After all, one Australian medical expert has called for a $5,000 tax on all children born, and an annual carbon tax of up to $800 per child, due to the supposed negative effect on the environment each person produces. The environmental group The Voluntary Human Extinction Program, which has the slogan, “May we live long and die out,” consists of volunteers who have made decisions to remain childless, so that other species can live instead. The group’s founder states, “As long as there’s one breeding pair of homosapiens on the planet, there’s too great a threat to the biosphere.” A University of Texas biology professor claims that humans must die for earth to live, and states that disease “will control the scourge of humanity. We’re looking forward to a huge collapse.” These people certainly must be the life of the party at summer cookouts. Do you doubt that they would support government action (government force) to advance their cause?

It is unjust to treat some workers as more entitled than others to protection from the vicissitudes of economic dynamism.

For example, I can recall reviewing a book on innovation for the Southern Economic Journal that required 66 equations to arrive at the conclusion that businesses are likely to invest more money on innovations that promise a higher rate of return on their investment.

Worrying about long term deficits with official unemployment over 9 percent and treasury bonds rates at near-record lows is inherently an act of madness. It is the antithesis of both progressive policy and basic logic. Left to their own devices, liberals would relegate reducing the deficit to a very low priority in this economic climate.

I’m not saying that we should spend weeks and months torturing the guy–that’s up to his wife, if she wants to. But I don’t think that the media should have hushed up something that was, um, very public … or that it’s somehow out of bounds to say that, unless she was really enthusiastically supporting his desire to text photos of his body parts all across our fair land, this was a really remarkably shitty thing to do to his wife.

Median female income tracks real GDP per capita much more closely than does median male income.