Essays 3 Comments »

“If people only understood the rank injustice of the money and banking system, there would be a revolution by morning.” – Andrew Jackson
What did Aristotle know that Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke doesn’t? Aristotle, as well as Adam Smith, Jean Baptiste Say, and Frederic Bastiat and all the classical economic thinkers in history all knew […]

Rock, Paper, Scissors Redux: Proposition 8

By Paul Goodell Essays 15 Comments »

Last September I wrote about the curious ubiquity of rock, paper, scissors as a means to legitimately resolve conflict among kids and adults here in South Korea. As I noted, Koreans use rock, paper, scissors as a way to decide all kinds of issues, from the trivial (in what order students will play a classroom […]

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