09-30-08
By: Chip
Jeffrey A. Miron is senior lecturer in economics at Harvard University: This bailout was a terrible idea. Here’s why.
Mark Steyn: If the entire global economy is so vulnerable that only the stalwart action of Barney Frank stands between it and ten years of soup kitchens, can it, in fact, be saved?
Jules Crittenden: “It’s being on an airplane. There’s nothing I can do about it, and what I think doesn’t make any difference. What bothers me is I don’t think the pilots know what they are doing any better than I do.”
PJ O’Rourke on Ass Cancer, Death, Liberty and God: I consider evolution to be more than a scientific theory. I think it’s a call to God. God created a free universe. He could have created any kind of universe he wanted. But a universe without freedom would have been static and meaningless — the taxpayer-funded-art-in-public-places universe. Rather, God created a universe full of cosmic whatchmajiggers and subatomic whosits free to interact. And interact they did, becoming matter and organic matter and organic matter that replicated itself and life. And that life was completely free, as amoral as my cancer cells.
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